the only thing I could find on a quick skim was a reference to her forwarding a Robin Morgan piece, snip of the creepy part below, with the caveat she didn't agree with all of it.
Which piece of campaign lit did slate feature?
Joseph forwarded:
> "You can tell who the Hillary supporters are," the 19-year-old NYU
> student said. "They're old white women."
In defense of the decripit old fogies like my mother and a co-worker's
mother who are in their 50s and have a thing or two to say about sexism in
their life times, I am tempted to campaign for Clinton after reading that.
:) Robin Morgan brought me down to reality with this crap:
Goodbye to the so-called spontaneous “Obama Girl” flaunting her bikini-clad ass online—then confessing Oh yeah it wasn’t her idea after all, some guys got her to do it and dictated the clothes, which she said “made me feel like a dork.”
[note to Dwayne: ooooo. Female chauvinist pigs, they are everywhere, everywhere! Is not Ariel Levy Morgan's spittin' image? Natch. I can't even believe Morgan is backing a democrat at all! But anyway....)
Morgan continues: Goodbye to some young women eager to win male approval by showing they’re not feminists (at least not the kind who actually threaten thestatus quo), who can’t identify with a woman candidate because she is unafraid of eeueweeeu yucky power, who fear their boyfriends might look at them funny if they say something good about her. Goodbye to women of any age again feeling unworthy, sulking “what if she’s not electable?” or “maybe it’s post-feminism and whoooosh we’re already free.” Let a statement by the magnificent Harriet Tubman stand as reply. When asked how she managed to save hundreds of enslaved African Americans via the Underground Railroad during the Civil War, she replied bitterly, “I could have saved thousands—if only I’d been able to convince them they were slaves.” (http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/020108.html)
But then I read Donna and someone else she pointed to and, I have to say, I appreciate this rhetoric (still for the wrong things, but...) and think it's a whole lot more productive than the drivel about togetherness and we are more the same than not and other fairy tales. I wanted to puke when I read a letter urging Asian Americans to get out the Obama vote. Helen Steiner Rice fans should take steps to secure her place in history before she is overrun by campaign volunteers like that.
Anyway, one thing is clear: what connects the young women below with the two decrepit women I know who are clinton fans is not age, but this: Hurray for divisiveness. We are sick of people who think partisanship is a dirty word. We are sick of backing down.
Makes you wonder how many people are behind Hillary because of that, to me, far more worthwhile sentiment that the crap letter I read from Asian Americans for Obama letter I read recently.
Donna:
I don’t want a President I can have a beer with. I want the designated driver, the uncool mom, a total bitch (not that she’s one) who will clean up this mess and take care of business. No more nice guys who capitulate to Republicans. We’ve had Gore, Kerry now Obama. We need a total bitch to take care of business. (http://donnadarko.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/sanity-on-the-internet-2/ )
and then there's another Asian American blogger she points to, Pizza Diavola http://pizzadiavola.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday/, who writes:
On a side note, I am so sick of this generational shit and this unity/end of partisanship shit. As for the former, I’m a recent college grad and I’m not enamored of Obama and his vague promises of change and unity, whatever the hell they mean, and I’m not charmed by his poor oratorical skills (full disclosure: I haven’t been impressed by an orator since Cicero died). ...
“the bitterness, divisiveness and ineffectiveness” do not make politics “seem so unsavory,” it’s the Democrats’ repeated and cowardly capitulation to the Republicans that make politics unsavory to me; and although I am ” just fed up with the status quo,” I want something more than vague, unspecific promises of “change” and I’m skeptical of a “rockstar who embodies [that] desire [for change].” ...
As for Obama’s unity/end of partisanship shtick, I have a real problem with that, which Melissa McEwan articulates at Shakesville: “I Have Questions For Barack Obama.” In November 2006, the Democrats won majorities in both houses of Congress. It was going to be a period of change, it was going to be the beginning of the end of the social conservatism, fiscal irresponsibility, mindless militarism, corporate pandering, and everything else that Bush & Co. have been doing to destroy the country.
Instead, the Democratic Congress has repeatedly failed to get its act together and advance a liberal agenda (pro-choice, pro-environmental, anti-Bush tax cuts, pro-civil rights, pro-social welfare programs, anti-war) and instead it’s consistently capitulated to the Republicans. And yet, that is unity. That is bipartisanship. To me, in today’s world, bipartisanship and unity don’t mean working together, they mean the Democrats capitulating and giving the Republicans whatever they want. I want partisanship: I want the Democrats to stand up for liberal causes, challenge the Bush administration and the Republicans, and do the job I elected them to do, which is to represent my pro-choice, pro-environment, pro-civil rights, anti-war, anti-lobbyist, liberal self. I am perfectly happy with the twain never meeting, if that means that the Democrats do their damned jobs. Standing up for your ideals means you have to be partisan on some issues and I see nothing wrong with that. They’re called “ideals” for a reason.
http://pizzadiavola.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/super-tuesday/
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