Comments on Woman of the Year

Does such a creature walk this earth?... Oh the horror... (Please be sure that she is lesbian also)

@1. Yes she does. She's the secret love child of Larry Craig.

I really have a hard choice when one guy is gay and the other is English.

Jesus fucking christ.

Can one of you graphic arts/computer literate types at least create a portrait of what this person might look like so that if we see her she's readily identifiable? That would be helpful.

Mormon trumps everything else. She'd vote for Mitty.

I'm still a little perplexed that someone in a cult religion has gotten this far in a national race.

This amused me.

An e-mailer named Tiffany responded sarcastically: "Duh, I'm a black woman and here I am at the voting booth. Duh, since I'm illiterate I'll pull down the lever for someone. Hm... Well, he black so I may vote for him... oh wait she a woman I may vote for her... What Ise gon' do? Oh lordy!"

Bauhaus@5 said I'm still a little perplexed that someone in a cult religion has gotten this far in a national race.

Agreed! After reading Top 10 Bizarre Mormon Beliefs on Listverse today, I watched SouthPark's All about the Mormons? episode. Hilarious!

The only thing that would top Mitt running would be Tom Cruise running as the "Scientology Candidate".

What about black, female, Mormon veteran immigrant small business owner (like the dude who owns Septieme), unionized (WGA -- has a screenplay to sell) indoctrinated in Objectivism by her Muslim father and Marxism by her Unitarian father (she has two dads). She's also a (non-practicing) lesbian, married with 3 kids: a girl, a boy, and a blind quadriplegic hermaphrodite. Gun owner, crime victim, falsely imprisoned for medical marijuana, and her entire family was killed in 9/11. What does this voter have to say? Somebody interview this bitch, stat.

My guess is that she's an immigrant from South Africa where she was converted by a Mormon missionary. She came to the US for school and joined the military to pay for it while speeding along the citizenship process. Now, fresh from a tour of duty in Iraq, she's just become a citizen.

Know anyone like that?

omg mccain is illiterate
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1884558

A beloved ex-boyfriend once said, "You know, I'm just not going to be satisfied until this country elects a black, Jewish (by ancestry), and atheist lesbian in a wheelchair as President."

@10: McCain also mentions that his favorite film is VIVA ZAPATA! The conservatives are gonna love that.

Gladys Knight is black, female, Mormon, and a veteran performer. Does that count?

Gladys Knight is a Mormon? Wow, I am really out of the loop. Maybe I should skip National Geographic and go for People next time I'm in the waiting room at the dentist's office.

Is she married to the Pips? Or does polygamy only work the other way around?

Woman of the Year? See the post below this one!

I'm a Black woman and I'm going to vote for the candidate whose spouse doesn't say racist shit on the campaign trail.

I'm also going to vote for the candidate that best represents my views on immigration, criminal justice, death penalty and the Iraq war.

Oh yeah, and to Gloria, Robin, Marcia (sp? the leader of NOW NYC), I'm also going to vote for the candidate whose supporters don't call me a self-hating woman bc I choose to vote for the candidate that has my best interests at heart. There is a reason why HC is leading with WHITE women, it is because she is calling Obama supporters unfeminist. So, I guess only sexist men and self-hating Black women support Obama. To Robin, to Gloria, to the leader of NOW NYC--FUCK OFF you racist pigs.

Ain't I a woman?

Dayum.

I'm undecided. I'm going to be screwed at my caucus.

BTW, Latter Saints aren't any weirder or more cultish than Catholics, Baptists, Jews, or anything else. Those other religions just happen to have more people and have been around long enough that people forget how totally weird they are.

I am looking forward to greeting everyone who is at the Fremont Public Library caucus.

And, just because they're not running per se, you can still change your mind when you show up. It's ok.

Check out the caucus locators and find where you need to be on Saturday.

Dan Savage is as closed-minded as the people he hates:

"I don't know where I'm going with this—except maybe Canada—so I'll stop. But in conclusion let me say that I have seen evidence that Rep. Debra Maggart's doesn't pay her traffic tickets, picks her nose in her office, watches child porn, and drinks the urine of virgins in order to maintain her youthful appearance, and that's why I don't believe she's fit to represent the good people of Kentucky.

Of course I'm not serious. In fact, I made that last part up—Maggart is perfect for Kentucky."

Dan Savage is as closed-minded as the people he hates:

"I don't know where I'm going with this—except maybe Canada—so I'll stop. But in conclusion let me say that I have seen evidence that Rep. Debra Maggart's doesn't pay her traffic tickets, picks her nose in her office, watches child porn, and drinks the urine of virgins in order to maintain her youthful appearance, and that's why I don't believe she's fit to represent the good people of Kentucky.

Of course I'm not serious. In fact, I made that last part up—Maggart is perfect for Kentucky."

Did I say that? Why, I did. Here's the context:

http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/meet_rep_maggar

There's a difference between recognizing the race/class issues at play in this election and making your choice of candidate based on that. Yet the media and the entire process of the political game continuously expects voters to choose candidates based on superficial reasons. And because of this, many voters do. If journalists had any integrity, they'd be encouraging people *not* to do this, rather than constantly re-iterating superficial issues and keeping politics a middle school popularity contest, winnable to the candidate with the most money to spend on PR and publicity, and thus, the candidate most likely to be representing ruling class and big, corrupt business interests.

For the record, I'm a white woman and a feminist, and I HATE the sexism that has been bombarding Hillary's every move in this campaign. But the idea of her as my president - a closeted Republican, an enemy of the working class and imigrants, a pro-life apologist and authoritarian, scares the crap out of me.

#17:

Exactly what the Mormons would have you believe.

Yeah, I know the context, Dan. Your conclusion is what matters: That Kentucky deserves that woman because Kentucky is a bunch of backward, backwoods, homo-hatin', cousin-fuckin', illiterate, fly-over-state rednecks. That was your point, was it not?

That woman sounds absolutely deplorable. But for you to spend your days ripping apart people who paint gays (or whoever) with broad brushes and put down those they don't know while at the same time doing the exact same thing to the 4 million people who live in Kentucky is EVERY BIT AS BAD.

If you would simply acknowledge this fact and try to do better, that sure would be nice. But you never do. You're never wrong, are you?

Never mind ... you won't respond.

(PS I stumbled across that while spending two hours last night reading The Stranger's excellent coverage of the Kyle Huff shooting.)