Good Sport
Good for Senator Hillary Clinton.
That is not a political endorsement, but I hope her appearance on Saturday Night Live has put to rest that tempest in a teapot about Fred Armisen’s Barack Obama impression on Saturday Night Live.
He is not black and the fact that he had to wear makeup to appear darker drew wagging fingers. Barack Obama has called this the "silly season" in politics, which I would apply to the flap over Armisen.
I don’t remember Billy Crystal getting too much flack over his Sammy Davis Jr. impression because, like Armisen’s, it was excellent and in the spirit of spot-on parody.
By appearing in a cameo after this week’s SNL Obama-Clinton debate send-up, Clinton added an official imprimatur on it, though Obama’s appearance would have been even better.
And she didn’t hurt her effort to soften the edges some on her public image. The sort of thing that Al Gore should have done, but didn’t.
I don’t know who will will win the nomination, but Clinton won some points Saturday night for good sportsmanship and canny politics.
Belgacem commented:
Jennifer, you are welcome to mmeocnt, though we disagree.I fundamentally believe that being pro-choice is the true pro-life position. I am a mother and grandmother, and I have spent much of my life working to make life better for children. But unfortunately, just as you can't be a little bit pregnant, you can't in the end give equal legal or moral weight to both the woman and the fetus. And one of the things I learned years ago from many women's experiences is that women who chose abortion do so not because they don't value children but because they value them so much that they want to be able to nurture and take good care of the children they have. Also, prevention of abortion and unintended pregnancy has always been the overarching goal of the pro-choice movement, which is why I say Obama should talk about the Prevention First Act in his platform. I hope you would agree with the importance of prioritizing prevention. You may also be interested to know that Obama has voted much more consistently for measures that help children after they are born than McCain has, and that's typical. Pro-choice legislators in general vote more consistently for pro-child legislation than anti-choice legislators do.I say in my op ed that women aren't a monolith, so I know there is a range of views about abortion just as there is about most issues. However, my op ed is aimed at telling Obama how to attract Clinton supporters, and I think you'd agree they tend to be pro-choice.