The ongoing Political Musings of a former (now Stray) Yellar Dawg Dem.
***Warning***
This is a Feminist Blog, in the tradition of Susan B. Anthony.
"Just Tell Them...
I have worked 40 years to make the Women's Suffrage platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon."
To summarize by excerpting two of the more revealing paragraphs:
We all agree that there is much to despise about Obama, and a whole different set of things to despise about the people who helped get him elected. We all know what a liar he is, how lazy he is, how ill-equipped for the job he is, and how there are many things about his secret life that may legally disqualify him from being president, or should land him in prison. We agree on 98% of those things we hate about him.
But don’t expect me, or many others here, to share (the) recently-acquired aversion to the Clintons, or your recent (apparent) conversion to Republican conservatism. We have much we agree on, and we all are entitled to our opinions, but many of us here still support Hillary Clinton and think highly of her and her husband.
But really....go over and read the whole essay. It is one of the better examinations of the thought process that lurks behind PUMA paws.
I agree with Larry, that Israel is losing the global PR battle. And I am not exactly sure why. I don't see them as "bullies." But many do.
I will say, from observing my own kids, the Ivy Elite are decidedly anti-Israel at this time. So... here we come upon a new generation of graduates from these esteemed institutions who are indoctrinated about the "evils of Israel." That, in itself, goes a long way toward their losing the PR battle. In the U.S. at least.
The problem that I perceive is... when you indoctrinate a generation *against* something or someone ... and you don't indoctrinate them "for" something, a vacuum forms. Those same kids who "hate Israel" now seem to think Hamas and Hezbollah are just hunky dory. And that is SCARY AS SH**.
I'll just add...
There was a time, not long ago, when I was open to the pro-Palestine rhetoric surrounding the Rachel Corrie murder. I believed what I was hearing from the Harvard and Berkeley crowds. I, personally, began to side AGAINST Israel. BUT.... I started looking at the inevitable dilemna... if I am not siding with Israel, who would I be siding with?? Hamas? Hezbollah? Other Islamofacists in the Gaza region?
Fact is, there are no real sides to take in this matter. It is Israel against whom? Tribal terrorists who, in the wake of Israel's withdrawal from the region would turn on each other?? "Son of Hamas," Mosab Hassan Yousef, elaborates on the problem well. Read what he has to say ... and ...
Think about it.
Whose "side" can we take? Other than the people of Gaza's? And how on earth will we, in our ivy covered towers, know what is "best" for them??
H/T to Legal Insurrection for the video. And the well made point that not all Jews are white. Nor do all Jewish families hail from Poland and Germany. (As Helen Thomas seemed to believe during her little outburst.)
Meanwhile, in a "Don't It Always Seem to Go" Joni Mitchell type moment ... fiscally Conservative Republicans (gasp) are embracing Clintonomics. And those of us "fifty-somethings" who raised our children to be "Progressive" world citizens are wondering where we went wrong???
It's a strange ass world. Former Democrats praying for a Palin uprising and Republicans reminiscing about Clintonomics...
In "real life" Dawg is a mom, a nurse, a pet rescuer and a tireless advocate for animal rights.
Dawg is happily married for thirty years and has raised three awesome children. She holds an advanced degree in Family Science, wherein her research was focused on women's support circles during parturition. Her dedication to Women's Rights is directly affected by her belief that motherhood should not be a sentence to isolation and disenfranchisement.
Dawg is on hiatus from political bloggery d/t the intense demands of her engagement in the No Kill movement at this time. However, she remains influenced by PUMA politics and reads the blogs of her fellow PUMAs (at right) regularly.
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