Oh great. America is becoming known as the nation that hates women.

Borderline misogyny
Calls for Clinton to quit seem to be because she's a woman
JANET BAGNALL

The demonization of Hillary Clinton has reached such a pitch that when she tried to remind Americans that presidential nomination contests have often carried on into the summer months, she found herself accused of waiting to see whether her opponent, Barack Obama, would be killed....

The increasingly hysterical calls for her to withdraw from the contest started long before last week when she pointed out that it wasn't unusual to continue to campaign into the summer and even up to the convention itself. Her husband didn't nail down the 1992 Democratic nomination until June; Bobby Kennedy was still campaigning in June 1968....

wow.. one of my friends from India just IMed me... she's telling me that they are discussing the US elections on their political shows and are basically making fun of americans and saying how US is more screwed up than they thought.

she's saying on this indian political show, they said how the US doesn't count millions of votes, treats a woman candidate with such disrepect. and then they are comparing it to Indira Gandhi, the former PM of India, and how the political talk show hosts are taking pride in this.. that India had its first woman PM more than 50 years ago..

she says they are talking about how the US keeps acting like its better than everyone, but then they are saying its more screwed up than other countries...

Hillary, Nutcrackers & Sexism

May 30, 2008 10:39 AM

ABC News' Claire Shipman took a look at sexism and the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, this morning on GMA.

Check it out.

Claire also made mention of the Women's Media Center and its video "Sexism May Sell, But I'm Not Buying It!" which you can watch HERE.

For a counterpoint, check out Peggy Noonan's "Sex and the Sissy," where she writes, "If Golda Meir, a woman of not only proclaimed but actual toughness, heard about Golda nutcrackers, she would have bought them by the case and given them away as party favors."

For the record, the other day on Fox News Channel Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said he owned a Hillary Nutcracker. Is that sexist?

From Texas on, Obama waged a non-stop character attack on Hillary that dominated the headlines.

My problem now is that I not only do not trust Obama, but I don't want to be a part of a group that pushed this type of smear campaign to win.

Race is an issue because the Obama people knew how to play it. All they needed were a handful of the Villagers and a compliant MSM to hold their disbelief and those pretend charges became fact. Seeing the hatred spew forth on blogs friendly to Obama is disgusting. Putting this support behind an unprepared and inexperienced candidate who has so many holes in is resume as to beg an answer is deeply puzzling.

Via Politico, the Pew Research Center has a new report, available here, finding 49% of white women and 35% of Democratic white women now have a negative perception of Obama. Politico summarizes:

Forty-nine percent of white women view Obama unfavorably, while only 43 percent hold a favorable opinion. In February, 36 percent of these women viewed Obama unfavorably, while 56 percent had a positive perception of the likely Democratic nominee.

Over the same period, Democratic white women's negative view of Obama increased from 21 percent to 35 percent, while their positive view decreased from 72 percent to 60 percent — roughly the same rate as white women overall.

For months now I have believed that the GOP wanted Obama to win all along - b/c they knew that Hillary could beat McCain.

I am absolutely lost if Hillary doesn't win the nomination. I can't abide an Obama presidency. So I guess I will work and support John McCain. I don't see we have much choice really. Its not so much an issue of revenge, or protest. Its a genuine concern that Obama is more of a threat to this country than McCain. I may not like McCain, I have a lot of reservations about the Supreme Court nominees, and the war, but Obama is just dangerously inexperienced and inept. It really does become an issue of who is the lesser of two evils. I just don't understand how it came to this. I don't understand how the DNC can allow this. And how they can't see or hear our voices.

Its incredible how the neo-liberals have mischaracterized the Clintons and have blindly supported Obama and the Rovian tactics that have been used during this primary election season. All of the critical articles Conason has written about Rove over the last 8 years and he still doesn't get it that Axelrove has used the same tactics—-attacking the character and the strengths of the opponent

Now the neo-liberal, far-left have become the fanatical fringe spewing hatred. It seems that the neo-liberals have taken the extremist far-right hate tactics into their playbooks and they cannot even see that they have done so—-at their own short-sighted ridiculousness and peril—especially for the future of our democracy and America.