Un-fuckin'-believable. A poor report about McCain deserves some skepticism, for something for which there are only three sources whose veracity he gives no reason to doubt. HRC, needless to say, deserves no such logical critique of media bias, even though MY is grudgingly willing to admit that she is "Not A Monster" and is starting to think he - you can't make this shit up, folks - might be affected by "subconscious prejudices [he] may or may not have." I swear to God.
If he wasn't one of a ridiculous fucking cadre of Dudez who can't even pretend to respect her, I wouldn't have given a shit, and would've actually been pretty stoked to see a Young Male Political Commentator (TM) be willing to show some self-awareness. But as it were, it's kind of like me saying "I may or may not be a teensy bit of a nerd, and those of you who are aware that I have chosen to read British court cases in my free time* have no right to be snickering."
Irony is dead.
*Just that one. AND I CAN STOP ANY TIME I WANT TO.
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pixxelpuss suggested that they deserve some kind of award, and while her original idea of a gilded dildo was more than excellent, it wouldn't do our girl any good. So I'm asking that if you read and happen to like one of those posts, let it be a reminder (a profanity-laden post-it, if you'll allow) to help a sister out - contribute whatever pocket change you have left from your day's coffee run, or use your minutes that evening for a couple of calls, or give a shout-out on your blog to something important and Hill-related. I know we're all doing the best we can here, but I know chipping in a little for Hillary makes me feel a little better about the bullshit I've just waded through. And, of course, these are blog posts, which means they have comment sections - if you're a brave sort, they're all linked, and you can register your polite displeasure.
Folks, I'm going to mention intimate partner violence in this post, so please, trigger warning.
Ezra the All-High Badass Dick-Swingin' Motherfucker* Says:
....Family and Medical Leave Act, another product of the Dodd-Kennedy duo which Clinton takes credit for, had nothing to do with her.
Nothing to do with her! Them's fightin' words! Silly Hillary, making things up as usual!
Her site talks abut her experience "Helping to pass the Family and Medical Leave Act,"
Helping? If you think "helping" is the same as "taking credit," one (or more) of those words does not mean what you think it means. "Helping" implies an ancillary part of a group effort, in fact, in context, it's the exact opposite of "taking credit," which implies leadership or sole responsibility. Helping?! Why, you'd think from that regal language that Queen Hillary Spaketh, and lo, it was so! Where does she get off? Or, you'd think that maybe she was part of a huge, concerted effort on an important issue that affected the entire fucking country.
but her newly released records show that she never held a meeting or hearing on the bill.
And, as we all know, everything she ever did in six decades was contained in a day planner which spans eight years. She sprang from the head of Zeus as a full-grown, headband-wearin' First Lady! It's almost like magic! And you know what else, I like HRC and I didn't read through the whole fucking thing. So points for that.
And given that Bill Clinton signed the FMLA 10 days after he entered office, it's a bit hard to see what role she could have played.
I am going to use my wild, active imagination here, and my KILLER FUCKING RESEARCH SKILLZ, and come up with a theory. How in God's name could a prominent Democrat, someone who was twice named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America, who sat on the board of the Children's Defense Fund, and who worked on the Committee of Women in the Profession of some tiny little unknown organization (by which I mean the American Bar Association, which is KIND OF A BIG DEAL) have anything to do with the Family and Medical Leave Act? I'm RACKING MY GODDAMN BRAIN. No way she could have met with committees, or provided studies, or worked with representatives and senators from Arkansas or neighboring southern states to try to convince them to vote for it. I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING. AND I GAVE IT LIKE A WHOLE MINUTE AND A HALF. She must be a lying-ass motherfucker.
I'm not saying she did any of those things. I don't know, I wasn't there, I was busy reading about the Sweet Valley Twins or some shit.** But it's not "hard to see" how she would have been involved, unless you assume that the only thing she ever did was be the First Lady, which is not true. It makes perfect fucking sense that she would have been involved. So to imply that she's a random-ass liar, based just on her day planner from the time of the Clinton Administration, is to directly ignore all the work in her life from before that time period. It's a little thing, really, in the scope of all the crap that gets thrown at Senator Clinton, but it's emblematic of the desire so many people seem to have, which is to take everything she says or does and twist it into a self-aggrandizing lie. I'm all for skepticism when it comes to elected officials, but jumping straight to accusations of lies and credit-stealing, admittedly based on the entries in ten days of a fucking day planner, isn't skepticism, it's silliness.
*Yes, I'm aware that he's far from the worst. But it caught my eye and pissed me off.
**Shut up, I was in first grade. I stole it from my cousins because I wanted a chapter book for myself.
