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From Code Pink

By ~LS~ On May 24, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Hillary, Politics, War

From Code Pink’s talking points about dogging Hillary re: the war in Iraq:

Question: Are you doing this because she’s a woman? Are you holding her to a higher standard because she’s a woman? As women, are you going after her because she’s a woman?

Answer: No. No. No. Our campaign has nothing to do with the fact that she is a woman. It is about her enormous power and influence within the Democratic Party. It is about her hawk-like record. We don’t want to end up with another Lyndon Johnson—of whatever gender. Pressuring Hillary to change her stance on the war—and not just her RHETORIC ON THE WAR, but her ACTIONS—is our best hope to have an influence on the policies that will decide how and when that war is ended.

I never really thought of her as another Lyndon Johnson, but….that’s really scary.

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Follow the dollar – War Profiteering

By ~LS~ On April 19, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Capitalism and tagged Tagged With: Hillary, Obama, Politics, War

Counterpunch has an article today on how much money Cheney and other war profiteers have made off the Iraq war. It’s so appalling; I can’t believe that this sort of thing doesn’t make headlines in the mainstream news. For instance,

In addition, Cheney’s son-in-law, Philip Perry, Cummings says, was appointed to serve as general counsel to the Department of Homeland Security, and he had been a registered lobbyist for Lockheed who had worked for a law firm representing Lockheed with the Department of Homeland Security.

According to Cummings, less than a month after 9/11, in October of 2001, the Pentagon announced a $20 billion contract for Lockheed for the development of the Joint Strike Fighter, called the F-35. At the time, Edward Aldridge was Undersecretary of Defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics, which was responsible for the approval of the contract. Aldridge left his government post in 2003, and [...]

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Hillary is NOT THE FIRST

By ~LS~ On April 4, 2007 · 2 Comments · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Gender, Hillary, Sexism

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Ambitious Hillary

By ~LS~ On February 22, 2007 · 3 Comments · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Gender, Hillary, Obama, Sexism

Everyone is up in arms blogging about the spat between Hillary and Obama, instigated by David Geffen’s criticism of Hillary, which goes like this:

“I don’t think that another incredibly polarizing figure, no matter how smart she is, and no matter how ambitious she is — and God knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton? — can bring the country together.”

Geffen is supporting and fundraising for Obama. What pisses me off about this quote is the same old tired gender-based rhetoric about Hillary as a pushy broad. Obama, who has been a senator for a whopping TWO YEARS, and who has very limited experience, is more ambitious than Hillary. Shit, anyone who runs for president is ambitious. What makes Hillary more ambitious than, say, Obama in Geffen’s mind? I mean really.

Luckily the spat is more between aides rather than the candidates themselves. I [...]

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Gen-Xer Runs for President

By ~LS~ On February 8, 2007 · Add Comment · In Generations, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Age, Generations, Hillary, Obama, Politics

The more I hear about Barack Obama, the more he sounds like a gen Xer to me. This is most probably the effect of selective perception, I admit, but he -is- in his mid-forties. Tody in The American Prospect, Harold Meyerson writes about Obama’s pitch to the DNC, along with Hillary and Edwards. He quotes Obama as expressing concern for the “debasing of the public sphere.” That, of course, hit home for me as a Rhetorical Studies person. It’s interesting that all the typical public address statements about concern for the public sphere revolve on the whole balkanization (from which, admittedly, the Democratic Party does suffer), and now we live in a nearly facist state where the decline of public debate lies at the foot of censorship. Of course, NCA-style rhetoricians are also concerned about free speech and open debate, so I recognize I’m overstating the age gap here. [...]

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More on Hillary

By ~LS~ On January 30, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Hillary, Politics

Commondreams.org trashes Hillary for skipping town on the day of the big anti-war protest in order to launch her presidential campaign in Iowa. They suggest she would make a terrible president because she is behind the times and too centrist.

And, most critically for Hillary Clinton, a desperate yearning on the part of
Americans of all political stripes not for a triangulating “centrist” in the
Clinton mold, but for someone who can show themselves as both attuned and
responsive to the national mood and capable of authenticity and bold
leadership. Hillary Clinton could not be a less appropriate candidate for
2008.

I don’t know what to think. The left thinks Hillary is too centrist and the center thinks she’s too liberal. My fear, and it’s a common one, is that the Left will be too fragmented to get a Democrat into office in [...]

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