Shakesville Is on Fire

I Voted for Clinton, These Were Not My Reasons Why, by Kate Harding. A very good list, although I admit number 10 is my favorite:

10) Because you want to see all the bloggers and pundits who've been screaming, "Why won't the stupid bitch quit?!?" forced to eat shit when she takes her boobs and moves into the White House.

Okay, I'm not sure that actually qualifies as a bad reason. But you have to admit it's kind of petty.

Melissa McEwan on the recent Tuskagee-like research done using industrial waste in black neighborhoods. Ick.

And Melissa McEwan on The Gift leftwing blogs and pundits have given the conservatives this election year:

What could be better, I wonder, for conservatives than the leftwing having bought into every pernicious lie about Hillary Clinton and every bit of misogynist framing used against her in the 90s (instead of, ya know, just discussing her very real limitations as a candidate without all the seething, mouth-foaming hatred), while simultaneously having carried Barack Obama on their shoulders past the usual meticulous vetting and weakness-probing required of a national candidate (instead of, ya know, just discussing his very real strengths as a candidate without all the pretending he has no room to be even stronger), and then having collectively promulgated the total horseshit that Hillary now cannot win, just in time for any Obama misstep to be blown up into a potentially candidacy-killing drama under the totally true premise that the left has been careless about its due diligence on its leading candidate?

Finally, it's depressing that Melissa is still having to defend her post stating feminism is a progressive value.

Comments

not impressed

Sorry BD, but I wasn't impressed with Harding's piece (except for number 10).

I've never heard a Clinton supporter make most of the arguments she cites -- and that is the premise of the piece.

I mean, have you ever heard anyone say that Obama is too young? I haven't. Its not his age, its that he comes across as possessing the naive cynicism (no, its not a contradiction, its the recieved cynicism you get from college professors when you finally realize that the political system isn't like they explained it on Schoolhouse Rock) of some Ivy Leaguer with an MBA in the late 1990s. He thinks he's got the world figured out, but the world has never actually challenged him.

I Admit, Paul

I posted that one mostly for 10. But now that you mention it, I haven't ever heard a Clinton supporter make any of those arguments. What I've heard is some of the more reading-impaired Obots claim that's why someone was supporting her. Which is an important difference.

And, ITA, with you about Obama. His understanding of the world, especially political history. I don't think it's his age that makes him this way, I think it's the lack of any significant failure. Personally, I'm suspicious of people who have never failed.

Good to call out the Tuskegee remake, BDB

I meant to post on that.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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