'Bro' v. 'Ho', yo!
Should Democrats vote for the “bro” or should they vote for the “ho”? Take a look at these nearly 30 unofficial *pro-Obama campaign t-shirts. Hillary Clinton supporters say this kind of product is proof: the first female to run for President of the United States has been diminished by sexism, which has been pervasive in the media, on the campaign trail and embodied in products sitting on store shelves, like the *Hillary nutcracker.
Geraldine Ferraro, one of Clinton’s biggest supporters, takes it one step further. She says that Barack Obama himself is “terribly sexist.” So what is she referring to? It all seemed to start with a song. On the night of the Iowa caucuses, Obama’s campaign played a rap song by Jay Z at the victory party. The title was “99 Problems.” But playing a song wasn’t the problem - the lyrics were: “I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one.” Then during a debate he quipped that he thought Clinton was “likable enough.” Clinton backers saw this as condescending. Da link, yo
Oh man, it doesn't get any better than this - Democrats wallowing around in the sty of political incorrectness together. I'm sure they thought having a woman and a black man running would insulate them from the evil Republican attack machine. Turns out, they're doing that to themselves rather nicely. Yeah, it'll all sadly come to an end when Obama crosses the delegate threshold and becomes the presumptive nominee. Hints of the tactics they'll employ against McCain are already being evidenced - and again - there's an 'ism' at the end. They've used sexism and racism on each other and now they'll use ageism. *Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) even went so far as to say that McCain's military background might make him unfit to lead - that his thinking may not be in line with reality somehow. In a word - militarism. For a party so sensitive to 'isms', the Democrats are sure partial to applying labels which require the suffix to opponents.
Hypocrisy rules in politics.
Posted by: OLDCATMAN | 05/23/2008 at 08:41 AM