Promoted by Steven D, because everyone here gets a shot at the front page as long as Booman lets me have the keys. You may agree with AG or not, but he’s never boring.
Bumped back to the diaries by BooMan.
In this year of radical racial and sexual changes in our Presidential sweepstakes, Dem division thereof:
Part of the reason for the fear from which many mainstream voters are suffering is the newness, the strangeness of it all.
On one hand, here is this obviously dominant woman running for an office that has been historically a males-only preserve. I mean, let’s face it…leadership on almost ANY really important level in successfully dominant societies has been nearly completely a male prerogative throughout all of human history. And now here comes his…this woman, presuming to take the reins of the most dominant country that has ever existed on earth.
Revolution number one.
And revolution number two.
At the same time, a member of a race that has been relegated to second-class citizenship level and worse…a race that was (and face this as well…still is to some degree) barely if at all even considered to be human by many white Americans…is attempting to become not only the leader of this racist, white supremacist (on an international level if nowhere else), imperialistic country, but is also simultaneously proving to be by far the most articulate, intelligent, well balanced individual in the entire field of candidates!!!
OH! The HORROR!!!
The shame of it all!!!
Read on…
So given these two choices and of course an almost unthinkable third one…the continuation of a set of policies and leaders that has proven to be absolutely disastrous for this country and for the world in general…the sleeple electorate is all in a tizzy.
What to do!!!
What to DO!!!
Y’know what it’s going to come down to, don’tcha?
Which set of prejudices is deeper.
Are women really supposed to stay at home, (at least metaphorically) barefoot and pregnant?
Are families really supposed to resemble to some extent the classic nuclear family? YOU know…the one where the mother raises the kids, sacrifices her ambitions for the good of the family and the man doesn’t go out and try to fuck everything that moves while being a charming, successful world beater?
Like say…the Obama family vs. the Clinton family?
Or is the spectre of a man who possesses at least a modicum of what many Americans consider to be sub-human genetic structure in power over Racist America more frightening than that of a strong, dominant woman who really didn’t give a good goddamn WHO her worthless husband fucked as long as it didn’t get too much in the way of the business of running a country the right way? By her own estimation of that concept of “right”, of course, because she WAS the boss, when you get right down to it. Bill was just the frontman, the CEO who made the speeches and basked in the limelight but Ms. Clinton was the Chairman of the Board. Bet on it.
Ms. Obama?
Strong.
Intelligent.
Beautiful.
Highly educated.
But she buckled down to the so-called “normal” task of raising a family.
Ozzie and Harriett in black, brown and beige, the Obamas.
Ms. Clinton?
Mr. Clinton?
BOTH success-oriented in every way.
Both A-type personalities. It’s just that Bill’s version of “success” included repeated sexual conquests as well as leading the free world, of course…
Pity the poor sheeple.
What to do?
What a CHOICE!!!
My bet?
It’s looking like the sexual role problems implicit in the Clinton situation are even more frightening to Sheeple America than are the racial things that are implicit in the Obama candidacy.
Ah mean…EV’RYBODY’S got to deal wid their wife, right? Wid their husban’ an’ all? Things got to be…BALANCED at home. Right? Who’ll make dinner!!!??? Who’ll pick up the kids at school? Plus…them black folk. They’re lookin’ OK these days. Yup. SOME of ’em, anyways. I guess they ain’t so bad after all. But that Clinton bitch? Ah mean…SHEESE!!! Imagine having to deal wid THAT shit when you come home offa the late shift!!!
Yup. (And make no mistake…there are many, many women who still buy right in to the sentiments expressed in the above blockquote. Bet on it.)
That’s what I am seeing, anyway.
My own bet?
Sex trumps race, this time around.
I mean…EVERYBODY fucks!!!
My bet?
It’s going to be close, but I think Obama’s gonna win.
Watch.
Later…
AG
Feel free.
I do.
I am making no value judgements here.
Just observing.
So it goes.
AG
Who made that bust (no pun intended)?
No one will ever accuse Arthur of being boring. And sometimes, like today, he is right on target.
AG
What a long strange trip our politics has become. It’s like the circus that never ends.
It used to be different ?
AG
Thank you
I really needed a post like this today.
Of course it is on my new favorite site….BOOMAN
You may agree with AG or not, but he’s never boring.
AG is interesting in the same way fingernails on a blackboard is interesting.
It is possible, after all, that maybe people will look at the content of the candidates’ character and make a decision. On that basis, to me, the decision is crystal-clear.
But that’s me.
If more people did that we wouldn’t be down to the two choices we currently have.
Both are sell-outs to Wall Street. that is the only reason they are the two top-tiered candidates. Female, and black, is just an interesting diversion for the masses.
The world is much more complex than that.
This is the way the world has worked for millennia, duranta.
Nothing new here except the parameters of acceptability and media-driven marketing techniques.
So it goes.
AG
Hillary: 50 and 60 something investment bankers are big supporters.
Obama: 30 and 40 something private equity and hedge fund owners are big supporters.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?
you use such a derogatory word for the female but the politically correct word “negro” for him. Pretty fucking disgusting.
“PC bullshit…”
AG
In all fairness, “negro” is a fairly offensive term in a modern context. While not as strong as “nigger”, I suspect most black people would probably object to, say, something like, “And that negro over there, Jim, is the head of the human resources division.”
Whether “bitch” or “negro” are equivalent in terms of offensiveness is probably an undecidable proposition, but “negro” is certainly not politically correct, or even polite.
I’m going to be posting the following blockquote at brendancalling later today, but I strongly disagree with this analysis that it’s all about sexual and racial prejudices. What a waste of time, trivializing the very real choices people are going to have to make in the next few months.
I think for a lot of us that are in the lower lower middle class (a/k/a “the working poor”), there is no consideration as to the candidates’ secondary sex characteristics or skin color. Maybe you haven’t been paying attention since these issues of race and sex are so important, but here’s a news flash: those of us on the lower rungs are not having an easy time of it. We don’t care about whether “sex trumps race.”
We care about raising our families, being able to pay the bills, and being able to have some degree of success including retirement.
My friend J., a single mother of color (as if that should even fucking matter) says it best:
Brendan again: When times are better and I have a tenured position in some university, then maybe I’ll have time to bandy about whether Obama’s skin color and Clinton’s vagina help or hurt them in the election. Right now, I, and many others like me, just want some fucking relief. I don’t care who the policies come from: shit, if a dead cat named Lucky Pajamas was offering a package of tax breaks for the middle- and lower-middle class, the repeal of the bankruptcy bill, subsidies for day care, ending the war in Iraq, restoring our civil liberties, and universal health care, I’d be willing to vote for the deceased feline.
It’s not about race or sex: it’s about being able to survive and make ends meet. Boiling it down to “the black versus the bitch” is nothing more nor less than sophistry.
Oh, and by the way? Your post was EXACTLY what mental midget Glen Beck was saying this election is about this morning on right-wing talk radio.
I hope everything IS decided on the basis of quaility, of intelligence. On the basis of issues. I really do.
However…”No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people” isn’t just a set of clever words, though.
And I do not think that the concept has changed a great deal since H. L. Mencken’s time.
Flip through the the cable TV system for all you need to know about THAT.
You and your friends…and me and MY friends and all the poeople on the leftiness blogodsphere as well…are in the minority here.
Bet on it.
The Sleeple still rule.
Sorry…
AG.
P.S> I do not care WHAT Glen Beck said. just because hje said it does nmot make it wrong. I know complete idiots who can accurately tell you whether it’s night or day.
if you think there aren’t a large block of the voting public out there that are not inclined to vote for a woman or a black man you’re wrong. It’s not all about sexual and racial prejudices, but it is about them just the same. I am actually avoiding talking to many of my friends about the election (I really hate to admit this) because I don’t want to hear the prejudicial things they may say. I don’t want to like them less. Isn’t that sad? Don’t get me wrong, I fight the fight with those around me when these issues come up, I just don’t relish looking for a battle….
I am honestly not seeing that.
I do not know anyone that has boiled it down to the black or the broad. Everyone I know, and I know a LOT of people, everyone from self-described “trashy-ass Kensos” to suburban families to friends in small towns to NY hipsters, and they just want someone competent, who can beat the republicans, and restore some sanity to the nation.
but hey, I’m wrong most of the time, so I’m probably wrong now too.
No choice here other than a superficial one. Reading Musing85’s recent dkos post the other night only served to reinforce my feelings. On most issues they are nearly the same. At this juncture, I’d would give my own vote to Obama not because he represents change, clearly he does not. I’d give it to him because he will draw votes from Independents and some Repugicans. He will fare better in the general election. My own favorite unfortunately bowed out earlier. Sorry to see you go, Senator Edwards.
the cunt or the nigger?
i have voted for niggers before
i neva voted for no cunt till today
felt good
felt real good
ps if edwards had sold out and taken corporate money he could still be in the race…and i wouldnt care where his contributions came from just like i dont care where hillary’s or obama’s come from….thats the game and until somebody changes the rules the guys who dont play the game will never get to the top.
its the golden rule
the guy with the gold rules
Keep the canadians out of it.