I hope New Hampshire serves as a lesson for the Hillary haters in the media --

[DeepModem Mom]

I'm not good with voting statistics, but I feel in my gut that media haters, led by MSNBC's nutcase Chris "Tweety" Matthews, cost my candidate, Barack Obama, New Hampshire. Women are a powerful force. Yes, there are plenty of women who hate Hillary, too. But among the women I know, I'm one of the few not supporting her.

From the ABC debate, to the final 24 hours before the NH Primary I saw a venom of a sort I've never seen before in American politics. It brought an end to the joy I felt at my own candidate's victory in Iowa. It disturbed me, gnawing at the back of my mind. It was wrong. It was so wrong.

And as a young woman close to me said, it's very possible it was gnawing in the back of the minds of waitresses, nurses, single mothers. At any woman whose life has been made difficult in the workplace -- or the home -- by arrogant men. Pat Buchanan (not my favorite commentator, but sometimes flat-out right) said just now, they "beat up" on Hillary unmercifully in the days before the New Hampshire primary -- and, at the last minute, undecided women marched themselves to the polls and voted for her.

I don't think her reaction to it mattered all that much. So what if it did? Damn it, fight her on issues, leadership qualities, anything -- but stop beating her up, and treat her like a human being.

And, Tweety, if you don't want to see Hillary in the White House come January, 2009, try to contain your misogynist ravings and get some help with what Hillary calls your "obsession" with her. "It's not obsession," you mumbled in an encounter with her last week, as she patted your cheek as a mother would a child. Get some help.

[pnwmom]

1. When I read other DUers (who happened to be supporters of other

candidates) who said that even THEY hoped that HRC would win NH -- just to spite all her attackers -- then I knew that there were probably millions of women all over the country who felt the same way.

People here love to accuse HRC of being "calculating." Show me a politician who isn't calculating, and I'll show you one who'll never win an election. Forrest Gump doesn't have a chance (unless he's got millions and a Daddy who used to be President.)

Recommended.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. A telling observation. And I love this --

"Forrest Gump doesn't have a chance (unless he's got millions and a Daddy who used to be President.)"

[Little Star]

2. Tweety is so full of hate for HRC it has made him more stupid.....

than he normally is. He is tone deaf and I hope it leads to his down fall. Get rid of Tweety, get rid of Tweety...

[DeepModem Mom]

4. And beyond his Hillary obsession, last night he made the astounding statement...

during some kind of jag concerning the Hispanic vote, "Hillary is white, Barack is black, that leaves brown." How is he still employed as an anchor of election coverage???

[Little Star]

5. I missed that! What a loser!

[pnwmom]

6. Oh. My. God.

Forget anchoring. He needs to go to the hospital. He's lost it.

[SIMPLYB1980]

7. I remember that to.

It made me fell sick.

[Beacool]

8. You may have something there!!!!

At work a couple of Republican women who know that I'm for Hillary told me that they were so disgusted by the constant media bashing since IA that they hoped that she would win the primary.

I would have felt the same way if it had been the other way around and a Republican female candidate was continually bashed in sexist terms.

I'm a woman first and a Democrat second. I will not stand passively when I see a misogynist bunch of narrow minded mediocre people attack mercilessly a woman mainly due to her gender.

Fuck them all!!!