Posts by Russell Brown
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Just getting this over on System ...
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To be honest, I can really only speak for myself. I never minded people looking at my while I was feeding. I DID mind people staring. In the same way, I don't mind people looking at my breasts when I'm NOT feeding, but I do mind them staring. (Breasts are ace, and can be very distracting. I understand this.) If I'm having a conversation with someone, I'd prefer they looked at my face, whether or not I'm breast-feeding.
I think it's probably just a modern social skill for everyone involved -- and part of that is not staring; or looking a breast-feeding woman in the eye like you would talking to anyone. Once you get that, it's no big deal.
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I guess "evil" is a little strong ... but I deeply disapprove of what she's doing. Her marginal chance of victory effectively relies on destroying her fellow Democrat (she really can't win by getting more pledged delegates), and for that small chance of a prize she's prepared to stand alongside McCain and hand him ammo for November.
The impact on the party if she pulls it off hardly bears thinking about. Obama has been able to tap into the most liberal and politicised generation of twentysomethings in decade -- he's getting them to the polls. He probably promises the biggest turnout of black American voters ever. If he's knifed, those people will walk away from the process.
But more than that, I like and appreciate the fact that Obama speaks in joined-up sentences, and expresses ideas. I'm not so keen on his faith or her protectionist rhetoric, but he strikes me as a genuinely superior candidate,
By contrast, I find it increasingly difficult to take anything Hillary says at face value. The latest attempt to depict herself as just a poor, rural white person at heart, not to mention more American than Obama, is risible.
But, interestingly, the latest polls suggest "bitter" has backfired: the LA Times polling has her only five points up in Pennsylvania and the same distance behind in Indiana.
And there's this:
In Pennsylvania, the flap seems to have marginally helped Obama more than hurt him: 24% said his handling of the issue made them think more highly of him; 15% said it made them think less highly of him; 58% said it made no difference in their views.
The Scotsman had a story this week saying that Al Gore and Jimmy Carter are poised to declare for Obama. Carter would be no surprise -- he's made his feelings clear in interviews -- but the pair of them stepping forward would pretty much end it.
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Craig Ranapia wonders why, after 30 years, anyone is still prepared to dance with Winston Peters.
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This just in: Clinton piles in on "bittergate" in her new PA TV ad.
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Danielle: ick. I usually only hear Maher talk about drugs and religion and stuff.
And YouTube vids embed automatically -- so long as you have a "www" in the URL (just add it if you need to), you can just paste it in.
And I was surprised to find that there is actually some video of Obama's controversial SF meeting. It doesn't include the "bitter" sentence, but it indicates the tone and context. He was apparently asked about likely hostility by someone who was about to go and campaign for him in PA.
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And your last comments about Hillary are begiining to sound a lot like the Kiwiblog mafia about Helen
Hardly. I'm just finding her campaign more than a little Rovian.
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So Clinton 'clearly obviously' lied ?
Really , she says she had a lapse.Four separate times, in considerable detail, to bolster her claim that she and McCain had the goods and Obama didn't.
If she didn't remember it, she shouldn't have described in such detail a scene that demonstrably didn't happen.
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wot, Obama hasn't gone in for cheesy photo ops? Obama hasn't slightly redefined his position on particular issues depending on his audience?
Obama hasn't double-teamed Clinton with McCain, and he seemed to be going out of his way to avoid slamming Clinton when he initially responded to the "bitter" thing. Even when he did criticise her, it was in good humour. Obama also hasn't trashed former presidential candidates out of sheer political expedience.
Yes, creating an image is part of the job, but, as Marshall pointed out, Clinton's campaign is becoming a parody.
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It's not just creeping - it's blatant. Feministing has an on-going Hillary sexism watch - some of the things on it are appallingly misogynist.
They're all pretty dreadful (Bill Maher is the only one I'm surprised by though) but a Republican congressman called Obama "that boy" this week.
I don't dislike Clinton because she's a woman -- how cool would it be for the USA to be led by a woman?! -- but because I'm starting to think she's evil.
And I think she lost a lot of moral high ground by throwing Al Gore under the bus this week for supposedly being a girlyman. Her subsequent posturing (a photo-op in a bar with a jigger of whisky!) and her sudden re-invention as a gun-rights advocate has been beyond belief.
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