"Hillary Clinton Feminists"

[mrreowwr_kittty]

Wednesday, 05 March 2008

Hillary Clinton Feminists


Can Crabby Old Lady be the only American or, at least, the only American feminist who feels no surprise and no particular gender pride at Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy?

Over the past two years, gallons of ink have been used examining the senator, her campaign and voters’ acceptance of a woman candidate, and it has been obvious with every poll and every primary vote that the gender issue in regard to the presidency is dead. There will be a woman president this year or another, when the majority of voters believe the candidate is the best person for the job...


...Senator Clinton is an old-time, practiced pol, no different from the men in the race. Her campaign is calculated and calibrated depending on daily polls, just like the men. She stretches the truth in attacks on her opponents and runs misleading ads, just like the men. She gets as good as she gives - fairly and otherwise - just like the men. And she has held her own in one of the two top spots throughout the campaign, even making a fairly dramatic comeback last night.

No one can say the Democratic nomination process has not been fair in regard to Mrs. Clinton - as fair, that is, as politics ever is. Yet there is a coterie of certain women who continue to complain and who, Crabby senses, will not be satisfied with anything less than a unanimous anointment of Senator Clinton as Queen of the United States without all this messy bother of an election...


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http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2008/03/hillary-clinton.html

[anonymous171]

1. Uh-oh

:hide::yoiks:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Read the blog. She nails it for me.

Hillary Clinton's ascendancy has never struck me as a blow for feminism. I see it as neither bad nor good for women. She is just another politician who is benefitting from her family connections.

[Armstead]

3. Shhhhh.....You're being too rational

[Bucky]

4. This is a stupid essay

Clinton people are fighting hard for the nomination. But that just doesn't sound stupid enough. So instead let's say Clinton's supporters "will not be satisfied with anything less than a unanimous anointment of Senator Clinton as Queen of the United States without all this messy bother of an election."

If she wanted to be queen, she wouldn't be running for election; she'd be raising an army. If the author wanted to have a serious discussion about the election, she wouldn't have written this particular article.