Call It A Comeback
Progress Illinois with the best long clip
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The odd part about all the Hug it out jokes, the Rahm is probably sitting around wondering where all these whiny wimps came from.
Bonnie Grabenhofer, president of Illinois NOW, told reporters she’s sick and tired of the misogynistic language that’s used against women — “Hillary, iron my shirt” — that elicits too little if any outrage among Democratic party leaders.
Other mysognistic statements and behavior by men
IL NOW pres. Bonnie Grabenhofer “said the six-year-old
allegations are troubling, but there are still reasons to
support Hull.” Grabenhofer “said voters need to balance those
private allegations with Hull’s public commitment to women’s
issues” (Chicago Sun-Times, 2/28). Grabenhofer: “The whole
thing raises some troubling questions. Just that it happened.
But I don’t know if this one incident that happened a number of
years ago undoes what he has done.” Grabenhofer “cited Hull’s
work supporting abortion rights groups financially and his
support of his daughter’s Supreme Court battle to preserve Title
IX” (Krol, Arlington Heights Daily Herald, 2/29).
One of the problems with what Grabenhofer and Jones advocate is that they both assume that their brand of identity politics should be the dominant form. I don’t believe identity politics are uncalled for as do those who seem to think that racism and sexism don’t mean that women and minority groups don’t have common shared interests. Of course, identity politics exist if racism and sexism exist.
There’s no realization by Jones that sexism was so present in the campaign and Grabenhofer shows no grasp that Obama faced racism from the media and party–and media is still doing it with Joe Scarborough making today’s list of morons.
It’s just another group of people who view the world through 1968 and continue be at odds with each other instead of common threats to their interests. It’s perfectly legitimate to complain about the sexism Clinton faced. However, Grabenhofer seems to change her standards. I cannot say what Marin’s colleague was saying, but there are a lot of people younger than Grabenhofer’s generation who think Illinois Yesterday is a perfect description of a group headed by two people who cannot keep their story straight on abortion votes in the Illinois Lege and don’t seem to hold everyone to the same standard.
Kevin McDermott joins the it’s just icky so I can’t print it about gay couples:
“African-American women in particular had to choose between supporting an African-American or supporting a woman,’’ said Bonnie Grabenhofer of Illinois NOW, who isn’t a delegate but is in Denver this week accompanying a friend who is a Clinton delegate. “(Jones) essentially said that it wasn’t a legitimate choice that she made.’’
It’s possible that’s how Grabenhofer worded it which would be her call, but I’m not buying that’s how she phrased it. She’s there with her partner and the press avoiding the reality of that is an incredible abdication of their duty. They would never say a man or woman was there with a friend if it was their spouse.
Now, in Kevin’s article it doesn’t lose any context to the story as the story I flagged the other day where it was a material fact, but it’s homophobic garbage and has no place in papers. Printing the simple fact has nothing to do with condoning or rejecting the relationship, it’s reporting a fact about it.
I hate to be the curmedgeon here, but there’s no crying and hugging in Illinois politics:
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Did someone slip them a bunch of ecstasy or something?
Of course, it isn’t just Madigan, it’s most of the Lege as well. We’ve been down this road of the Governor saying he is going to be more cooperative and after 6 years of his bullshit, it’s not time for reconciliation. It’s time to boot his butt out of office.
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Are about as boring as most non-profit records apparently:
The UIC records show that Obama and Ayers attended board meetings, retreats and at least one news conference together as the education program got under way. The two continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 operation of the program, records show.
At a Democratic debate this year when the association between Obama and Ayers was raised, Obama said: “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” Obama called Ayers’ past radical acts detestable.
But critics note that Obama visited Ayers’ home for a meeting at the start of his first state Senate bid in the mid-’90s.
The UIC records showed that Ayers was instrumental in securing the $50 million education grant to reform Chicago Public Schools, part of a national initiative funded by the late Ambassador Walter Annenberg. . After Chicago was awarded the money, Obama served as president of the Challenge’s board of directors, the fiscal arm that disbursed the grants to schools and raised private matching funds. Ayers participated in a second entity known as the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, the operational arm that worked with the grant recipients.
It’s fully reasonable and appropriate that the press got the records, but that a professor at UIC which the professor largely put together a grant was active on the grant is hardly exciting news and it certainly doesn’t help the conspiracy theorists that Barack Obama was actually a 60s radical at age 8.
But for boomers–it’s always and will always be 1968. The rest of us don’t give a damn.
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Whomever at the DNC decided to use the Move Player and Silverlight needs a good smacking around.
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