Besides, Chelsea Clinton will be a fine President, after Katrina Gore serves her two terms, as the logical successor to President Obama.

Hey Hillary folks - keep it up, great work at ruining your candidates chance at getting elected. Your politics are old. And you and your candidate grow more annoying by the day. This is akin to David Della calling Burgess supporters racist in the recent city council elections.

Look, up until last week I was torn. Then the Hillary folks let Bill loose and drove me to Obama. This sort of shit from NOW solidifies that.

Open your eyes NOW. This isn't about black, white, male or female, it's about our future, about someone who can unite our country and get past the exact sort of politics this statement from NOW supports. Your statement is the perfect example of why Hillary isn't and shouldn't be the choice for our next president. And you just don't get why. Pathetic.

So as repayment, NOW wants Hillary Clinton in the front office? What the fuck is that going to prove? That a female politician has to have a famous politician as a husband to get elected to the Presidency?

I am woman.

I am strong.

I am not a victim... unless it's politically advisable.

It's not just average Baby Boomers who need to go away, it's Second Wave Feminists as well.

That NOW statement wasn't written by a feminist.  It was written by a female supremacist.

And then I read #8's response, and it put me off. I do think this press release is a little histrionic, but I completely object to the term feminist harpies. Women _do_ have grounds for believing that they _are_ discriminated against. And sometimes people's passion might push them over the top, but harpies? Out of line.

"or whatever?" did someone accidentally submit the first draft to the press by accident?

a little more detail as to why obama would be such an enemy to women's rights might help them prove their point, unless their point is just that they're pissed. this is just embarrassing.

According to my dictionary, "harpy" is a term for "a grasping, unscrupulous woman". Considering Hillary's embracing of race-baiting, lies about Obama's record on abortion, and attitude of "I'm owed this nomination", I stand by my comment.

of course, when i read some of the insanely sexist remarks that are found even on this blog i kind of see their point.

i think keshmeshi is a feminist (if i am remembering correctly?) and i think @12 is a rational feminist response to this issue.

Your comment was misogynistic, but what's more it was tired and completely not funny. Come up with something less tired.

But as to laughing last... anything can happen, but you are probably closer to the grave than I! Drink deep of that Jager, knowing that I will be paying, in part, for your liver transplant.

"The more strident hysteria spewed by feminist harpies, the less I want to vote for Hillary."

Hillary didn't make this statement so actually you're calling the NY chapter of NOW feminist harpies. Given that I don't believe you know enough of their character to term them unscrupulous, I'd say yes. Uncalled for and out of line.

Odd, arduous, because in post 33 you seem to recognize a distinction between a candidate and the sentiments of individual supporters. And here you don't seem to.

Brandishing the implication that we must support Hillary's candidacy solely because she has a vagina and it's about damn time someone with a vagina occupied the Oval Office is utter nonsense, and is at the very least grasping.

Considering the definition of "unscrupulous" includes being dishonest or unfair, then I still stand by my comment. After all, there's little that's less fair than saying we should ignore the qualifications of the people running and instead support one of them only based on her gender.

I'd be happy to vote for a female candidate, and have done so in the past. But Hillary isn't going to be one of them (unless it's her or a Republican).

Would African Americans sent out a press release raging against Ted Kennedy if he endorsed Clinton over Obama? They have been supporters of him and his family for generations, too.

With all his family history and his own status, I trust Ted Kennedy considered this carefully. That is why this is a big deal.

Personally, I agree with not voting in a boomer. I hate being that way, but I feel we cannot, must not go backwards in time (McCain). Their day are over. Men like Romney and Huckabee are religiously dillusional and, at least Huckabee, are hellbent on making us the United States of Jesus. This is, after all, "God's country."

Has simply being female even been relevant to the vote since Thatcher?

Support the candidate that speaks best for women, it's not always going to be a woman.

Jesus, even when Hillary's not talking, she's screwing the Democratic chances to take the WH.

What I was getting at was more this: when Obama supporters behave in a misogynistic way, they do not help their case. (See New Hampshire.) You are very likely to turn off women who would have voted for your man when you make cracks about how ECB should get laid or how feminists are harpies or how the entire NY NOW organization must be on the rag.

You might think you're being funny, but you're not.

The NY NOW press release page is my new favorite web site.

fuckin' eh.

@25 - we're going to pick your nursing home, buddy :p

Get them married, get them a house and a few babies, and they'll forget about all this nonsense. They won't have the time.

The dishwasher and automatic washing machine, it spoils the ladies. Too much time on their hands makes their heads fill up with the nonsense.

No two ways about it- I'm an Obama fan. I haven't been enthralled with the Clintons for a while. However, this is further strengthened by how the Hillary campaign is operating as well as getting their advocates to stir feelings of guilt and discontent amongst fellow Dems.

If Hillary wins the nomination, I fear it will be more of the same. We'll get politics as usual in Washington as well as the divisiveness she'll bring to the country. It's too bad, but as many sloggers have noted above, I'd gladly vote for a woman for President. I won't vote for Hillary in the primary because I think she, regardless of gender, is a picture postcard of what is wrong with this country.

Give me any other woman and I'll gladly look at her details and background. No poll or anything the Clintonistas have to say can cover up the historical facts that have occurred over the past 20 years.

As for Obama's "lack of experience" let me say that the job of President is 100% OJT. New things come up every day. However, showing a direction, giving hope to a country, and leading the way out of the divisiveness that has infected this country for the past 2 decades is a breath of fresh air in a race that in my opinion has a lot of has beens wanting that office, including Senator Clinton.

It might be an opinion you don't share, and it might not be your primary criterion, but wanting a woman president does not make you a harpy.

This statement is emotional but it isn't dishonest. It comes from an honest place from the writer- one of very badly wanting to see a woman president. It's her right to want a woman president and to want everyone else to want a woman president. Once again, it does not make her a harpy.

Fuck you.

Has Obama or his campaign used gender the way the Hillary campaign used race in S.C.? How has Obama outright lied about Hillary's record the way Hillary lied about Obama's record on abortion rights? Has Obama broken a deal made with all the candidates and lied about where they would and wouldn't campaign like Hillary has done in Florida?

I don't expect either candidate to not engage in ANY negative campaigning. But Hillary has taken it to a new level for a party primary, and the result isn't that she is hurting Obama, it's that she is hurting the Dems chance to win the Presidency, including her own.

Having another Y chromosome in the White House shouldn't be a deal-breaker.

oh..jeez...uh...sorry there eli, i just assumed.

So I second the thanks to Jacob @70 for posting that statement from the president of NOW, and I encourage anyone with an opinion to read it in full if they want to hear an intelligent feminist response to the Democratic primaries.

Unfortunately, we all know which statement will get the most press.

*sigh*

Apparently NY NOW has been taken over by valley girls...

FIRED UP! Let's Go OBAMA!

This is a spoof, right?

But shouldn't the NOW be venting their anger at Bill Clinton over this? Apparently, if he hadn't been such a douche over the past couple weeks, Teddy probably would have sat quietly through the primaries.

However, if anyone thinks that the Republicans are going to magically allow Obama to unite the country are living in a dream land.

No.

15 is just a random misogynist. Can you point to an actual Obama staff member, or a single thing he has said that is misogynist? No. Which means that you are an idiot with a victim complex.

No, it is not dishonest to support a candidate for president just because she is the first (barely) viable woman candidate. It is, however, incredibly stupid to use gender as your only reason.