Sexists 38, Racists 35 (2 OT) [UPDATED]
In a game of see-sawing momentum, the sexists who support Barack Obama finally defeated the racists who support Hillary Clinton. All that remains is for the sexists and the racists to join forces in the tournament finals to beat the… the… well, the Americans.
Michelle Malkin is on the sideline. Michelle?
Hillary’s giving her concession speech today at noon. Her campaign will run the full statement on her website. You’ll be able to find it everywhere else on TV and the Internet, too.
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“It makes us feel schizophrenic,” said Martha Burk, immediate past chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations. “For the first time in history, we can see that a woman can and will be president,” she said. But the campaign, which Burk and many other feminists said was riddled with sexist attacks in the media, “exposed barriers that we thought we had overcome years ago,” she said.
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Other websites have sprung up to denounce Democrats for picking Obama. One - called PUMA, an acronym for the sentiment “Party Unity My Ass” - features postings by Clinton supporters saying they will never vote for Obama, even if it means electing McCain.
No disrespect to Senator Clinton, but I’ll believe she’s done when I personally witness the stake in her heart, to engage in a little assassination fantasy of my own.
I no more believe that the Clintons will dutifully serve the interests of the party by working tirelessly behind the scenes to elevate Barack Obama to the throne than I believe that the stars are God’s daisy chain.
The real question for Obama (and Clinton herself) is: does he want her inside the tent, whizzing out, or outside the tent, whizzing in (as LBJ, I believe, once put it)? Dick Morris opines that she’ll want to be on the ticket not least because her presence blocks the ascendance of a possible rival for 2012 or 2016.
UPDATE:
It’s not just the chicks who are unhappy:
President Bill Clinton frowns as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, addresses supporters at the National Building Museum in Washington Saturday, June 7, 2008, as she suspends her campaign for president.
That dude’s scary.