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Monday, September 15, 2008

A woman serving the interests of the Old Boys Club... where have we seen that before?

This blog says it better than I do, as do about five or six op-ed pieces in The New York Times. I have argued about it with people who should know better and to be honest I'm clean out of puff.

The fact that windbags like R*sh Limba*gh are tripping over themselves to call her a 'babe' should give everyone a clue about whose interests she serves - and it ain't those of American women - let alone men, polar bears, elk, wolves, trees or Arctic shelves, or indeed any human beings on the planet who fear the incongruous thought processes involved in a pro-war, pro-guns, pro-death penalty, pro-drilling, anti-gay, anti-green, anti-intellectual, anti-library books, anti-sex education and anti-anyone-who-gets-in-the-way platform alongside being "pro-life". Even the people who will vote for her just as easily as they'll vote for their favourite singer on American Idol don't deserve her.

I don't care if she has a 99/I Dream of Jeannie/Bewitched/That Girl/Mary Tyler Moore retro charm about her (though this is by far the best thing about her). All those women did it better than her anyway, not to mention more liberally, even though it was the 1960s... And anyway, Jeannie never used her power for ill. SP is like the evil sister.

I don't care if she believes in Frith (so long as she doesn't want to hammer it into school children) - it's the vindictive tyrant streak that worries me, and the Goebbels-inspired GOP press machine.

I don't care what her daughter gets up to either - the personal stuff is only held against her because she runs on a hypocritical, preachy, I-will-enforce-my-family-values-upon-you ticket. If Hillary had a string of lovers and a couple of adult love children, it would make no difference to her suitability. Just as it made no difference to Bill's.

I'm sorry if I sound like a member of the much maligned liberal left elite, but since when has being terminally ignorant and vicious been a job requirement for consideration in the US presidential elections? Wait. Please don't answer that.

Barack - don't mess it up. The rest of the world needs you. As do the sane 'Blue State' voters in your country, with whom we stand united.

Music is the only way to say it without bursting (another) blood vessel. Over to Cody Chesnutt...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdyNAIcGN48

(If anyone knows how I can post the actual thingy up here, I'd be most obliged. Yes, liberal, left, perhaps a little elite with pretensions to intellectualism - but a complete net luddite.)

(Crap visuals, but there's a 'catchy alert' attached. The song will be with you until November.)

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