Comments on: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

By: nemo

nemo — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:46:54 +0000

My, aren’t we condescending?

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:30:39 +0000

I didn’t see it that way at all. And everyone gets a little intense because for all of us who we want as candidates, and what they stand for gets inevitably intertwined with or reflected from personal experience. So when someone is critical of Chelsea, people often empathize and say, I see that in my daughter and I don’t want anyone picking on her. etc.

Or often with Hillary Clinton, although she may mean manythings to many people, I have had a lot of women (I live in a very “politically active” area of town and there are an awful lot of Hillary Clinton signs up in yards–big ones–and Clinton bumper stickers) say to me who have a very deep knowledge of issues and politics “Look all the issues aside. What controls this for me or what is dominant is that it’s just long overdue for a woman to be President. I think she’s a very well qualified woman, and I honestly don’t know when there will be another chance to even vote for a woman for President. And that’s the bottom line–that’s why I’m in her corner.” I’ve heard it a lot from people around me and I respect that. For them, it is reason enough.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:09:52 +0000

I don’t remember the transcript of the debate, but if she brought it up she was dead wrong as I’ve proved and he should have made that clear. He knows that he’s not on any committtee that oversees Afghanistan and he knows she’s the one on Armed Forces which by definition does. However there is often overlap and John Kerry chairs a sub on Foreign Relations that deals with Afghanistan.

When you really get down to it though, those committees like many parliamentary organizatins all have stately, lofty titles and how much oversight has there been the last 7 years would be more the point I suppose. That’s why we all want new and better Congress people and a Democrat in the White House.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:06:09 +0000

The shame of it all. Like Hester Prynne and that Scarlet “A”–i.e. Marilyn you think it’s about the commenters instead of the issues correct?

By: megpiepie1

megpiepie1 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:47:37 +0000

If I remeber in the last debate she brought it up. And Obama answer was not really all that great. He didn’t dispute her about hte committee.

By: MarilynSanAntone

MarilynSanAntone — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:45:33 +0000

YOU’RE apologizing to Pete Pierce? !!!!

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:37:01 +0000

I understand what the post is about, but in truth not every comment in threads that average into the 200s often on weekdays stay consistently within the context of the post. Maybe they should. I’m not trying to be OT or ever ‘hijack’ a thread.

I have seen scores of headline posts that all have a common denominator lately–the excoriation of women as refracted through Senator Clinton during her candidacy. I have never thought reading David Broder was that worthwhile–any of his columns–in the last several years on a number of counts.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:32:09 +0000

I wasn’t projecting onto you as far as I can tell at least the way the word is used in the psychiatric literature. I was empathizing–and sometimes any criticism is translated as a statement against women–I have to tell you–I try to read widely and I chose English as one of my majors to try to make sure that would happen–and I haven’t seen the word misogyny much at all in many years.

Maybe you could say I’m not steeped in feminist lit, but it’s just not a word I’ve seen much at all until lately with comments about a woman running for President.

I never saw the word homeland for a lot of years ever used in this country anywhere until the Bush Robocops, the Homeland Security types, and the Repubilcan dittoheads started making it very popular. What about this country wasn’t a “homeland” before 9/11/01? Why wasn’t the word used? Why was it ever used. The only time in my entire life I’ve seen it used before now was when I was told to read Ibsen plays in school as an assignment.

By: Kitt

Kitt — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:30:35 +0000

Broder is a senile pathetic joke and has no business writing for and being published in a major newspaper, and he has no business not being a head shrink in real life but one that just plays one in the newspaper and on TV.

Reading Broder is like marking the history books for fifty or so years down the road for when people who have had time enough to take a breather from this bad joke (or had never lived through it) of the mess we are in can look into the Broder file to see just how blatantly stupid the people were who had the biggest stages to post or yell out their stupidity.

Broder is a (insert several swear words here) complete ass and a fool. He proves that fact time and again.

By: wobblybits

wobblybits — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:25:47 +0000

Pete not Peter, sorry