Women (Scorned) Gone Wild
By Stephen Pizzo
Created Jul 9 2008 - 9:52am
I never thought I could dislike anyone as much as I've come to detest
George
W. Bush. But a small group is vying for that same "honor."
I am speaking of Hillary Clinton's deep-pocketed contributors, the
"Hillraisers." This group of women is still fuming over what they saw as
"***ist" treatment of Hillary Clinton during the primaries. Never mind
that
the Clinton campaign flung all kinds of racial code at Obama, led by none
other than Bill Clinton himself. That was different. Obama, you see, may
be
black, but he's a black man.
Get it? Well, neither do I.
Clinton diehards throw sup****t behind McCain
By Leonard Doyle in Wa****ngton
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Many of Hillary Clinton's most prominent sup****ters, including a number
of
her famous "Hillraisers," are either defecting to the Republican John
McCain
or withholding their sup****t from the Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
Chief among them is the founder of the Esprit clothing store chain Susie
Tompkins Buell who is bitter at what she claims was the ***ist treatment
of
Mrs Clinton by the media during the campaign. "What really hurt women the
most was to look back and see all this gender bias," she declared.
Many disaffected Clinton sup****ters and fundraisers believe Mr Obama did
not do enough during the primary contest to end what they believe was a
sneering campaign in the media. They are still angry at the way pundits
referred to Mrs Clinton's laugh as a "cackle." There is also anger at the
way the mainstream media picked up on the comedian Chris Rock's comparison
of Mrs Clinton to the knife- wielding madwoman in the movie Fatal
Attraction.
Some of Mrs Clinton's fundraisers are pressuring the Democratic nominee
to
give her a prominent role in the general election campaign and in a future
Obama administration.
The disaffection is causing glee in the McCain campaign. Carly Fiorina,
his most prominent female backer and former chief executive of the
computer
giant Hewlett Packard, announced yesterday that she was holding further
talks with 20 of Mrs Clinton'sfinancial backers.
Details of campaign contributions reveal that in May, when Mr Obama
clinched the nomination, 115 of Mrs Clinton's big contributors had
switched
to the Obama campaign with equal numbers donating to Mr McCain.
Really? Are these women for real? They are treating the primary like some
kind of failed engagement during which that lout of a man cheated on the
innocent bride-to-be. And they are fiercely reinforcing the stereotype of
the fabled "woman scorned." They are insisting that Obama give Hillary all
kinds of concessions before they call off their mega-twit. It's almost
like
the primary result were some form of community property that needs to be
negotiated.
The story above is what got me going this morning. But then I found this
one, and my day's post was decided:
Howard Wolfson joins Fox News Channel
by Katie Fretland
Howard Wolfson, the former spokesman for Hillary Clinton's failed
campaign
for president, has joined Fox News Channel as a contributor, Fox announced
today.
Wolfson is scheduled to go on air tomorrow.
"Howard was part of the inner working circle of Senator Clinton's
campaign
and has a unique perspective on just how unconventional this election year
already is," said John Moody, executive vice president of news editorial
for
Fox. "He has proven himself on key campaigns throughout the last decade
and
is recognized as one of the top communications and political thinkers in
the
Democratic Party."
Wolfson has a lengthy resume in politics. He was Clinton's senior
advisor
during her 2000 campaign for Senate and the senior communications
strategist
for the Democratic National Committee in 2004. He worked on other
campaigns,
including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), New York City Comptroller Bill
Thompson and U.S. Representatives Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Michael
Arcuri (D-NY).
Moody said the network is looking forward to benefiting from his insight
during and after the campaign season.
Yo, Hillraisers, how do you feel about that? First your candidate voted
for
the war in Iraq, then she allowed her ex-president-hubby plant racist
notions in voters heads once his wife started to slip in the polls. (i.e.
Jesse Jackson, the right's favorite black boogieman, into the campaign
equation.)
And now Hillary's No. 1 mouthpiece -- the repellant Howard Wolfson, jumps
straight onto the payroll of mainstream media's No. 1 rightwinger,
Murdoch's
Fox News. (BTW, Murdoch threw his sup****t behind Hillary Clinton early in
the campaign when she was considered a shoe in for the nomination.) How
does
it feel, Hillraisers, to be on the same side as Rupert and his his
neo-fascist propaganda organ, FOX News?
Hillary didn't lose because Obama or the media ****trayed her as a woman.
Like, we knew that already. She lost because she is a shallow,
calculating,
triangulating, disingenuous pol. That's what ****ned through, not her
gender.
Still, even with all that baggage, she came within a hair's breath of
actually winning the primary. How does that jive with all this female
victimology nonsense the Hillraisers claim sabotaged their candidate?
Ya know ladies, (can I call you ladies without getting in trouble?) I
think
you better take a chill pill and take it fast. Because if I were Barack
Obama I'd give you exactly one more week to get the hell over it and get
on
board. Otherwise I'd tell you can take your contributions and deposit them
where the sun never ****nes.
Oh and, after the election, don't bother calling the White House with your
wish lists. Call Senator McCain. Oh, and do let me know how that works out
for you.
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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an op****tunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are
at
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