"My Lady Parts Do Not Ache for Hillary Clinton"..Alison Benedikt

[SoCalDem]

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2008/05/clinton_obama.php

May 20, 2008

My lady parts do not ache for Hillary Clinton.

As The First Viable Female Contender’s bid for the Democratic nomination sputters to its inevitable end, everyone and their mother/sister/daughter has something to say about the poisonous misogyny that’s apparently to blame.

Sunday and Monday brought three such post-mortems in The New York Times, one on the front page that ended by quoting a resident of Bizarro World, who laments, “ still looks more like every other president we’ve ever had than she does.”

Next comes Arianna “No Fear” Huffington, suffering from a strain of short-term memory loss that seems to be going around, to declare: “The greatest triumph of Clinton’s campaign—a complete triumph—is the example she has set for the next generation.”

Currently pregnant with the next generation, let me just say this: There is no greater wish that a mother can have for her daughter than that she will exploit poor people, obliterate Iran, and win rigged class president elections, Putin-style. (Mom, I won 100 percent of the vote!)


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[goldcanyonaz]

1. Lady? wtf is she 12?

[Bicoastal]

2. Ex-CUSE me, who was it who made the KY Jelly joke again?

[goldcanyonaz]

5. New state motto for KY *slide right in*

muhahahaha.

[Bicoastal]

6. Awww.

[goldcanyonaz]

7. You really do not want to be friends, do you?

[Bicoastal]

9. What? I like you. "Awww" is the noise I usually make when someone tells an off-color joke.

[goldcanyonaz]

10. Okies! thanks. I like you too.

[Bicoastal]

11. And the reference to the now-notorious KY Jelly OP was all in good fun.

A joking tone of voice doesn't always come over on the internetz.

[americanstranger]

12. Too bad they locked that thread.

Looked like we were headed for some full-on silliness in that thread.

We could all use some Big silliness around here, IMO.

- as

[Writer]

3. Dear Alison,

I don't want to know anything about your "lady parts."

Sincerely,

~Writer~

[NewHampshireDem]

14. Well, the dicks have all had their say, so I say

'Let the vaginas speak!'

[RainDog]

4. SPOT ON (not g-spot on, just to clarify)

you left out the best parts!

This War on Women is just like the War on Christmas: imaginary. Yes, yes, Hillary’s had to contend with the fashion police (BTW: Do you think Barack Obama looks more like a real American with or without a tie?) and the “likeable enough” smear (Is he black/white/patriotic/Christian/American enough?). And who but a female candidate would have to be tough and warm AT THE SAME TIME? Surely, not Obama, right? (Does he seem aloof to you? I’ve heard he hearts Hamas.) Adding insult to injury, Obama is NOT calling for Hillary to drop out. Men!

she’s a lying, race-baiting insult to our collective intelligence. Powerful, if she and her husband hadn’t sold out poor people in the ’90s or if she had stood tall like a woman against the war in Iraq or if she wasn’t right now trying to change the rules of the game and stir up the worst kind of identity politics.

[Window]

13. Ouch!

[John Q. Citizen]

8. That's a great article. Thanks for posting the link, SoCalDem!