November surprise

Hillary's Bloggers:

I have a feeling Dean et al, will get a real eye opener in November if they continue to piss women off and force Hillary out of this race and do not count Florida and Michigan.

We may feel helpless in June July or August or September or October, but when November rolls around, women will get even and they won't even know what hit them.

P.S Love to all my male Hillary supporting friends! You guys are what makes this bearable!

Hillary keeps me hanging in with the Democratic Party that appears to have decided on self-destruction by favoring Obama.

Watching the primaries more intensely than I ever have previously has opened my eyes. Can a political party be more out of touch by employing an antiquated caucus system that disenfranchises the working class? There are so many things wrong with caucuses: peer group pressure, an inconvenient schedule, fear of retaliation of publicly siding against someone who affects livelihood or home. These are only a few examples. The Democratic primary system needs a major overhaul, that is, if the party wishes to live up to its name.

If Clinton is shut out of the nomination, I'm done with decades of sacrificing my vote for the good of everyone else. We voted the Democrats into the majority in 2006 but have they stopped the war by refusing to fund it? Have they impeached Cheney or Bush?

The sexism that's reared its ugly head in this campaign season has reawakened me to never again settle for second-class status or enable it by rewarding a political system that has stood silent against misogyny. I'm done with supporting the party's candidate. I'm voting for the person who best represents progressive policies. There are real progressive alternatives for a self-respecting lesbian feminist to chose on the ballot in November. Obama is not one of them.

Not a feminist, not a progressive

Yes, Anglachel is so right. Melissa McEwan did nail it:

Feminism is an integral part of progressivism.
If you're not a feminist, you're not a progressive.
No matter how much you hate Bush.
No matter how much you hate the Iraq war.
No matter how much you hate our current torture policy.
No matter how much you want to restore habeas corpus.
No matter how much you're totally going to vote for the Democrat in November.
If you're not a feminist, you're not a progressive.
You're a fauxgressive.
End of story.

Anglachel then articulated at length the inherent sexism in the Obamasphere, "the anti-feminist behavior of self-identified liberal men," their racial guilt, and the turf battle: white guys protecting their self-interests, the decaying class infrastructure that once privileged them, and how women threaten their hegemony in competing for "economic success." The Obamasphere smear, WWTSBQ, epitomizes the resentment online and offline.

Go read both Anglachel and Melissa for the goods.

I'm still too nauseous from having read Obama's wimpy interview with The Advocate from this morning. I can't add anything meaningful. Besides, what Anglachel and Melissa wrote is perfection as is.

But I will expand on Melissa's righteous prose, if I may be so bold...

If you're afraid to stand up for LGBT equality, you're not a progressive.

More about that statement after I recuperate from the mealy-mouthed piffle that Obama imagined was his "commitment" to LGBTs gays and lesbians.

First, I need to go sharpen my labrys.

UPDATE: The Advocate interview with Obama