November 18, 2010 @ 6:00 p.m.
I cannot believe the racist, sexist blog post that Hillary Clinton has right now. It’s called “Obama vs. Carville, redux.” “Boy,” she says...she’s got a joke on it with “boy,” in it, as in “boy,” yeah, THAT kind of use of the word “boy.”
Is she kidding?
The entire thing is one miserable slur after another; she’s slandering men, slandering women....
I think that maybe the White House is suffering not just from a generational disconnect but from the fact that everyone from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama has been successful in the same circles for long enough to be out of touch with the way that the general population has been advancing socially for the past 20 years; that’s putting it mildly.
I’m going to say this again and hopefully the White House will get it this time; Hollywood and some of the media have been in a time capsule for going on 60 years. Brian Williams thought that all of his lies and slurs were going to work on me, and so far, I don’t see him gaining respectability while I lose it as he probably hoped was going to happen.
The White House made a big mistake. It can quit now and take a look at what the world outside of its enclave has been doing for the past 40 years and then develop strategies in response to the modern world which will substantially improve the Democratic Party’s chances of winning at a lot more things from now on, or the White House and the Democratic Party can keep losing, or the Democratic Party and the Republican Party can put completely unnecessary and destructive stress on the country as the two Parties battle each other while trying to make winning campaign strategy out of human rights violations while voters try to figure out what’s going on.
It doesn’t seem to me that the Republican Party had to do much of anything in the months leading up to the November 2, 2010 election except to gently allow the Democratic Party to destroy itself.
Some of the things that mean people say about me do have a basis in reality. I’m 36 years old. I live with my parents, never having had a job that made as much as $12 an hour and therefore having always been financially vulnerable to every other kind of problem that ever occurred in my life whether I had a job or not. I’ve been out of permanent employment for a year. I have a psychiatric history that started in 1992. And yet, here we all are.
My ability to survive what has happened in the past several months isn’t even close to being all a result of my intelligence or tenacity; society doesn’t want what the White House has been trying to push. People don’t want to be racist, sexist and awful anymore. Most people have been trying not to be that way for decades. Some of the attitudes are still there, but that’s to be expected in a country that has always been racist and sexist, right from its beginning with no breaks at any time; advances, but no breaks.
The numerous times that I’ve said I’ve been surprised and then shocked and horrified by what’s been going on, I really meant it; it was all very surprising, because normal people don’t act the way that the people in the White House and the people whom they found to support them act. I’ve NEVER seen it before, not even in my first 10 years of life growing up in very rural Vermont. I literally couldn’t believe it, and still, obviously, there are things that the White House does that surprise me; for example, Hillary Clinton’s blog post that I’ve just mentioned.
Feminism isn’t about women being horrible about men, it’s about equality. I can understand women getting frustrated in the early years of feminism and feeling as if everything were never going to stop being “a man’s world,” but the world is no longer entirely a man’s world. There are women working everywhere, and that’s been true for more than one generation now; true equality hasn’t been reached yet, but genuine equality is the direction that things have been going and everything the White House has done since this past summer has been going against that direction. I have never had a hallucination; with any luck, witnessing everything that the White House has done and caused to happen is as close to experiencing a hallucination as I'll ever be.
If there were college students at UVM who hassled me for a while, I think it had more to do with them thinking “Fish? Calling women fish? Hmm...maybe we’ll try that out” but not because general attitudes about women are the same as they were 50 years ago.
Hillary Clinton's blog post says horrible, sexual things about men in addition to everything else, in addition to slurs about women including ads for "Princess Cruises;" it's disgusting.
Sexual harassment of women is sexual harassment. Sexual harassment of men is sexual harassment. Racism is racism.
I’m not about to excuse the President's ongoing inexcusable behavior because of Hillary Clinton’s blog post.
President Obama still doesn’t seem to understand that he didn’t get to the White House by himself. If the majority of people in the United States were as bigoted as President Obama is, he wouldn’t be the President. He wouldn’t have been a Senator, gone to law school, or done anything else that he’s done so far.
Copyright L. Kochman November 18, 2010 @ 6:52 p.m.
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November 18, 2010 @ 10:43 p.m.
Brian Williams at NBC Nightly News has been virtually picking through the letterbox of a church secretary; that's where he got his "Pew" insult that's been on his website today.
I cannot believe the racist, sexist blog post that Hillary Clinton has right now. It’s called “Obama vs. Carville, redux.” “Boy,” she says...she’s got a joke on it with “boy,” in it, as in “boy,” yeah, THAT kind of use of the word “boy.”
Is she kidding?
The entire thing is one miserable slur after another; she’s slandering men, slandering women....
I think that maybe the White House is suffering not just from a generational disconnect but from the fact that everyone from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama has been successful in the same circles for long enough to be out of touch with the way that the general population has been advancing socially for the past 20 years; that’s putting it mildly.
I’m going to say this again and hopefully the White House will get it this time; Hollywood and some of the media have been in a time capsule for going on 60 years. Brian Williams thought that all of his lies and slurs were going to work on me, and so far, I don’t see him gaining respectability while I lose it as he probably hoped was going to happen.
The White House made a big mistake. It can quit now and take a look at what the world outside of its enclave has been doing for the past 40 years and then develop strategies in response to the modern world which will substantially improve the Democratic Party’s chances of winning at a lot more things from now on, or the White House and the Democratic Party can keep losing, or the Democratic Party and the Republican Party can put completely unnecessary and destructive stress on the country as the two Parties battle each other while trying to make winning campaign strategy out of human rights violations while voters try to figure out what’s going on.
It doesn’t seem to me that the Republican Party had to do much of anything in the months leading up to the November 2, 2010 election except to gently allow the Democratic Party to destroy itself.
Some of the things that mean people say about me do have a basis in reality. I’m 36 years old. I live with my parents, never having had a job that made as much as $12 an hour and therefore having always been financially vulnerable to every other kind of problem that ever occurred in my life whether I had a job or not. I’ve been out of permanent employment for a year. I have a psychiatric history that started in 1992. And yet, here we all are.
My ability to survive what has happened in the past several months isn’t even close to being all a result of my intelligence or tenacity; society doesn’t want what the White House has been trying to push. People don’t want to be racist, sexist and awful anymore. Most people have been trying not to be that way for decades. Some of the attitudes are still there, but that’s to be expected in a country that has always been racist and sexist, right from its beginning with no breaks at any time; advances, but no breaks.
The numerous times that I’ve said I’ve been surprised and then shocked and horrified by what’s been going on, I really meant it; it was all very surprising, because normal people don’t act the way that the people in the White House and the people whom they found to support them act. I’ve NEVER seen it before, not even in my first 10 years of life growing up in very rural Vermont. I literally couldn’t believe it, and still, obviously, there are things that the White House does that surprise me; for example, Hillary Clinton’s blog post that I’ve just mentioned.
Feminism isn’t about women being horrible about men, it’s about equality. I can understand women getting frustrated in the early years of feminism and feeling as if everything were never going to stop being “a man’s world,” but the world is no longer entirely a man’s world. There are women working everywhere, and that’s been true for more than one generation now; true equality hasn’t been reached yet, but genuine equality is the direction that things have been going and everything the White House has done since this past summer has been going against that direction. I have never had a hallucination; with any luck, witnessing everything that the White House has done and caused to happen is as close to experiencing a hallucination as I'll ever be.
If there were college students at UVM who hassled me for a while, I think it had more to do with them thinking “Fish? Calling women fish? Hmm...maybe we’ll try that out” but not because general attitudes about women are the same as they were 50 years ago.
Hillary Clinton's blog post says horrible, sexual things about men in addition to everything else, in addition to slurs about women including ads for "Princess Cruises;" it's disgusting.
Sexual harassment of women is sexual harassment. Sexual harassment of men is sexual harassment. Racism is racism.
I’m not about to excuse the President's ongoing inexcusable behavior because of Hillary Clinton’s blog post.
President Obama still doesn’t seem to understand that he didn’t get to the White House by himself. If the majority of people in the United States were as bigoted as President Obama is, he wouldn’t be the President. He wouldn’t have been a Senator, gone to law school, or done anything else that he’s done so far.
Copyright L. Kochman November 18, 2010 @ 6:52 p.m.
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November 18, 2010 @ 10:43 p.m.
Brian Williams at NBC Nightly News has been virtually picking through the letterbox of a church secretary; that's where he got his "Pew" insult that's been on his website today.
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams website @ 10:45 p.m. November 18, 2010
November 18, 2010 @ 11:14 p.m.
In September, I walked out of my parents’ house because of an argument we were having about how they were treating me. I slept a couple of nights on the sofa of a church basement. On the first night, I called a friend and she brought me blankets and some food; the church secretary showed up while we were talking and said it was fine for me to stay there.
It seemed to me after I had spent some time in the building by myself that the church knew about and was supportive of both the harassment and the pedophilia. Unfortunately, I didn’t have anywhere else to go the second night, so I spent another night in that basement.
When I went back the second night, I saw that the church secretary had arranged the mail in the open mailbox on her desk so that there were letters from the Burlington Emergency Shelter and a company that makes cushions for the benches in churches that are called "pews" on either side of a letter from the Visiting Nurse Association. I wrote about that on my blog, along with the other things I saw in the church.
On October 6, 2010, I went back to my blog page where I’d written about the All Saints Episcopal Church in September and took out some of what I’d written; the note that I left when I edited that section on October 6, 2010, is still there.
I wrote about those days in September on the first page of my blog, entitled “Brian Williams at NBC is a Fraud.” I was writing chronologically in sections on the same page then, so even though that page technically starts from July 13, 2010, if you scroll along the page you will see that there are things that I wrote in September on it.
The part that I took out on October 6, 2010 had what I had originally written about the way that the church secretary had tried to be mean to me.
That means that Brian Williams has kept track of everything I’ve ever written on my blog.
In September, I walked out of my parents’ house because of an argument we were having about how they were treating me. I slept a couple of nights on the sofa of a church basement. On the first night, I called a friend and she brought me blankets and some food; the church secretary showed up while we were talking and said it was fine for me to stay there.
It seemed to me after I had spent some time in the building by myself that the church knew about and was supportive of both the harassment and the pedophilia. Unfortunately, I didn’t have anywhere else to go the second night, so I spent another night in that basement.
When I went back the second night, I saw that the church secretary had arranged the mail in the open mailbox on her desk so that there were letters from the Burlington Emergency Shelter and a company that makes cushions for the benches in churches that are called "pews" on either side of a letter from the Visiting Nurse Association. I wrote about that on my blog, along with the other things I saw in the church.
On October 6, 2010, I went back to my blog page where I’d written about the All Saints Episcopal Church in September and took out some of what I’d written; the note that I left when I edited that section on October 6, 2010, is still there.
I wrote about those days in September on the first page of my blog, entitled “Brian Williams at NBC is a Fraud.” I was writing chronologically in sections on the same page then, so even though that page technically starts from July 13, 2010, if you scroll along the page you will see that there are things that I wrote in September on it.
The part that I took out on October 6, 2010 had what I had originally written about the way that the church secretary had tried to be mean to me.
That means that Brian Williams has kept track of everything I’ve ever written on my blog.