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Thread #110772   Message #2330090
Posted By: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
30-Apr-08 - 04:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama in Wilmington
Subject: RE: BS: Obama in Wilmington
Fantasma,

I am used to reading things from you that I do not think have been thoroughly thought through. I will put you calling me a misogynist in that category. The only thing that I have said about Mrs. Clinton that has anything to do with her gender is saying that being First Lady is not a qualification for the President.

No thoughtful person would consider that misogyny.

Again, what Emma has said in her first post is not dead on. I repeated the word snuck and it was an accurate description for what she did. Nor was it particularly meant to be derogatory. Apparently it was a calculated move to steal some of the local spotlight form Obama. To a degree it worked, but the recent Rev. Wright flap made that point moot and got a lot of that attention back.

I have never called anyone a racist for not being enthralled. I did say that Ferraro was racist for saying that Obama was lucky to be where he is. Since then, she made a misogynist comment about her own Vice Presidential run. At this point, I am disinclined to call her anything but just crazy.

I have no sexist agenda against Hillary. I am against her because she is knowingly decreasing her party's chances for, at best, a one in ten chance of winning a two person race. I am against her because she has been actively praising John McCain in the same sentence where she dissed her own party member. I am against her because she has poorly managed her campaign. I am against her pandering and her close connection to and defense of lobbyists. I am also against her using her time as first lady as a qualification. I hope no one considers it misogynist to say that I don't want the first woman President to have ridden in on her husband's coattails.

There are other things, like her recent support of John McCain's "Tax holiday" that show me that we would get business as usual in DC if Mrs. Clinton is elected.