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sexism or racism? Especially in special political circumstances such as were in play during the primary season. These are easy labels to toss around standing in a movie theater and saying 'Fire' while holding up gasoline and matches in both hands.

Despite the very obvious desire to undo Hillary by most of the mass 'news' outlets, how does one separate out the weight of the sexism from the overall weight of that bias? It is impossible to quantify. I know numerous women who would never vote for HRC and it obviously has nothing to do with her sex, and the same goes for most men I know.

On the other hand there were numerous captures of 'elite' media making overt sexist swipes at HRC which were appalling. But, again, how do you measure the effect? One could argue that there would be negative backlash to such activities that could trigger support toward HRC. The bottom line is that there was much Will behind the move to knock Hillary out against Obama, and that Will accomplished its goal.

The racism of the campaign was of an entirely different nature. It was more a campaign of counter racism, where the ploy was to make people blind to the fact that Obama was getting 90% of the black vote (and only was winning because of that fact), to get people to look past his obvious racist surroundings. and to try and convince guilt-ridden non-blacks to accept as unequivocally true the words that came out of his mouth (as well as Michelle's) as well as his books, that he was who he said he was. It is not racism that many people recognize these conditions to be totally false. The fact is that he was a total beneficiary of spin bias especially in the racial sense. Hillary would never have received such an over the top boost.

Throughout the campaign, I came to admire HRC (despite a lot of things) and came to absolutely despise BHO. This is where I stand today, and nothing can ever change it. I look at his mug or hear his voice and I get sick. But, it is not racism.

Unless you were a Hillary-supporter you might not have noticed that the MEDIA had her losing after IOWA. We supporters stood by the radio and TV screaming helplessly saying NO.
Unless you were a Hillary-supporter you might not have noticed that even the COMEDIANS didn't DARE insult or make dirty jokes about OBAMA because the blacks who were dems or republicans would surely RIOT. But it seems women--at least 30% of white women for Obama didn't care about insults-- was no big deal --maybe they are too used to it ?
While Hillary spoke in detail about domestic and foreign affairs, the Obama-maniacs were listening to how great a president he would make and saying nothing of substance but the childish chanting was CUTE Change-hope-change-hope.
What they'll get is another puppet president like GWB who had no experience for the job and after another 4 years the ADM duties will go back to the republicans and full circle.

I think the sexism was obvious and lasting. The Media has hated Hillary from day one, even though large numbers of the working journalists are women. If i had to guess, i would say that she makes them feel inadequate and shallow.

Guess what?

Now that Hillary has been defeated, and notice how quickly she is being vanished down the memory hole, i predict that Michelle Obama is the next easy target.

But she my have enough "Minority Points" to be bullet-proof. We will see.

This only makes sense once you realize that the media personnel are even more celebrity obsessed than the American Public.

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