Put That In Your Pipe...

just as quickly as the media wanted to crown hillary clinton the inevitable candidate oh! those many months ago, they were just as ready to bury her after iowa just five days ago.

well, look at her now!

in a stunning...stunning...victory last night, hillary clinton took new hampshire away from barack obama and quickly put herself right back in this race.

internal numbers in the obama campaign had barack ahead by 14 points going into tuesday while hillary's camp had her trailing by as much as 11. but hillary took 38.99% of the primary vote to obama's 36.39% (a difference of 2.6% points or nearly 7,500 votes).

so why the big comeback?

there is a lot of head-scratching and second-guessing this morning and i'm loving it!

everyone should please take note of tom brokaw's advice: we all need to slow down, stop rushing to define the story, and allow this process to take place. (mind you, i'm worried that nbc/msnbc's choice to have brokaw assist in election coverage will remind voters of the old guard of the '90s like albright and clark and it will be used by clinton's opponents in their "bridge to yesterday" argument. that damn nbc - they so desperately want obama to win.)

but women turned out in force for hillary and she carried women 40 and over in NH...as opposed to only 65 and over in iowa.

a lot of independents may have also felt obama was safe so went over to the dark side and cast a vote for mccain. oh...by the way...mccain won too.

but even in iowa...you take away the independent vote and obama only won by a point or two. this will not help him in the big closed-primary states on february 5th.

but let's return to the big question: why were all the polls wrong? most had obama leading in double digits? and what do the pundits attribute to hillary's comeback.

i've been hearing everything last night and this morning from hillary "crying her way to the white house" (fuck you...and you know who you are), to the positive effect of hillary appearing more human and personal over the past five days (i agree). the fight she showed in the debate, the humor of "well, that hurts my feelings," and the real passion she showed when she choked up the other day... all propelled her in this race. but i don't think it was just one thing. her and bill fought like hell from the moment they touched down in NH.

i have also heard some mumbling over the possibility of a "bradley effect" (i.e. once in the privacy of the polling booth, those racist new hampshirenites refused to cast a vote for a black man). i can only hope that's rubbish...

but we all know racism is alive and well in america. all you have to do is read some of the idiotic emails i've been receiving about obama being a secret muslim or a member of a racist church. all...to use bill's word...hogwash.

but while there is racism in the world...let's not count out sexism. which brings me to...

fuck you, chris matthews
this morning as i was getting ready for work.... chris matthews appeared on morning joe on msnbc. he attributes hillary's victory... hell, hillary's entire political life... to our feelings of "strength and sympathy." we love the strength she's shown time after time bill humiliates her and we feel sorry for her.

matthews went ON THE AIR and said we all feel sorry for hillary because bill fucked some intern and that's why she helped chuck schumer get elected in '98, why she won a senate seat in 2000 and why she's a potential presidential candidate now.

i'll say it again: fuck you, chris!

there was a tremendous article in the times yesterday by gloria steinem titled "women are never front runners." a great piece that dissects the politics of sexism and why hillary has so much more to fight against as a woman than obama does as an african american man.

check it out...it's great.

and it brings me to a point i've been arguing too much lately... beyond going back to my golden rule that all men are stupid.

but men cannot understand a woman like hillary. they don't understand the success and the ambition and it makes them uncomfortable... so everything about hillary is reverted back to bill's cigar up monica's snatch.

late night comics fall back on that joke... pundits bring it up... men in my own family always bring it up.

"how can hillary be so successful?" "why don't i like hillary?" oh yeah, that's right, bill fucked an intern.

this is why we need a woman running this country... because men are neanderthals.

i've said it many times before and i'll keep saying it:

hillary 08!

e.