Well, cite these tactics and who used them if you would....okay?
A decision was made by some Democrats to support Obama over Hillary. Hillary was a known commodity to them going back to 1992--16 years earlier. I would imagine that you know this but let me spell out the obvious; you don't spend 16 years active in Washington without ruffling a few feathers especially if you "served" in another branch of government and was checked by and checked on the partner branch. Laura Bush was a different type of First Lady than Hillary who was active in her husband's administration.
I can cite just the opposite if you want to go there.
There were very few who did such a thing. Certainly not enough to make McCain anywhere close to being viable as a joke much less a serious contender.
Well, when the facts are on your side, you have that privilege. You likely wouldn't understand the concept.
The sexism used by the Obama campaign (and the media) against Hillary was documented in many live interviews and articles. I will give you two. I will also note that when criticism was brought to light the Obama campaign was also quick to toss the "race card" around at both Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro.
Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13women.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Obama has lost women 'with sexist campaign'
US Elections: Barack Obama has lost women 'with sexist campaign' - Telegraph
There was also a study done By Kean University related to sexism in political campagins which noted both the sexist rhetoric used against Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.
If interested you can download the complete study entitled. Have You Come A Long Way Baby? Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin,and sexism in the 2008 campaign. at Taylor and Francis online.
Still don't see the democratic party's "tactics" you spoke of earlier. In fact, the Telegraph article you cited says the following:
Mrs Clinton blamed the media rather than the Obama campaign, saying: "It's been deeply offensive to millions of women."
The media in the country, depending on the outlets, are not great; I'll grant you that. They're in the business of making great sums of money, not great stories. But that isn't the Democratic Party's fault.
Still in the book, "Game Change", the authors cite that many Senate Democrats simply didn't like Ms. Clinton. So there may be some truth to your, at least, insinuation that some Democrats preferred Obama to Clinton...but as for the "party"...well, that is just not true. The voters preferred Obama to Clinton that was clear. It was also clear that Clinton's campaign was hamstrung by infighting and mis-management on a scale that will boggle the minds of political scientists for generations to come. One stat I heard was that when Hillary won Texas, she picked up just as many delegates as Obama did when he won Idaho. The reason? They are awarded proportionally....for example winning 80% of the vote in Idaho for example gets you as many delegates as winning 40% in Texas. Hillary couldn't afford to campaign anywhere except the large states and hope to win them big. She won them but not by large enough margins.
So there is some truth to democrat leadership preferring Obama. But the people chose Obama, not the media and not the DNC. Either one could have trounced McCain and Romney 4 years later. Again, the Dems had 2 gold medal winners and only one gold medal to give out.
The media chose Obama...Just like the media chose McCain.. In the article I linked Geraldine Ferarro directly cited the Obama campaign as participating in the sexist rhetoric and riding it to his benefit, and it being picked up and touted by the media. To say that it was not engaged in by the democratic party is just untrue. As is the notion that only mis management was the cause for Hillary's loss. Witnesses who participated in the caucuses have said otherwise.
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When The Sunday Telegraph interviewed Miss Ferraro last year, she pledged her readiness to go into battle for her friend Mrs Clinton against Republican "dirty tricks". But now she's leading the backlash by women infuriated by the allegedly sexist treatment of their heroine.
She goes much further than most in singling out Mr Obama for blame, listing examples which she believes back up her claim that he was "terribly sexist":
His response to Mrs Clinton's reminiscences about learning to shoot as a girl at her grandfather's summer cabin in Pennsylvania. Miss Ferraro said: "He walked up and down the stage with his microphone like a stand-up comic and ridiculed her as an Annie Oakley," she said, quoting his reference to the legendary female sharpshooter. "Would he have ridiculed a man by comparing him to John Wayne? Of course not."
His apparently dismissive description of Mrs Clinton as "likeable enough" during a televised debate before the New Hampshire primaries.
His role in an earlier debate in Philadelphia when several of the male candidates running at the time were said to have ganged up on her, prompting Mrs Clinton to complain about the "boy's club" of US politics.
His "failure", Miss Ferraro claims, to speak out against other sexist acts such as lewd T-shirts, the men who shouted "Iron my shirt!" at Mrs Clinton and jibes about her "cackle".
Mr Obama also apologised to a female reporter he called "sweetie" in an aside that received widespread coverage.
Miss Ferraro saved her greatest ire for the media, however, where male pundits have regularly attacked Mrs Clinton.
One compared her to the obsessive Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction.
"Obama wouldn't have been successful in pursuing the sexist line if the media had not picked it up," she said.
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I also found it interesting that Hillary supporters turned activists have come out with claims of vote tampering and theft. One of which was a woman named Michele Thomas ( article below) . Although while participating in HIllary Clinton forums during the primaries I have heard of many many more...
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Michele Thomas started out as a volunteer for Hillary in Los Angeles, making thousands of phone calls from the local campaign office.
What she witnessed while volunteering for Hillary in the Nevada Democratic Party caucuses eventually turned her into an activist.
The Obama campaign people were stealing the caucuses throwing away votes, intimidating people from entering the caucus locations, she said. It was very systematic. The Obama supporters got control over the caucus packages and they manipulated the vote.
She said she was astounded that the media was not interested in covering the alleged abuses.
Everyone knew the Obama people were stealing the election, she charged.
Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee at time, and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi changed the rules in Obamas favor as the primaries went on, Thomas said.
The leadership of the Democratic Party were not going to let Hillary win the nomination; it didnt matter what Democratic voters wanted, she said.
By June 2008, Thomas said, the Democratic Party and the media declared Obama the winner of the Democratic Party presidential nomination even though Obama did not have the necessary number of delegates and Clinton, at most, was only a few behind Obama in the delegate count.
At that point, Thomas formulated a plan to make sure Clintons name was placed in nomination and her committed delegates were counted in the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention in August 2008.
Read more at
Hillary supporter?s untold Obama horror stories
The truth of the matter is that you consider Obama Untouchable. You will do anything, sacrifice any and all principles, to keep him in power.
yeah, it's a real epidemic I was suggesting that instead of quipping about it, Palin could have taken the opportunity to point out that there is an obesity problem and what conservatives could be offering as a solution. have you seen the pic of her in that sporty mini-skirt? She didn't. She went low ball which is what is expected of her
