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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

New Hampshire

Obama's unexpected and unexpectedly wide win in Iowa followed by Clinton's unexpected and unexpectedly wide win in New Hampshire tells us no candidate is "inevitable," whatever the bubble-brained gossip columnists of the Village say.

As an Edwards supporter, that seems like good news to me. It's not as good as Edwards winning either contest would have been. But certainly it's not as devastating as a mass-mediated "inevitability" for too-corporatist Clinton or too-conciliatory Obama would have been, especially now: almost a full year before the citizens of this country vote for the President in the actual election we're entitled to, whoever we support for whatever reasons.

Despite being an Edwards supporter, by the way, I'm a little pleased at Hillary's win, if only because of the unbelievable sexist bullshit she was and is still being subjected to in the aftermath of showing a little emotion yesterday.

The sexist double standards in her coverage are simply disgusting. Republican candidates cry at the drop of a hat: at the prospect of fetus going defunct before being born into the world (at which point, of course, they are only too happy to declare open season on the child), or at the prospect of an actual end to the illegal immoral war they love so much (and the troops they love to kill so extravagantly), or at the prospect of a gay marriage (especially upsetting to Republican closet-cases) or a loss in the War on Christmas (which doesn't exist) or... whatever it is that has them blubbering on the Senate floor or on "Meet the Press" or what have you. Whatever it is, nobody seems to consider it worthy of headlines and non-stop coverage for days. Why would it become so when Clinton tears up? We all know the reason, and it's ugly, reactionary, and unprofessional.

I'm still supporting John Edwards.

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