A Friend Stopped By | 06/26/2008 10:00 am

Message to All Whining Female Democrats: Hillary's Out. Get Over It, by Barbara Goldsmith

By Barbara Goldsmith

Let’s just accept the reality of the political climate. With a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic Congress, Clinton and Obama agree, women may now be granted a full array of reproductive health services and the right to choose what is right for their own bodies. Nineteen million uninsured women might obtain full medical coverage. The accelerated production of medicines that prevent the transmission of the HIV virus might be funded, and maybe the hard-working middle-class women (and men) that constitute the backbone of our country will get a break. And, just think Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Supreme Court!

These emotional outbursts ... are just what male chauvinists say about woman's incapacity to coolly assess a situation.

Remember what Harriet Beecher Stowe said about the scurrilous 1872 presidential campaign; throwing mud, undermining character, trying to prove incompetence, personal insults are all a part of politics just as they were 136 years ago. Unfortunately, no candidate is above the fray; it’s only that technology and the length of this campaign have exacerbated the process. But, Hillary Clinton was a great adversary who broke down many barriers and helped clear a path to the future. Harriet Beecher Stowe was wrong in that Hillary Clinton was "not killed."

So as my kids say, "Get over it."

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Oh no, not this again.

By K O on 06/26/2008 9:04 am

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I know Kitty! What is with WOW? How can they allow stuff like this? We should be celebrating things like suffrage because hasn’t even been 100 years yet!

By Little Fefe ~ There is nothing wrong with being too idealistic. It is just your dreams sparkling. on 06/26/2008 9:09 am

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Unless we learn to take it like a man we’re never going to get their respect. I believe that is what Hillary was doing as she endured their digs. However Bill didn’t handle them too well. They are right they didn’t kill her. Bruised and battered but not dead.

By beverly linens on 06/26/2008 2:25 pm

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Hi Kitty, Any idea how many of the “posters” here are actually people cutting and pasting from the McCain website? http://www.johnmccain.com/ActionCenter/BlogInteract/BlogInteract.aspx If you send them your post you can be awarded “on-line points.” Oh Goodie!

By Dan Sarazen on 06/26/2008 6:51 pm

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That’s right ladies. The democratic party is full of sexists. You’re too good for them. Poor Hillary was brutalized by those people, but you can count on us in the GOP to stand by you. After all, when was the last time WE let you down?

By Rush L on 06/29/2008 9:45 pm

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Are youppppppOkay, let me grasp what’s going on here. A website created by some highly-accomplished and interesting women, putatively FOR women, now publishes pejorative rhetoricrhetoric ABOUT women democrats who do not support Barack Obama. How dismal. The presumption that some pathetic peevishness underlies this position, rather than a careful, intelligent analysis of Obama’s history, support base and agenda, is shocking in such a context. It should not be necessary to point out, here, that women are immensely capable of independent thought. Instead of falling into a mindless “party unity” lockstep trampling the intellectual integrity of thousands of women, I suggest that you stand back for a minute. Accept the possible validity of a view you choose not to understand. Interview an anti-Obama woman journalist. At the very least, read the papers to get an inkling of what this guy’s really up to. But stop denigrating women. Th

By Abigail Padgett on 07/03/2008 1:15 am

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Thank you! I just gave the Get Over IT lecture at dinner with a bunch of women last night… Obama will be nominated. He will choose someone as his vice president. And, please remember, there is also a cabinet that is supposed to be involved in his decisions. Yes, Sen. Clinton came as close as any woman to being President. She may yet again. And, she has a huge future in any direction she chooses to go. I know she will be very involved in both this Democratic race and the Obama White House, God willing. I voted for Sen. Clinton in my state primary. But, I will not hesitate to vote and also do all I can to get Obama elected. The future of our nation is ahelluva lot more important than my bruised ego for not getting its way. Now, we have work to do. Let’s get out there and do it. Our mantra should be, are you better off that you were 8(count ‘em 8) years ago? Can you stand 4 more?

By Diana T on 06/26/2008 9:09 am

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Try as they might to convince us otherwise, the stars aren’t happily lining up in the heavens for Obama. Never was there an election more ripe for an independent than this one. Bloomberg could take this.

By Buh- Bye on 06/26/2008 6:35 pm

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My Alias, he has people in his office to work his computer. I’ll bet he doesn’t make his own sandwiches either.

By beverly linens on 06/26/2008 7:50 pm

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I’m not going anywhere near this one. However, I just heard on this morning’s news that John McCain is “computer illiterate”…hasn’t a clue how to use one. That fact alone would send me careening towards Obama as my Presidential choice if he didn’t already have my vote.

By Maurine H on 06/26/2008 9:34 am

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The computer thing was in my paper last week. One wonders how he can get as far as this without learning at least how to email. Sort of the old days when people had to learn how to use a dial phone. Disgusting, especially when I think of how he treated his wife by calling her a you-know-what in front of people. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t stand for being called that in the privacy of my home under any circumstances.

By Diana T on 06/26/2008 10:02 am

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Diana: “Disgusting, especially when I think of how he treated his wife by calling her a you-know-what in front of people. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t stand for being called that in the privacy of my home under any circumstances.” Stop whining and get over it. How many times are you going to bring up this issue? How many times are you going to make insulting references to McCain’s age? You’d best get over that because you are insulting many older Americans, and BHO is going to need all the votes he can get, because for every voter who defects to McCain, BHO will need two votes to make it up.

By Marjorie C. on 06/26/2008 12:25 pm

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Marjorie, I did not at any time refer to McCain’s age in my posting. Especially, I did not say anything insulting about him. Besides, I’m not that much younger than he is. Age is not a problem I have with him; there are at least a dozen others, in addition to the mess that is going on up there now.

By Diana T on 06/26/2008 2:05 pm

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Diana: “The computer thing was in my paper last week. One wonders how he can get as far as this without learning at least how to email. Sort of the old days when people had to learn how to use a dial phone.” What are you saying here? If I took it as an insult to elders, then it was probably intended as an insult to elders. Let me remind you that older Americans are a large voting block, and believe it not, they are savy. Discount them at your own peril. “Age is not a problem I have with him…” Are you sure? Because, age is the number one point of ridicule by the Democrats for BHO.

By Marjorie C. on 06/26/2008 2:46 pm