Posted on 03/02/2008 2:32:01 AM PST by Marc Tumin
DALLAS -- Darlene Ewing is a Democratic activist, longtime feminist and very frustrated Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter.
Like many who have dreamed of seeing a woman in the Oval Office, Ewing doesn't understand why women are drifting in ever-greater numbers away from Clinton toward her rival, Barack Obama. This trend, which has imperiled the candidacy of the woman once considered a shoo-in for her party's nomination, infuriates the frank-talking Texan.
"They're running to the rock star, to the momentum, to the excitement," said Ewing, a family law attorney who chairs the Dallas County Democratic Party. "And I am worried that if Hillary doesn't get elected, I am never going to see a woman president in my lifetime. I do think her chances are slipping away, and it [ticks] me off."
This sentiment is being expressed around the country -- in testy dinner-party conversations, around the water cooler, and in the public forum. As Clinton's shot at the nomination boils down to two contests Tuesday -- in the delegate-rich states of Texas and Ohio, where she is running neck and neck with Obama -- many women who support the New York senator are angered and saddened by their sisters' desertion to the other side.
Old-school feminists have lined up against each other....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
He will be lucky if they only derail him, with the Clintons people often turn up dead
Wow... I really feel sorry for any black women... After all, who to vote for?!?!?! If you vote for Hillary! (TM), you’re a traitor to your race! If you vote for Obama, you’re a traitor to your gender! Well, I suppose that you could always have a sex change operation to avoid the embarrassment of being a “gender traitor.” And then there’s the “Michael Jackson Option.”
Seriously though, I asked an aunt who once told me that she was voting for Gore/Lieberman because Lieberman was Jewish, and now tells me that she is going to vote for Hillary because she’s a woman, “how do you feel about someone who won’t vote for Hillary because she’s a woman?” She answered, “it would be wrong.” So I then asked her, “So how is voting FOR someone simply because they’re a woman any different than voting against someone because they’re a woman?”
She’s a liberal, she has no answer.
Mark
A family lawyer at that...
I wonder how many men/fathers she destroyed in family court ?
Please allow me to make a sweeping generalization...
For many years, I was involved in Republican politics. I’m a past president of a Women’s Republican Club, and I enjoyed working on many a campaign. We worked very hard to get Republican women elected.
Here’s the difference: The Republicans want to see the RIGHT woman in the Oval Office, and the Democrats want to see ANY woman in the Oval Office.
Or so I’ve noticed...
Makes me glad I live in quiet neighborhood.
They are being women. What they are looking for is a boyfriend or husband.
“And I am worried that if Hillary doesn’t get elected, I am never going to see a woman president in my lifetime.”
Indeed - does she think that out of all the eligible females in the United States at this time or in the next, say, twenty years, that Hillary is the only one who could ever possibly occupy the Oval Office?
That’s selling your gender short!
I could never understand such self-loathing.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
I'd've voted for her in a heartbeat :)
It’s 2008 for Hellary or bust. This IS her only chance IMO.
She will still be radioactive in 2012. The ‘Rat party seems to go for new blood in Presidential nominees.
Those two are pretty good looking compared to the lesbians I’ve seen around here.
Some of us have even come far enough to teach Logic in college!! :-)
We need to have a very attractive but totally unqualified woman run at least once just to see if men are stupid enough to vote for her. I predict they won’t be but women will always vote for a man they consider attractive regardless of quality, Monica Lewinsky’s ex boyfriend is the living proof of that. If Bill Clinton had looked like Dennis Kucinich he would still be back in Arkansas.
The key point is: Hillary Clinton supporters are by and large all sexist.
They think that women will vote for her on the basis of her sex, because she is a woman. There ARE women who will do that.
Case in point #1: Gennifer Flowers. If there was ever a female who should have a valid reason NOT to vote for Hillary Clinton for ANY reason, it should be her. For all we know, she was probably days away from being ‘Vince Fostered’. But...she thinks it would be a good idea to have a female president, and she would consider voting for Hillary on that basis.
Now, it is more likely she is an airheaded twit. But I know plenty of women including my wife, who will NOT vote for on the basis of her history and principles (or lack therof)
The comical thing about this, as nearly everything that has to do with the vicious, humorless, Stalinist, socialist feminists who think Hillary Clinton is the best thing since sliced bread, is that they are sincerely baffled and outraged when women refuse to go along with their stupid feminist claptrap.
I work WITH and FOR many extraordinarily capable women, and am married to one as well. These women don’t have a need to sign on to the feminist agenda, because they recognize it for what it is and want no part of it. They don’t feel inferior to men, and are capable enough and self-confident enough to be devoid of the need to drag men down in order to bring themselves up.
This is the fruit of failed feminism, and of all the God-Awful things we have in this country regarding politics, this is the one fruit I savor. It restores my faith in people.
Of course, then that faith is rapidly eroded by supposedly intelligent people who swoon at the mention of Barak Obama.
Some over-weight, over-50 women were carrying Hillary signs in the Heights, a liberal bastion in Houston represented by Sheila Jackson Lee, yesterday while we were visiting the Bayou City.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
As far as strange women lying in ponds....... neither is a struggle between a charging Rino, a Hildabeast and a cigarette voiced, jug eared, skinny Communist.
They make the judgement of the Founding Fathers look pretty solid.
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I grow daily more amazed at their wisdom.
Why is it necesary to elect a female president? To break the chains of sexism? Why not exlect a chimpanzee president to break the chains of humanism?
I’ve been posting similar comments for the last 2.5 months.
I think 2012 is out of the question for her but that would be all the more reason for her to want to destroy him. I think she would do anything possible to see him lose to McCain or, failing that, to see him fail as a President. I won’t even mention the darkest possibility.
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