Jack & Jill Politics

Well, Ferraro is at it again. Blaming Obama and Richardson for sexism against Hillary. As one of the posters said in the DWTS thread, how can they then cozy up to Bill?

I need for somebody to shut Ferraro down on national television. I would gladly pay to see that, instead of everyone handling her with kid gloves.

Clinton blowing popular vote argument

Pachenga

Regarding the Cherokee Freedmen issue, Barack has said:

“Discrimination anywhere is intolerable, but the Cherokee are dealing with this issue in both tribal and federal courts. As it stands, the rights of the Cherokee Freedmen are not being abrogated because there is an injunction in place that ensures the Freedman’s rights to programs during the pendency of the litigation. I do not support efforts to undermine these legal processes and impose a congressional solution. Tribes have a right to be self governing and we need to respect that, even if we disagree, which I do in this case. We must have restraint in asserting federal power in such circumstances.“

Personally, I’d like to see government-mandated effort to maintain Freedmen citizenship rights. At the same time, it would seem that–for now–the courts may be the best forum to decide the issues. The CBC can’t even bring themselves to come out uniformly in support of Barack’s candidacy, so I can’t fathom why anyone would want them dealing with tribal issues. Same goes for the current Congress.

Here are more photos from Obama being adopted by Crow Nation with full video of his speech.

Hillary Points Finger at Misogyny

Hillary follows Ferraro’s lead. I highlighted some interesting parts:

“It’s been deeply offensive to millions of women,” Clinton said. “I believe this campaign has been a groundbreaker in a lot of ways. But it certainly has been challenging given some of the attitudes in the press, and I regret that, because I think it’s been really not worthy of the seriousness of the campaign and the historical nature of the two candidacies we have here.”

Later, when asked if she thinks this campaign has been racist, she says she does not. And she circles back to the sexism. “The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable, or at least more accepted, and . . . there should be equal rejection of the sexism and the racism when it raises its ugly head,” she said. “It does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by the comments by people who are nothing but misogynists.”

Yep. She calling people misogynists. Note, she won’t say who these people are. She doesn’t really give any examples. She just shouts sexism, and let’s her supporters guess who’s to blame.

People aren’t saying the race is over because they’re sexist. They’re saying it’s over because of MATH.

She’s not the first candidate to face pressure to drop out when the math didn’t add up. And I find it disgusting that she’d use victimhood as a shield.

Obama played by the rules. He had a better strategy, a more inclusive message and far superior organization. There’s no sexism there.

First Ferraro, now Hillary. This looks like a deliberate attempt to stir emotions amongst her supporters, knowing that they’re gonna look for someone to blame. And we already know who the scapegoat’s gonna be. It’s wreckless.

and you have a peaceful day, but is it possible? i’m not feeling very fucking peaceful. i am angry and getting more so every day.

met at the doors of my warehouse this morning with the Barack Obama joke of the day: He may not be able to fix American, but he sure will be able to ni**er rig it.

god help us all. i want to hurt someone.

By now everyone’s seen the clip from Good Morning America’s interview with the Obamas re: the TN GOP, but just in case you missed the interview in its entirety:

The Obamas sit down with Robin Roberts

I must say, I love the way they love each other. So inspiring…

From Andrew Sullivan

A reader writes:

The wife and I were talking about this last week. She believes that Hillary Clinton really is crazy, and is living in a state of denial, and has no plans for the future beyond the election. I tend towards the view that she is pretending to be crazy, as a way to try to scare others into giving her what she wants.

Thoughts?

A little of both, perhaps. When it comes to Mrs Clinton, one under-estimated factor is the nature of her ambition. As her life has progressed from those salad days at Wellesley, her own long march through the institutions has been fraught with awful moral compromise. In this campaign alone, the pacts she has made with various devils to keep ahead of the pretender to her throne have been particularly brutal. Somewhere in her head, she justifies all the principles she has trashed over the years, all the enemies she has allied with, all the racists she has won over, all the abused women she has smeared … on the grounds that if she becomes president, the good she can do will outweigh it all. These are the sacrifices all people who seek power for the good must undergo, she tells herself. To have it all taken away from her at the last minute – by someone who hasn’t made as many compromises – is therefore unimaginably cruel. She cannot accept it – because her life’s work is at stake. So she struggles on. Her private life, her marriage, is fused with her public life. So she has nowhere else to go. Which is why she stays. This is all there is for her.

Is that crazy? I don’t know. But it is immeasurably sad. Not sad enough for pity. She did this all herself. But sad nonetheless.

I thought the upside down flag was a reference to how distressed we are a s a country (eff’d up would be the better descriptor, but I’m trying to be nice…)

Craig

Profound analysis of Hillary Clinton and her fight. It reall is all she has.

Sad.

Craig-

Great Analysis, I co-sign. It explains her desperation. She refuses to accept truth because really its that hard. She thought this was hers to lose and she lost.

Craig and BPM,

I heard about it, how sad. I will keep him in my prayers.

The pic of the old Native American lady is the cutest. I saw it yesterday. There is also a cute one of a young girl all dressed up in her traditional garb with this thing (I dont know what it is called mabye Angela or O Pechanga could help) but it was really pretty and it had “First Americans for Obama” on it.

I love seeing elderly people and children on the campaign trail, it gets me emotional for some reason. There is this video of an old black lady in SC and she is the best. I also remember another one from SC who was in her 100s and she had an Obama button on her hat and an Obama T-Shirt. There is a picture of a youg white boy in Oregon who was painted with hopeon his chest and in red, white and blue. People cannot deny the amount of spirit that people have when it comes to Obama, they just cannot. You have children excited about him!! People who compare him to Dukakis or say that he is weak are hataz plain and simple.

Interesting O Pechanga.

Hello everyone. I was wondering if any one had hear of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt calling Michelle Obama a wash women. I am listing a link to another blog, but I have not found a legitimate news article on the story. Some people are silly, that you can even be offended by their ignorance.

http://www.zimbio.com/Prince+Frederick+von+Anhalt/articles/44/FAKE+Prince+Frederic+von+Anhalt+Calls+Michelle