Posted on 04/14/2015 7:41:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After all those straight white men, we are overdue a woman in the Oval Office. More than one, in fact …
Two things happened the past week that got me thinking about representation – about the importance of seeing ourselves outside of ourselves. The first thing was Hillary Clinton announcing her bid for the 2016 presidency. The second thing was NRA president Wayne LaPierre declaring, in regard to Obama and Clinton, that: “Eight years of one demographically symbolic president is enough.”
As far as Hillary goes, she has already been think-pieced to death (a journalist friend suggested I title this column, “There Are No Think-Piece Angles Left on Hillary Clinton’s Campaign and It’s Literally 18 Hours Old with a Year and a Half to Go,” then added, “the rest of the word count can just be ‘HELP’”), so I’ll be brief.
1) Hillary swam through tar to get here, while her male colleagues swam through water, a display of competence and fortitude that must be admired, policy disagreements aside. 2) If she gets elected, she’s going to do some horrible stuff, because that’s what presidents do. 3) Reproductive rights are in a shambles, and if the GOP wins in 2016, women are going to die. 4) A rich, hawkish, white woman from an entrenched political dynasty is hardly the progressive candidate I would design from scratch, and I would very much like to hear Hillary’s stances on reparations, police brutality, mass incarceration, homeless trans youth, ending the systems of oppression that keep millions of people trapped in cycles of grinding poverty and, while she’s at it, the revocation of Scientology’s tax exempt status. 5) If Hillary is nominated, I will vote for her and probably get a little cry-snot on my ballot....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Fine.
Every liberal article I read is the same pile of jumbled, nonsensical, incoherent mush. Is there a thesis here other than white men bad, women good, women are owed the presidency now? These people are incredible.
And the ones already posted are by brain dead, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty morons !
You Betcha'!
Cruz/Palin 2016!
That's because they don't want to talk about the democratic party platform. It's very similar to the communist manifesto and the beliefs and charter of the communist party USA. They never run on anything because most Americans do not like their beliefs. They either straight out lie, use ridicule or attack in one form or another, you know, the basic Alinsky Rules for Radicals stuff. Yawn. Will America get it in time?
It’s Hillary’s and the Feminist war on men, yes ladies that includes your men....
Ladies ? If you love your man and cherish him you need to warn as many women about Hillary Clinton as possible...
Blatant racism, sexism and hypocrisy, no garnish and proud of it.
AKA moral violence.
Reparations?
Are blacks ready to start paying reparations to taxpayers for their share of the $20 to $25 trillion dollars
that the nation has spent (wasted) on The War On Poverty in the last 50 years?
LOL! The only tar in Hillary's world was tracked in the house by Bill ... and no one has to swim when they are riding someone's coattails ...
She’s a modern-day “Yankee,” defined as follows by Clyde Wilson:
“A particular ethnic group descended from New Englanders who can be easily recognized by their arrogance, hypocrisy, greed, lack of congeniality, and penchant for ordering other people around . . . . Hillary Rodham Clinton . . . is a museum-quality specimen of the Yankee — self-righteous, ruthless, and self-aggrandizing.”
Wrong. Marie Antoinette was relatively harmless and never even said “let them eat cake”. That quote predates her.
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