Not even going to speculate about election day visuals, but this morning I find myself wondering whether Hillary is going to wangle a cabinet position out of her efforts. Attorney General anyone? HHS?
(NOT a comment about whether I would want either to occur, just wondering....)
DC
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
> 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
>
>
> shag
>
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