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Love/Hate With Brido: Why I Still Hate Hillary
Yeah, yeah. I’m over it too. Obama will be the Democratic nominee. Hillary won’t. But now I’m fascinated by the die hard Hillary supporters who are now crying sexism and vowing to vote for McCain in November. They’re sore losers. They’re babies. And they’re missing the point.
I think a woman could be President. That’s fine with me. Hillary Clinton is a woman. But she’s not WOMEN. She just happens to be a woman. A horribly flawed unlikeable person… who happens to be a woman.
I don’t even understand why these sexism-mongers would want Hillary as their spokeswoman anyway. To me, she doesn’t do all the breaking-of-the-glass-ceiling shit that people keep harping on in the first place. She’s obviously a smart lady. She’s obviously a savvy-enough (but dirty) politician. But she was the ambitious wife of a former President. To me, that doesn’t teach young girls that they can be whatever they want and bla bla. It teaches them to marry well so they can get things because of association and/or nepotism.
Try telling me that she would have gotten as far if she wasn’t married to Bill Clinton. Try it. Try telling yourself. It won’t work. She got where she’s gotten through talent… BUT if she was married to Bill Clinton the Guy that Works at the Shoe Store you would probably never have heard of her. Marry well, ladies. Super awesome message.
She’s not the right she-hero for women to be rallying around. It doesn’t make sense for all of their sexism-mongering.
And why did she get treated “so poorly” by the media? Sexism? No. I don’t think so. She did a lot of the politics-as-usual and politics-of-fear shit that everybody is so fucking sick of. They’re sick of nepotism too. But she was pretty dirty in the campaign.
“Obama is a Muslim. Obama hates America. He’s not wearing a flagpin. He’s not one of us. He’s not for white middle class people. Did I mention he’s a Muslim? I mean, his middle name is Hussein. I can’t prove he’s not a Muslim. If the phone rings at 3 AM, do you want Bill - I mean me - to answer, or some black Muslim guy? He’s best friends with a racist preacher… who’s Muslim”.
It was ridiculous. Then there was all the delegate math shit that boggled my mind. People don’t like that shit. It’s untruthful. We’ve already had way to much of that.
And she has an annoying voice. There, I said it. And an annoying face. Double wammo.
That shit’s important too. Ever since the Nixon-Kennedy debate in 1960 or whenever, where Nixon looked all gross. It’s all subjective, but that’s WHY people give speeches and get their speeches analyzed by pundits on TV. You gots to look and sound sharp. McCain’s yellow shark teeth being the exception, I guess. But her voice and her weirdo faces were part of the problem.
And how about this - Obama was just better. He won the nomination more than she lost it. Watch the guy. Listen to him. He’s good. And he’s half black. So arguing over and over again about the white male bias in the news coverage doesn’t hold water with me.
Hillary came out as the presumptive nominee well before all this shit started. Same biased white male pundits were saying that, weren’t they? And then she got THIRD PLACE in Iowa and it all went down hill and desperate from there. She looked like one of those “My Super Sweet 16″ kids on MTV when their daddy couldn’t get Usher to come to their party. That sense of entitlement grossed me out so bad. The flaws were in her character, not in her gender.
Blame it on sexism. Use Hillary as your poster child for Women Everywhere. It’s really stupid and misguided. Somebody had to win the nomination. She didn’t win. If she hadn’t gotten as far as she did, would they still be blaming it on sexism and a male-biased media? Go vote for McCain. Or stay at home, like you’re saying you’re going to. That sounds like a really good plan. It sounds like you know a whole lot about politics. It doesn’t sound at all like you were blindly supporting Hillary because she was a woman.
Obama is doing better with women in the polls than John Kerry ever did, by the way.
Pick a better woman next time. Pick one that runs a clean campaign. Pick one that is self-made. Pick one that is charismatic.
Pick one that isn’t Hillary Clinton.
Mike Bridenstine is a stand-up comedian based out of Los Angeles. He is a member of Blerds.com and quite possibly the funniest person of all time. You can contact him at Myspace.com/MikeBridenstine and read his column here every other Wednesday.
August 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
hear, hear. very well said.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I always hated her. Negative attitude, visibly angry, phony, and power hungry. She is a bitter, power hungry woman.
Her husband is a player, obviously could not be attracted to her, and she in all likelihood has a girlfriend on the side who she can control