Posted on 03/04/2008 9:04:30 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
Torn by her liberal guilt of being forced to choose between a woman or an African-American man to have a shot at making history, Eleanor Clift lost it on this weekend's "McLaughlin Group" as she called the choice a "tragedy." The "Newsweek" editor claimed liberals, particularly women, were confused as to whether to dump Hillary for Obama as she blurted: "Women have waited decades to see the first woman president and it's actually something of a tragedy that a talented African-American guy comes along at the same [time.]"
The following is the full exchange as it occurred on the March 1, edition of "The McLaughlin Group":
ELEANOR CLIFT, NEWSWEEK: Women have waited decades to see the first woman president and it's actually something of a tragedy that a talented African-American guy comes along at the same--this isn't liberal guilt.
PAT BUCHANAN: Why's it a tragedy?
CLIFT: Because you have to choose between two people who you–
BUCHANAN: That's a tragedy?
CLIFT: Well maybe you, maybe you want, I call it a tragedy, yes. Because people, women, women in particular are having a very hard time deciding here. But this not liberal guilt! This is not liberal guilt! This is a very, I want to finish my thought.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: Alright, alright quickly.
CLIFT: I want to finish my thought. And that is that Barack Obama is a unique, once-in-a-generation figure.
MCLAUGHLIN: Ahh!
CLIFT: He has met every test!
MCLAUGHLIN: He's an ordinary pol!
CLIFT: He's not an ordinary pol! He's not an ordinary pol any more than Hillary Clinton is an ordinary pol! They have both, he is not an ordinary pol any more than Hillary Clinton is. They are both class-act people. And I am proud as a citizen to see that both of them are in contention.
I'll bet that hasn't happened in a long, long time.
The country be damned.
It’s all about what someone looks like.
“But this not liberal guilt! This is not liberal guilt! This is a very, I want to finish my thought.”
LOL!
Deciding between a communist and a communist really has her panties in a wad.
Squirm baby, squirm.
she’s protesting too much lol
Rove you magnificent bastard?
It’s a comedy!
“Obama is a unique, once-in-a-generation figure”
Yeah the anti-christ only manifests once.
“Women have waited decades to see the first woman president...”
Why? Simply because of shared-gender?
Selecting someone because of gender or race is irrational. The country needs leader based upon the ability to lead, not what he or she looks like or underwear preference.
LOL! I love it. Poor Eleanor. How blind does someone have to be in order to say that Hillary is a “class act”?
McLaughlin’s a trip. Dana Carvey did a good impersonation of him. I think all of the choices are tragic.
Cry me a river. It is a tragedy that I have to decide between McCain and, well no one, as I am voting today in Texas.
Eleanor’s moonbat meltdown, quoth the Raven.
Deciding between a communist and a communist really has her panties in a wad.
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Well, yes, it is a mind-wrenching reality, is it not ?? Actually to have to choose between a Marxist and a Marxist with Stalinist tendencies....not a pretty picture. I can understand the anxiety and agony. Having said that, it really is a shame that America even has such radical extremist leftists actually running for the office of President. Says alot about what Washington has turned into -—
Democrats - they see everyone by group identity, never the individual.
The tragedy is that, barring a miracle, this November neither major political party will have nominated a candidate fit to uphold the US Constitution and it’s mandates.
The tragedy is that starting Jan 20, this country will slip further and faster towards big government socialism,
That over the next four years, 20+ million illegal invaders will be given American citizenship
That the global warming hoax will be elevated to Gospel
And that hard working American taxpayers will not know what hit them.
Choosing between a black guy and a woman is not a tragedy.
That fact that this black guy and this woman are taken seriously...that’s a tragedy
“Women have waited decades to see the first woman president and it’s actually something of a tragedy that a talented African-American guy comes along” -
Note that “guy” is not the complement of “woman”. The term for a male, which confers the same dignity shows the same respect as does the word “woman”, is the word “man”. Not surprisingly Mrs. Clift shows that she is a blatant sexist, comparable to Archie Bunker who longed for the days when “girls were girls and men were men”.
“They have both, he is not an ordinary pol any more than Hillary Clinton is. They are both class-act people. And I am proud as a citizen to see that both of them are in contention.”
Someone’s been drinking the kool-aid, guzzling the bong-water, and eating WAY TOO MUCH blotter acid all at once.
Wheew......
If that's true, then women should just vote for the woman. Simple. How does the presense of a "talented African-American guy" change things, if women want to vote for a woman? Unless the "liberal guilt" she denies --twice-- is really what is causing the dilemma.
(BTW -- doesn't "talented African-American man" come close to Biden's "clean and articulate" remark?)
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