As I was watching Nominee Presumptive Clinton speak tonight, I thought about my daughter asleep upstairs, and I also thought about a post I wrote last summer on the day that same sex marriage was declared constitutional. I want to repurpose a chunk of that post tonight:
I don’t know much about how my kids will turn out when they get older. I know a few things though.
I know my daughter will be a massive dork (as she cried last night that she missed school as she was not learning enough new things at summer camp, and could we buy her some new math workbooks). I know she will be a goof ball with a massive amount of empathy and a strongly developed sense of fairness. I know that when she is adult, her possibility space will be massive….
I have no clue…
Their possibility space just widened a little bit this morning. Being their dad, that makes my day.
She could be president some day.
Now let’s go win so that she’ll have a positive example instead of a wistful what may have been when she starts her campaign in 2046.
Yutsano
Watching history happen once with Barack Obama was an amazingly moving moment. The fact that we have the opportunity to not only watch history happen twice but for the ultimate glass ceiling to shatter…
Sometimes this country pisses me off enough to consider emigrating back to my ancestral homeland of Canada. And some days I’m proud as fuck to have been born in Tripler Army Hospital, Honolulu, Hawai’i. In 5 months, I may yet feel that way again.
Baud
Baud!/Mayhew’s daughter! 2046!
John W.
Yeah, it’s been quite the day. See? Girls are smart, too!
Luthe
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
John W.
@Luthe: Great stuff. Thank you.
MikeBoyScout
Somebody near you doesn’t know what it takes to register to vote in this November’s election. You can help.
If we all do our little bit we can win the whole kit and caboodle.
Yes.We.Can.
Baud
Fixed
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: that’s just creepy!//
Renie
Beautiful post about your feelings. I have to admit it hurts a bit my 21 yr old daughter doesn’t like Hillary. She’s too much of a Sanders supporter. I have no love for the way Bernie has slandered Hillary right up to today and influenced his supporters to dislike her.
Though I know my daughter will vote for Hillary it would have been special to share this with her. I wish she could understand the historic moment this is for women. On the other side, I, like so many others, wish my Mom was here to see this.
LAO
I was shocked to learn that today, my cold dead heart still beats — I found myself crying as I watched Clinton give her speech tonight.
Wag
As the proud father of three strong young women, aged 10-26, I couldn’t be more proud of my Party and their presumptive nominee. And I say this as an early supporter of Bernie.
trollhattan
Yes, our daughters are growing up in the best time in American history for young woman. This is why I took my critter to a Hillary rally on Sunday and tonight we’re watching returns. She was “Hillary” in her history class candidates debate today and got 80% of the class votes (dadbrag). She’s feeling it and prepared to reelect Hillary with her first ever vote in four years.
This is so much easier than patting her head while telling her, “Someday, maybe.”
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
?Sweep! ? Sweep! ?Sweep!
? Martin
Clinton’s vote in CA is holding up better than I expected. 63/35 with 6.6% reporting. Way, way, way too early to predict an outcome, but that’s a really strong first 700,000 votes.
Tom Levenson
Amen and amen.
Bonnie
At 70, I am in awe that I have lived to see this–complete and total awe.
Mike J
@? Martin: That’s all VBM, which skewed very old.
trollhattan
@? Martin:
Yup, mail ballots should comprise about 70% so this could be more than statistical anomaly.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Sweet photo of a mom and her 2 daughters and dog watching Hillz’ speech (photo)
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Silicon Valley going big for Hillary Clinton.
JordanRules
Who was the poster that highlighted the fact that his grandaughter may live her life under Presidents who are not white males for the first 11 years of her life? Think it might have been efgoldman.
Anyway, amazing night!
I get the sense that the HRC campaign is pushing certain phrases to really mess with Trump and will repeat them over and over. I’m loving the strategy so far.
Scout211
I voted by mail here in California but the polling place at my library (where I volunteer) was busy all day. My county is a red county in a blue state so I was surprised when an older woman came into library and starting joyously gushing that she had just voted for the first female president of the United States.
So yeah, little girls can now see all possibilities in their future wide open to them. And older women are now full of joy that the world they have lived their whole life in just changed for the better.
dmsilev
@? Martin: I note with some amusement that Jim Gilmore is actually getting some votes in the GOP primary, as is Ben Carson.
Baud
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Whoa. I’m sure a read an article recently about how SV was Sanders territory.
gf120581
@JordanRules: As we’ve seen, it really doesn’t take much prodding to set Trump off. She knows exactly what she’s doing.
And furthermore, now Obama comes off the bench and no one drives Trump more up the wall than he does.
Chat Noir
Tonight feels similar to the way I felt in 2008. Very excited and nervous (I am a Democrat, natch). Hillary is a hard worker and has a good campaign team so I like her chances. I was proud to vote for her in the primary and I will be proud to vote for her (and every Dem on our ballot) in November.
amygdala
@? Martin: I’m curious to see how SF and Alameda go.
Mike J
@JordanRules:
Who knew that in 2008 you could tell a 60 year old there’s a good chance they’d be dead before two white men were on the ballot again?[1]
[1] stolen from somebody on twitter and I’d credit them if I remembered who it was.
Old Dan and Little Anne
I’ve joked with my wife that my daughter in 2nd grade will give a neat hologram presentation of Hillary near the end of her 2nd term. She’ll also be talking shit to classmates who speak ill of her.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
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cmorenc
I have two young adult daughters, the older of whom is a practicing M.D. anesthesiologist who takes her oral specialty certification boards tomorrow morning, the younger of whom is an R.N. at one of the best hospitals in the region. I’m glad no glass ceilings held either one of them back, especially the older one. Both achieved their professional dreams – Richard tell your daughter to work like Hell toward her goals, and don’t let anyone or any temporary setbacks hold her back – both my daughters had to overcome moments when huge obstacles and the tangible possibility of failure stood in their way, but both persevered and powered through those rough spots.
Chat Noir
@gf120581: I can’t wait to see President Obama on the campaign trail!
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Baud:
It seemed like it should have gone for BAUD! Oh well. You still have all of us as your superdelegates.
gf120581
@Baud: A serious article or some nonsense along the lines of H.A. Goodman’s drivel?
So, Hillary’s got the pledged majority, she’s won or winning states she wasn’t supposed to win, CA looks like a win…how much more clear does it have to get to Bernie that he’s done?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
6 year old girl reacts to victory (photo)
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Fuck you Chuck Todd.
Of all the words Obama spoke, those are the truest ones.
trollhattan
@Chat Noir:
Yeah, feeling both emotions. Difference this time is while Obama was an unknowable quality in 2008, Hillary is utterly sussed out over a quarter century. I’m loving the potential here.
Mike J
One for Mr. de la Fuente.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUsQj_ha0zU
trollhattan
@gf120581:
We, uh, need the dial on 11, m’kay?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
(photo)
LAO
@Chat Noir: In 2008, I was excited in the way that Obama’s nomination felt right for the nation and I was an early primary support of his, but tonight as a woman, what Clinton has accomplished feels even more personal to me. And, no one is more surprised by that then I am.
PhoenixRising
@MikeBoyScout:
Somebody near you is registered and (thanks to decades of GOP propaganda and control of Sec of State offices) thinks they can’t vote.
3 of them today, 5pm local time. In November it won’t even be hot out!
gwangung
@Baud: San Mateo is north of Silicon Valley, but it’s the home of the people who got rich off of Silicon Valley.
Louise
https://twitter.com/lauraolin/status/740349291131195392
Mike J
AP calls SoDak for Hillary.
Mary G
It looks like Kasich is getting about the same percentage of votes as he did when he was running. Is it usual for the last man standing/presumptive nominee to get as little as 67% of the votes cast?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
no kiddin
Gelfling545
I am ridiculously thrilled that when my granddaughter votes for the first time this fall it will be for the first woman president.
The Thin Black Duke
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: HILLARY STOMP.
rikyrah
Thank you Mayhew ?
trollhattan
Hills owning California. Easy repeat in November.
Mike in DC
Dem base to Bernie: Bye Felicia!
Mike J
Times is reporting 6% in 828k-485k
CA SOS says 10.6%, 760k-432k.
NotMax
@Mary G
Would there were a way to exit poll judges voting in the R primaries today.
/idle thought
SoupCatcher
@amygdala: The way-too-early map is showing Bernie taking only the far north.
dmsilev
Senate primary called for Harris, Sanchez in second place with a several point gap between her and the first Republican (“jungle” primary combining everyone from all parties; top two move on to November).
Mike J
My math has Hillary requiring 105 out of CA’s 475 to go over 2026. If the current advantage holds (and it almost certainly won’t(but I’d be thrilled if it did)) she’d get 300.
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev: So, in November, it will be a choice between two good Dems?
dmsilev
NYT liveblog:
divF
Early returns have both SF and Alameda County at 60/40 for Clinton. Even if this is the “skews old” vote, these are the most left-wing counties in California (Barbara Lee ran unopposed in a jungle primary for Congress). I don’t think this is going to be a good night for Sanders.
SoupCatcher
@Omnes Omnibus: If the results hold, Barbara Boxer’s seat will remain in the hands of a Democratic woman (with the added bonus of a woman of color).
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: No. Democratic law requires one of those Dems to be evil incarnate.
Mike J
Watch the live ballot counting web cam! Exciting!
http://sfgov.org/elections/ballot-counting
dmsilev
@Omnes Omnibus: Assuming the current numbers hold up, pretty much, yeah.
Miss Bianca
@Baud: How can you make me laugh and give me the chills at the same time?
rikyrah
If Hillary wins, and gets 2 terms, there will be an entire swath of American children like Peanut, who will enter the voting booth for the first time at 18, having only known a Black man and a woman as President. How that group will see the world is vastly different than people just 10 years older than them. ??
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@dmsilev:
I wonder how Obama forced Bernie to show up for this meeting.
dmsilev
The margin will shrink once a substantial number of Election Day ballots are counted, but probably not that much.
Miss Bianca
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: I think we’re going to see more and more of this too – I think young people and kids are going to get really turned on to her candidacy.
ETA: And when Bernie’s campaign stopped being all about Bernie’s ideas and started being all about Bernie, he completely lost me. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he started losing a lot of people then.
dmsilev
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: “Be there, or I feed the bird to my dogs”
patroclus
@Baud: According to the 2016 nomenclature, one of them is bound to be an establishment neo-liberal warmongering corporate whore and the other is sure to be a shrill leftist process-only-oriented bitch who thinks the process is rigged:-)
dmsilev
@Mike J: I smell Oscar!
Regine Touchon
My mom, an ardent Hillary supporter in 2008, passed away in September of that year. She came to love Obama, but tonight she gets to celebrate this historic victory.
greennotGreen
Hillary talked about the glass ceiling in her speech (I only listened to the first part,) but I don’t think that’s what the most significant thing here. It’s for all the little girls who will now see being President as a possibility…and if they could be President, then everything is open! The greatest problem has never been that a woman would achieve and be stopped by a glass ceiling; it’s that a little girl would never believe she should even try.
The Thin Black Duke
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: Obama probably said, “Please proceed, Mr. Sanders,” and gave him the same look he gave Romney.
Run, Lillian!
And Benchmark says: Hillary can now lose day of voting 70-30 and still win CA.
WOOOT!
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: seems like a “pinch me I’m dreaming” kind of scenario to me…
amygdala
@SoupCatcher: Thanks! I’m guessing that 2:1 early Hillary advantage with no precincts reporting is absentee ballots. Can’t find a precinct-level real time map, alas. Would expect the western side of the city, Marina and Bayview to be all-in for Hillz. Noe and surrounding areas may be Bernie strongholds. No idea what’ll happen in the Mission, given all the gentrification.
Elie
@Regine Touchon:
A wonderful night — step one. Now we have to finish the job on our shoulders to carry her into office this November.
My Mom and I cried in November 2008 as Obama, the first black President was elected. I hugged her tight on the couch and we both wished that her mother and my dad had been alive to witness it. This will be also amazing but we must not rest — our work remains ahead and work after that to maintain this country — “The Land of the Free and the Home of the (truly) Brave”…
What pride I feel in this result but pride I also feel in taking this effort onto my shoulders. To do this work is the deepest honor….
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Probably Bernie demanding that Obama support him over Hillary.
trollhattan
@the Conster, la Citoyenne:
Presidenting while president.
Hillary taking the big prize easily. She spent a good deal of time here and it’s proving a good investment.
AkaDad
Guy at LGF during Hillary’s speech.
“I’m not crying. You are. Shut up.”
patroclus
@Regine Touchon: My Mom died last fall, but she would have loved to see this day! She was a “professional” women way back in the 40’s through the 80’s and would have thoroughly enjoyed seeing Hillary clinch tonight!
Run, Lillian!
@Renie:
I just wanted to say that my mom and I had a similar rift in 2008. She was all in for Hillary and I was all in for Obama and I was super obnoxious about it cuz youth. We only really argued about it like once or twice but I know she felt sad that I didn’t get what a momentous thing it would be to have a woman nominee then and it really meant a lot to her given her history as a single mom and as a career woman and former hippie feminist from the South.
Flash forward eight years later and I am all in with Hillary. I get it, it thrills me, and I will fight for her to win. So give your daughter a few years (maybe four) and she might be right there with you!
NotMax
Sanders speech coming up.
Will he go so far as to claim North Dakota more representative of the electorate than California or New Jersey?
Magic 8-ball sez, “Results hazy. Try again later.”
dmsilev
I saw some mention that Sanders was going to speak at 10 Pacific. Is that still happening?
Miss Bianca
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: “Chill the fuck out, Senator. We’ve got this.”
Glidwrith
@Scout211: Ten years ago, I dressed my then-newborn baby girl in a ‘Future President’ onesie. May our daughters prosper.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@NotMax: Given his fuzzy math and gullible supporters, he’ll just claim he won all the states.
trollhattan
@dmsilev:
Yeah, they’re saying 10:00 our time. This is his best and possibly last chance to remain relevant, hope he takes it.
Deecarda
Check out the Times, Tom ran out of Friedman units for the Republican Party.
Adam L Silverman
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: No, here’s the full statement:
oklahomo
@SoupCatcher: The state of Jefferson has spoken.
seaboogie
@gf120581: Wit ‘ya on that, and add a little bit of Warren sauce to the mix….wimmins and uppity black folks really get under that thin orange skin!
Elie
@patroclus:
My Mom was a working Mom — a black social worker in Chicago who worked hard, sometimes extra job with Daddy to save enough for a home and to send Debbie and I to college. My grandmother who loved us and lived with us, made her and my Dad’s long hours possible. I can remember her coming home around 9 or 10 PM after having worked her day job on some nights. She was tired I am sure, but never complained. She did what needed to be done — she took care of our family as a full and strong partner to my Dad. They were a team — not perfect but they put it out there. They were and are my example: Doing what needs to be done without complaint. Doing and believing in caring for their fellow man and woman; staying strong in the face of adversity. My Mom was passed over for promotion in her main social work job several times and I know she hated that…. She talked to me a lot about how to handle rough times and disappointment. Not sure that I fully got it until recently…. Here’s to all women doing what needs to be done — getting up and facing it each day, bringing your best, win or lose…
trollhattan
@Deecarda:
Ooh, do tell!
Hillary’s actually pulling further away in CA.
Adam L Silverman
Just put up a live stream to Senator Sanders speech.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: H’mm. Interesting. I sense some face-saving energy for Sen. Sanders in this scenario – but, knowing Obama, it could be more than that, as well.
Aleta
Barbara Jordan once said
(1977)
Elie
@Glidwrith:
So cool!!!
Adam L Silverman
@Miss Bianca: The President is going to make him an offer. We’ll see if he’s smart enough to take it.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: God, I hope so.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Even Tricky Dick is tired of freddie
Aleta
(@Aleta: She was the first african american woman to serve in the texas senate and the first african american elected to that body since 1883. in 1972 she became the first african american woman from the south to be elected to the united states congress, serving as a member of the house of representatives until 1979.) http://lbj.utexas.edu/archive/news/images/file/bjf_program_2009.pdf
Deecarda
@trollhattan: Friedman declares the Repubs moral bankruptcy & should file Chapter 11.
patroclus
@Elie: My Mom was from Massachusetts and got a Masters degree from Ohio State but my Dad moved her down to Texas so she was forced to attempt to become a dietician at hospitals and nursing homes all over rural Texas for four decades when sexism was rampant and no one trusted women to do anything managerial (i.e., planning diets for patients and supervising food services). The (male) administrators would typically hold key meetings and make stupid decisions without bothering to inform her and she would then have to make do with whatever they decided. Only after the 60’s with national nursing home standards did the situation begin to change (partly because of her and her colleagues). In time, she gained respect and the care facilities became extremely reliant on her and respected her expertise greatly. But those early decades with no enforced standards, no funding and terrible care must have been difficult – especially because no one listened to her. She was truly heroic at times. I miss her tonight.
trollhattan
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: I fvcking love Dick Nixon’s Twitter account! It’s gold, Jerry.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Adam L Silverman:
If he demonstrates that he’s smart, it will be his first time. The Politico article that just came out about the last days of his campaign indicates that he’s utterly incapable of any grace or concession, and is motivated by personal animosity.
NotMax
@Aleta
Remain disappointed that she, regardless of health problems, was not nominated for the Supreme Court when the opportunity presented itself.
seaboogie
@Elie: Thank you for sharing your experience, and that of your Mother in particular. I am very much struck by all the middle-aged black women that I see surrounding Hillary and have deep respect for the experience and committment that they bring to this cause. Here is another story about the strength and persistence of the current generation of AA women as the highest percentage of college enrollees – it bodes well for the future.
Glidwrith
@Elie: I took that same daughter with me today for voting. I am registered as non-partisan in CA and requested a Dem ballot so I could vote for Clinton. My daughter saw first-hand the poll worker claiming I had to do a provisional ballot and me disputing that claim. They were quite gracious and called headquarters to verify, but I got my ballot as requested. I had a Happy Dance the rest of the day.
trollhattan
@Deecarda:
Wow. Did he switch from Yellow Cab to Uber or something?
When you’ve lost the Mustache of Understanding…
divF
@Aleta: I am of an age to remember her speech as a member of the House Judiciary Committee that opened the Nixon impeachment hearings. It was stunning – both magisterial and devastating.
moonbat
@Aleta: She was one of my earliest heroes. She was awe-inspiring during the Watergate hearings.
Splitting Image
I’m still amazed at how pathetic the G.O.P. organization has been this cycle. They had 17 candidates and they’d have been better off if they’d drafted Dan Quayle.
Hopefully the best thing to come out of tonight is that a lot of women will realize how badly they want to repeat this experience in November. That’s when history will really be made.
Death Panel Truck
@Aleta: Best. Speech. Ever.
Deecarda
<@trollhattan: >But this Republican Party is none of those things. Today’s G.O.P. is to governing what Trump University is to education — an ethically challenged enterprise that enriches and perpetuates itself by shedding all pretense of standing for real principles, or a truly relevant value proposition, and instead plays on the ignorance and fears of the public.
Adam L Silverman
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I’m not going to hold my breath or anything.
seaboogie
@Adam L Silverman: Maybe they’re just waiting for the Xanax to kick in before he goes out to speak…..
Aleta
@Death Panel Truck: I’m listening to that speech you linked, and just heard her say:
(Barbara Johnson in 1973? -4?)
fuckwit
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: The 1% vote their interests.
Elie
@seaboogie:
Thank you! Loved the article and thanks for sharing…. my emotions are complicated tonight — so much inside right now…
Elie
@patroclus:
Thank you for sharing your mother’s story. So many women — it is such a wonderful thing that you KNOW her story and can recite it. What an honor to her!
Brachiator
@Yutsano: Born in Hawaii? Do you have Obama’s birth certificate?
More seriously, yeah these are good times. Unfortunately there is also a kind of social civil war happening as well, as a few furiously fight to restore a less tolerant world.
Death Panel Truck
@Aleta: July 25, 1974.