Mafiosas for Clinton!!

Is mafiosas even a word?  Check out Donnadarko’s great post below about how accusations of racism in this campaign are getting pretty out of hand.  What’s amusing to me as an academic is that Orlando Patterson is caught up in the mess.  I know plenty of African-American scholars who do not care for his views [...]

How you can tell when anti-Hillaryism is sexism

You can tell anti-Hillaryism is sexism if you use a man as the control. Where is the blogosphere’s feeding frenzy/fever swamp against John McCain, a man who wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years? If the race were now between Obama and Edwards, would the blogosphere demand Edwards to concede? (No.) Would there be [...]

She was greeted by thousands of screaming supporters

Clinton email:
Hillary kicked off her Pennsylvania campaign in Scranton yesterday, where she was greeted by thousands of screaming supporters (”wildly enthusiastic,” according to the Scranton Times-Tribune) as she launched her campaign in the city where her father was born and raised.
Over the next six weeks, Hillary is going to rely on your support and dedication [...]

Blogroll Update

Thanks to Tom Watson’s recent *out & proud* Clinton post, more and more of us supporters are finding one another on-line.  I’ve updated the blogroll accordingly. 
Random shout-out to the newbies:
Blue Lyon, who writes from a rural perspective, a p.o.v. I don’t see too often in the ’sphere.
Enjoy the meet-n-greet.  Cash bar.  All proceeds go to [...]

Endurance & Negativity

In a recent New Yorker profile of Sen. Clinton, Ryan Lizza writes, “Endurance is the unseen requirement of a successful candidate.” (H/t Roxie’s world.)
That’s our gal, and proudly so.  It’s an interesting review of Clinton’s tenacious campaign thus far, and how it will likely leave Obama a stronger candidate should he secure the nomination (for [...]