With Obama's VP selection, Kristol now concerned with Democratic Party's "gender equity"
SUMMARY: Bill Kristol characterized Sen. Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate as "Obama's imposition of a glass ceiling." But Kristol showed little concern for "gender equity" in the Democratic Party when he said during the primary that "[w]hite women are a problem" and attributed Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire primary victory to her "pretend[ing] to cry."
In an August 23 blog post on Sen. Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his vice-presidential running mate, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol wrote: "[Sen.] Hillary [Clinton] can perform the attacking functions of the VP nominee as well as Biden." He added, "Will the Democratic party, which is committed (to say the least) to gender equity, and which in fact has a 50 percent quota for female delegates, accept Obama's imposition of a glass ceiling at its convention?" But Kristol wasn't professing concern for "gender equity" in the Democratic Party when on the February 3 edition of Fox News Sunday, he said the only people supporting Clinton's presidential campaign were "the Democratic establishment and white women." He also said that "it would be crazy for the Democratic Party to follow an establishment that's led it to defeat year after year" and added, "White women are a problem, that's, you know -- we all live with that." Nor was Kristol touting Clinton when he attributed Clinton's victory in the New Hampshire primary to "the tears," saying, "She pretended to cry; the women liked it." When Brit Hume asked "You think she pretended?" Kristol responded, "I do." Hume replied, "I don't." Kristol added, "The women were sorry for her, and she won."
Think Progress blogger Matthew Yglesias reported on Kristol's post in an August 24 post.
From this point forward, Democrats should just tell people like Kristol that he is right and then say next. He continues to speak to the choir and they will never change theirs minds.
So,Mr. Kristol, okay, you are right, next.
How big is that choir?
Three rednecks and one old lady in the corner playing a kazoo.....
:-)
President Clinton is a loose cannon and Senator Biden isn't? Biden has a habit of opening his mouth before engaging his articulate, bright and clean brain.
William "The Bloody" is just a concern troll.
I can think of no better Vice-Presidential candidate to unleash on the fraudulent, ever-changing, John McCain. (He's 72 years old and still doesn't know what he's for or against.) I think McCain is going to be sorry he ever decided to conduct a negative campaign against Barack Obama...and I think Joe Biden is the perfect guy with a combination of intelligence and wit. And before you remind me that Joe Biden once praised John McCain wait until Biden says, as others have as well, how John McCain has changed his stripes to get elected. McCain is a fraud. Biden is genuine.
You sum up exactly how I feel.
Joe Biden is a terrific pick for VP, I was hoping it would be him but never imagined it would be.
To be clear, I think Bill Clinton knows exqactly what he's saying. However, why would Obama want an ex-President looking over his shoulder with the potential of saying something not in Obama's interest...and whose wife happens to be the Vice-President? That is what I meant when I referred to Bill Clinton as a loose cannon and that is why I think he burned any chance Hillary had for the VP slot. If Biden is a loose cannon (which I do not think) then he's the kind of loose cannon I'd want. He's well-equipped to go after McCain...and I reiterate that I think McCain will regret having started a negative campaign.
Bill Clinton is no loose cannon - he always knows exactly what he is saying, it's just that he sometimes says things that most believe aren't so good for the party as a whole.
Examples from this evil one?
William "The Bloody" is just a concern troll.
Just like every talking head at Fox and on am radio. I've been listening in a lot lately, and there's hardly a mention of Grampy McCain. Only a big pile of right wing nuts who can't think their way out of a wet roll of toilet paper offering all kinds of helpful advice to the Dems. And acting very concerned.
They're like your big fat neighbor who coaches professional sports from his couch.
Col., don't forget about the credo of your couch coach, the Sofa Kings' Certitude of Brilliance.
A Sofa King must disagree with a third party's decision for which there are two possible outcomes:
If (1), then the Sofa King is smart, because he knew all along that it was a bad decision. If (2), then the Sofa King is smart because despite the success, the Sofa King was merely proposing another viable alternative. And besides, it's plain to see that it was just dumb luck anyway.
Kristol is not just smart, he's Sofa King smart.
I mean she's brilliant and can perform any duty asked of her. I like Thom Hartmann's suggestion for her to replace Harry Reid as majority leader. I've heard her name as a possible Supreme Court nominee (wouldn't that be awesome?) Think super majority.
OHouse, Your comment to sfnomad was equal to cruel and unusual punishment. I've read many terrible insults, suggestions from the right and the left but the above is the worst and most insensitive EVER. How can you do such a thing? sfnomad is going to have sleepless nights because of you. The sfnomad will now be wandering through the massive websites of the righties to find out why you have done this. sfnomad will be calling all of the ConTalkers to find out if this is a possibility. Round, you are a monster. ;>)
sfnomad, don't forget, they may also have promised Pres. Clinton a seat on the Supreme Court also.
Great comment above also....Biden is our loose cannon...YIPPEE
Picking Joe Biden, a man who got ZERO traction twice as a presidential candidate, over Hillary Clinton, who came very close to winning the nomination, demonstrates that Obama didn't pick Hillary Clinton because his own ego is so enormous that he's determined to prove that he can run and win with no help from anyone who might be considered an equal.
That said, I'm still voting for Obama. The country simply cannot take a four year extension of the worst presidency in modern times, and perhaps the worst presidency in the history of the United States.
Finally, what do we care about what Bill Kristol thinks? Guys like him are wrong about EVERYTHING. It's amazing that they are still looked to for opinion and commentary because they're never right. Hell, they're often wrong internally -- their own ideas, concerns and stated points of view aren't consistent from one month to the next, one day to the next, one hour to the next, or one show to the next. In fact, Kristol, Hannity, O'Reilly and other Republican concern trolls often mimic McCain in that they're inconsistent from one phrase to another within the same sentence.
Obama had no obligation to do anything for Hillary. Perhaps you are certain Hillary would have picked Barack had she managed to actually win? If not, just chill the hell out.
Truth is the Clinton campaign freakin' blew it. It was their nomination to lose and they did. They underestimated Barack in Iowa and Hillary couldn't make critical strategic decisions when it counted. Just go read the campaign memos.
Besides. You have no idea what plans Hillary and Barrack agreed to should he win the election.
But I commend you for doing like I would do and support the nominee.
Speaking of gender equality this year republicans ran - 8 white adultering males.
Four years ago they ran - one white adultering male.
Eight years ago they ran - a couple of white adultering males.
Sixteen years ago they ran - several white adultering males.
Twenty years ago? A white adultering male.
Twenty four and tweny eight years ago? A white adultering male who once played a white adultering male in the movies.
That's twenty eight years of gender equality there...
Oh please. The wingnuts were drooling at the prospect of Hillary as the vp candidate. They could have thrown out double the amounts of lies and slander and crap that they call campaign material and they already have conditioned a fair amount of the American public to believe the absolute worst about any Clinton. There would have been nothing but pushback against the amplified noise machine and no need to worry about McCain having to actually discuss issues or policies and accidentally reveal that he has nothing new.
This whole meme of theirs about Hillary and her supporters being abandoned and offended is nothing more than an attempt to salvage what they have left of that plan while they figure out where to get another pile of dung to hurl into the fan.
I love his sudden concern about Hillary and Bill Clinton, and their feelings.
These people are really atrocious.
:SIGH: It's STILL a man's world!
Ok, I'm over it. Next.
Here is the epitome of the cons way of thinking and how the men in the cons like to keep power :
"White women are a problem, that's, you know -- we all live with that."
Yep. Once in a while they slip and say what they really mean.
I was told that Rush L. was elated to have Biden as the VP choice. He seems to think it is to his advantage.
I do give Rush credit with his predictions. He makes about 10 per show, 5 times a week for approx. 46 weeks a year. Please hold, got to get my abacus out for this...that is 2300 a year and I'll be damned if he doesn't get 2 or 3 right every year. And he boats about them.
Rush, your side has already used all their ammo concerning Biden and it has only been three days. I would love to see him debate Mr. 9/11 or the father of 'My too Busy to volunteer Five Sons'. NEXT
(The One True) POW, Rush's shtick is to pretend that everything that happens is just what he wanted, and to convince his stoopid sheep that he's actually causing most things in the universe to happen. It's a creepy cult.
The whole Operation Chaos thing was, as I heard it originally, to get Hillary elected. Once Rush realized he'd failed at that, he switched to a plan of prolonging the primaries and "bloodying up" Obama politically. (A righty theme of changing objectives and justifications without their followers catching on?)
The latest hilarious change of position is that the Dems blew it by not nominating HRC as VP, which would have been a slam dunk. Even though they were trying to get her nominated as a sure loser as Pres.
I know, it's hard to follow for sane people, but it's fun to listen to.
I remember when Rove insisted that he had THE MATH last time. It always amazes me that the rightwing talkers don't even bother to use facts and twist them anymore. They seem to see no need for even an occasional vector into reality.
Rush was also bloviating that Nancy Pelosi would force Obama to pick Chet Edwards, and he rode that horse for about an hour.
PigBoy never fails to amuse.
I like it. It brings youth to the ticket. VP twenty years ago and he's still a decade younger than Grandpa McAngry Pants.
cuz he did define his side..
"White women are a problem, that's, you know -- we all live with that."
And no, they don't even need a nugget of truth to jump off of into an insane rant.