"Specter is the man who put on a woman's dress to get in the life boat"

[Dawson Leery]

Matthews is a jackal, but made a good joke....

[dancingme]

1. didn't he say "a woman's dress" to get in the lifeboat?

[calimary]

2. Anita Hill is smiling tonight!

And I am smiling for her, too.

Especially since I just heard the AP call it for Sestak!




It WAS a high-tech lynching back then during those abominable clarence thomas hearings. But it was Anita Hill who got that treatment, while clarence got a pass to the Supreme Court.

[Captain Hilts]

5. I'm still livid, all these years later. nt

[calimary]

6. So am I.

I think it was shortly after that whole freak show that we went to a screening of the Oliver Stone film "JFK."

Now, granted, Oliver Stone and all that.

But when it came to the Warren Commission stuff and how Arlen Specter's name came up as Mr. Magic Bullet Boy, I blurted out in the theater - "Arlen SPECTER??!?!?!?!!?!??!" And people booed. It was just after he had made mincemeat out of Anita Hill and turned her into a spectacle, believing not a word from her but fawning all over that idiot clarence thomas. He didn't even give her a fair hearing. AWFUL the way he treated her. I've never forgotten that.

She's probably too graceful to smile or react accordingly tonight.

SO I'LL DO IT FOR HER!!!!!!!!!!!

[Captain Hilts]

8. It's interesting how the majority of United Statesians originally believed Thomas's side of the

story - but about a year later, I read in the Wall St. Journal, of all places, that opinion had shifted to believe her.

It was mostly about class. Lower income folks just thought she should have up and left that job whereas upper income folks knew that since they were in the same field of law,leaving would not get him out of her life no matter where she worked. AND that she didn't ask to have her name brought up in the hearings - that she was just there to defend herself against what had been said.

[malaise]

3. That was hilarious

[Captain Hilts]

4. I have to give Matthews credit for that one, much as I hate him. nt

[Bonobo]

7. That is a gem. nt