Sorry Hillary Supporters...

But I am overjoyed by Obama's campaign tonight. Check out his speech here.

I get emotional pretty easily. I admit it. BUT, this speech, and just thinking about what this nomination means for our country, makes me tear up. It is indeed a historical year for the country, and moreover a historical night. And as the man himself said,

"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another... a journey that will bring a new and better day to America...because of you."

I've got Obama fever.

White Feminists: Please Read This

Yet another pioneering feminist wholly and thoroughly disappoints me.

Geraldine Ferraro says Obama is "lucky" to be a black man

One of my favorite bloggers responds here (FYI - she used lots of curse words!)

You'll notice that Geraldine panders to women of color but she is really just talking about a black man versus a white woman. Who has it rougher out there? sigh. sigh. sigh.

Let's not pretend this was a slip of the tongue. In 1988, she said that " if Jesse Jackson were not black, he would not be in the race."

Could we mandate some kind of nation-wide oppression training, maybe? I wish that Hillary's camp would start talking about their own culpability and their own privilege. Maybe they could recognize that just 150 years ago, black men and women alike were OWNED by whites. So what if they want to vote for Barack? Suck it up, ladies.

Unpack your invisible knapsack, Geraldine. It's hard work but we all have to do it.

ETA: More disapppointing quotes from Geraldine and good commentary from the Daily Kos

Saturday Morning Satire

I'm taking it slow this Saturday morning, after a whole week of juggling a child with a double ear infection and a couple of big deadlines coming up at the office.
So I offer this link to Tina Fey on SNL last weekend. It's just a link because NBC won't let you embed (Booo!) and she does make an opressive comment about Kirstie Alley (Double Booo!), but watch the Hilary schtick. B*tch is the New Black!

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#mea=221773

Your daily dose of media activism!

A follow-up to this post:

If you are as tired as I am of Chris Matthews' outrageously sexist and petty rants against Hilary Clinton, join me in contacting MSNBC and Chris Matthews to let them know that ridiculously misogynistic statements DO NOT equal journalism. Media Matters helpfully provides email and snail mail addresses, along with a nice summary of his most recent offenses, here.

"Ah the remnants of sexism...Alive and well"

I have been feeling a little bit sorry for Hillary in the past few weeks. It seems like she has had her passion in the right place (though I am not sure that she's my candidate, I'm still undecided) and is running for President for the right reasons, yet she continually gets protesters and reporters heaping this nonsense on her.

At least in this case, I think that she handled it with grace. Can you imagine if people were protesting Obama with the same oppressive nonsense? I don't think it would fly. BUT telling a powerful national leader who happens to be a woman to "iron my shirts!", well that's just a quirky little news story.

Protesters ask Clinton to iron shirts

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WriterTue Jan 8, 5:34 AM ET

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, "Iron my shirt!" during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.

Clinton, a former first lady running to become the nation's first female president, laughed at the seemingly sexist protest that suggested a woman's place is doing the laundry and not running the country.

"Ah, the remnants of sexism — alive and well," Clinton said to applause in a school auditorium.

The two men were removed from the hall after raising a pair of signs that said, "Iron my shirt!" They also shouted the same slogan.

"Can we turn the lights on? It's awfully dark," Clinton said, cueing the lights to come and police to come forward to take the men away.

The overflow crowd burst into applause and some began shouting, "Iron my shirt" as the two were taken from the hall.

"As I think has been abundantly demonstrated, I am also running to break through the highest and hardest glass ceiling," she said.

Clinton later joked about the incident as she invited questions.

"If there's anyone left in the auditorium who wants to learn how to iron a shirt, I'll talk about that," she said with a smile.

Clinton placed a disappointing third place in Iowa's caucuses last week and faces a tough challenge in Tuesday's primary from Barack Obama, who leads her with just one day remaining.