If Obama Supporters Are Sexist--Are Clinton Supporters Racist?

After the loss of Hillary Clinton, her supporters are really pissed off. Why? Because according to them, anyone who opposed her is a sexist (if every Obama supporter is a sexist, can't you also say that every Clinton supporter is a racist?).

And along with the vast right-wing conspiracy, there's a vast left-wing conspiracy too. It's full of liberal bloggers, anti-war protesters, Democratic Party officials, Obama supporters, Obama himself, and of course...THE EVIL MEDIA. The most evil news organization? Fox News? Nope. CBS? No. CNN? Yeah right. It's MSNBC. That's right, MSNBC. The home of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Tim Russert, etc.

There's even a new website up called womenboycottmsnbc.com. It's full of angry supporters who believe that she lost because everyone was sexist.

The fact is that Hillary didn't lose because of her gender, she lost because of a terrible campaign strategy. She didn't contest caucuses and thought it'll all be over by February 5th. Remember, in 2007, she was INEVITABLE. EVERYONE THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO BE THE NOMINEE. I think that being a woman actually helped her a lot. If it weren't for women, she probably wouldn't have won the really close contests earlier on. She won New Hampshire because of white women, if they didn't turn out for her, she would've lost NH and the whole race much earlier. Remember: women make up over half of the Democratic Party.

The bottom line is that Hillary lost because of her own mistakes. She lost because of Bill Clinton. She lost because of her advisers, like Mark Penn. She lost because Obama ran a better campaign, had a better message, and had better organization. She lost because Obama can inspire. The fact is that it's OVER. The Dem race is over, and all Dems should unite against John McCain. It's time to put a Democrat in the oval office in 2009.

Here are some numbers from a Pew study that show the percentage of positive news stories on the candidates from each of the cable news networks. Check out MSNBC's numbers:

"69% of the assertions about Obama on Fox News Channel were positive, versus 54% for Clinton. And both far outdistanced Sen. John McCain, with only 45%.

On CNN, Clinton was the clear winner, with 70% positives versus 59% for Obama and 49% for McCain.

The most even-handed, at least toward the Democrats, was MSNBC, the researchers concluded, with 72% positives for Clinton and 70% for Obama (McCain got 53%)."