This is a microcosm of the attitude I am decrying.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/you-can-believe-us-by-digby.html

Just like Obama is now addressing FL and MI.

the ONLY way to make it known that this was not acceptable is to make sure no one profits by it.  That INCLUDES Obama.

They knew what they were doing.  They knew it was wrong.

Chiding them now, in a way, only gives them an opportunity to absolve themselves by addressing it now.  Now that the time has come.  

If Obama wins the General Election, the strategy, and make no mistake, IT WAS AN F-ING STRATEGY, is ratified.

Am I angry?  Sure I am.

I don't know what anyeone can do to make it right, because the rewards are already being passed.  The backs are being patted.

Now they're going to smile and say "sorry."

Can you IMAGINE the hew and cry had he, or ANYONE, made a comparable racist comment?  He would have (justifiably) lost his job.  But sexism?  Go right ahead!  No problem!  Just go ahead and denigrate over half th population!!

Grrrr.

I think they should not.

Markos was yelling day in and day out that he is appeasing the other side, and you have to fight them, not hold hands with them.

Not to mention doing it even more when Ford became chair of DLC.

Now, do you hear anything of Markos holding Obama to same standards?

As much it would have hurt me to admit (it doesn't anymore), that means Markos and Josh are sellouts for better careers and better prospects.  Nothing more, Nothing less.

What Markos was doing by critizing DLC is just making it a scapegoat target for himself to get ahead, and get a foot in the door.  Now, I am sure him and Josh see themselves as having roles in the next Admin (or at least plenty of access), and selling good deal of books.

...it remains striking to me that these same blogs have never expressed much concern about the Media's disgraceful behavior in this campaign. Indeed, any mention of the sexism and misogyny in the Media and elsewhere makes them look down at their shoes, or worse, even defend the perpetrators.

They don't look down at their shoes or (usually) defend the media.

Let's finally get real about what women have learned during this primary. Approximately 90% of liberal men in the blogosphere and the MSM have either:  a) participated in the sexist commentary; b) made lame excuses for it; c) remained silent about it; or d) denied it.

Our strength lies in the numbers after all. I've written to Cafferty, MSNBC, Anderson Cooper, and company, only to be completely ignored. I am sure they can not ignore a flood of e-mails denouncing this.

As for Hillary taking issue of it a la Obama (the race thing), will probably do her more harm than good. It is up to us to do it.

What do you all think?

We can only hope that someday will look back on this primary and see that it is one of the most vile and disgraceful in our history.

I have decided to vote against him, however, based on the sexist, racist campaign he has run.

The designation "women bloggers" fails to withstand scrutiny when you take into account pre-2008 primary A-list bloggers (one hopes this has changed during the course of the primaries) at Pandagon, Feministing, Feministe, dKos, and a few other places that routinely chose silence or tepid objection rather than to lead an effort to reject the outright sexism in nearly every corner of the media and the party.

Secondarily, a few of the former A-list sites rightly claim the mantle of "feminism" for themselves, so if we regard voices like digby's or Jeralyn's as "women's voices" then potentially support for Clinton could be regards as unfeminist, essentialism ("women's candidate") and support for Obama could be regarded as enlightened feminism (as the 100 anti-war feminists for Obama attempted to cast their support for Obama).

Perhaps my feelings in this case stem from having extremely intelligent mother and an equally intelligent father who were both leaders in their families and taught their children to respect people regardless of their gender or ethnic background.

It was certainly enhanced by my undergraduate education at a college that never discriminated by race and became the first co-educational college in this country four years after it was founded in 1833. With young women who were the daughters of the US ambassador to Japan, the editor of the Saturday Review and the head of the Manhattan Project as classmates, one develops a different point of view.

I can't think of any bloggers who made the point as well as Kerry Howley of Reason that nepotism has been an essential part of breaking glass ceilings.  And because of that, people like Sullivan are able to continually use the nepotism charge against Clinton to diminish the import of gender to her campaign, and to excuse the sexist behavior towards her.

Of course, Clinton hasn't helped herself much in this regard; statements like the "Zimbabwe" nonsense continue to allow people who are ideologically opposed to Clinton's candidacy (which in my opinion includes most bloggers) opportunity to attack her rather than defend her against unfair charges.

The Democratic Party is the entity which sets the rules for what happens with the delegates and due to the Florida and Michigan Democratic Party's violations of the rules, they deserve to have some form of punishment levied against them. Are you guys really willing to de-legitimize our extremely likely nominee in Barack Obama by taking this to the convention and when the inevitable happens, the rules being enforced, somehow claim the nomination was stolen from Hillary and not vote for Obama in November?

On the other hand, it's also undeniable that she has benefited from gender identity politics(and suffered from it) at least as much as Obama has from ethnic identity politics(and suffered from it).