Bad-Ass Women

I feel like an asshole that I didn't mention Rachel Maddow the other day, as she is a priceless role model for our and future generations. If only she and Olbermann were competing on the 6:00 pm network news slots, what a world we'd live in. I also wanted to mention the mainstay of the White House Press Corps, Helen Thomas, carrying her invisible giant lady balls. She is still annoying the piss out of the anti-feminist Dana Perino, and will annoy the piss out of the next White House Press Secretary. And, I'm proud to say she's another KY born gal.

One divide that isn't getting a whole lot of attention is the outcome amongst women after the nomination. It comes down to how you make your decisions: based on what your mother told you, in spite of it, or both/neither. It'll be interesting to see how the women of Clintonia will treat Obama once they either have to deny or realize that stick-to-itiveness is not virtue when the plan was always half-cocked. And unlike their leader, still limping along to Pennsylvania on her charred campaign trail, I hope they know that we don't think that admitting you made a mistake makes you a coward, or worse, wrong forever. There will be no "I told you so's" from me, only "fuck you's" to the unapologetic, ruthless assholes who behaved like republicans, I don't give a shit what your reasoning is. Because at this stage if she pulls the nomination out of her (or our) ass, it'll be another 4 years of one quarter of the country making the decisions just so some assholes and their mom's could be right (just for the record, I have been a "Obama for President" supporter since 2004, and my mom was still undecided until Clinton started to lose her fucking mind--I think she may have even been leaning toward Clinton early on, but don't hold me or her to that 'cause we haven't discussed it).

Lynda Obst is a bad-ass as well, and I suggest reading what she has to say about the baby-boomer generation, because she writes on women and Clinton, but it also speaks to the larger generation gap outside of gender. It is a massive chasm, and has the potential to cause divergence in how to move forward with current and emerging crises over the coming years. It's easily biggest generational divide since the boomers came out of the late fifties and sixties. I don't think they're going to take it any better than their parents did.

UPDATE: When I had originally posted this, I intended to mention Amy Goodman, as well, but simply forgot. I started watching Amy quite a few years ago on Free Speech TV and LinkTV, and was given hope by her integrity and dedication. Imagine: ABC-Maddow, CBS-Goodman, NBC-Olbermann, can you see it, and the world that surrounds them? Why not? They're all young, yet.

Jesus, you really do lose half your memory (and your mind) after you have a kid.

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