Hillary's Top Female Supporters Rally Around Obama
The other day, EMILY's List president Ellen Malcolm revealed that she's not over her "anger and grief" at Hillary's loss, but that hasn't stopped her from coming out with a full-throated endorsement of Obama.
Malcolm and other of Hillary's most loyal supporters convened a conference call today to make an aggressive case for Obama and against McCain...
"We are here to sound the alarm bell," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, D-Fla., on a conference call with reporters Wednesday, "In order to advance the progress that women have made in the last decade and in order to improve the lives of women and their children, the last thing in the world that women need to do is vote for John McCain.""Senator McCain is out of touch with the lives these women are leading and he is against many of the policy positions that they hold," said Ellen Malcolm, president of EMILY's List, a national organization that fundraises for pro-choice women candidates.
This sort of stuff will be central to Obama's efforts to prevent whatever female defections to McCain that might occur, with Roe v. Wade, of course, being at the center of the argument.
Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll today finds that Obama has jumped to a double-digit lead among women since Hillary quit, leading McCain 51%-38%.
Good for them. I would like to see the next four vacancies on the Supreme Court be filled by qualified woman. That would go a long ways toward securing full equality and freedom of choice for all women.
Having only one woman and eight men on the court of last resort, is an outrage.
June 11, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
All of a sudden gender trumps all.
Hypocrite.
June 11, 2008 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
It always has. Unlike you, all the rest of us were born of woman, where as you merely grew out of a cow turd.
June 11, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Having 43 male presidents and not a single female one is an outrage.
And you are a wanking hypocrite.
June 12, 2008 1:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't it an outrage, that they've all been white?
June 12, 2008 1:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll agree it's an outrage. But that doesn't mean we owe it to Hillary.
June 12, 2008 8:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Man, I really thought that one throwaway, pander-filled line in McCain's lime green Jello speech would've counteracted his numerous women issues.
June 11, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
That sound you hear is RaeK's head exploding....
June 11, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
And rstephen's (that cheeky little monkey) as well. Not to mention Aimey May's.
June 11, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tee Hee . . .
June 11, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
well..well...debbie and Emily's list have finally come onboard and from the sounds of it in due time! Welcome aboard as the ride from here on out will be a fun ride! Hold on tight!
June 11, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am sure most of them will come around, except for the truly wrong-headed.
June 11, 2008 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the problem- Wasserman-Schultz and her ilk will go apoplectic if BHO doesn't pick Hilary for VP.
I expect this "rallying" behind him, will only last that long.
June 11, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
We'll see. Given the encouraging early Gallup results above, I'm guessing most female voters won't want to be pegged as this year's Nader voters who end up giving us President McCain.
June 11, 2008 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep, this election is too big to sit out.
A stong united convention--it's going to happen!
June 11, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is GREAT! Happy to have them aboard.
June 11, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Say what is Jindal's picture doing on the Emily's List post
Is Sargent casting out demons or is he possessed?
June 11, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
When did the term "full-throated" become apart of the political dictionary? and was does that word mean exactly?
June 11, 2008 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good question. Dan Abrams (who's a dweeb) said last night the term made him feel "uncomfortable..."
June 11, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
as a heterosexual male, full throated doesnt make me feel uncomfortable at all.
June 11, 2008 5:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ummmmmmmmm... Maybe that explains Dan's discomfort...
June 11, 2008 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
i didnt want to go there!
June 11, 2008 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
As a homosexual male, full throated makes me horny
June 11, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
dude, too much information
June 11, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
...he just needs a little work with the gag reflex
June 11, 2008 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Haha. I don't like it either. It doesn't make me feel uncomfortable, it just sounds wrong.
June 11, 2008 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
WHAT IF.......Hillary walks across to the Republicans (after finally kicking out Bill) and runs as McCains VP?
June 11, 2008 5:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
From your keyboard to God's mind. Let it be, Let it be, let it be.
I would love to see The Big Fat Pillbilly and about twenty million right wingers having a collective massive stroke. McCain/Hillary 2008, would kill most of the Republican base, on the spot.
June 11, 2008 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
WHADDIF...
What if Superman had landed in Germany instead of Kansas? Huh??? We'd all be beer drinkers now!
Oh, wait...
June 11, 2008 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Full-throated" hasn't had this much play since Linda Lovelace's classic in the 70s.
June 11, 2008 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Strangely, like the fist bump, the press seems to pick up on Obama's pet phrases and gestures and incorporate them into its schtick.
Kinda reminds me of the Folger's coffee ad from the early 80s featuring a Reagan lookalike.
June 11, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
full-throated.
I really dislike full-throated.
I'll be glad when that slips out of fashion.
June 11, 2008 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have heard pundits on FOX and CNN use it a lot. I havent heard it on MSNBC, but i think that term is here to stay.
June 11, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay. I see I am not the only one disliking this whole full-throated phenom.
It's like every reporter copies off every other, intentional or not, and boom, now it's all about whether someone's endorsement is full-throated or not full-throated enough.
anyway...
June 11, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
that term brings to mind the wrong images that have nothing to do with ones endorsement
June 11, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tweety had Kennedy-Townsend, Ann Richard's daughter from Planned Parenthood and someone from Emily's list on. Other than the fact that Matthews is a baffoon, it was a pretty good segment in substance and the ladies did a pretty good job of slamming McCain - which I must say they seem a lot more comfortable with than supporting Obama. I think the Obama part will get better over time but as long as they come out this aggressively against McCain - if that works better for them than actually supporting Obama (which they did, but just didn't seem all that enthousiastic about that yet) I am all for it.
June 11, 2008 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's inevitable that the campaign -- about which each of us feels so passionately -- will end up punching personal buttons. So, Newf.. although you have chosen my favorite dog as your avatar, may I ask that you please refrain from: a) calling Chris Matthews a "baffoon" when he may, or may not be a "buffoon;" and, b) would you please not condescend to three extremely accomplished professional women by calling them "the ladies"?
Otherwise happy to compare Newfie notes and opinions on anything at all at any time.
June 11, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huh?
a) I am also a lady (well, in the physical sense anyway)so I am not sure how I can be condescending to my own gender b) I was merely emphasizing, using what I consider to be a polite term, that it was a group of women - something very relevant to the topic of discussion...women's issues.
Also, Matthews is a baffoon IMO. He almost called 2 of the women old (or not young), he kept stumbling on his words, wouldn't let Kennedy-Townsend answer the question he just asked(because he kept talking) and he made several incorrect statements all in the space of about 5 minutes. You have the right to consider him however you want. I think he is a baffoon.
June 11, 2008 6:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lady as in:
'Kneader of bread'
OR
'Wife of landed-gentry'?
June 11, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lady as in the opposite of Gentleman.
June 11, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who begins an article with the words, "The other day"? Only Greg Sargent! WTF? He didn't pin down the date because he neglected to report on it last week? How lame can you get? Not much lamer.
The AP version of this story is less "rallying" and more "reluctant" (plus, it includes quotes from high-profile Clinton-backing men as well—imagine!):
The first (and best) quote from the article comes from Gov. Mike Easley:
Thanks for the balanced, unbiased, timely reporting, Greg!
June 12, 2008 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I should add that the phrase "This sort of stuff" has a lovely Hemingwayesque ring to it too.
Excellent writing, Greg.
June 12, 2008 1:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Still waiting for good old Geraldine to repent.
June 12, 2008 2:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
In what universe is this an endorsement of Obama, rather than "full-throated" warnings about McCain. Of course it's overall a good thing, but the headline and lede are misleading.
June 12, 2008 8:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'd say it's intentionally misleading, which is my point in referencing the AP. The question is, why?
June 12, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink