Comments on: Is Hillary Hanging It Up? Don’t You Bet on It.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:36:56 +0000

dar, I think that part of it is that there's only one word to describe a sour or just plain spiteful nasty woman. We use plenty of other words to describe men in bad ways ("wimp", "wuss", "deadbeat", "curmudgeon", "fogey", "grouch", "asshole"). There doesn't seem to be a corresponding word for "bitch" to describe a man. Maybe "prick" works there and that does get used quite a lot, too.

By: dar

dar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:17:53 +0000

I am already reading what a bitch Michelle is after listening to this for years about Hillary. Why is it so easy for people (men and women) to talk like this about women when they don't do it when they are talking about a man.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:39:56 +0000

Wow, Tom, you're all into the conspiracies of late, aren't you?

Hillary isn't goign to assassinate Barack Obama. Barack Obama's past associations with criminals and bigots will do that to his campaign just fine.

By: Mari

Mari — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:39:05 +0000

Fostert,

If Hillary did want someone to up and assassinate Obama, I'm sure she'd have found a smoother way to do so than publicly compare him to Kennedy.

Now that it's looking like a sure bet Hillary really will throw in the towel, I'll be interested to see whether the conservative blogosphere picks plague or cholera or just laying down to die.

I guess we'd better hope for Sarah Palin – her as VP would go a long way towards making McCain a palatable candidate.

By: karina

karina — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:22:55 +0000

I hope that she will become vice president.

By: spoots

spoots — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:50:14 +0000

News says that she will be conceding on Friday. I don't know how you seriously believed any other possibility.

By: See-Dubya

See-Dubya — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:57:04 +0000

Heh. The Rezko verdict just hit, and Hillary's suddenly looking a little less down-and-out, isn't she?

I think you're right on…

By: fostert

fostert — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:20:23 +0000

"so he won’t have to actually win in Denver"

Yeah he will. Every candidate from both parties still has win the floor vote at the convention. Obama will have to do the same. But with the money, party leadership, and (most importantly) the delegates backing Obama, he'll win that floor vote. Hillary's only chance now is assassination. It's happened before (in my lifetime), so it could happen again. And it really wouldn't surprise me if Hillary would go to that extent. If she does, I'll be the first person to argue for her execution (I usually oppose the death penalty, but I'm willing to make an exception for assassination of important leaders). And I won't be voting for her before her conviction. I don't like McCain, but I will not support anyone who would win by killing their opponent.