(I’ll write more about public sociology soon, but until then…)
Tonight is a watershed moment in American history. 43 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act and 40 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, an African-American has won the right to represent one of our two major parties in the Presidential election. Senator Obama is also the first post-boomer candidate to run for President.
Tonight is one of the most important social and political moments I have witnessed in my lifetime, and Hillary Clinton chose to piss all over it by not conceding gracefully and by continuing to lie — by claiming she has won more popular votes — in the process. I seriously cannot believe what I just saw. How classless, crass, and narcissistic. She’s horrible (said in my best Bill Walton voice).
And now I am watching Obama just absolutely throwing down in his victory speech.
“America, this is our moment…this is our time.” Yes, it is. Go get ‘em, Barack.
(How cool is it that Michelle gave him a fist-bump when he took the stage?)
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what he said.
but did Obama give Michelle a pat on the ass right after that fist-bump? i’m down with it if he did (if he did, she consented), I’m just wonderin’.
Jesus. HRC appears to be more out of touch with reality than Elvis on a bad day.
When given one final opportunity to show some class, she basically said “fuck you, Barack Obama.”
Well right back at you, ma’am . . . .
The moment was there for her to take the first step towards uniting the party.
The moment was there for her to recognize what a historic night this is.
The moment was there . . . and once again, she made it all about herself.
She’s a complete disgrace.
Jenn – I missed that, but Amy caught that as well and was laughing about it.
Tom – well said. I told Amy that people are almost desperate to forgive HRC and move past this, and that she could’ve erased a couple months of bad behavior by conceding gracefully. Instead, the crazy train keeps a’rollin’.
I think that, perhaps, the first post boomer is important because, for the Hillaristas, that’s the whole thing, misguided, and disguised as feminism: The boomers don’t want to admit how their generation fucked things up.
Whoops…wrong key.
It’s a form of generational tyranny. The sense that democracy is all well and good,so long as you are voting for the established paradigms. Otherwise, they scream bloody murder.
Here is the dap followed by the ass-pat. Sweet. Note that she started to go old-school with the high-five.
Some people are absolutely crazy:
http://www.hillaryis44.org/?p=646
(Headline: “When Will Obama Concede?”)
Good god…
Ideologically, they are incapable of understanding that;
1. They aren’t entitled to anything.
2. Hillary blew her chance.
To compare me, you, to the 28% ers is the height of delusion and stupidity.
The problem Hillary ran into is that she is absolutely establishment, politics as usual, and ran as such at a time when it is clear to all that the paradigm is broken down, and has brought the country to the verge of ruination. Barack Obama brought something new, and they hate him for it, because he showed that you could not only run, but win your party’s nomination, with a new philosophy, a new paradigm.
If Hillary Clinton were half the Feminist she claimed to be, and what, evidentally, these boomer women think she is, Obama wouldn’t have been alone in this new thinking. Yet she reinforced, and ran, on the old WASP patriarchal bullshit politics of destruction, of corporatocracy and keep the capital at the top, the same ones Bush ran on, and her husband, and lost. No feminist I’ve ever known, and certainly none I’ve read and admired (Cixous, De Beauvoir) would have ever given her a pass appealing to the same institutional biases and appealing to the basest instincts that would keep women and minorities second class, yet, this is the campaign Hillary Clinton ran.
But hey, maybe its just the patriarchy (you know, the rich white guys) changing the rules again.
Or maybe, its the kind of cognitive dissonance that would have these “feminists” asking for an overthrow of the the will of the people in the name of “democracy”, or perhaps their candidate being the candidate of the war machine, of corporatism, of nafta-all things feminists should be against.
Or maybe that, in this regard, Margaret Thatcher was a “feminist”.
And in case you haven’t seen it, much confusion re: the dap heard ’round the world:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/06/04/pounds.aspx
Dave,
I thought this was insightful and moving and fits nicely with a lot of the issues you discuss here and in the classroom:
http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/i_hope_this_is_in_good_taste.php
Tom