Hillary is playing the race card, saying that whites don't support Obama, they support her. It's interesting to consider that Obama--whose identity has plainly evolved from black-American to simply American--has never played the male card against Hillary.
Betsy Reed has a fine piece in the Nation, pointing out how disturbing it has been for women who have cheered Hillary in the past to be told that they should back Hillary "out of gender solidarity, regardless of the broader politics of the campaign." Reed interviewed black women on the subject, and their responses
ran the gamut from astonishment to dismay to fury. Patricia Hill Collins, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland and author of Black Feminist Thought, recalls how, before they were reduced to their race or gender, the candidates were not seen solely through the prism of identity, and many Democrats were thrilled with the choices before them. But of the present, she says, "It is such a distressing, ugly period. Clinton has manipulated ideas about race, but Obama has not manipulated similar ideas about gender." This has exacerbated longstanding racial tensions within the women's movement, Collins notes, and is likely to alienate young black women who might otherwise have been receptive to feminism. "We had made progress in getting younger black women to see that gender does matter in their lives. Now they are going to ask, What kind of white woman is Hillary Clinton?" [emphasis mine]
I can just see Hillary, one of the contestants for Flavor Flav's affection, him in his Viking helmet, wrapped with a giant pendant clock. Or is that Chelsea?
Hard to see over the hedge funds.
Lucky for me, Donny (Danny?" Deutsche is there, to tell me how to make more than a buck.
Notice how many new cable TV ads are showing, how you can make a ton off home foreclosures? The risk is totally absorbed by our government's latest legislation. You can't miss.
This country is great. You can buy any sort of dildo you want
from the erotic shop channel. The girls next door shows them to you, same as the regualr shop network women.
The shopping cup overflows. I don't know whether to watch the dildo displays and marketing, or, say the array of knives on the other channel.
What cable package do you have, Charles? I've got basic cable that has the local channels, and a bunch of On Demand crap that I don't watch-like the Shalom channel, which is basically pro-Israel propaganda from what I can tell. How do crappy channels get to be lumped with pay television?
Todd, I dunno. I'm old enough to know when cable TV first came to us, such a blessing without marketing ads; somewhere along the way it morphed, and now, even though we pay for it, it is full of ads every 15 minute segment, and, worse, in the wee hours most of the channels carry half hour ads or marketing shows, such as the home shopping ones I mentioned. You can't watch cable TV late at night by where I am without (gentile white) Girls Gone Wild segments. And a plethora of half-hour ads for a pill
or canned drink that enlarges your penis.