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veronica_richFor all the women screaming "sexism!" about how neocon media outlets treated Hillary Clinton, I have one question: You don't think those same agencies wouldn't have welcomed her with open arms and lauded her ideas if her name had been Elizabeth Dole, or her surname Bush? I bet they would've.
What about the vitriol against Obama for race? Or, more accurately, criticizing him for not being "black enough" because he was not descended from "pure" black family lines or slaves? Or for turning his name into some pseudo-Muslim-terrorist e-mail forward? (Which, hell, took the majority of *peaceful* Muslims' names down into the mud along with his.) Shit, what would Faux News and CNN have done for fodder if he'd been named Tom Smith?
Ladies - let us take a moment to remember John Kerry. The man had a fucking Silver Star (maybe more than one, I don't recall) for service, and the campaign for Bush - a man who spent those same years snorting blow, drinking his weight in liquor, and probably fucking everything to cross his path in party-boy mode - still managed to convince a bunch of fellow veterans to LIE PUBLICLY about Kerry's experience in which his patrol killed a child. This is something Kerry admitted well before then in an interview, explained the circumstances that led to the accidental shooting, and expressed great regret about. Now ... even BEING a woman, if I were also a veteran, I would take more offense at being called on the carpet for my service by a draft dodger than I would at some stupid men proving yet again that the male brain IS, indeed, housed in the penis.
Personally, I think it's about time we see some anti-McCain propaganda about how he's not "soldier enough" for wanting to subject even more young men and women to the POW treatment he endured for several years. Or he's not "neocon enough" because for a while he DID abandon any support for Bush or this war - right before he went back to kissing the old chimp's ass and yelling "rah rah oil!" I'd sure like to see him be required to undergo a mental as well as physical medical evaluation - I know more than one medical professional who has watched him and commented "There's something wrong with him (medically)" and at least one longtime doctor with experience to make judgments, who said "He seems to be displaying a lot of pre-Alzheimer's symptoms."
But hey! He's white, he's old, he has a penis, he has Jesus on his side (because we know Obama isn't REALLY Christian, despite all the public airing of his relationship and break with his former longtime minister - it's just a front to dispute all that terrorist stuff!), and most importantly: He sure wouldn't allow two queers to fuck under the legal sanction of marriage in this God-blessed U.S. of A.!
What about the vitriol against Obama for race? Or, more accurately, criticizing him for not being "black enough" because he was not descended from "pure" black family lines or slaves? Or for turning his name into some pseudo-Muslim-terrorist e-mail forward? (Which, hell, took the majority of *peaceful* Muslims' names down into the mud along with his.) Shit, what would Faux News and CNN have done for fodder if he'd been named Tom Smith?
Ladies - let us take a moment to remember John Kerry. The man had a fucking Silver Star (maybe more than one, I don't recall) for service, and the campaign for Bush - a man who spent those same years snorting blow, drinking his weight in liquor, and probably fucking everything to cross his path in party-boy mode - still managed to convince a bunch of fellow veterans to LIE PUBLICLY about Kerry's experience in which his patrol killed a child. This is something Kerry admitted well before then in an interview, explained the circumstances that led to the accidental shooting, and expressed great regret about. Now ... even BEING a woman, if I were also a veteran, I would take more offense at being called on the carpet for my service by a draft dodger than I would at some stupid men proving yet again that the male brain IS, indeed, housed in the penis.
Personally, I think it's about time we see some anti-McCain propaganda about how he's not "soldier enough" for wanting to subject even more young men and women to the POW treatment he endured for several years. Or he's not "neocon enough" because for a while he DID abandon any support for Bush or this war - right before he went back to kissing the old chimp's ass and yelling "rah rah oil!" I'd sure like to see him be required to undergo a mental as well as physical medical evaluation - I know more than one medical professional who has watched him and commented "There's something wrong with him (medically)" and at least one longtime doctor with experience to make judgments, who said "He seems to be displaying a lot of pre-Alzheimer's symptoms."
But hey! He's white, he's old, he has a penis, he has Jesus on his side (because we know Obama isn't REALLY Christian, despite all the public airing of his relationship and break with his former longtime minister - it's just a front to dispute all that terrorist stuff!), and most importantly: He sure wouldn't allow two queers to fuck under the legal sanction of marriage in this God-blessed U.S. of A.!
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Date: 2008-06-08 08:30 pm (UTC)Seriously, I doubt you're going to see much if anything that attacks McCain's service record, because he was a POW. IMO, That's the one thing I can respect him for, but that's beside the point. McCain is displaying the classic signs of someone wearing two faces, afraid to be seen with Bush Jr. in public, yet oh-so-willing to take the money Bush supporters bring to the table because Bush asks them to. Just not in front of the cameras. As for his not being "neocon" enough, the criticism is out there. Huckabee did manage to win a few states before he caved, after all.
As for Fox News, they've made it very clear that the rumor about Obama being Muslim is as fake as "read my lips".
I'm not going to address the "anti-feminism" slant being given to the criticism of Clinton in the media, except to wonder how HRC will use it to her advantage.
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