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Yonivore
12-09-2008, 11:50 PM
Groping a cardboard cutout is worse than cheating on your wife for 30+ years.

Bill Clinton’s first press secretary, Dee Dee Myers, is upset because a speech writer for Barack Obama groped a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton at a party. (http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/12/favreaus-sexist-photo-is-no-laughing-matter.html)


“What’s bugging me is his intention. He isn’t putting his hand on her ‘chest,’ as most of the articles and conversations about the picture have euphemistically referred to it. Rather, his hand — cupped just so — is clearly intended to signal that he’s groping her breast. And why? Surely, not to signal he finds her attractive. Au contraire. It’s an act of deliberate humiliation. Of disempowerment. Of denigration.”

Bill Clinton’s serial cheating on the same Mrs. Clinton? (http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124429,00.html)


“He flirts with men. He flirts with women. He flirts with Buddy the dog. He has that quality where he looks people in the eye and connects with them.”
Talk about humiliation and disempowerment and denigration…

There’s the epitaph: Bill Clinton, loving husband who never groped a cardboard cutout of his wife.

I need more popcorn. :corn:

PixelPusher
12-09-2008, 11:59 PM
Yoni's an expert practitioner at situational outrage.

Yonivore
12-10-2008, 12:05 AM
Yoni's an expert practitioner at situational outrage.

I'm not a good as Dee Dee.