2016 Postmortem
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Source: ABC News
By LIZ KREUTZ
Henniker, NH Feb 6, 2016, 7:09 PM ET
Hillary Clinton on Saturday blasted the huge double standard she feels she faces as a woman running for president.
There is a much greater burden on women running for political office...there is still a huge double standard, Clinton told a voter in a town hall at the New England College who asked about the perception that she is drilled and rehearsed.
The Democratic presidential candidate mentioned a blog post a friend sent to her about a Bernie Sanders supporter who likes the Vermont Senator because he yells a lot and has messy hair.
"My friend said, Boy that would really work for any woman running, Clinton retorted sarcastically.
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djean111
(14,255 posts)and cluster bombs. IMO she is trying to trivialize these important issues, and play that gender card. Ugh.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I always make note in the debates every time she mentions that she's a woman, as if we all don't know that already.
djean111
(14,255 posts)by Hillary, Gloria Steinem, and Madeleine Albright.
840high
(17,196 posts)Feminist activist Gloria Steinem on Friday suggested that young women support Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders over rival Hillary Clinton because they want to meet boys.
On HBOs Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher asked Steinem why Clinton, who has campaigned on the historic nature of her candidacy, was losing the young female vote.
dont mean to over-generalize
but men tend to get more conservative because they gain power as they age, and women get more radical because they lose power as they age, Steinem responded.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/dem-primaries/268498-gloria-steinem-young-women-support-sanders-to-attract-men#
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)I think that this could backfire....this feels too extreme....undermines her as a candidate
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)on the other hand. Screw that crap.
Indepatriot
(1,253 posts)Big Mistake. The women I know resent the hell out of this crap.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)And everything to do with being a phony. If she could project an ounce of authenticity, she'd be "well-prepared".
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)with Tricky Dick Nixon's picture on it.
Ino
(3,366 posts)but she sure does yell. A Lot. And drips with sarcasm, smugness, and condescension.
Hillary says (from the OP): I am who I am, she said. "I can't do some kind of personality transformation...I have to be true to myself."
frylock
(34,825 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Nedsdag
(2,437 posts)If Obama played the race card, he wouldn't be in the White House.
Now THAT'S a double standard.
Nanjeanne
(4,960 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)DemocraticSocialist8
(396 posts)When Obama was running in 2008, he didn't repeatedly say "vote for me so I can be the first Black President." It's become clear to me that being the 1st Woman President is the most important thing to her.
fwiff
(233 posts)I wouldn't call it 'huge' but there is a certain way that she, as a woman, is expected to behave. And she would bring another shitload of irrelevant controversy anytime she slipped up enough. (She is drilled and rehearsed, but it's because she doesn't have the natural communication skills of Bill or Obama, even Bernie, and if she wasn't a weathervane, I wouldn't have a problem with that)
Look at that stupid piece/comment? a couple of days ago, calling her 'shrill'.
We have plenty to criticize her about on policy.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)But I agree she definitely is correct about this.
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)In what universe (sadly) could a woman walk around with messed up hair, looking unkempt like Sanders spouting nonsense pie in the sky public policy proposals? Bernie can present his disheveled appearance and nonsense as just being a geriatric man and people eat it up.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)Bernie's female supporters - it doesn't get much more hypocritical than that!