I am glass
Submitted by lmcshane on January 13, 2008 - 2:32pm.
You can see through me
I am strong
Crafted from fire, water and earth
I can withstand hot and cold
But I break if exposed to extremes
I am glass
(A cautionary poem for Hillary Clinton, Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Rosemary Palmer)
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Moral support
I guess this doesn't sound too optimistic--but it is meant to show how I can feel on a bad day. It doesn't mean I can't be put back together*, but I think that it is what most Americans think--when they think of women--and that makes them, afraid and suspect of us. People will feel free to yell at you as if you are their mother, their daughter, their wife...and, they know that we put up with it. We aren't great pretenders and we appear "weak." But, our resiliency can and will surprise you.
*And hold water despite the cracks :)
Girl trouble
Your perspectives on this are appreciated, as I try to understand what is going on in my 14 year old daughter's head as I'm yelling into her thick skull that she will go to college no matter what! Perhaps I need to be more subtle...
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Reasoning Just Might Work...
You might try this, particularly the highlighted part:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:BdBOdt8bK5UJ:www.newyorklife.com/cda/0,3254,12072,00.html+%22A+direct+correlation+between+education+and+income%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
There are 275 more where that came from: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=%22A+direct+correlation+between+education+and+income%22&spell=1
Yelling won't work
Try negotiation :)
Hillary
Norm--Remember-- as you criticize Stephanie Tubbs Jones for her support of Hillary--that millions of women voted for Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama needs those votes. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Hillary Clinton, for many, symbolize strong women who overcame prejudice, stereotype and outright discrimination to achieve their goals. You can not discount these voters. Barack Obama needs these voters, just as they need him.
got old in Iowa
The whole Hillary 'til the end thing got old in Iowa, for everyone in the world. We need to get this country together and that means the smart good people need to get together - this is not a time for political bullshit and Hillary became that so long ago it is pathetic - all parties should have done the math as early as possible and become one - they did not.
Now, McCain is ahead in the polls. Odds are, he will be our next president. Go Hillary! Women of the world may now be more empowered, just in time to fight in WWIII.
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Talk about breaking the glass ceiling, from Cleveland
Like a two-punch combo of Tom Brazaitis and Eleanor Clift, Connie Shultz was on Charlie Rose today as one of his national journalists in the know, talking about the DemoCon, which is a big deal for Connie and the PD, so long as they may keep her. She is really showing the hope for women to break any ceilings, their way, and do good.
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Connie Schultz and Sherrod Brown on Rose today
While I wish Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown would get serious about coal and pollution (old jobs) versus alternative energy (new jobs), I like his character, personality and populist perspectives, and see promise in his future. I also am confident he is not a crook. He is one of the few Ohio politicians I actually believe is impressive.
So it is fun to see Brown and his wife, Plain Dealer writer Connie Schultz, share post-Democratic Convention panelist positions on Charlie Rose, tonight. This is a likely First Family prospect, looking good on this major political outing together. It will be one of many ramping up to Novermber...
Ohio will be ground zero of this presidential election and now is when real Ohio leaders will position themselves for their roles in the world as it should be, and Sherrod Brown and Connie Schultz are some of the few leaders from Ohio who actually should be important in the world as it should be.
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Check your pulse
Norm--try for a minute to think like a mom. When you were a kid and you faced insurmountable, what did your mom say to you? Hillary tried. America is about trying. It's not about rolling over like a dog into the submissive pose. Or, maybe it is.
New math
I would hope that the new math in this country includes women and men of all shapes, sizes and colors, and in between. If this presidential election doesn't add up, then we all need to go back to school and get it right until it does.
Yeah, McCain won't be that bad a President
A vote of Clinton was a vote for Bush, and McCain. And perhaps that is my problem with Tubbs Jones.
I believe it was found "New Math" was a failure, and America has become a falure in the times of new math.
We failed to put anyone but Bush in the White House 8 and 4 years ago... 1,000s of American lives and 100,000s of foreign lives ago... $ trillion of taxpayers dollars ago... 1,000,000s of starving, sick, bankrupt Amercans ago... an entire recession ago... many melted ice shelves ago.
How many more new math fuck-ups like that do you REALLY think the world can survive?
Will the human race as we know it absolutely certainly survive McCain? I don't think so.
No more time for new math.
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Right on
Thanks Norm for putting your/this perspective so well. Makes sense to me.
procrastiNATION
I don't want another four years of the same old... But, if Americans are so dumb and fall for the same tricks over and over, again-what are we to do? This is a nice little visual posted at Treachery of Images Design Studio. Americans and their refusal to look at alternative energy....transit, bikes, walking is fine for everyone but ME...the attitude is killing us. The right wants to spoff Obama with Obama Nation...well, how about McCain's procrastiNATION?
Do you really want 4 more years of Hillary
Why don't women who love Hillary get on her ass to do something with her current job, or get out of the way for someone who really cares about those constituents. Do you really want 4 more years of Hillary leading anything important in your life, much less the country.
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Now the Clinton cards are in play
Listening to the excellent public television post debate coverage tonight (this overall coverage is a great use of public money), it is clear nobody is sure how the Hillary card will play out, and that is a serious problem. I thought her video preview positioned her speech well, and she is a motivating and intelligent speaker who spoke well, but I also was reminded why I did not support her during any stage of her campaign... her #1 goal was to put herself as a woman in the White House. That to me is a poor goal... like if Obama's #1 goal is to put himself as an African-American in the White House. I've never seen that as his goal, it is to build America as it should be, which is mine as well.
Seeing Hillary and Bill gives me flash-forwards to four more years. I agree with the majority of the commentators, that the Clintons are not over it and still playing power games.
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"World as it should be"
I think Michelle Obama presented an excellent vision for the future and did an excellent job at the Democratic Convention, tonight... "building the world as it should be". Acknowledging the gap between a world as it is and a world as it should be and the need not to settle for the world as it is... that is what I want to hear from my politicians, and their families. No four more years as it is!
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Wonderful
Michelle Obama's speech was wonderful. She is an inspiration to all of us.