Obama and Maher

[Jacobtm]

Conservatives will be very confused in November when Obama still wins women by a big margin.

Fundamentally, it is about policy and impact on womens' lives.

Maher called individual women names, but he isn't the leader of the Democratic Party and isn't advocating a policy that would do anything negative to women.

Rush, who really is the leader of the conservative movement, if not the Republican Party, attacked policies providing women access to health-care. He denigrated all women who use birth control, which is to say, nearly all women in the country.

Yet conservatives think it was nothing but the name-calling that got everyone upset. They don't see how women's liberation relies heavily on government handouts to make them non-dependent on a man's financial support. As long as the Democrats support more government funding for things women want, women will continue to vote Democrat.

[Jacobtm]

Blacks might very well vote 98-2 for the reelection of Barack Obama, but, would that whitewash Bill Maher calling Herman Cain the N-word?

Bill Maher insulting someone doesn't matter for Obama's chances, is the point.

I mean, he regularly insults the entire United States of America. He has a movie out blasting Christians as being imbeciles.

It's beside the point, because Democrats don't look to Maher for guidance or leadership, and his positions don't really matter to any important bloc of voters. He isn't the leader of liberal thought, as Rush really is one of the leaders of conservative thought.

Well, I dunno if you could call it thought, but at least the leader of conservative gut reaction.

[Jacobtm]

The point is that calling women in politics the c-word is misogynistic, and has a chilling effect on women interested in pursuing public service. Obama has noted exactly that, but, refuses to practise what he preaches when the misogynist is a large donor to his superpac. It begs the question, what other his principles will Obama ignore/bend/violate if the donation is large enough?

Obama, being a politician, lies all the time, abandons his principles, and generally shouldn't be trusted.

I'm not defending Obama nor do I support him. I'm just trying to help you realize the reality that Rush Limbaugh is one of the premier voices of the conservative movement, the Republican Party, etc. wheras Bill Maher has nowhere near the influence or clout that Limbaugh does.

Therefore Limbaugh being misogynistic has a much greater impact on Republicans than Maher being misogynistic does on the Democrats. Just don't want you lot to be surprised when Obama wins women despite Maher calling Palin names.