SP you've fallen for the media's bait and switch. This is not about Obama's candidacy but the ugliness of the American media.

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... "we're all misogynists now!" was meant to be sarcasm. (and also that in one sense irony and sarcasm are synonyms)

It's this part that I took at face value:

"It was a no win situation, either way. Accept it people. It's a bogus charge. If Hillary were the nominee we'd be talking about how awful and racist we Americans are."

The bolded sentence minimizes the impact of both sexism and racism down to one of a whiny complaint with little merit. The last line, "we're all misogynists now!," I understood to be sarcasm laying blame for the charge at the feet of the NYT. I might have missed the transition in to irony. Was it all sarcasm?

I don't necessarily take it as true that you are right about the equivalence, either. I didn't see any Barack dolls dressed up as porter or 'porch monkey', but I sure saw the 'Hillary Nutcracker' sold in airports all around the country. I didn't ever hear the 'N' word used, but I sure heard the word bitch, witch, etc. It's more acceptable to be sexist than it is to be racist.

My point was that it wasn't [a] bogus charge so much as one made disingenuously for the purpose of hiding the truth of it. Your comment facilitated that effort, unless I misread you entirely, in which case I apologize but stand utterly confused.

Rebecca Traister, not a Hillary supporter, wrote a good piece for Salon. As they say, read the whole thing:

...

But underneath it all ran an unmistakable vibe, the loosening of a clenched resentment that it was a chick who had dared be confident about her ability to win, who had exercised infuriating control over the press, who had exerted uncomfortable and unrelenting dominion over her male competitors. When Clinton lost her grip, ever so slightly, over that dominion, there was a release of rip-roaring, rollicking fun at her expense.

She was, after all that inevitability, just a girl. A nerdy girl at that, and an ugly, hysterical one, the tabloids showed us, with freeze-framed images of her caught making unflattering faces. The words thrown around about her fizzed with ill-disguised misogynistic energy: In her presumptive defeat, Clinton suddenly was shrill, panicked, desperate, emotional. On ABC's blog, Jake Tapper wrote of her New Hampshire debate performance that while "bickering" with Obama about health insurance, Clinton "... well ... she got angry." Tapper didn't see her as mad "about an issue, so much, as about the fact that Obama is beating her ... Pundits will say that her tone made male voters recoil. And led some female voters to sneer." This was femininity on the edge -- the winner losing, and losing her marbles.

Then, of course, she cried. Or, more precisely, allowed her voice to crack and her eyes to well up. How much girlier can you get? Here were just some of the congested headlines: "Clinton Fights Back Tears," "Clinton Gets Emotional," "Hillary Gets Leaky."

Such joy was there at Clinton's devolving journey from the front of the pack back to the primordial stew of high-strung, overwrought femininity that even her opponent John Edwards, a man who built his candidacy in part with the support of progressive women, felt free to get in on the fun, reacting to Clinton's show of feeling by telling reporters that a president needs to demonstrate "strength and resolve."

The five days between Iowa and New Hampshire were discombobulating for anyone who had begun to get comfortable with the apparent ease with which American history had weirdly, smoothly made room for a female candidate. A woman had led the Democratic nominees for nearly a year with barely a whisper -- save for the occasional unflattering wrinkled photo -- of serious double-standard resistance from a nation that has yet to break its streak of white Christian guys sitting behind the Oval Office desk. It had all been so deceptively easy. But here were the buttoned-up white boys over at "Meet the Press" going all "Lord of the Flies" on her. Cintra Wilson called the spectacle "a little witch-burny," while Time's Michael Scherer blogged about a call he'd received from a conservative pundit who told him, "The witch is dead, and life is going to change." The pundits, Clinton's opponents, her colleagues -- they were making sport of Hillary's immolation. They were rolling in it. Exulting in it. It reeked of a particular kind of relief, relief from the guys who had thought they were going to have to hold their noses and get pushed around by some dame. They were behaving like men who had received a sudden and unexpected reprieve, and classily reacted by pulling down their pants and peeing on her.

And then ... people began to notice. In my circle, mothers in particular began to notice. My friends and colleagues told me of their despondent moms. Even my own, whose politics list far to the left of Clinton's, bowled me over by expressing her sadness about the treatment Hillary received. I think she was surprised herself as she confessed that she was "sad" about Iowa. "Whether or not it's Hillary," she said, "I just think this shows that any woman who's going to be aggressive enough to make a go of it is going to be too aggressive to be likable." ...

_{Turn back to the Constitution - and READ it.}

Obama T-shirt flap hurts PTC restaurant>The Citizen -
A Peachtree City restaurant manager says her business is feeling the backlash from being erroneously associated with a controversial restaurant of the same name in Marietta.

Patricia Lowe of Mulligan’s says business has dropped off dramatically in the past few weeks, but it took a few days for them to figure out why.

The restaurant started receiving phone calls accusing the company of being racist, “and you should be ashamed of yourselves,” Lowe recalled. They couldn’t figure out what the callers’ beefs were at first, she said.

Then they put it together. The Peachtree City Mulligan’s was being blamed for the Barack Obama T-shirt stir caused by the Mulligan’s in Marietta, Lowe said.

At the height of the controversy, the Peachtree City business was getting about 30 calls a day, Lowe estimated.

“People were calling like crazy,” Lowe said, noting that the calls are now down to about 15 a day.

Management found out that the Peachtree City restaurant’s phone number and address was being listed on websites as being the store where the T-shirt controversy was taking place.

The controversy in Marietta was over T-shirts featuring a strong likeness of the Curious George children’s character, a monkey, with letters underneath reading, “Obama in ‘08.”
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2.The Dems haven't punished the GOP enough, so you're going to reward the Republicans?}

here

I guess we'll see on this one.

_{1."George Washington did not cross the Delaware for Capitalism," -Shmuley Boteach.
2.The Dems haven't punished the GOP enough, so you're going to reward the Republicans?}

To my knowledge no one has ever insinuated that you are sexist or racist. Krugman seems to see the problem, though he doesn't mention names:

"You can make a very good case that Barack Obama was the right person for the Democrats to nominate, and Hillary Clinton the wrong choice. But the way we got there was terrible. The raw sexism, in all too many cases coming from alleged progressives — see above [an odious Oliphant cartoon –ed] — was part of it. So, too, was the inability of many alleged progressives to see that the news media created the narrative of Hillary Clinton as race-baiter in much the same way that, 8 years ago, they created the narrative of Al Gore as congenital liar — by assembling a montage of quotes taken out of context and willfully misinterpreted."

"son, sarcasm is a very poor form of communication." That's all I meant in the last comment. I will, however, add this: I'm fairly certain (although I have been wrong in the past) that if Hillary were the nominee we'd be having a different conversation right now about how racism did him in.

I know you disagree with me. And on that note we'll simply have to agree to disagree on this one. Cool?

^{“Is not our first thought to go on the road? The road is our source, our vault of treasures, our wealth. Only on the road does the ‘traveller’ feel like himself, at home.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski}

... and I left wiggle room. They're certainly capable. :)

she had to leave her house before she encountered racism. All she had to do was wake up in the morning to encounter sexism.

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Please stop calling O'Reily & Hannity, lazy, loud mouthed, bigoted, drunken, sexist Irishmen. It's so rude.

Masochist: "beat me!"
Sadist: "no!"