Comments on: On politics and why I haven’t been blogging them lately

By: Foxessa

Foxessa — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:18:36 +0000

Please don’t tear up your voting card.

Not voting is exactly what the evil-doers want.

Voter repression is their ticket to eternal power.

Love, C.

By: Radfem

Radfem — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:50:00 +0000

Between the immigrant bashing that has sprung up in a county supervisor race and what’s been going on in the democratic primary process, I’m almost tempted to tear up my voting card.

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:57:45 +0000

holy crap! that “Family” is even scarier. And she has connections, does she…?

wow. and yeah, I want to talk more about McCain’s dodgy connections too; there’s also Rod Frigging Parsley.

By: Foxessa

Foxessa — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:55:46 +0000

rahimeh — Oh, no offense was taken, believe me! Which is why I tried to explain what was really behind the way I had phrased it.

I should have phrased the declaration a little differently. I tend to forget in these matters that everybody doesn’t know exactly where I am coming from, and how could they?

Love, C.

By: rahimeh

rahimeh — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:31:51 +0000

Foxessa,

My apologies for misreading the tone of your comment. In fact, you and your friends are right: if the bombing and imperialist and colonialist expansion weren’t being carried out in the Middle East right now, they would be directed at the Caribbean and South America, not to mention that African countries are being bombed by the U.S. as we speak: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7378502.stm

By: brownstocking

brownstocking — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:45:47 +0000

Wow, I went back to my “liberal” political blogs, and was almost in tears. People telling Hillary to quit, people telling Barack to be gracious, it was all a little nauseating. I think I’m to the point of either writing in my mother again, which I did during the Clinton years, or playing “Pin the Vote on The Ballot.”

We have lost sight. I don’t even know if I want to study political science anymore. Yech! I need a shower. And a drink.

By: Foxessa

Foxessa — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:10:06 +0000

rahimeh — In no way do I take these insane people’s desires to go to war with Iran as a joke. This is anything but a laughing matter no matter what angle you come at from. I’m terrified that they are going to manage to do this before needing to roll up their bully pulpits and go to Crawford and CNN and Time magazine, etc.

The deal is, that before 9/11 provided them their excuse they were really ratcheting up a triangulation of war on Cuba and Venezuela via Colombia. The Cubans I know (in Cuba — not Miami) all said with great seriousness and sadness that “every bomb that is falling on Baghdad is the bomb that didn’t fall on us.”

Love, C.

By: Incertus

Incertus — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:38:20 +0000

I think Daisy’s on to something there. It seems like Wright is treated as more proof of Obama’s otherness.

And yes, I blame the media.

That’s who deserves the blame. It wouldn’t be a story if they hadn’t made it one, and the proof of that is that Hagee still isn’t a story. Hagee is hundreds of times worse than Wright is, and Hagee’s not the only one McCain has been kissing up to–Rod Parsley, for example, is quite a piece of work, and didn’t McCain give the commencement address at Liberty University recently? But McCain is the maverick, or some such bullshit. What he is is white, and so is most of the media, so he gets a pass.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:10:43 +0000

One thing I learned from this campaign is that there are still racist catholic homophobic people in the U.S. Obama’s win last night brought some hope and it’s all over for Hillary. She can stay in the race until August and this will build up the Democrats voter data base but Obama has the nomination. I’m looking forward to getting the vote out for him. I was shopping in the barrio that I used to live in and Obama has a big support among the Spanish (people whose families that have lived in New Mexico for over 500 years. They told me that they don’t like to be called Hispanic).

By: Radfem

Radfem — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:31:02 +0000

Well between Women’s Voices, Women Vote attempts at disenfranchising people of color in 11 states and counting and the back door brokered convention deal Clinton has in place with the super delegates who support her your vote may not amount to much.

What’s the Democratic Party about if not backroom deals?

I’m just getting discouraged wit politics

Yeah, I’m so burned out on an election which won’t really do much, except show further how messed up things are. On some feminist sites, you can’t discuss anything without Hillary Clinton being interposed into it. It’s like she’s the prism through which women’s issues are examined through.