What Goes around Comes around …
Posted: September 10, 2008 Filed under: No Obama, Women's Rights | Tags: 2008 presidentional election, Obama and lipstick on pigs, racism and sexism, Sarah Palin 2 Comments
Senator Obama is learning that karma is a bitch! During the primary, his entire campaign screamed racism whenever they could portray comments by Senator Clinton, President Clinton, or her supporters in the worst possible light. It was almost a game to them. Wait for the slightest sign of a code word, send in an Obama surrogate to claim racism, then send the candidate out to say, well, I’m sure they REALLY didn’t mean that! Clinton spent a lot of time off message due to this tactic.
Well, now the table is turned! Now that the country has focused on the rampant sexism during the primary, there is heightened sensitivity to any potentially sexist comment and definitely to comments that drip with misogyny. We’ve already seen Senator Obama’s less than subtle third finger to Hillary so we know he’s incapable of nuanced references. Remember the after victory party that blared Jay-Z’s “99 problems (But a bitch ain’t one)?” Well, as the good pastor Wright might say “chickens are coming home to roost”.
The McCain campaign is playing by different rules which maybe why Obama struggles with a response other than, really, I didn’t mean that and you all know better and shouldn’t be picking on me. Word from McCain: You meant it and it’s sexist! If this isn’t more proof that McCain is gunning for the 18 million cracks in the ceiling and being serious about it, I don’t know what is. Obama is so flustered that his message has been virtually lost in the spin cycle.
And now, yet another chicken’s roosting in Obama’s hen house.
South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler reportedly lashed out at Sarah Palin Wednesday, saying the Republican vice presidential candidate’s “primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”
Politico.com reports that Fowler, wife of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, said that John McCain’s decision to choose an abortion rights opponent would not boost his candidacy among many women.
“Among Democratic women and even among independent women, I don’t think it helped him,” she told Politico.com.
You remember South Carolina. It’s the home of the claim that the fairy tale comment by Bill Clinton was about Barrack Obama and not his stand on the Iraq war. That lunacy cost Hillary many, many black voters. I guess they can dish out the claims on racism but sputter over sexism. Now we’re hearing Senator Obama whine about swiftboating. Well, Senator, what did you expect? It seems Senator Hillary Clinton was right. Senator Obama can whine about phony outrage, but he better toughen up quickly, it’s not even October yet. He’s acting completely discombobulated and has been over-explaining rather than just saying sorry, didn’t mean it that way, then getting back on message. What an amateur! We told you so … another DNC loser foisted on the masses!
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I just wrote a similar post! haha We think alike! :O) Mine has pictures, though. hahah
The pundits want to believe that he didn’t mean it that way, and we should be talking about the issues. They can’t understand that, for a lot of us, this is one of the major issues. We can’t trust him, so his policies are suspect. That means all we have to go on is character, and nothing shows character better than verbal gaffes.
BO has such a long list of them, including the ones he sent his surrogates out to do for him. Those are his chickens, also.
By the way, just watched Palin come home to Alaska, memorable comment,” Alaska: where men are men and women win the Iditarod!”
Yea Sarah!