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PeaceNikki
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February 26, 2016
This is a great piece. Much more at link: http://qz.com/624346/america-loves-women-like-hillary-clinton-as-long-as-theyre-not-asking-for-a-promotion/
America loves women like Hillary Clinton–as long as they’re not asking for a promotion
Its hard to remember these days, but just a few years ago, everybody loved Hillary Rodham Clinton. When she stepped down as US secretary of state in January 2013 after four years in office, her approval rating stood at what the Wall Street Journal described as an eye-popping 69%. That made her not only the most popular politician in the country, but the second-most popular secretary of state since 1948.
The 2012 Texts from Hillary meme, which featured a sunglasses-clad Clinton scrolling through her Blackberry aboard a military flight to Libya, had given rise to a flood of think pieces hailing her badass cool. The Washington Post wanted president Barack Obama to give vice president Joe Biden the boot and replace him with Clinton. Taking stock of Clintons approval ratings, Nate Silver noted in a 2012 piece for the New York Times that she currently held remarkably high numbers for a politician in an era when many public officials are distrusted or disliked.
How times have changed. The FBI And 67 Percent of Americans Distrust Hillary Clinton, booms a recent headline in the Huffington Post. Clintons favorability ratings currently hover around 40.8%. Bob Woodward complains that there is something unrelaxed about the way she is communicating. Hillarys personality repels me, Walker Bragman writes in Salon.
How can we reconcile the unlikable Democratic presidential candidate of today with the adored politician of recent history? Its simple: Public opinion of Clinton has followed a fixed pattern throughout her career. Her public approval plummets whenever she applies for a new position. Then it soars when she gets the job. The wild difference between the way we talk about Clinton when she campaigns and the way we talk about her when shes in office cant be explained as ordinary political mud-slinging. Rather, the predictable swings of public opinion reveal Americans continued prejudice against women caught in the act of asking for power.
The 2012 Texts from Hillary meme, which featured a sunglasses-clad Clinton scrolling through her Blackberry aboard a military flight to Libya, had given rise to a flood of think pieces hailing her badass cool. The Washington Post wanted president Barack Obama to give vice president Joe Biden the boot and replace him with Clinton. Taking stock of Clintons approval ratings, Nate Silver noted in a 2012 piece for the New York Times that she currently held remarkably high numbers for a politician in an era when many public officials are distrusted or disliked.
How times have changed. The FBI And 67 Percent of Americans Distrust Hillary Clinton, booms a recent headline in the Huffington Post. Clintons favorability ratings currently hover around 40.8%. Bob Woodward complains that there is something unrelaxed about the way she is communicating. Hillarys personality repels me, Walker Bragman writes in Salon.
How can we reconcile the unlikable Democratic presidential candidate of today with the adored politician of recent history? Its simple: Public opinion of Clinton has followed a fixed pattern throughout her career. Her public approval plummets whenever she applies for a new position. Then it soars when she gets the job. The wild difference between the way we talk about Clinton when she campaigns and the way we talk about her when shes in office cant be explained as ordinary political mud-slinging. Rather, the predictable swings of public opinion reveal Americans continued prejudice against women caught in the act of asking for power.
This is a great piece. Much more at link: http://qz.com/624346/america-loves-women-like-hillary-clinton-as-long-as-theyre-not-asking-for-a-promotion/
February 22, 2016
OMG not only are they jumping sharks, they are filling schoolbuses with sharks,
lining them up next to each other, setting them on fire, setting themselves on fire, and jumping the flaming schoolbuses filled with sharks, while flaming.
February 21, 2016
Anyone who uses this to disparage one of the most influential women of our lifetimes is an asshole.
She's an honorable woman who has worked her entire life for civil and worker's rights. She was trying to make sure those who spoke Spanish knew what the fuck was going on.
If you find yourself questioning her integrity or accomplishments look them up.
She's a smart, honorable woman whose opinion I and all of us should respect.
If you start questioning where she "went wrong", wondering how she could ever support HRC, maybe instead you should question your own beliefs. Maybe you should examine what right wing bullshit you're buying into.
Maybe it's you.
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