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For those who missed the Saturday morning thread, click here.
Also, here are some recent diaries:
winodj: Hillary Clinton, Dominos Champion
fairdeal: Hillary endorsements from around New York
tiredofit10: Most Major New York Newspapers Endorse Hillary
CassP: The Big Speaking Fee Nothing
Saturday felt rather quiet, at least on Hillary Clinton’s end. She was in Los Angeles raising more money for down ticket Dems, and for some reason, some people are really unhappy about that.
She also had time to address a large and enthusiastic crowd of supporters outside.
Today she’s back in New York for a GOTV event in Staten Island and on television, appearing on This Week and Up Close.
Also, I tend to find SNL political sketches to be very hit and miss. On the one hand, you have brilliant sketches like the 2008 Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin joint address, while on the other hand you have ham-fisted sketches like the recent “Hillary’s pretending she understands New Yorkers! OMG, she’s soooo fake and bad at it!” even though she really wouldn’t be since she was their Senator for eight years, has a home there, and has her campaign headquarters in Brooklyn. But this is pretty funny. It drives home how tired we are of all the debates. Remember when it seemed like six wouldn’t be enough? Now we’ve had nine, not to mention town halls, and know about as much as we’re going to know through that format.
At Washington Monthly, D.R. Tucker makes the case for why #BernieorBust people ought to think twice about refusing to back Hillary Clinton as the nominee:
Under this scenario, will the Bernie backers who sat out the election—the ones who think the Democratic Party has been contaminated by “corporatism,” the ones who believe Sanders is the only morally pure choice for President—have any clout whatsoever in American politics? Will they be able to have any real influence on the Clinton-Brown administration? Will they be able to encourage Vice President Brown to publicly break with President Clinton on policies progressives find fault with? Or will they just be dismissed as whiners who blew a chance to have a claim on the new President?
This is the problem with the “Bernie or Bust” movement. By declaring that they will refuse to vote for a non-Sanders Democratic presidential nominee, these folks are declaring, in essence, that they are not seriously interested in moving the Democratic Party in a more progressive direction.
Finally, this isn’t strictly Hillary Clinton related, but for those who have HBO, I would recommend watching Confirmation, which aired on Saturday night. About the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings, it brought back memories of the rage and ugliness that hung over Anita Hill’s testimony about Thomas’s sexual harassment. It reminded me of how bad things were then, and how bad things often still are, even for smart, powerful women like Hillary Clinton.
Over the years, the two women have become feminist icons. Hill brought the issue of sexual harassment into the American consciousness and the number of complaints more than doubled between 1991 and 1998. Hillary made bettering the lives of women and children the centerpiece of her work, from her days as first lady of Arkansas to serving as secretary of state. In what was called “The Year of the Woman” in 1992, four female Democrats were elected to the Senate and 28 women were elected to the House of Representatives, more than doubling the total number. They called themselves the Anita Hill class. Clinton, of course, is aiming higher in her second bid to become the first female president of the United States.
In honor of the run-up to the April 19 New York primary, here are more photos from my first trip to New York City:
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