Hillary’s Voice

DISTURBING MUSIC RAP VIDEO (by Lynette Long)I have thought long and hard about posting this video because it is so disturbing. The blatant disrespect it shows toward women, not just Republican women, is alarming. It saddens me that not only are women not outraged by this video but participate in this. Again I feel frustrated by the silence that envelopes the womens groups that are supposed to protect all women not just Democratic women. The task for equality seems impossible at times. Stand tall women. Stand with me.Dr. Long’s video link is broken. See below.—CaroDrill Baby Drill (video)

The Lady Killers (by Anglachel)Calling Hillary a cunt or Sarah Plain a slut only work because of the misogynistic backdrop in which we understand that these are qualities of being female, and where they are used to shame, humiliate, intimidate and justify violence against the women so named, exactly as racial epithets are used to do exactly the same on reviled minorities. These kinds of racial epithets and imagery were acceptable, even respectable, in popular culture… I remember eating at “Sambo’s” restaurants as a child, a chain marketed through racist imagery. It is now gone. Conversely, there are two “Hooters” restaurants within 10 miles of my house, where women’s breasts are the central marketing tool for second rate fried food. It’s promoted as a “family” restaurant, by the way.What the campaign season has demonstrated is misogyny is as acceptable a weapon of social and political dominance as race demagoguery was through George Wallace’s presidential campaigns… The lady killers are no more and no less than the racists of the Left, and should be treated as such.Please set aside time to read the entire post. It’s one of the most important essays written this year.—CaroYep (by Susie at Suburban Guerrilla)What Anglachel says [see above]. Yes, I am voting for Obama - but I’m holding my nose. And this is the LAST TIME I’m going to vote holding my nose. If the country wasn’t in such a freakin’ meltdown right now, I’d be voting for Cynthia McKinney. At my son’s wedding, one of the guests (a college professor) came up to me and said, “I guess you’re working on the campaign, right?” I smiled back and said, “No.” He looked baffled and said, “Oh.” His wife, a leading consultant on geriatric policy and a former Hill staffer, came over to me later and confided her husband was one of Obama’s senior advisors on Social Security. “Are you working for him?” she said. “No,” I told her. “After what happened in the primary to Hillary Clinton, there’s no way. I’m not working against Obama, or for McCain, but I’m not helping them, either.” She nodded vehemently. “Exactly! I feel the same way.” There’s a lot of us out there. We won’t forget.As I’ve said, I’m voting for Cynthia. I’m done holding my nose. Some friends of mine went to an event over the weekend that included some Hillary supporters who are actually working for McCain now. There are more than you might think.—CaroBrooks calls Palin the “worst of talk”… (by Bob Somerby at the Daily Howler)In [Wednesday’s] New York Times, Maureen Dowd quotes David Brooks, who complains that Sarah Palin “has reinforced the worst of talk-radio culture” since becoming McCain’s nominee. We certainly agree with that, though our own assessment would be a good deal stronger. But as we look at the world TDH covers, we keep thinking we’re seeing that same “talk-radio culture” infecting the (growing) world of “liberal” advocacy. We think that tendency is bad for the world, for progressive interests.Secret Service denies report of rally cry to “kill” Obama (Hot off the Trail, McClatchy)The U.S. Secret Service says reports that someone at a Sarah Palin rally in Pennsylvania yelled “kill him” at the mention of Barack Obama’s name are unfounded.Rainey criticizes CNN for “reheated, overwrought and misleading” Palin storyA recent CNN report “seemed designed to yoke Sarah Palin and her husband to the most extreme secessionists in Alaska,” writes press critic James Rainey. He notes that no news outlets “have shown that Sarah Palin embraced the call by some in the party to sever their beloved state from ‘the Lower 48.’”Click here for more political and media news headlines.Carolyn KayMakeThemAccountable.com