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The Fix goads gender battle: Mano a mano has nada to do w/gender


And I bet Chris Cillizza knows that, but then why use this very tired rubric for tonight? Is he totally deaf to people begging for the gender and race stuff to stop?

The quote from his debate preview:

After a year of campaigning, tonight’s Democratic debate in California finally offers the sort of a mano a mano — eh, mano a womano — confrontation that many within the party have been craving.

Feh.

Watch the debate tonight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:51 pm January 31st, 2008 in Campaigning, Elections, Politics, WH2008, Women 

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7 Responses to “The Fix goads gender battle: Mano a mano has nada to do w/gender”

  1. 1 Paul Lambert on February 1st, 2008 8:21 am

    By the way, the literal translation for the Spanish phrase “mano a mano” is “hand to hand” as in fighting one on one, “hand to hand combat” etc.

    Last night seemed more like “hand IN hand”

    PL

  2. 2 Jeff Hess on February 1st, 2008 8:45 am

    Shalom Jill,

    What really frosts my shorts is how all the talking heads are wringing their hands over what all of us white male voters are going to do now that John Edwards is gone.

    Do we become traitors to our gender and vote for Clinton or do we abandon our race and vote for Obama?

    Now that’s worthy of a huge FEH!

    B’shalom,

    Jeff

  3. 3 MY COMMENTS… on February 1st, 2008 8:49 am

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  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on February 1st, 2008 4:58 pm

    Thanks, Paul – yes, I knew that and I think many people do which is why I think that the womano thing is so dumb! Blech.

    Cute re: was more hand in hand – so, do you think they’ll run on the same ticket??

  5. 5 Jill Miller Zimon on February 1st, 2008 4:59 pm

    Jeff wrote, “Do we become traitors to our gender and vote for Clinton or do we abandon our race and vote for Obama?”

    ROFL. Tough life, huh? ;)

    So – which are you going to do?!

  6. 6 Paul Lambert on February 1st, 2008 5:24 pm

    It would be a dream ticket for the voters, but I don’t think either would accept being VP. There’s much better visibility and power from the Senate than as VP. Live to fight another day kind of thing. Except Democrats don’t seem to run twice.

    I think HRC might just walk from politics if she doesn’t get it this time, unless the Republicans get one more term, then she might come back in four years. But if she loses the nomination and Omaba is elected, you’ve gotta assume two terms, and she won’t wait around until 2016.

    The other way around, Obama might take another shot in 2016. But with eight more years in the Senate, he’ll have a longer voting record to drag around.

    I’m still pulling for Bloomberg to come in.

  7. 7 Jill Miller Zimon on February 2nd, 2008 10:08 am

    I should have known that you are a Bloomberg type. :) I don’t dislike him at all, but I don’t know an awful lot more about him that most people who would read papers etc. And I do like Obama and Clinton enough that he doesn’t interest me as a viable option.

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