What is Hillary implying about Mississippi?

Hilary is trying to play the role of Victim, so she can blame her losing in those states and others on her gender not on the fact she is incompetent and dishonest. The Libs do not like the south at all, one calls them racists and the other calls them anti-female.
Can anyone say Victim-hood?

Maybe Hillary isn’t counting on Mississippi’s 6 electoral votes come November 2008. Jimmy Carter won Mississippi. So did George Wallace.

I guess Mississippi is smarted than Hillary thinks. They waiting for a real woman to run for office. Not a clown like her.

Can anyone say Victim-hood? and Hypocrisy!
Imagine this if a Republican woman running stated the same thing, I bet libs would be condemning it! Better yet if a Republican man said he could win because he is a male the lib media would crucify him.
But a Lib says something like this and you get oh maybe shes right, I feel sorry for her/him and so on.
Is anyone really surprised?
Whats Obama going to say tomorrow?

Mississippi has had two woman lt. gov. during the past 20 or so years. So what if no women choose to run for governor, senator or representative? Means women are smart enough to see a bunch of backstabbing and cry-babies to not get involved!

Sorry about the typos. Typing has never been my strong suit.

How stupid does she think we are. Hillary is playing the “gender” card just like some play the “race” card. Oh yeah, that’ll get all the “females” out there behind her (not) and make Mississippi want to be just like Iowa or make Iowa feel they are so much better than Mississipi(or whatever Hill’s objective is at the time. Man, what a manipulator! Being female I would LOVE to see a female become president some day but NOT HILLARY AND NOT JUST BECAUSE SHE HAPPENS TO BE FEMALE. There are more important things to base an opinion on than race or gender.

April Campbell – funny thing Mississippi had 2 Black Governors alone – both Republicans Do you want a list of the others?
Where are the northern ones?
Louisiana had a Woman governor
Just a side note here there have been more Republican Woman in office of Governor then Democrats.

Condaliza Rice needs to run , then we will have a brilliant woman running for President!

I would not mind electing a woman President I have no problem with it. The only problem I have is electing Hillery Clinton Persident please vote for and body but her. James , KY a Southern state that has elected Women in fact we sent the first women to congress.

What Woman governor did Iowa have?
Libs love to try to divide this country!
Lets see Clinton will have a hard time winning a state, well blame on being a woman, not her incompetence
Congress has lowest approval rating blame the press (which is sad because it is their own liberal press) not their total incompetence
Kerry loses the election blame the people who brought out the truth about him, not the fact of what he did, nor the fact it had nothing to do with him losing.
Libs never take responsibility, they play the race, gender or social card!

truth of the matter is, Senator Clinton is the best choice for President, as she is the best equipped and prepared candidate out there to protect and lead our soldiers, fight terrorists, reclaim America’s place as the greatest county in the world, reinvigorate our international relationships (which will also help us defeat terrorism), strengthen our Constitution, strengthen our domestic economy, give our children a safer and more prosperous future and help to clean up and strengthen the environmental laws to protect the future of all our children…..if you love your children, if you care about our troops, if you want terrorism defeated: Vote for Clinton

Mississippi’s history speaks for itself. The state is backwards. Didn’t they just officially make slavery illegal in the ’90′s? If Clinton expects this type of behvior out of Mississippi, she has good reason to.

“communitarianism”???? WTH?
They really need to stop making up new words. There are a lot of people who haven’t mastered their, they’re and there yet. Communitarianism? Come on.

That’s OK…NY has never elected a female Senator either! LOL!!!

Oh and the krap about the Iraq vote – no one mentions in the same breath with Hilary and Iraq war vote the esteemed name of GWB who along with his minions were knowingly LYING to everyone to convince them that Iraq was on the verge of destroying the world with WMDs.

Chris: Regarding your posting of 4:28pm…while well written, it has nothing to back it up. I would challenge you to provide one piece of evidence to back up the claims you have made regarding Ms. Clinton’s qualifications to be president.

spock: Libs will never take responsiblity for their own actions as long as there is someone to blame. It’s all about politics and power, nothing to do with integrity. Libs are weathervanes in the wind pointing a different direction each time the wind changes direction. We need a compass, someone who will point due north regardless of the weather. Regardless of what people say, GWB is a compass. He has never changed his position on terrorism regardless of public opinion. Libs have flip flopped so many times I can’t keep up. I’m a former democrat who’s finally seen the party for who it is…spinners, slanderers and political knivers…with no values!

HILLARY IS THE SAME HILLARY SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND IOWA IS SEEING RIGHT THRU HER. SHE WANTS IT HER WAY, SHE WANTS THE POWER, SHE HAS ALREADY SAID SHE WANTS MORE OF YOUR TAXES. IF RICE WAS RUNNING WE WOULD HAVE A “NON-POWER HUNGRY” COMPETENT CANDIDATE THAT WOULD APPEAL TO DEMS AND REPUBS ALIKE. AND SHE HAS HAD MAJOR MGMT RESPONSIBILITY AT A MAJOR UNIVERSITY.

Main Entry:
com·mu·ni·tar·i·an Listen to the pronunciation of communitarian
Pronunciation:
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Function:
adjective
Date:
circa 1909
: of or relating to social organization in small cooperative partially collectivist communities
— communitarian noun
— com·mu·ni·tar·i·an·ism Listen to the pronunciation of communitarianism \-ē-ə-ˌni-zəm\ noun
So as Hillary would say “It takes a village to manage your life.” “Give me the POWER”

I am from Mississippi and very proud of it. I think these comments about Mississippi are uncalled for. First of all don’t talk about our state untill you have been here long enough to see our true colors. Racism is throught our country. Every person deals with racism in some sort and fashion. Someone’s color is not the only tipe of racism, there religion, location, etc. Why some of you are racist just by saying we are a sexist, racist, and homophobic state. You don’t know what we are really about. Yes some people here have issues but doesn’t everyone!!! I am a woman and will not vote for Hillary. Not because she is a woman it’s because i do not believe she realy knows what she wants to do. We need a President that will do what they think is best for our country and not let everyone else change there minds.

If you read Hillary’s quotes carefully enough, you begin to get a clear picture of her personality and character; perhaps even some idea of where she stands on certain issues. Once you figure her out, you realize what a nightmare it would be if she were to lead our country. Perceptive, intelligent voters will pay close attention to her during this campaign– and will then just say “NO” to Hillary in 2008.

DKNY,yeah but it’s a dumb word.
But she knew the word “off the top of her heard” – you really need to clean up your own house, jerk.

Ah,the last refuge, pointing out a typo in a web posting. My posting showed that I am a poor typist, yours showed that you are uneducated and unable to use a dictionary.

Well, I think I would be implying that the states in question seem to have either overt or covert efforts to not encourage women to lead in their government. One might seem more progressive than another but the result is the same.

If you’re from Miss, please don’t be offended by general statements. They are not personal attacks against you or everyone in Miss. I live in Texas so I’m used to it. People think we “drive” horses to work. Not the brightest state in the country as a whole but…with Bush in Washington, the state’s average IQ goes up quite a bit. If the governor would move to DC, it would go up even higher. Maybe we’d be equal to Miss. or Ala. :) Chill folks.

gads2000: She never would have won in Mississippi…not enough blinded people to elect a lib.

Mississippi has female state representatives,and has elected two female Lt Governors. The current Lt Governor, Amy Tuck,is highly regarded (at least by me)and will probably run for Governor in 2011. She may well win.
Mississippi tends to elect representaives “for life”, wanting to preserve its seniority on Congressional Committees that can help the state. Our Congressional turnover is low. If a female is elected to Congress,she will be “for life” as well.

jade02008: As to Hillary losing the state of MS based on these statemnts, um, what world do you live in? She never had a chance in MS. I know, I live in MS. Hillary, if she is the Dem’s nominee, will not get a majority of the vote here. No Democrat will. That is a sad fact of life here.

In a speech back in May of this year, Sen. Hillary Clinton said the following:
“It’s time to replace an ‘on your own’ society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.”
“I prefer a ‘we’re all in it together’ society, I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none.”
“Fairness doesn’t just happen. It requires the right government policies.”
Sen. Hillary Clinton and the Far Left want to revitalize the Hammer and Sickle.

Brett Favre’s from Miss and he’s achieved more greatness on a below-freezing Sunday afternoon than Hillary ever could in her entire life.

I am the individual who referred to Mississippi as “racist, sexist, and homophobic.” You questioned my knowledge of the state. Please try actually reading a post before commenting. As I stated, I grew up in Mississippi. I lived there for 40 years before escaping. I have been out of that backwater dump for 8 years now, but I still visit occasionally as I have family and friends there. I am all too familiar with Mississippi and stand by my comments: sorry, but it IS one of the most racist, sexist, and homophobic places in the US. (And by the way, one cannot be “racist” against a STATE.)

Hillary Clinton’s comments are better than the comments delivered by Ronald Reagan in Philadelphia, Mississippi, during his campaign for President in 1980. Rather than reflecting somberly on the deaths of three civil rights workers in the 1960s in that very place, he chose to speak about “states’ rights.” That, my friends, is what we call coded language. That speech initiated his campaign. Despicable.

Isn’t the “Noose” the de facto symbol of Missisipi state ? Worry not, the wrath of God will rain down on that state soon. Katrina didn’t quite straigtened them out.

I think it’s funny that people from the north who move to Mississippi always say it is nothing like they expected. (Granted they don’t move to the delta since it is strictly agricultural). Also, racist? I’ve talked to numerous people who have lived up north all of their lives who say that people there are more racist. If MS is so racist, why are there so many black people still here?

I think a vote for anyone but Hillary would be an “obama-nation” … let’s face it, the Clintons are smart people … it’s a fact .. live with it!!

And after watching Ellen’s meltdown over a dog, are we really sure a woman has the emotional stability to be the Commander in Chief? I kid, I kid…but not really.

A vote for Hillary is a vote for business as usual in Washington. Don’t kid yourself. Hillary and Bill are part of the establishment. The only difference is they will be telling the libs what they want to hear. Look at the Democractic controlled congress. There is no consensus among the Democracts. They can’t get anything done. We are at a time in our history when we need a leader who is going to bring the american people and our government together to make thoughtful, innovative, decisions about policy and our future. I don’t see a candidate out there who is prepared to deal in much more than pandering to political favors. It’s heart breaking.

1) Sen. Clinton isn’t playing the victim: she never does. She’s pointing out a perfectly reasonable explanation for why she isn’t doing as well in Iowa as in the national polls. Sen. Clinton has said that she needs to earn every vote so often that it should be her campaign song. It’s simply true that the fact that most states have never had a female governor or senator makes it harder to elect the first female President of the United States.
2) When Sen. Edwards had his wife imply that he couldn’t raise money for his campaign because of all the donations made to Senators Clinton and Obama only because of her gender and his race, was he vicariously playing the victim?
(3) James Danley: as I expected, those two Republican African-American Senators were elected during RECONSTRUCTION. Apart from being over a century ago, Reconstruction was the one moment in time before the modern Civil Rights Movement when racism in Mississippi was not allowed to reign unchecked. However, it’s gratifying to hear of Mississippi’s two female Lt. Governors.

Dawn, you wrote: “Sen. Clinton isn’t playing the victim: she never does.” I beg to differ. She certainly has blamed the “vast Right-wing Conspiracy” for most of the negatives that have appeared in the press for her and Bill over the years.
Now as for my comment regarding the two African-American senators, I was only correcting another individual’s statement that the South has yet to elect an African-American senator. But since these two African-Americans from Mississippi graced the halls of the U. S. Senate, there have been only THREE subsequent African-American U. S. Senators: Sen. Edward William Brooke III (R-MA) 1967-1979 — the first African-American senator to be elected by popular vote; Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) 1993-1999; and Sen. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) 2005-present. Its interesting that the only two Democrats are from Illinois — Sen. Hillary Clinton’s birthplace. And the only other African-American senator from a blue state was a Republican. Some record for the Democrats to tout!

Boo hoo hoo, they won’t vote for me because I’m a woman, she says. Get off it lady and be honest with yourself. Southern and Midwestern folks are plain and simple and if they don’t vote for you it’s because they DON’T LIKE YOU, plain and simple. Deal with it.

Why is it that we must always prove that we’re not discriminating? You can’t prove a negative anyway. People can vote for whom they want. If you’re not happy with it Hillary, deal with it. I will not vote for Hillary because she’s conniving, cunning, deceptive, calculating, devious, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, dishonest, mendacious, beneath contempt, immoral, and full of crap.

Hillary can’t win on issues so she plays the gender card. Sorry lady, most of us are smart enough to see through that. I don’t care if a woman is elected president, just not that woman. The next election is as simple as ABC. Anyone But Clinton.

Sorry guys… Hillary WILL be the next president… Why? Because most women will vote for her just because she is a woman… For you women (or men) who think she will make a good president… you better hope you never require any kind of serious medical procedure or for you women you better hope you never get pregnant… because if you ever did, you would find yourself going into Mexico to get PROPER medical treatment. Hillary care will be a disaster.

Insurance companies have NO competition right now.

Oh my God! What Hillary actually caught expressing her true feelings? The slam on the South is not so surprising as the fact that someone caught her in an honest moment. Mark this one down in the books.

Hilldawg trashesMississippians

Not that she stood a Rolexs chance in Detroit of competing in Ole Miss, but this isnt exactly the best way to erase that stereotype (a well earned one) of being a northeastern liberal elitist:
Check out this new column by David Yepsen in …

I thought Libs were oblivious but this is beyond even that to believe anything that Clinton says you definitely require the willing suspension of disbelief.
How could anyone thinks she is telling the truth at all, because first is she changes what she says daily. And Truth does not change.
She is a power hungry politician that wants to bring Socialism to our country, and that is fact!

Sen. Clinton actually blamed a vast right-wing conspiracy for charges that her husband had an affair with Monica Lewinsky: a much narrower charge, albeit only partially incorrect. HE had the affair, THEY made sure we found out all about it. However, for the inside story on how a vast right-wing conspiracy, funded by Richard Mellon Scaife and Rupert Murdoch, among others, fed Americans everything we think we know about Whitewater, Troopergate, Cattlegate, Filegate, Vince Foster and ON and ON, see “The Hunting of the President,” by Joe Conason & Gene Lyons, “Blinded by the Right,” by David Brock, and “Fools for Scandal.” If someone actually puts a target on your back, you’re not “playing the victim” for pointing it out.
As for the correction: it was technically accurate but irrelevant because Reconstruction in the South was different from any period before or since, except possibly pre-Revolutionary times. There might also have been African-American Senators from the South elected in the day of the Neanderthal, but we’re not going to count them either.
A Republican Senator from before the Republican Party went insane with the Southern Strategy? See (immediately) above.
I’m not sure what’s interesting about the coincidence of Senators Braun, Obama, and Clinton all being from Illinois.
As for your final point: I agree wholeheartedly. Democrats should do a much better job of recruiting and supporting African-American (and female) candidates for higher office. Some of those African-Americans can even be women and some of those women can be other than white. I hope they will. I hold out no such expectation for TODAY’S Republican Party.

Dawn, you wrote: “I hold out no such expectation for TODAY’S Republican Party.” I tend to agree with this statement, but I’m sure for a different perspective than you may be taking. It’s not because the Republican Party does not want or that they aren’t trying to recruit African-Americans — men and women. The fact is the Republican Party is trying very hard to recruit African-Americans. There are some well qualified candidates across the country. The problem is these individuals do not want to submit themselves and, even more importantly, their families to the ridicule and racism that they will receive from within the African-American community. If the attacks were just on ideology and the issues you would see dozens of candidates. But instead the attacks are very personal and vicious. For not being “black.” For being an “Uncle Tom” or even an “Oreo-Cookie.” As if all African-Americans MUST think and act alike. It takes an extra special person who is willing to give up a successful private career with financial security in order to go into public service and put up with these personal attacks everywhere he or she goes.

Sorry, James: it’s not peer pressure that stops the Republicans from attracting more African-American members, it’s their socioeconomic pandering to the affluent suburbanites to create an “us (Caucasians)” against “them (all non-Caucasians)” mindset. I find it absolutely hilarious that the Republicans even went as far as the creation of a magazine called “The Black Republican,” with the world’s smallest magazine circulation numbers–3 copies total! And two of those copies were mailed to our Sec. of State!

Chuck, if you had children in grade school, elementary school and or high school, would you want your children to be called “Judas,” “Uncle Tom” and “Ore-Cookie?” How about your kids constantly hearing from their peers that their father (or mother) is nothing but a “house N—–.” What about your kids’ friends no longer hanging around them anymore? Would you want to have your kids coming home in tears everyday? Now try to explain to your kids why all of this is now happening when things were just fine before you decided to run for office! Now you have your kids mad at you for screwing up their lives.
Now tell me that “it’s not peer pressure.”

james if i am correct Bush received the highest % of black votes for republicans too.

Mississippi is certainly not alone in not electing women governors or congressmen. The majority of states in this country have not elected a woman governor. Anyone who does much research will find women in Mississippi have held leadership roles in the state (as lieutenant governor, state supreme court chief justice). And Mississippi is the state with the highest percentage of African Americans in elected offices. Hilary can’t win in Mississippi, and she figures most people aren’t going to bother to research her comments or do a little critical thinking about what comes out of her mouth.It really is scary to hear these comments come out of the mouth of a potential president. If she can be this offensive and divisive about a STATE, what is she going to be like in diplomatic relations with other countries?

Enough with the ‘poor me, I’m a woman’ nonsense coming from Clinton and her campaign. When anyone else refers to her gender, they’re charged with being sexist yet here she is claiming “There has got to be something at work here…” because 2 states haven’t elected women governors. Puh-leez!
I’m a woman. I don’t vote for or against someone based on their gender but rather whether I think they are the right person for the job. In this case, my choice is not Clinton and my decision has nothing to do with her being a woman.

Well, as a Mississippian who cares about state politics and national politics, she has obviously lost my vote. I was thinking of voting for her only if both Obama and Biden lost the primary to Hillary, now I just don’t see a candidate I would vote for in that scenario. It shouldn’t matter anyway, according to her our electoral votes won’t go to a woman presidential candidate anyway, and she is probably right with what she has to say about us.

This is why I don’t much care for her in Iowa either.
Go Mississippi!

Having moved to Mississippi from Houston, TX, I can say that I have never been happier in my life. Yes the state has it’s racial moments, but it doesn’t even hold a candle to the racism that I and other people have seen in other parts of the country (esp. the Northeast.)
The manners, hospitality (towards every person regardless of gender/color etc.), and sincerity of every person there is unmatched anywhere else in America.
I can’t believe some of the things that people say about Mississippi that are absolutely untrue. There are rednecks, racists, and homophobes EVERYWHERE in America. The state is FAR from being one of the ugliest in America (visit Natchez, Oxford, Vicksburg or almost anywhere else in America.)
If you’ve never been, or you’ve spent less than 2 weeks in the state, you’re no position to talk about it’s people or it’s culture.