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Yes, she's smart, she's articulate and she's thoughtful... oh, and she's female. Hmmm... don't see "qualified" or "experienced" in your analysis. Thank you for your blatant honesty as to why you supported Hillary.

Nice note Claire, I agree with you as well that she would have made a fine President, but that the fat lady is now singing. My question is, have you seen her latest comments on the racial divide in the party saying only she can get white votes? Is she trying to burn the party down with her by again playing the race card? I would really like to see her exit with dignity, but I no longer believe she has it in her.

Ross: Obviously, she is pulling out a last ditch effort. But Obama used the gender card quite a bit. He said quite a few sexist things that no one called him on.

Anonymous: I don't care what you think about my choice. Everyone has their own reasons for choosing a candidate. And for the record, Clinton is more experienced and qualified than Obama. I forgot to mention that.

You guys so do not know the Clintons.

How many times did people think Brother Bill (who I understand will be at the wedding Saturday, keep me posted on that)was dead?

Don't bet that the Fat Lady won't be singing from the Balconey of the Casa Rosada (or the DNC in Denver).

All that she has to do is win a state like West Virginia, Kentucky and Montana (which she probably will) and then pressure or persuade a few dozen members of the Committees on the Rules and Credentials to seat Florida and Michigan and she's there.

Take it from a die hard R-never, ever, ever underestimate the resiliance of the Gruesome Twosome. They could survive nuclear winter!

You guys so do not know the Clintons.

How many times did people think Brother Bill (who I understand will be at the wedding Saturday, keep me posted on that)was dead?

Don't bet that the Fat Lady won't be singing from the Balconey of the Casa Rosada (or the DNC in Denver).

All that she has to do is win a state like West Virginia, Kentucky and Montana (which she probably will) and then pressure or persuade a few dozen members of the Committees on the Rules and Credentials to seat Florida and Michigan and she's there.

Take it from a die hard R-never, ever, ever underestimate the resiliance of the Gruesome Twosome. They could survive nuclear winter!

Weird, the system published my previous post again but not the new one. Let's give this another try.

Ross, Anon not that C2 needs a Republican knight errant, but you guys need to step away from the tree and give a quick scan to the forest.

Talk about race politics-Obama has wrapped himself as the victim of another hi tech lynching from Brother Bill and his attack squad of KKKers like Begala and Carville. How many hours of debate were spent with talking heads trying to imply that Bill Clinton was a racist, which even I don't believe.

Qualifications? The Drama has been in the US Senate for four years, more than half of his time in the august body being spent running for President. The Drama is the least experienced President since Andrew Johnson-a Democrat that didn't work out so well.

Evita has twice the Senate service and a whole lot of semi valuable experience as First Lady of a state and these Estados Unidos. Again, no contest.

But, by all means, be my guest.

Shoot me when I agree with Peggy Noonan. From her USA Today interview. "If John McCain said, ‘I got the white vote, baby!’ his candidacy would be over. And rising in highest indignation against him would be the old Democratic Party. To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical ‘the black guy can't win but the white girl can’ is -- well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case the children walk by.”

Ross, are you not a strong proponent of affirmative action?

If so, riddle me this Ross: how do you implement affirmative action without racially classifying people and allocating goods and services based upon the classification one receives?

Actually no, like Sandra Day O'Conner, I view it as a necessary, and hopefully temporary evil.

On the other hand, I'm fully expecting Hillary's next argument to be that she leads the popular vote when each African American is counted as a pre 14th Amendment 3/5 of a person.

Strangely enough, Jefferson Davis and Jim Crow used the same argument to justify their views of race based distribution of rights, goods and services.

By the way, didn't the Republican sponsored and Democrat resisted equal protection and anti slavery amendments in the 1860s eliminate that 3/5ths bullshit?
I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere in a book sometime before the NEA taught history through the lens of liberal propoganda.

Since no one who was affected by that amendment even has grandchildren alive today maybe the liberals could move on to some greivience of the last Century. Unless, of course, you want to create the race based grudges that motivate politics in the Middle East.

Or, as Joe Walsh would say "get over it".

sporie, no wonder you aren't responding on your own blog you're over here peddling reasoned thought.

I do think we need to get a grip. No doubt Hillary exposed herself by including "white" in her description of working people - the "hard" working was a little pander but perhaps an acknowledgement that she appreciates their efforts - but "white" in the political spectrum is a demographic; it is not a denunciation of non-whites. In the first place the comments she made about the various groups voting for her would have been in error if she had not modified that she was talking about "white" workers or "white" voters without a college degree. The blacks in those categories, which are a large segment, do not tend to vote for Hillary, so to leave off the modifier "white" would have made her statements inaccurate.

Much is said about her ability to attract voters over 65 but no one is railing about that fact as some sort of discriminatory warfare.

In the political arena fraught with racial sensitivity she probably should not have gone there at all but there was a valid point to be made and there was no way of expressing it without breaking out the demographic data.

The punditry would have it that the huge numbers of new Democratic voter registrations are because of Obama. While he does fair better with first time voters, I would suggest that Hillary has also stirred a renewed interest in voting. Had Obama or Hillary wrapped up the nomination back in February it is doubtful we would see all these new registrations in the post-February states.

We need to stop our knee-jerk reactions to emotional words and use our brains for something other than a repository for punditry blather.

I think the fewer than five paragraph expression for which you are struggling, Arthur, is hoisted on one's own petard.

Yes, that's it exactly.

sporie:

You are magnificent! You say things so succinctly. In this case you appear right on. On your blog, your posts, long or short, are often full of fantasy and whimsy.