‘Cool’ Hussein Not Wooing The Wimmins, Especially When His VP Eye Strays Past Hillary
There’s no doubt that while Obama had his own women base (who fainted at rallies and wet their spandex in the gyms), most democrat voting women were looking forward to Hillary on the Nov. ballot as their chance for POTUS … and NOT that I support the communist wench, but she IS a hell of a sight more qualified, as little as that maybe, than Hussein for the Office.
And it appears Hussein’s camp is looking away from the Hildabeast, and possibly to other uterus-holders to fill his Veep slot (pun intended) and try to bait in those pissed-off, Super Delegate scorned, democrat wimmin voters who are threatening a vote for McCain.
But somebody please correct me if I am wrong here. I see Sen. Claire McCaskill’s name whispered in the following article. Is she NOT a Canadian??? … or at the very least born on Canadian territory and NOT on American (US) territory (See: the bullshit McCain had to go through a few months ago about being born on a US Navy base). Would THIS not pose a problem if she were VP and had to step in as Prez …??? “Constitutionalists”? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Either way, this party that touts itself as being color and gender blind sure has a way of throwing down particular ‘political playing cards’ when it damn well feels like it … eh?
Oh yeah … One more thing.
Why is it the party that claims to hold the whole “women’s rights” voting block is always the same party that holds their male candidates up like eye candy, and end up gauging their support for him by how much they want to fuck his brains out?
Is there something WRONG with me, a ’self-liberated’ conservative female who looks at what is behind what the male candidate is saying and not what might be inside his trousers, who finds that female democrat mind set just a bit hypocritical and … REALLY fucked-the-hell-up??!!?? I mean, how can a women call herself ‘liberated’ and still think that way?
I simply cannot even imagine what a “Suffragette” might say to the democrat women today.
Women voters aren’t warming to ‘cool’ Obama
BY CAROL MARIN (Sun-Times)
The Obama campaign has a woman problem. How big? How small? It’s not clear, but in a close election, small can be big.
And Michelle Obama spoke to it Monday in Chicago.
Departing from her prepared remarks, she cautioned a ballroom of applauding “Women for Obama” that despite their unwavering support, “there’s a whole country out there that still needs a little convincing.”
You wouldn’t have known it from this mostly well-dressed, mostly well-heeled crowd. Many of the women, black and white, young and old, were early donors who gave money back when Barack Obama was a long shot, and they were gladly giving again now. A lovely lunch of organic chicken prepared by a renowned chef, Alice Waters, brought in somewhere between $400,000 and $700,000 for the Obama Victory fund.
But the women Obama needs right now are the ones who do not dine downtown. They’re the ones who can’t afford organic anything, forced to choose between a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk because they can’t buy both on the same day.
Women like Sarah.
A few hours after leaving the “Women for Obama” luncheon, I ran into Sarah, not her real name. I’ve known her for a few years. A single mom, she free-lances, working as many jobs as she can to support two growing boys. She dreams of a permanent gig with benefits, but it’s still just a dream.
A 37-year-old Democrat, she is also a college grad and a news junkie who has watched this campaign like a hawk. She surprised me with her anger Tuesday, saying she’s voting for McCain.
To Sarah, Barack Obama is like the organic chicken at lunch. Sleek, elegant, beautifully prepared. Too cool.
Though both Obamas have spoken often and in great personal detail of their own humble beginnings, of Michelle’s hardworking blue-collar dad and Barack’s struggling single mom on food stamps, it somehow hasn’t sold Sarah. You might ask if she was a die-hard Clinton supporter. The answer is yes, a supporter, but die-hard? Not really.
At the luncheon, I’d asked women if there was still a sizable breach between the Clinton and Obama camps.
Most told me not anymore, that on issues of choice, national health insurance and gender parity of wages, Clinton supporters know they have far more differences with Republican John McCain than they do with Obama. And Republican women, including Paula Wolff, who for 14 years was in the high command of Republican Gov. James R. Thompson, were there to demonstrate that Obama has crossover appeal, too.
“The Supreme Court,” said Wolff. “I think for most women when they walk into the voting booth, that will be the first thing on their minds.”
Some of the numbers bear that out. The July 15 Quinnipiac University poll shows women overall backed Obama over McCain 55 percent to 36 percent. Then again, the margin was far smaller among independent women, who preferred Obama by just three points, 45 percent to 42 percent. And finally, there’s that Clinton problem. The Associated Press/Yahoo News “found that just 12 percent of former Clinton supporters say they are excited about Obama.”
It seems pretty clear that if Obama is not going to pick Clinton as his running mate, he’d better not pick a woman at all. That, Sarah made clear in our conversation Tuesday, would be unfair.
The Obamas, for their part, have in recent weeks spoken warmly and respectfully of Hillary Clinton and she of them. On Monday, Mrs. Obama called Sen. Clinton an “extraordinary woman” and added she was “thrilled to welcome Dana Singiser to the campaign as our new senior adviser for women.”
Singiser, who worked for Clinton’s campaign and Senate office before that, told me Tuesday by phone, “We’re working really hard for all women voters and leaving no stone unturned.”
They may need to try offering more macaroni and cheese.
(ABC)
Clinton Supporter Angered By ‘Other Women’ Obama VP Talk
ABC News’ Jennifer Parker reports: A longtime friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton said it’s “incomprehensible” that Sen. Barack Obama would choose another woman to be his vice-presidential candidate over Sen. Hillary Clinton.
“The selection of either one of those instead of Sen. Clinton I would find completely incomprehensible,” said Lanny Davis of rumored Obama vice-presidential contenders Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Davis is a former special counsel to President Bill Clinton and a longtime friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s dating back to their time at Yale Law School.
“If anyone thinks that picking a woman will simply placate Hillary Clinton’s female supporters, I think that’s very patronizing to women and i don’t think that that either Gov. Sebelius or Sen. McCaskill would disagree,” said Davis, who penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Thursday titled “Why Obama Should Pick Hillary.”
Davis said he hasn’t met either Sebelius or McCaskill and said he admires them, but Clinton is more qualified.
“She helps him more and she’s more qualified,” Davis said of Clinton, “Therefore, why would he pick two females, both who are very admirable public servants, why would you pick them over her?”
Davis, a longtime friend of Clinton, said he isn’t speaking for Clinton and doesn’t know if she truly wants to be vice-president. Though Davis said she recently called him when he was ill.
Davis said he hasn’t given up on the “dream” of an Obama-Clinton ticket, though he said he has abandoned his early effort after Obama won the primary to get Clinton supporters to sign a petition urging Obama to pick Clinton as his running-mate.
However other Clinton supporters seem less confident in an Obama-Clinton ticket.
Two former Clinton campaign staffers who started the website VoteBoth.com to urge Obama to choose Clinton as his running-mate is shutting down under the assumption she’s not on his short-list of vice-presidential candidates.
Obama’s vice-presidential shortlist is being closely help by the campaign.
“We’re not commenting about the nominee selection process,” Obama spokesperson Bill Burton told ABC News.com.
Obama spent hours this week meeting with the co-chairs of his vice presidential committee search team Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy.
Likely Democratic vice-presidential contenders include Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Indiana Sen. Even Bayh, Sen. Joe Biden, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, and Sebelius, a two-term governor of a red state, and McCaskill, a first-time senator from a battleground state who is close to Obama.
McCaskill campaigned with Obama in Missouri Wednesday, but she has said she’s not being vetted and sources close to her describe her role as a close personal advisor rather than a possible veep candidate. Meanwhile, Sebelius sidestepped questions Wednesday about whether she is being considered.
Obama may try to solidify his support among women voters thought key in November by picking a woman as his running-mate.
Clinton, who lost her bid to be the Democratic Party’s first woman presidential candidate, won 52 percent of Democratic women voters during the primaries. However Obama is leading McCain 54-39 percent in support from likely women voters, according to the latest ABC News poll.
But Davis argued Obama’s poll numbers increase with Clinton as his running-mate, citing two June polls from Wall Street Journal/NBC and Fox/Opinion Dynamics.
“Even they wouldn’t contend, I believe, that they would be more helpful to Sen. Obama on the ticket than Hillary Clinton,” Davis said of Sebelius and McCaskill.
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