WILL THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON PULEEZE SHOW UP!
The Presumptive "Fair One" Between the Once Presumptive Democratic
Candidate and The Lightweight GOP VP Candidate Must Be in Rain Delay
Let's be clear: The Democratic Primary race between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was fought over one issue -- entitlement.
Whose turn is it at bat? The Blacks? (meaning especially Black men) Or upper middle class white women (soccer moms, middle managers, etc.) Who has been buked and scorned more? The Blacks, no doubt have suffered through slavery, endured racism, segregation (legalized racism) and marginalization, for starters.
Hold on a second, say the white women -- "at least Barack's a man! That makes him more equal than we are. Besides there's still pay inequity between women and men -- and that counts!"
One could not have dreamed that the Democrats' (who have shown so little backbone and fire against the Republican right) primary would be mean as a Yankee-Red Sox playoff series.
If you don't believe that, just ask your liberal, Democratic, white female friends and colleagues who they are voting for. The number who are still "undecided" is incredible.
Or should I say appalling?
With two candidates so far apart on the issues -- Iraq, abortion rights, etc. -- what exactly are you undecided about?
Are you still mad that Hillary lost to Barack, a man, a Black man? So mad that you are willing to fore go getting out of Iraq, the hard-fought and perhaps fading right to choose, just to name a few issues? What would Hillary think? Her silence, despite claims to support the ticket, reeks with bitterness and selfishness. Go ahead, dog the last few minutes of the game because you got sat on the bench. It won't be your fault your team lost. "They should never have taken me out!" you can say.
So Hillary is in the cat-bird seat -- she believes. If the Democrats lose, she can echo what she said before: "I'm the one who can get the hard-working, white voters..."
Or she can come to the rescue in those final minutes and hit some three pointers, at which point she can proclaim: "You only won because of me -- never could've done it without me!"
Either way Hillary looks like the truly entitled one. If Obama loses, she can wait on the sidelines until next time around, and remind everyone of the great opportunity they missed in '08.
Heard an interesting commentary on a Pacifica radio station, where the commentator said something like this: Black people have voted for a long line of mediocre white men for decades now (read Mondale, Carter, Kerry). We have had our needs either ignored or met just part way. So for white women to all of a sudden forsake their political views and their consciences to jump the fence all the way to the right and vote for McCain instead of Obama -- your racism is showing...
I'm hearing many white women Democrats say: "Hillary has experience and McCain has experience and experience is important."
Yeah. Hillary who lied about dodging bullets in Bosnia, when in reality she and her then young daughter, Chelsea, were photo-opting for the press, surrounded by school children and accompanied by CBS News. Not a bullet to be seen or heard. Boy, had Obama said that, they would have been all over his lying, and denigrating the work of the real soldiers whose lives are on the line, etc.
But Hillary, who claims unfair treatment by the media, dodged the bullet.
Her husband, Bill, was stunned that this came up at all and said: "She was just tired."
Tired? Imagine how tired she'll be at 3:00 in the morning when that infamous phone rings.
Experience? Ask Hillary fans to name three accomplishments she has made during her experience in the Senate. Her tenure there might have been a good time to revisit health care. She campaigned for it as First Lady -- a ceremonial role -- why not now, Hillary when there is a fist in your glove?
Experience? Like the kind her husband had before he came to the White House? Like his politics or not, go and compare George Bush the 1st's experience to Bill's. The only thing Bill probably had more experience in than George I, was weed.
Hillary is no doubt very, very, bright. She could've been a powerhouse for the Democratic Party and the dried out, dying Left. She could have given them balls without ever running for office.
But had Hillary not married Bill, she would have been: a) a successful high-powered attorney; b) head of a national not-for-profit; or c) a congressional representative in a major city or suburb of a major city.
Not in the Senate, no way, no how.
So if Hillary really wants to help elect a fellow Democrat, her role is clear: 1) Spread the gospel among your remaining devoted that they must support Obama; and 2) Stalk Sara Palin -- make her look like the comic relief she really is.
Try to get her face-to-face. Follow her at appearances: Palin goes to Miami -- Hillary follows her -- Indianapolis, the same. And also Fort Wayne, Anaheim, Pittsburgh and the moon if necessary. Hold yourself up to her, Hillary, so that people see clearly that you are a bona-fide heavyweight contender and Palin is a lightweight pretender.
Make women understand what an insult it is that the GOP selects the least of their female ranks to get you to abandon your ideals.
They should feel the way I felt, as a Black person, when George Bush the 1st scraped the bottom of the judicial barrel and selected Clarence Thomas to replace icon Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme court. What a slap in the face!
There were plenty of Black Republicans -- even conservative Blacks -- around with true credentials in the field of law that should have been considered. Just as now when the GOP sees fit to bypass a host of female congressional representatives, governors and senators from real states to pick Palin, who is all lip gloss and cue cards.
Experience? What, governor of Alaska?
You could be governor of Alaska on-line!
And mayor of a town of less than 50,000 people? That's five housing projects in Brooklyn!
And I doubt seriously that Palin could be a community organizer there.
And by the way, what does Palin consider the works of people like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, the founders of MADD, and the pro-choice and anti-abortion movements?
Weren't they all grassroots community organizers? The Democrats should have never let her get away with that one. If there is one certain necessary building block for any attempt at democracy and freedom, it is grass roots community organizing.
Race v. Gender finally came to head this year after three decades of upper-middle class white women jumping on the civil rights bandwagon. So whose turn is it to bat?
If your white women friends and colleagues still insist their "undecided" status is not about race, but experience -- ask them this question: What if the GOP presidential candidate had been Condolezza Rice? What do you think the out come would be?
I know the answer.
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