The Hillary Metaphors

Analogies for Hillary Clinton's campaign are varied in both scope and awfulness.

To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive.

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[elusiveyo]

great cartoon, too bad its reality based

[S1m0n]

Doesn't it strike you as unlikely that Hillary Clinton, the feminist who opted to sleep her way to the top, might also be the greatest female political talent of her generation, one who would have risen to the top even if she hadn't made that choice?

It does to me. It's possible that Hillary might have earned her own way to the senate & the white house under her own steam, but it doesn't seem likely, and the claim that she would is pretty insulting to all the women who DID decide to have their own political careers and to run on their own merits.

[eshalom]

Pollak's commentary on the assaults endured by Hillary Clinton, former first lady and second-term senator from New York, reminds me of rap music, noted for its degradation of women.

Not long ago the US House of Representatives hosted a hearing titled "From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images. (Imus was fired for using hip hop language to describe an African-American girls basketball team.) Participants in the hearing acknowledged the sexist and degrading images in the hip hop culture, but disagreed on how to deal with it.

It's not surprising that Obama supporters in message boards across the internet have felt free to use sexist and violent language in attacking Hillary Clinton. Obama has personally demonstrated his approval of rap music during many of his appearances when he has successfully rallied his troops by using well known gestures and phrases from popular rap artists.

[egal]

Attacks against newer media are only made by the obsolete, and have been ever since Socrates. Obama has never approved any form of media, but neither does he attack any--instead, he appeals to parents to make certain their children don't obsess over their entertainment.

I haven't seen any sexist or violent attacks against Hillary. I've seen honest and merited negative reviews of her political history, accusations that she is demeaning her sex and vilifying her own party through desperate and increasingly scorched-earth tactics, and dismay that she has been vicious and underhanded in her attacks on a fellow Democrat.

But her failings and betrayals that set back healthcare were her own doing, HER adherence to benefitting her funders over those she had said she was trying to help and then abandoned.

Her usage of uncoscionable tactics is a sign of HER viciousness, not that of her detractors.

Likewise, it is she who has taken advantage of the perceptions engendered by sexism: whining to be treated even more gently than she already was compared to Obama; threatening voters through robo-calls; attacking and diminishing her opponent and his supporters rather than build up her own credentials.

These are all things she has visited upon herself, and have nothing to do with us being sexist or violent, just objective enough to see what she's doing, and how sexist and violent she has been.

[eshalom]

You are gifted at spin, I'll give you that. But no intelligent person would accept your clever distortion of the facts of this campaign. I suggest you read Jonathon Tilove's documentation, first published in the Seattle Times, of the rampant sexism and misogynism targeting Hillary Clinton across the blogosphere.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004041541_hillaryslurs29.html

[Softnsweet]

Awesome!