[lbo-talk] Where was Clinton?

[shag carpet bomb]

Huh. I'd wondered where she'd been all this time. I assumed she wasn't out 
there much -- but I couldn't be arsed to really find out. At any rate, 
reading this pretty decent article about sexism during the run-offs, it 
turns out that Clinton did more to campaign for Obama than any of her 
predecessors did for their respective run-off opponents:

"Currently, Clinton's very strong advocacy for Obama has helped submerge 
the divisions that were highly visible during the primaries. As American 
University political science scholar James A. Thurber says, Clinton "has 
done more for Obama than Dean did in 2004 for Kerry, more than Bradley did 
for Gore in 2000, more than Kennedy did for Carter in 1980." She certainly 
has done more than Hart did for any of his competitors. But after the 
election is over and we began to construct a new liberal agenda, we need to 
have a comprehensive and honest discussion concerning discrimination, 
oppression, and the value of dissenting voices. I cannot endorse or 
participate in anything less."

The rest of the blog post from Dissenting Justice (law prof Darren 
Hutchinson) is entitled, "Raining on My Party's Parade? An Election-Day 
Analysis of Hillary Clinton and Liberal Sexism by a Progressive Law 
Professor" at 
http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/2008/11/raining-on-my-partys-parade-election.html

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