He’s obviously manstruating.
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Hillary is expected to accept the position of secretary of state this morning in Chicago, along with Gen. James Jones who will be national security advisor, and Robert Gates, George Bush’s current defense secretary who will retain that role for obama.
The NYT foresees a possibly widely expanded scope of influence for Hillary if the administration is able to make good on its campaign promise to spend billions to rebuild Afghanistan, double foreign aid to $50 billion by 2012, and to vastly increase the number of civilians at State.
The idea of spending hundreds of millions of dollars sending American civilians, many of them young and idealistic, around the world to “rebuild failed states” strikes me as both laughably naive and horribly misguided.
Can you imagine Hillary trying to drum up support among recent college grads for a “civilian reserve corps”? Where is she going to send them for goodness’ sake? Mumbai? Islamabad? Kabul? Mexico City?
Can we please just let the 1960’s DIE already?
And another thing, does anyone for a second believe the SCFP and teh BOIZ will suddenly turn into cheerleaders for Clinton and her efforts? Anyone here remember Hillary’s most shameful, horrifying, despicable, revolting, and disgusting EPIC FAILURE to reform health care back in 1993? Cue Harry and Louise.
Don’t go Hillary, it’s a trap!
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I love these buttons. I’m pretty sure Heidi designed them today after reading this, which I posted because I was reading this, which was a reminder to all of us of this, which had been originally posted here. A braying donkey in the middle would be cool. Maybe something like this?
Long live the Pumasphere.
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Maureen Dowd, above, a fearless and FIERCE representative of journalism’s best qualities
We can depend on Maureen Dowd to get to the bottom of obama’s embarrassing facial tic, right? After all, she is the brilliant analyst of all matters grave and somber that apply to the body facial-tic, I mean politic. Remember how in the Dark Days of Monica, the years few of us can think about without re-experiencing the agony, when she relentlessly pursued for us each slimy tidbit and prurient morsel of meaninglessness? Remember how she ridiculed Al Gore for us? His lactating breasts and womanly mannerisms? Remember how she exposed the monster Hillary Clinton for us every chance she could? She’s never let us down! I just KNOW she will be merciless to obama about his little, ahem, problem. Right?
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There is no chance that this is a head fake, right?
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name his former rival Hillary Clinton as his nominee for Secretary of State on Monday.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Harrisburg, PA, 21 Nov 2008
Mr. Obama will also announce other members of his national security team during a press conference in Chicago Monday morning. He is expected to keep Robert Gates as defense secretary and name retired Marine General Jim Jones as national security advisor.
Mr. Obama and Senator Clinton competed for the Democratic presidential nomination in a long and bruising contest.
To clear the way for Clinton to serve as Mr. Obama’s top diplomat, officials say her husband - former President Bill Clinton - has agreed to disclose the names of all donors to his foundation. Mr. Clinton is expected to reveal more than 200,000 names in order to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.
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Women who smoke!
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Jane Addams, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-95722)
The National Women’s History Museum is working to build a museum in Washington D.C. dedicated to the history of the struggles and achievements of American women. Though the museum has no physical home, its “cyber-museum” is full of enlightening and inspiring stories. Every school girl and boy in America should know who Jane Addams was: winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, inventor of urban sociology, and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. She was one of the most successful and relentless advocates for women’s rights this country has ever known. The following comes from the NWHM’s cyber-museum.
“Jane Addams, social reformer and peace activist, led the American settlement house movement, founding its most famous settlement, Chicago’s Hull House (1889).
Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois in 1860 and graduated from Rockville College in 1882. In 1889, she founded Chicago’s Hull House, where she lived and worked until her death in 1935. A home and gathering place for reformers who “settled” in the neighborhoods they served, settlements brought a broad range of social services to immigrants and the urban poor. Believing settlements were a space where all classes could meet to solve problems of urban industrialization, Addams assembled a cohort of brilliant women around her whose innovative solutions shaped 20th century social policy.
Responding to community needs, the women of Hull House pioneered in bringing social services to immigrant and working class neighborhoods. They set up day care for children, founded playgrounds, delivered health services, and studied toxic substances in factories. They investigated slums (founding the profession of urban sociology), brought about passage of factory inspections, pushed for ending child labor, improved tenement conditions and sweatshops, fought for shorter hours, higher wages, protective labor laws, and established the nation’s first juvenile court.
An outspoken supporter of labor, Addams was also a gifted lecturer and prolific writer. Her most famous book was Twenty Years at Hull House (1910). A staunch suffrage supporter, she was Vice President of the NAWSA, and wrote and spoke widely about the vote’s importance to women. She founded and chaired the Woman’s Peace Party (1915), was first president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1919), and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931) for her years of peace activism. The abridgment of civil liberties and attacks on pacifists in World War I (she was vilified as a traitor for opposing the war), led Addams to help found the American Civil Liberties Union (1920). She died at 74, her work for social justice having impacted every aspect of American life.”
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From November 3rd, via Riverdaughter, via Violet Sox (and btw Krugs — you’re wrong. November 4, 2008 is a day that will live in INFAMY.)
Hillary Clinton is a bitch. A big ol’ bitchy bitch. And a cunt.A “big fucking whore.” Fortunately, you can “call a woman anything.” She’s “Nurse Ratched.” She’ll castrate you if she gets a chance. She would like that. She’s a “She-Devil.” She’s a madam, and her daughter’s a whore. She’s frigid, and she can’t give head. She’s a “She-Devil.” A lesbian. A nag. When things get tough, she cries like a big dumb GIRL. In fact, she’s just that — a “little girl.” In FACT, she wants to “cry her way to the White House.” To be, ahem, “Crybaby-in-Chief.” That proves that she’s not tough enough. But she’s also not feminine enough. She’s “screechy.” She’s an “aging, resentful female.” She’s “Sister Frigidaire.” She really ought to quit running for President and stick to housework. She basically spent her entire times as First Lady going to tea parties. She’s a monster whojust won’t die. In fact, she really should just die. You can buy aurinal target with her face on it to express what you really think of her. OMG she’s got claws! She’s crazy. In fact, she’s a lunatic. She’s petty and vindictiveand entitled. She’s a washed-up old hag. She’s “everybody’s first wifestanding outside probate court.” She’s a “scolding mother.” She’s shrill… shrill… shrill. She can’t take it when people are mean to her. She’s a “hellish housewife.” She’sTanya Harding. She CAN’T be President, what with the mood swings and the menses.Any woman who votes for her is voting with her vagina, not her brain. Women only like Hillary because she’s a fellow Vagina-American. And because they vote with their feelings. Frankly, anyone who still thinks we need “feminine role models” should get over it and move on, already. Oh, and men who supporters are castratos in the eunuch chorus. You shouldn’t make her President because she wants it too much. She’s totally just banking on support from ugly old feminists. And she looooves to “play the victim.” She cackles! And cackles. And cackles. It’s like she’s a witch or something! She’s definitely“witchy.” And now you can buy her cackle as your ring tone. Her voice, too, is “grating”—like “fingernails on a blackboard” to “some men.” She’s hiding behind her gender. She isn’t a “convincing mom” because she’s too strident. She never did anything on her own. Her husband keeps her on a leash. She hates men. Her campaign is a “catfight.” She makes people want to kill themselves, is like a “domineering mother,” and is cold. And OMG she has boobies! All of which are reasons to hateher. (And boy, could I go on.)
Oh, and if you even mention any of this, you’re either silly or a bad person.
And she has cankles. (h/t mangoprincess)
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First off, go see Milk. It’s a wonder. I truly hope Sean Penn wins the oscar for his brilliant performance. Considering the gay rights movement of the 1970’s in relation to today’s Puma Movement I was struck by a couple of things.
1. We need to break free of the internet. Not entirely of course — the web is a genius tool and resource, but there is no substitute for a real life presence. A store front in Washington DC or Boston?
2. We need a candidate for office. A mayor or city councilor or best of all a state rep.
3. Being hated, ridiculed, attacked, and ignored is entirely normal. Don’t worry about it. Harvey Milk ran for office and lost 4 or 5 years in a row. He was a complete failure at achieving his goals for many, many years.
Oh, and good lord Anita Bryant was a HORRIBLE person. Is that woman still alive? What a FREAK. Proposition Hate is a disaster. After seeing Milk it is shocking to realize how far backwards we’ve come. It’s like 1978 all over again. And that is NOT a good thing.
And to think that the great joy the gay rights movement felt 30 years ago was pierced by Milk’s assassination, only to be utterly destroyed by the plague of AIDS a few years later is almost too much to watch. All of those beautiful young men (and it IS a movie about men, with one lovely exception) full of hope and growing confidence and pride, with absolutely NO CLUE about what was waiting for them in the 80’s.
Secondly, how was your holiday? No arguments or fights here. In fact it was strangely quiet. Politics was NOT discussed. I heard one person smugly say that he believes obama will be a GREAT president, but that is IT. Maybe people avoided politics because of my presence (yay!) but I don’t know. A few people asked me my opinion of Hillary as Secretary of State and I was non-committal but positive, which is a fair reflection of how I feel. I think she’d be great at the job but don’t thrill to the idea of her being part of the obadministration. Absolutely, positively NO mention of the tragedy of two women running for national office being hounded with sexist attacks. It is as if it never happened. Do you think it’s group guilt? A sense of shame that keeps people quiet?
I don’t get it.
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