Comments on: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of All Women

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By: reg

reg — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:18:51 +0000

sorry – “Your…”

By: reg

reg — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:18:23 +0000

No, dragging in Sharpton was a “straw man” as a response. The NAACP and BET Music Awards allusions were “false analogies.”

You’re critical faculties leave a lot to be desired.

By: And Now This

And Now This — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:26:38 +0000

Al Sharpton on Obama, from the Sept. issue of Vibe:
(http://www.vibe.com/obama2007/08/sharpton_obama/

Says Sharpton: “he early, created a lot of concerns for me…
in Michigan, He…didn’t support a sister that was running for Mayor against Daly…” (but after they talked:) “He’s beginning to show more progress…a lot of improvement.”

Sharpton goes on about how the cause is more important than the candidate, you vote for the cause and message, not the person.

Q: “How important would it be to have a black President?”

A: “It would be a great moment as long as the black candidate was supporting the interests that would inevitably help our people…I don’t assume that just because somebody is my color, they’re my kind.”

In fact, this is one of the milder and more printable (and recent) interviews with Sharpton about Obama — this is about the much “improved” Obama after he began to see racial issues in the “correct” Al Sharpton/ Jesse Jackson (referred to in this interview as a paradigm) way.

False analogies?

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:52:38 +0000

Well, someone has to break up the monotany of rantings by old leftists on their last, desperate gasp, and inject some sense of current reality. Although I must say, it’s gotten downright sad to watch this hysterical deconstruction going on before our eyes — epitomized by certain commenters on this blog, and especially by Marc Cooper in the L A Weeky.

To see the anti-feminine, old feminists and their foul-mouthed male counterparts, going after each other with cleavers (to the amusement of the right, it’s no wonder young people are disgusted with the whole lot of them and see Obama as a breath of fresh air. IF only he were. For this election, “the politics of the possible” will win out.

Hey, guys, in 8 years you’ll still just be pushing 70, about the same age McCain is now. Think of all the time that leaves you and the old, militant feminists to go after each other. If we’re lucky, you’ll neutralize each other by then.

By: Guess Who

Guess Who — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:47:46 +0000

This sort of thing is why the 70Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s generation has become largely irrelevant

Different names but same comments about 70’s radicals, Che Guevara tee-shirts, Hugo Chavez, illegal aliens in West-Side schools and a being a berry, berry esmart world traveler.

By: richard locicero

richard locicero — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:15:25 +0000

Boys and girls! Let’s play nice! Woody go to your room!

By: reg

reg — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:40:20 +0000

I hope when you were teaching English, you warned your students against the perils of using the straw-man rhetorical technique in their writing, a la your senselessly dragging Al Sharpton into the discussion in response to my specific criticisms of NOW’s hysteria and of your false analogies.

By: reg

reg — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:57:50 +0000

What took you so long to go off your rocker and spew venom after my pointing out you made some pretty foolish attempts at analogy ?

By: And Now This

And Now This — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:00:35 +0000

reg hates Hillary and Bill so openly and rabidly that anything he says on the Hillary-Obama race is utterly irrelevant ranting. You can be sure that if you say anything on behalf of the Evil Lady, you’ll get the same — as a “self-absorbed, hysterical crackpot” at best. (Unlike, say, Al Sharpton and all his pronouncements over the years, his rush to convict the Duke Three as being only a recent shining moment.) Woody, good take on Teddy — that’s about how much the hypocritical old fool’s endorsement is worth — he’s literally incoherent half the time. Obama supporters have been so desperate for him to take on JFK’s mantle, that they are desperately grateful for this Kennedy endorsement. Other Kennedys are supporting Hillary. Of course, they’re hysterical crackpots. Have at ‘em, reg — this blog is nothing without your own predictable, one-sided hysteria.

I’m not supporting the NOW statement — we’ve been in a post-feminist era for at least 20 years, and they haven’t noticed yet. This sort of thing is why the 70’s generation has become largely irrelevant, and there’s the backlash of young girls admiring silly bimbos these days. They don’t see old battle-axes as very attractive role models. ST, if that’s the opinion of you and those you personally know, great — that your female acquaintances are either Republicans (now that’s a real minority for SoCal) or not voting for Hillary because she “annoys” them — but that certainly isn’t born out by polls or projections. Many women are able to look at what she represents and says more than her nasal twang or prejudices against her. And many are becoming more and more annoyed with Obama’s hypocrisy, as he becomes more revealed as peevish (like snubbing Hillary at the Address) and gets knocked off that pedestal of unquestioned sainthood/ JFK legacy he’s been placed on.