Message to the Obamabots in the media and blogosphere: you’re losing us the election right now
Not that you can hear me there in your padded room, but maybe if I yell loud enough something will get through: you’re fucking up. You may win the battle (getting your man the nomination) but you — and we — will lose the war (the general election). Hello, President McCain.
Countless Democrats are now silently making the decision that they will never, ever vote for Barack Obama. Why? Because of you. Because you’re fucking insane.
And if Democrats are making that decision, guess how this will play with the rest of the electorate.
Calm down, take a Xanax, shoot some smack, do whatever you gotta do. Read the posts below, follow the links, and try really, really hard to see how the rest of America sees you. ‘kay?
For my daughter’s sake, don’t go there Keith
How you can tell when anti-Hillaryism is sexism
Jumping the racism shark with Obama
8 Responses to “Message to the Obamabots in the media and blogosphere: you’re losing us the election right now”
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Bruce says:
I think both sides need to take a chill pill. The last thing we want is to divide the Democratic party so that McCain wins this November. Yes, the Obamabots are quite annoying and are unfairly portraying Clinton as racist and such. But I must say that the Clintonites are not doing themselves any favors either trying to portray Obama as some inexperienced rube who couldn’t manage a McDonald’s, let alone the country. OK, so I’m exaggerating just a little. The point is that both candidates need to stop the negative politicking and start talking about what they can do for the country. Leave the negatives for John McCain, because that’s where they belong and “Dog Knows” that there are more than enough of them.
March 12th, 2008 at 11:28 am EST -
David Parsons says:
If Mr. Obama can’t defend himself against the claim that he’s inexperienced, it’s going to be better for the country that he gets tripped up by it *now* than in the general election. Either (a) he can’t convince people that he’s qualified and he loses the primary and we get Ms. Clinton, or (b) he can convince people that he’s qualified and he wins the primary, PLUS he gets the good talking point of “Ms. Clinton said what you’re saying now, Mr. old white guy, and SHE LOST.” (with the “.. and so will you” suffix left hanging, unsaid, over the campaign.)
Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton are politically identical, so they’re forced to go negative to emphasise the trivial differences between them.
And it’s just lagniappe that the press loves negative campaigning so much that the Republican old white guy is losing out on press coverage.
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donna darko says:
Impeach McCain!
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Dee says:
I couldn’t have said it better. Thank you.
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The Ghost of Violet says:
Interesting comment I just saw at River Daughter:
DisenfranchisedVoter, on March 12th, 2008 at
4:51 pm Said:
I have a feeling that after tonight the shit is going to officially hit the fan. There is no turning back and thanks to pundits like Olbermann the Democratic Party will not recover in time for the general election. -
donna darko says:
Olbermann is a diarist for DK. He’s part of the Borg.
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blondie says:
I made the mistake of watching Olbermann’s special comment, and I have now lost perhaps all of my respect for him. He jumped the shark so melodramatically in his attack on Clinton that I began to almost sympathize with the Republicans he used to attack.
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Virginia Ray says:
This is a special post to all Hillary-voting feminists. We all want to do an action together - to begin to act as 3rd wave feminists in our own worlds, yet together. I believe we must begin to articulate a feminist foreign policy for Iraq and Afghanistan that Hillary can adopt which will be accepted by the majority of US citizens. Feminist foreign policy liberates middle east women from Sharia law and elevates the goal of equal rights.
Feminists Democrats should offer a platform that addresses the women of Iraq and Afghanistan. The feminist position on the war would advocate equal rights for Iraq and Afghanistan women with reconstruction democracy training and the implementation of a civil secular law system. We should eventually offer amendments to the constitution which will form a secular society with secular non-religious law. At the beginning some separate gender activities may be needed to protect women and enforce their rights..
Democracy training reconstruction in Iraq instead of rapid withdrawal can be the democratic platform. The CNN reports from Iraqi citizens say this is what the people of Iraq are asking the US to do now. A soldier said: We need a book of democracy because what we want is personal freedom. That is what we want all this suffering to result in - freedom for the individual in Iraq.
The Iraqi also said, We have all this oil - the people should not be so poor.
As part of the democratic platform on Iraq, the US should work out economic treaties with Iraq that benefit our both countries. We can use the oil revenue while creating a solar society with economic opportunity for males and females . We can leave behind a good public secular school system for girls and boys.
The boys want to do another Vietnam withdrawal throwing the people to their enemies. I want to use the Japan German model of reconstruction which led to friendly relations rather than the estrangement we have had from Viet nam and Cuba all these years.
This must become part of Hillary’s Iraq program not withdrawal - reconstruction training in democracy; with the end of gender apartheid as the primary goal.
Specifically, reconstruction with women trained by US soldiers, armed and functioning as protective associations for women’s rights - guarding women’s centers and shelters, enforcing sexual abuse and domestic violence complaints, working with male units. The democracy - freedom guarding functions of such units could be praised all over the country as a teaching method.
The abuse shelters and women’s villages are where women’s economic development takes place. there carpentry, plumping, solar green jobs, sanitation can be taught. Women’s home building companies can be formed and guarded.
We woman identified feminists must start to organize around this now or a great opportunity for democracy with equal rights will be lost in the world. See CNN report from Iraqi troops, Kira Phillips in Bagdad. This is film of Iraqis telling US media what they need - on what is needed. It may still be somewhere on the CNN website.
Iraqi want democracy training. Training from US troops, democracy training from western TV programs - - free fair election laws - Iraqi are watching this US election on their TV sets and trying to learn from it (that is why our voting booths and polling rooms should be on TV) -
Most Iraqi seemed to want want Clinton to win -(Hillary’s withdrawal plan showed a concern for Iraqi people’s welfare whereas Obama just wants to get out)
Iraqi want one person, one vote, privacy in voting, separate men - women polling stations, simplified voting, to learn about federal, state relationships and responsibilities, Iraqi want jobs, green jobs for males and females.
See also,CNN, On deadly Ground: Women of Iraq.
Sat and Sun night, the 15th and 16th.
Let’s all watch together.Feminist must insist on a reconstruction that helps Iraq achieve secular society with all our individual personal freedom. We must insist, through the surge, on a secular system as the only way to freedom and peace between the religious factions and non Muslims in one society. The US has done this - we know what works.
We must teach separation of church and state — we must make this position our feminist foreign policy for Iraq and Afghanistan. That is the Iraq reconstruction plan that can unite the country. Sharia law should be abolished in Iraq and Afghanistan and secular law taught in the schools. We Hillary women could demand feminist reconstruction be in the platform at the democratic convention. We want trade and economic development to result in economic advancement for all our people; US, Iraqi and Afghani.
Remember, let’s all watch CNN this weekend and see Women of Iraq.
