Of course, what they might be tarring Hillary for is that her staff is full of women, and is therefore, sapphic, once again confusing the homosocial with actual box eating. If this were a two way street, American football teams should be widely expected to be butt pirates. (I say this as one of the latter group)

I will maintain, however, that the cultish, fervid behavior of Hillary’s Staffers makes the rest of us Democrats look like shrinking violets.

Yeah, I don’t really buy it. The lamest are the ‘rumors’ about her female assistant. OMG! The assistant answers the phone early in the morning and late in the evening! Er, isn’t that standard for any Senator’s gofer?

As for me, after months & months of agonizing, I’ve just about decided for sure to vote for Hillary. Not because she’s a woman but because if she wins, it will drive Andrew Sullivan, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson (well, let’s face it: the entire right wing) plud the webwide HDS sufferers nuts.

Gotta love the elision of the Amerindian peoples (i.e., their continental ethnic cleansing and depopulation) in Obama’s rousing and hopeful Manifest Exceptionalism:

“It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail
toward freedom through the darkest of nights.

Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and
pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can.”

He may be black but the racist and genocidal foundations of the nation-state are game for his hopeful amnesiac-pieties too. Little wonder his stance on the regime Desmond Tutu calls a “worse than apartheid” state (Israel) is indistinguishable from the most frothy of neocons. Gotta toe the colonial-settler, Western expansionist line(s) to be Prez, black, yellow, or blue. One line in the church of MLK Jr on a Sunday and another for AIPAC and the Council on Foreign Relations on working days.

Jon, until I receive photographic evidence of her in plaid flannel, eating organic yogurt and rocking out to the Indigo Girls, or at Lilith Fair, I’m just going to say that she’s got an ugly, mannish haircut.

Then again, being married to Bill could turn anyone from carrot sticks to onion rings.

Hey, that explains why so few white men run for office, spend waste their private fortunes, give money to others and run private vote-caging operations.

The Republicans are set on the idea that Hil’s a lesbian, so there’s that.

Besides, where’s my gay candidate? Not all of us get to vote in Idaho or South Carolina!

But this is whole damn point y’see. When a major news broadcaster (and every other damn broadcaster) can apparently be completely oblivious to the fact that they treat white and male as the default state of existence, it illustrates how little has really changed. It’s more than driving me crazy, it’s depressing.

You’re right, I see the resemblance. Nina is still working, by the way, well into middle age.

At the end of the day, both are Clinton Democrats.

Looks a little like Nina Hartley.

gag.