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Live from my couch: I'm watching the Democratic National Convention
Wednesday, August, 27, 2008
Okay, I totally tried to post this blog just now, but it was lost in cyber space. Sigh. So I’m going to try to think exactly how I thought five minutes ago, thought leading to thought, to bring you an exact replica of that blog. Okay, I can already see that this isn’t going to happen. My initial post started out with the Commemorative Panoramic photo, which even the digital woman was having a difficult time pronouncing. They should have just used the phrase “group photo.” You know it’s difficult when a computer can’t get it right. Except that I blame mine for erasing my brilliant words of yester-second. Geez.
Okay, from a feminist perspective, here is what I am thinking right now:
I had such a biff last night with “Isn’t She Lovely” being paired with Michelle Obama. I mean, she looks great--but who cares?! Seriously. I really don’t. I care about how smart she is. I’d feel more comfortable knowing, in fact, that Obama and her share brains and not brawn. Personally. I vote Michelle Obama for prez. She is darn cool.
Another thing...I was in the car today, driving to pick up products for our October issue, when I heard a local dj on a local station introduce a song--like they do. Only this introduction made my ears slightly tune in because of the following words: “Just close your eyes and imagine Hillary Clinton singing this tonight at the Democratic Convention...” The song was “Rape Me.”
I. Was. Pissed. I invite you to check out the lyrics just in case there is any doubt in your mind that the dj made an excrutiatingly sexist and disgusting “joke”.
Finally, kudos to this convention giving the stage to women senators. That portion rocked.
That’s all for now. Good recovery, huh?
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Never having been a fan of Nirvana to begin with, (any of the losers I dated in college coulda played pretty much the same and droned on about how awful their lives were with mom and dad footing the tuition bill and cost of living) the choice of song only pointed to the tastelessness of the radio station before I clicked the link. The scary thing is that there are people who agree with the deejay which is why crap like that stays on the air.
Boy how we need change.
(All comments on Hillary's speech will I'm sure already be touched on by previous and future replies. The only thing I'll add is how I loved that she kept pushing universal health care! That was the thing that separated her from Obama for me. She made her point!)