Hillary or Bust

I’m taking a break from this blog to enjoy my holiday season. Yes, there is a lot going on right now, what with the Blagojevich scandal, Sarah Palin’s church being burned, and Caroline Kennedy trying to assume, through divine right of her royal name, Hillary Clinton’s senate seat. (Sorry, Caroline, but you are one woman in politics I am not going to support! Traitor!)

I’ll be back in the new year. At that time, I’ll be redesigning and relaunching this blog to focus on electing our first woman president, who hopefully won’t be Caroline Kennedy via fiat. Please sign up for the Hillary or Bust mailing list below to be notified when the new site is ready. Happy Holidays!

You might have seen the gruesome picture of the Pakistani woman who had acid thrown in her face by her ex-husband. PumaParty.com has some action steps you can take to help fight this horror.

Starry-eyed kool-aid drinkers are busy naming elementary schools after Obama before the man is even officially sworn in, apparently missing the irony that people who voted for Obama were far less informed than McCain voters. Gee, you think maybe our educators might spend a little more time teaching kids civics than wasting time and money renaming schools for a man who might end up embarrassing them in the White House.

Let me state for the record that I always knew that Hillary was a pragmatic politician and not an idealist or rabble rouser who was willing to fight the system, come what may. I was a bit disappointed that she did not stand up more against the caucus fraud, but I also feel that the Powers That Be and the media were so aligned against her, that such a move would have been political suicide and accomplished nothing.

Now she is going to be our Secretary of State. I’m not sure if this is the best move for her, because she’s under Obama’s thumb and can now be fired. But it’s apparently what she wanted - I presume that the entire reason she campaigned for Obama was because she cut this deal with him when it was clear she would not get the Democratic nomination.

But why Secretary of State and not Vice-President? This is what truly makes no sense to me…if she’s good enough to be SOS then why isn’t she good enough to be VP?

The one thing I am happy about is that many Obamabots are gnashing their teeth as Obama goes in and creates a Clinton/Bush administration, exactly what they said they did not want. Of course, quite a few of them are trying to justify these actions due to their deep Obama indoctrination and cognitive dissonance. One commenter wrote to me:

If you feel like Obama sold out progressives, you weren’t paying attention. He promised all along to put Republicans and people who weren’t in ideological lock-step in his cabinet. If I’m not mistaken he caught flack from Hillary for that in a few debates.

Try taking a breath and wait until Obama actually starts governing before you call him a “Democrat Bush”.

Ummm…right. I’m sure, when Obama was promising to all his anti-war supporters that he’d have us out of Iraq in a jiffy, that those war supporters wanted him to keep on Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. Yep, all those war protesters calling McCain a “warmongerer” (sic) are probably dancing in the streets knowing that Obama has created “CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN” by keeping on a Bush appointee in that very important position of Defense Secretary.

What lengths are Obamabots willing to go to justify their support of this man?

Of course, I’m not entirely convinced that these slobbering supporters are all for real - read the comments here on the NY Times blog, and count how many times Obama’s pick of Hillary is called “BRILLIANT.” It seems to show up in every other post. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the Axelrod Propaganda Machine is hard at work, paying people minimum wage to post positive comments on the major news sites.

So will the anti-war activists hold Obama up to the standard they held Bush? Or will they apologize for him when he keeps us in Iraq longer than promised, sends more troops to Afghanistan, or invades Pakistan? Where is Code Pink when you need them? Hello…CODE PINK…maybe it’s time you protested Obama’s appointments in the manner you rudely interrupted the Republican National Convention.

PS When I see the Code Pink website, I am reminded of the Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever” and how naive and misguided rabid peace activists can be.

Worth a read - The Bitch and the Airhead: Blatant Women-Bashing Makes a Gut-Wrenching Comeback - not just for the article, but the horrid comments, which totally prove the point of the piece. You’ll find guys on there claiming that Palin “flaunted her sexuality” to get a few votes (huh?) and suggesting that Palin will have a harder time in 2012 when she won’t be able to control her inevitable aging.

Then they’ll go on and on about what an idiot Palin is, while suggesting that this characterization has nothing whatsoever to do with her gender. Sorry, not buying it. Obama somehow gets a pass for having no executive experience whatsoever while Palin is a moron for running a town and then a state successfully? Please. Calling Sarah Palin an idiot in clear denial of her recorded accomplishments is sexism.

The Daily Beast actually commission a poll on gender bias in the media:

The poll’s key findings include:

* By an overwhelming 61% to 19% margin, women believe there is a gender bias in the media.

* 4 in 10 men freely admit sexist attitudes towards a female president. 39% of men say that a male is “naturally more suited” to carrying out the duties of the office

* Only 20% of women are willing to use the word “feminist” about themselves. Only 17% of all voters said they would welcome their daughters using that label.

* 48% of women thought Hillary Clinton received fair media treatment and only 29% believed Sarah Palin was treated fairly. In contrast, nearly 8 in 10 voters thought the press gave fair treatment to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

* More than two-thirds of women said they were being treated unfairly in the workplace (68%).

Yet, somehow, these women aren’t making the connection that their unfair treatment in the workplace might have something to do with the lack of gender parity in government.

We have a lot of work to do in the next four years to undo the damage to Governor Palin’s reputation and work to get a woman elected in 2012. One of our first hurdles will be to try to convince women that it is in their best interests to support women in office despite political differences.

Geez, Obama isn’t even officially elected yet and already he’s shoving progressives under the bus. I’ve been saying for a while that Obama was never a true progressive…he just used the progressive movement to win the election, but now that he’s in office, he’s going to be Bush III.

Here are a few choice snippets from a very telling story, “Barack Obama accused of selling out on Iraq by picking hawks to run his foreign policy“:

Chris Bowers of the influential OpenLeft.com blog complained: “That is, over all, a centre-right foreign policy team. I feel incredibly frustrated. Progressives are being entirely left out of Obama’s major appointments so far.”

Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos site, the in-house talking shop for the anti-war Left, warned that Democrats risk sounding “tone deaf” to the views of “the American electorate that voted in overwhelming numbers for change from the discredited Bush policies.”

Hey, we PUMAs tried to tell you that Obama was a sell-out, but you were too caught up in your hype, euphoria, and misogyny to listen. You claimed you didn’t want a third term of the Clintons, and you didn’t want Bush in there either. Well, guess what you’ve got? The BEST of both worlds, a new Clinton-Bush hybrid administration with Obama as the figurehead (and puppet). Good move, progressives.

Had you figured out who the real maverick was in this election, you would have voted McCain like some of us did. Those of us who could think outside the box had kind of clued into the fact that whoever raised the most Wall Street money (Obama) and had the support of the mainstream media (Obama) was probably not a candidate who’d be pushing progressive policies. As I’ve been saying all along, Obama is a NeoCon in disguise.

I wonder how long it will be before these same folks will be marching in the streets yelling epithets at Obama because he hasn’t pulled our troops out of Iraq as promised? Waiting…

There’s a petition being passed around from Women Count asking Obama to create a Presidential Commission on Women. Reactions are mixed, however, judging by this comment thread on No Quarter. A comment from mimi really struck me:

A lot of women sold their souls to 0bama not only in the face of misogyny coming from men, WOMEN PARTICIPATED IN IT!

But if we want action, there are other ways to direct our energy and I think putting pressure on the industry who helps form some of the pervasively negative anti-women attitudes is a better start.

I agree, mimi. I don’t feel that a petition to Obama will do any good. So what if he creates a “commission on women”? What on earth is that going to solve? The problem can’t be dictated down from above - we’ve already seen the tremendous failure of most major feminist organizations during this election. It was NOW, NARAL, Emily’s List, and the Feminist Majority who sold us down the river, ostensibly over the “choice” issue, but apparently also because George Soros gave them a lot of money.

We need a new women’s movement, one that does not let the issue of abortion divide women.

I am reminded of how, during this election, an Obama voting female friend of mine complained that her 2-year-old daughter was obsessed with Barbie even though she did not let the child watch television and she was not bringing female-brainwashing toys into the house. Yet, this same mostly intelligent woman did not connect the brainwashing of her little girl with the sexism and misogyny against Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.

I am also reminded of a late 40-something white woman in a singing class of mine, who one week decided to dedicate her song to Obama. She literally sang and danced around the room clutching a picture of Obama to her chest, singing to him as if he were a lover. It was clear that her adulation of Obama was something akin to how some women get obsessed with George Clooney. It was sickening and disturbing.

Women did not support Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin for a number of reasons, but the first and foremost is that they do not understand that our lack of parity in government affects the respect all women get in our daily lives. And of course, the lack of respect women get in our daily lives is reflected by our lack of parity in government.

When you see crapola on TV like “Charm School,” showcasing the most inane, vain, and stupid women, you have to wonder if we’re not just standing still in terms of women’s progress, but actually moving backwards. (Can you believe that one of the episodes is actually formally titled: “Big Titty Girl No-No”?)

Our culture is degenerating into an insipid dumbocracy that rewards stupidity and shallowness. The film “Idiocracy” is actually a pretty good take on where we’re going if we don’t shape up here in America. In the dystopian future envisioned in Idiocracy, even Starbucks has turned into a strip club. That pretty much says it all.

The PUMAs need to reformulate into a new movement. Some PUMAs may choose to focus on putting pressure on the Democratic party to put an end to unfair caucuses. I have chosen to completely leave the Democratic party and no longer give them my loyalty or attention. Here on this blog, I will do my little part to help start a new women’s movement that is based on garnering respect for women, without letting abortion divide us.

Maybe we can do things differently in 2012.

With the possible appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, we are seeing a resurgence of the insane, biased Clinton hatred by the media that served to derail her in the primaries. As those on the left whine about her bringing “drama” to Obama, women are once again being crapped on in clear daylight.

Marie Cocco has written a devastating article showing just how bad it has gotten for women in politics this year: “It is time to stop kidding ourselves. This wasn’t a breakthrough year for American women in politics. It was a brutal one,” she writes.

The numbers don’t lie. The American record of equity for women in government is on par with “sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.” Women make up over 50% of the population, and yet, we are represented in government by at best a percentage of mere 25%.

In 2009, we will have:

8 female governors
17 female senators
and only 17% of Congress will be female.

When people say to me, “How on earth can you support Sarah Palin just because she has a vagina?” they seem to forget that women are drastically underrepresented in our government. Funny - we as a nation can get all hyped up and excited about the “first black president,” even though blacks only make up 12% of our population. But elect a woman president when we women make up over 50% of the population? Forget it.

We women only have ourselves to blame. If we stopped being so competitive with one another and actually supported each other, we would have parity by now. To American women who voted against your sisters, I say: SHAME ON YOU.

So it looks like Hillary Clinton may become Obama’s Secretary of State - more thoughts on that if it is indeed confirmed. The irony? Insane media Obamabots such as MSNBC’s Chris Matthews have been frothing at the mouth over Hillary’s appointment. I find it completely unbelievable that these guys can go on and on about the so-called dubious dealings of the Clintons while completely ignoring Obama’s shady past and current fundraising questions.

But what I find deliciously ironic is that Matthews is freaking out over the Hillary pick as being part of the “status quo” - “WHERE’S THE CHANGE IN THAT?” he whines. Looks like the rose-colored Obama glasses are slowly coming off!

Will Obama ask Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State? Considering all the grief Hillary has gone through, and how much she stuck out her neck for Obama after the primaries were over, the least Obama could do is offer her a leadership position in his administration. However, not everyone feels positive about this idea…check out the comments at No Quarter for some different opinions on the subject from former Hillary supporters.