LEAVE HILLARY ALOOOOOOONE. >:(
This just in: Hillary Clinton is not the anti-Christ.
So, I watched a bit of the convention with mom and dad last night, and mom was raving about Clinton (I'm pretty sure she's got a girl-crush). And everyone at the convention was amazingly happy, and all the pundits were grudgingly like "well, I suppose she did a good job even though we really hoped she wouldn't."
And I comment to my father about how badly Maureen Dowd's been treating Clinton and her supporters this entire time. Any person who bitches unironically about "Hillary's gals" needs a good curbstomping, I'm just saying. My father LOL NO-ed me when I said that Dowd would find a way to spin the convention so that it would look bad for Clinton. Yeah, so what did I see when I checked my daily NY-Times email?
High Anxiety in the Mile High City
By MAUREEN DOWD
I’ve never actually seen a convention where the energy was so absorbed by people who had lost the nomination, rather than the one who had won.
Because god forbid the convention spend some time dealing with unifying the party by utilizing all of the popular, charismatic and groundbreaking people who were a part of the primaries. Apparently by speaking, Hillary is proving that's anti-Obama. Or her supporters are still anti-Obama. Or something. I mean, if Clinton hadn't spoken, Dowd probably would still have blamed her for the bad feelings felt by the last of her die-hard supporters. She can't win.
Other pundits I wanted to punch? Well, there was the one on MSNBC last night who said, during a discussion of whether Clinton's speech would unite the democrats who felt disenfranchised by her not getting the nomination, "no, because Hillary Clinton doesn't have supporters, she has followers." (He was sitting next to Rachel Maddow, who I do not want to punch because she's awesome and hot like a thousand suns.)
Uhm, hi? Clinton? Seriously not the candidate with the cult of personality, y'all. I mean, I'm cool with Obama. He's not a bad candidate. But he's the one with the magic gift of tongues and the terrifying league of supporters who kind of made me want to hide during the primaries.
Seriously, people, she can't control the thoughts of every person who supported her. If some of them are still pissed at Obama, that's Obama's goddamn problem, not hers. While she's made some missteps here at the end, as far as I can tell, Clinton's done pretty much her damndest to throw her support behind Obama. Now go away.
Someone curbstomp Maureen Dowd. Please? For me?
Vote Lex 2008. Saving the world from itself.
So, I watched a bit of the convention with mom and dad last night, and mom was raving about Clinton (I'm pretty sure she's got a girl-crush). And everyone at the convention was amazingly happy, and all the pundits were grudgingly like "well, I suppose she did a good job even though we really hoped she wouldn't."
And I comment to my father about how badly Maureen Dowd's been treating Clinton and her supporters this entire time. Any person who bitches unironically about "Hillary's gals" needs a good curbstomping, I'm just saying. My father LOL NO-ed me when I said that Dowd would find a way to spin the convention so that it would look bad for Clinton. Yeah, so what did I see when I checked my daily NY-Times email?
High Anxiety in the Mile High City
By MAUREEN DOWD
I’ve never actually seen a convention where the energy was so absorbed by people who had lost the nomination, rather than the one who had won.
Because god forbid the convention spend some time dealing with unifying the party by utilizing all of the popular, charismatic and groundbreaking people who were a part of the primaries. Apparently by speaking, Hillary is proving that's anti-Obama. Or her supporters are still anti-Obama. Or something. I mean, if Clinton hadn't spoken, Dowd probably would still have blamed her for the bad feelings felt by the last of her die-hard supporters. She can't win.
Other pundits I wanted to punch? Well, there was the one on MSNBC last night who said, during a discussion of whether Clinton's speech would unite the democrats who felt disenfranchised by her not getting the nomination, "no, because Hillary Clinton doesn't have supporters, she has followers." (He was sitting next to Rachel Maddow, who I do not want to punch because she's awesome and hot like a thousand suns.)
Uhm, hi? Clinton? Seriously not the candidate with the cult of personality, y'all. I mean, I'm cool with Obama. He's not a bad candidate. But he's the one with the magic gift of tongues and the terrifying league of supporters who kind of made me want to hide during the primaries.
Seriously, people, she can't control the thoughts of every person who supported her. If some of them are still pissed at Obama, that's Obama's goddamn problem, not hers. While she's made some missteps here at the end, as far as I can tell, Clinton's done pretty much her damndest to throw her support behind Obama. Now go away.
Someone curbstomp Maureen Dowd. Please? For me?
Vote Lex 2008. Saving the world from itself.