Sitting Shiva On She

Don't ask. I'm a 60-year-old white woman with the last name Clinton. How do you think I feel?

Please do not tell me your long night of the soul "Let this cup pass from me, Oprah" story about when you decided to switch from Hillary to Obama. I do not feel your pain.

Please do not send me that "Good-bye to All That Part II" Robin Morgan piece. It's brill, but it reminds me of one of those desperate prayer chain letters. When you haven't got a prayer. Besides, I am the weakest link in chain letters.

When I ask you a simple question, like "Can we get to 42nd Street in this traffic?", please don't breathlessly bug-eye me with, "Yes we can!" Sheesh.

Like the new Lexus, I have pre-collision intelligence, so I didn't watch the last Democratic debate. My partner did. Actually she switched back and forth between American Idol with Simon Cowell and American Idol with Tim Russert. At least my partner didn't announce to everyone that if I didn't do well in Ohio and Texas, I wouldn't have a chance.

I put on her new BOSE headset, cranked up Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and did the crossword puzzle.

Did I miss anything?

Obama won? Wow, I so did not see that one coming.

I've been thinking about returning to my radical lesbian separatist roots. Get back to the land. Get off the grid. Get some flannel shirts and patchouli at Urban Outfittters. Okay, maybe not that far back. But I have been re-reading my favorite feminist thinkers.

Like contemporary French feminist philosopher, Monique Wittig. She said that heterosexuality is a political regime in which "woman" exists only through her relation to the category "man." Between Gauloises, she called for the abolition of gender categories and boldly proclaimed that lesbians are not women.

Aha! My mistake was wanting a woman president. Next time I will be much more specific. I want a lesbian president, who is not beholden to a man or the derivative, woman. Think Mike Bloomberg, but vive la difference. He bought the NYC mayoralty fair and square so he did not owe anyone anything. That allowed him to go after smokers, small-gun toters and trans fats.

Shiva is the paradoxical god of opposites. What is the opposite of cynicism of despair but the audacity of hope. Where is Christine Quinn? Get me Tammy Baldwin's number.

Comments

[MinerSam]

Opra trashed people in her audiance who opposed the War.

Hillary won last night's debate as she has all the other. All else is brainwashing by the Republican controlled Media (Beholden to them for Media consolidation).

I have seen every debate since last April and 20 stump speeches each by Hillary and Obama.

Republican Psychological abusers Tim Russert and Chris Mathews have been boosting up Obama
and eroneously trashing Hillary. Just as they did with GORE,DEAN AND KERRY.

And you can be sure that they will give lots of air time to the Obama attackers just as they gave the Swift Boat Liars tens of billions in free advertising over a 35 day period.

The items in Obama's book will be used against him by McCain surrigates like Romney. It won't be pretty and many will regret if Hillary is not the nominee.

I say this because I have excellent judgement just as Hillary does and always has.

[MinerSam]

It's like where do I begin. By the way Kate, I wrote an entire tretise, late last night on one of your blogs, and at the end was told that it didn't take because of some sort of spam thing...so I signed up.

Sorry you didn't see the debate, because as has been the case in each and every case Hillary won it hands down.

I say this because I am not brainwashed by Republican psychological abuser Tim Russert and Chris Mathews (of GE-TV) and the cascade of swifboaters from the othe Corporate Medias. Not by slogans of phony bike riders full of himself (bowing his head to the Republicans while kicking down Democrats) and not because I am pursuaded by screaming College Republicans.

Because I am innoculated having been Media Trained, and spent time in Afghanistan before the Soviets leveled it.

I am about to contribute $100 to Hillary's campaign, not because I support those the Corporate Media has been building up so they can knock him down (as they did with Gore, Dean and Kerry), or for those they repeat like Goebbles to win, win, win, lose, lose lose, but because I am WELL INFORMED, and have never cared so much about our country...and because I have excellents judgement, as does Hillary and always has.

And since I have endured every debate since last April, and saw about 20 stump speeches each by Hillary and Obama (not to mention each and every other) I will bother here to inform those few who base their views on facts.

THE IRAQ VOTE:

For almost 1 Year, in 2002, GWB was trying to get that vote. And one day in Cincinatti (a speech I saw live as I have seen everything leading up to it and after). He focused on the inspectors and said that war would only be as a last resort.

At that point Hillary (and Kerry for that matter) MADE THE CONTDITIONS OF THAT VOTE VERY CLEAR, and Hillary, after speaking w/all those who wrote the CIA brief, and getting mixed information from them:

THEY VOTED FOR A UNITED FRONT TO INTIMIDATE SADAM INTO LETTING THE INSPECTORS BACK IN AND
ONLY WAR IF HE DID NOT.

THE VOTE WORKED! For the firt time in years, Sadam let the inspectors back into Iraq.

Meanwhile rather than forming a coalition that INCLUDED SADAM'S NIEGHBORS (Just as his daddy did in 1991 and he said he would do) Mr. Bush
PUSHED THE INSPECTORS BACK OUT AND WENT IN AS A FIRST RESORT.

Now you can blame Hillary for having had the poor judgement to trust the President of the United States (to do what he said he would do) ...while her state was still finding human bones in the streets.

But any informed person would know that it did not take ANY courage for Obama (who was not privy to what the Senate was, was not there or asked to vote) and was in a campaign against TV guy, Alan Kyes who had no money..DURING A TIME WHEN MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WERE MARCHIGN IN THE STREETS IN OPPOSITION TO THE WAR.

...Meanwhile the Tim Russerts of the World were blacking out the millions who marched AND
OPRA WIMFREY WAS TRASHING ANYONE IN HER AUDIANCE THAT QUESTIONED THE WAR..

The Next time Democrats were blamed for what the Republicans have done was when in 2004 election Tim Russert kept said -- over 60 time: "But John Kerry voted for "the" war"--

And since I get my news live from C-SPAN you might be interested to know that after the Republicans lost in 2006, they were advised to focus on making the Democrats look bad. So they left all the work they had to finish in the dishwashers with they dirty socks and since the Democrats had restored minority rights Bush vetoed, and they philibustered.

So WHAT CAN I SAY except most of my fellow Americans are brainwashed by the Republican controlled Media (beholden to them for Media Consolidation). And Obama has (in colaborations with them) been running a ROVE/LUNZ campaign: "It's not what you say but what people hear"

[trevor01]

Jews who have not experience of anti-semitism are not so different from Christians or Muslims. Women who have no experience of gender discrimination are not so different from men. But step out, challenge the status quo, and you will invite the onslaught as Hillary has done. Time for you to realize, sexuality is not gender and gender is not irrelevant.

[tbone99]

bad timing for a name - almost as bad as those named Chad in 2000.

[magen]

Oprah (who is pretty obviously a closet lesbian) supports Obama.

Nancy Pelosi is the first woman Speaker of the House, and we all know how great and effective she's been in fighting the horrible republiCON obstructionists in the MINORITY!!????!!!??

Judge people not by the color of their skin or their gender, but by their judgments and actions.

Obama is the better HUMAN in this race. Simple as that.