The 21st century & still age of Misogyny.

What kind of progressive American leader would stand silent, supporting with the cold reserve of ambition the disgracefully sexist, blatantly anti-feminist attack on a well- respected woman of the same party, a political foe perhaps, but a national Democratic leader?
Barak Obama so far.

Unless Obama speaks out, his campaign’s chilling acceptance of the gender bias stirred by our national media will also remind many of Reagan’s acceptance of the race-baiting southern strategy-because if Obama accepts the presidency, at least in part, because of abject sexism, a brutal gender attack on a female rival-the most famous female Democrat in history-he will set feminism in our country back a generation.

Obama has benefited mightily from sexism in this campaign, and has remained silent.

Journalist Tom Watson.

“The default candidate for Democrats in this race was always going to be Hillary Clinton because she’s Hillary Clinton as opposed to Hillary Rodham” Obama Oct 12, 2007.

Barack and Michelle Obama strolled triumphantly into his victory party in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan 3rd. Jay –Z’s “99 Problems” was blaring. In it, Jay-Z raps “I got 99 problems, but a b–ch ain’t one”.

“Stay out of my village B–ch” anti-Hillary t-shirt for sale by Obama supporter.

Rudov, during discussion of Clinton, said “ The woman is not called the B-word because she’s assertive and aggressive; she’s called the B-word because she acts like one”. (Would this be tolerated if it was said about Obama?)

F..K Hillary. God knows she needs it. Anti-Hillary sign peddled by Obama supporter.

“ There were tears that melted the Granite State. And those tears that Mrs. Clinton cried on that day, (it) clearly moved voters…But those tears also have to be analyzed. They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina, in light of other things Mrs. Clinton died not cry for.
We saw something very clever, we saw a sensitivity factor. Something that Mrs. Clinton has not been able to do with voters… Not in response to voters, not in response to Katrina, not in response to other issues that have devastated the American people, the war in Iraq, we saw tears in response to her appearance,. So her appearance brought her to tears, but not Katrina”. Obama campaign Co-Chair Jesse Jackson, jr., Jan 9, 2008.

“Sister Frigidaire tries to ice MSNBC” headlined article Huffington Post, Stephen Kaus.

“Obama has real gravitas, not artificially created, focus-grouped, poll-directed, rehearsed gravitas…Obama doesn’t go on tv and have crying fits; he isn’t discovering his voice at 60”. Obama advisor, Retired Gen. Merrill A. McPeak Feb 2, 2008.

“Life’s a b–ch, so don’t vote for one” Anti-Clinton sticker from Obama supporter.

“ You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out” Obama to Clinton at Tulane, Feb 7, 2008.

“ I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically, when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal.” Obama Feb 15, 2008.

“ What a whore Geraldine Ferraro is! She’s a F___king whore…Hillary is a big, f___king whore too” Radio host Randy Rhodes at an Obama rally in San Franciso, March 22nd 2008.

NPR’S Rudin: “Hillary Clinton is Glenn Close in ‘Fatal Attraction’ . She’s going to keep coming back and they’re not going to stop her”.

On May 9th, 2008, when asked whether Hillary should get out of the race on FOX 13’s Good Morning Memphis program Obama supporter, congressman Steve Cohen said “Glenn Close should have stayed in that tub”.

For over 20 years , Barack Obama sat quietly while his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright, maligned America, Jews and advanced conspiracy theories from the alter.
Over the past year, Obama sat quietly while the media and his supporters unfairly used sexism as a means to attack Hillary Clinton. Is this the leader, the unifier, the agent of change we’ve been waiting for?

Obama struck the first aggressive blow in this race with the manipulative, scare tactic commercial depicting Hillary as a Orweillian dictator or have we forgotten that?

Is Obama a true leader?

Well, let's see; He belongs to a church whose minister, Rev Jeremiah Wright, who has allied himself with the anti-semitic Louis Farrakhan and himself has said the 911 attacks were justified.

Obama did not denounce those statements, like a true leader would, and has continued in his friendship with Wright and membership in that church.

Obama's campaign subtly (and not so subtly) compares him to Kennedy and MLK, yet Kennedy was a war hero and both leaders actually listened to those whose views differ, something Obama has not been prone to do.

Obama keeps spewing there needs to be a change in the way we do politics, yet his own campaign is perfectly aligned with old world dirty politics of
attacking and demonizing his opponents and he needs to be called out for it in a debate.

He consistently refers to the Clintons as old world politics and cries we need change.

Yet, the economy was good when the Clintons left office and the progressive changes they were seeking to put into place were first sidetracked by the conservative faction, then regressed during the Bush years.

Hillary seeks to pick up where we left off in 99 and continue the push forward and, instead of reiterating all the years of experience (no one calls McCain old world because he doesn't focus on the number of years)
what needs to be forcefully reminded is Hillary's unbroken record of being a fighter for change.

This needs to be said loud and clear.

RE; The War.

Who, in their right mind actually believes the tyranny of Saddam Hussein needed to be ignored?

What was wrong was the 'continued occupation' of Iraq.

Obama claims to have been against the war for the start, yet he was not even in office when the vote was cast in 2002 and in 2004 he said his view on the war was no different than Bush's.

Why hasn't Obama been called out for this hypocrisy loud and clear, especially in a debate?

Why is he allowed to keep painting some sort of misleading, fictional halo around himself?

He needs to be called out and it needs to be said 'Well, you keep saying that, but here's the black and white truth of the matter'.

Too, Hillary shows the wisdom of moderation.

Obama, like Bush, is an extremist, in his own way.

When Hillary was leading, Obama and Edwards launched their attacks, yet Hillary stated 'They are not attacking me because I am a woman, but because I am ahead”. Yet when Bill Clinton stated the indisputable facts regarding Obama's war voting records, Obama's camp cried “racist”.

No, Bill's point was made because Obama drew first blood and because he is a political opponent, that's all. Do we really need this kind of manipulative defense mode in the White House?
It's certainly not a progressive step forward for any of who are of mixed race.

It's time for an aggressive calling out of a manipulative campaign of Hollywood style over substance.

We don't need to trade one brand of extremism for another.

I agree with Hillary Clinton that what happened in 2000 was a tragedy of epic proportions because the intelligence of Al Gore probably would have made for the greatest presidential term of all, probably even surpassing F.D.R.

Gore absorbed Bill Clinton's moderate policies.

Obama could eventually go down as a president of wisdom and moderation, in another 8 years and I'd love to see him absorb what he needs to in those years as a v.p in the White House.

Fantasy because it's not gong to happen.

No, the American public has always been pretty superficial and right now we are dazzled by Obama's all star line up.

He WILL win the democratic nomination and he will either lose to McCain in 08 or will win the White House, only to lose it in his 2012 rebid.

It's as predictable as has been the Iraq war and i'm with the extreme few who felt so even then in 2002, when it was absolutely not popular to say so (proving what is often popular is usually dead wrong).

I will hate saying I told you so in a few years, not that it would do any good.

After all, has anyone ever officially told the Dixie Chicks they were right after all?

The Real Barack Obama

Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:06 AM

By: Ronald Kessler

Michelle Obama’s comment that, for the first time in her adult life, she feels proud of America helps crystallize who Barack Obama is.

To be sure, the wife of a candidate is perfectly free to have views that are distinct from her husband’s. But on a matter that is so fundamental to one’s being as love of country, it is difficult to imagine that Michelle Obama would publicly twice make such a statement suggesting disdain for America unless she felt it comported with her husband’s views.

Equally important, her statement aligns perfectly with the hate-America views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s minister, friend, and sounding board for more than two decades. On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.

“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in his church magazine Trumpet. “White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”

Wright has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in December, honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement, saying he “truly epitomize[s] greatness.”

Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, whites, America, and homosexuals.

Those who think two of the closest people to Obama could publicly make anti-America statements unless Obama himself felt that way, are fooling themselves. To date, Obama has proven himself to be nothing more than a great orator, rendering the statements of those around him even more important in illuminating his true character and agenda. During his Senate career, he skipped 17 percent of the votes and sponsored only one bill that became law. That bill was to promote “relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

Bereft of official accomplishments, Obama has distinguished himself mainly by being against measures that protect American security, such as finishing the mission in Iraq. If we were to leave Iraq quickly, as Obama vows he would do, it would become a launch pad for al-Qaida attacks on the U.S.

Obama avoided voting on extending the Protect America Act, thus putting America at risk when immediate interception of terrorist communications is required. Last August, Obama voted against a measure that would have allowed the U.S. to continue to monitor overseas conversations of terrorists like Osama bin Laden without first obtaining a warrant.

If his radical vote had prevailed, bin Laden would have been given the same rights as Americans.

To this day, Obama has not distanced himself from most of Rev. Wright’s comments. In a statement supposedly issued to address the matter, Obama ignored the point that his minister and friend had spoken adoringly of Farrakhan and that Wright’s church was behind the award to the Nation of Islam leader. Instead, as outlined in a Jan. 17 Newsmax article, he disingenuously claimed he thought the magazine bestowed the award on Farrakhan for his efforts to rehabilitate ex-prisoners.

Neither Wright’s encomiums about Farrakhan nor the Trumpet article mentions ex-prisoners.

Similarly, after John McCain’s wife Cindy responded to Michelle Obama’s remarks by telling a Wisconsin rally, “I have, and always will be, proud of my country,” Barack Obama told a radio interviewer that his wife did not say what people think she said. He then proceeded to rewrite her comments, claiming that she had meant she was encouraged by the “large numbers of people” who have gotten involved in the political process. Michelle Obama then made a similar revision of her remarks.

In her speech in Milwaukee, Michelle Obama said flatly, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.”

And what has been wrong with America up to now? That it gave Michelle the opportunity to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School? That it gave Barack Obama the chance to attend Columbia University and Harvard Law School and become a U.S. senator making more than $1 million a year from book royalties?

Was it that America stopped Nazi Germany from continuing to murder millions of Jews? That America has provided Africa and other countries with $15 billion to combat the spread of AIDS/HIV and that another $30 billion is on the way? That 46 percent of all Americans classified by the Census Bureau as poor own their own homes, 76 percent of them have air conditioning, and 75 percent of them have at least one car? Or that America allows us to express our views freely without fear of being put in jail, as is the case in Russia?

A lawyer, Michelle Obama is perfectly capable of expressing herself precisely. In fact, she spoke from a written speech.

Those who do not want to believe she meant what she said — and that Barack Obama could not be so close to Rev. Wright if he did not himself believe in much of what he has said — are in denial.

The real Barack Obama is starting to emerge, and for those of us who are grateful to America for everything it represents, it is not a pretty sight.

Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. View his previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via e-mail. Go here now.

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I'm not suggesting that she be VP, I'm just trying to find a similar analogy for this situation.

Appomattox Court House?

Good for you both, Sens Clinton and Obama! May the best candidate win – the presidency.