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(86,005 posts)
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 12:55 PM Dec 2015

‘She is a woman, it’s not a card’

from Raw Story:


CNN’s Michaela Pereira destroys Trump’s attack on Hillary: ‘She is a woman, it’s not a card’

CNN host Michaela Pereira on Monday fired back at Donald Trump’s assertion that Hillary Clinton was playing the “woman card” because she has pointed out sexism on the campaign trail.

Over the weekend, Trump argued that it was fair to attack Bill Clinton since Hillary Clinton was “mentioning sexism.”

Jeffrey Lord, CNN’s go-to Trump supporter, told Pereira that some women had been “bullied by Hillary Clinton.”

“So yes, in fact, the issue is really Hillary Clinton and her treatment of women,” Lord insisted.

“Trump also accused Clinton of using the so-called women’s card,” Pereira noted. “I wasn’t issued one of those apparently. Why is mentioning the possibility of sexism on the campaign trail tantamount to Clinton calling the gender card?”

“She is going to play this card,” Lord replied. “It’s an obvious card to play, let’s be candid.”

“Is it?” Pereira shot back. “Is it a card? She is a woman, it’s not really a card.”

“Right, she is a woman,” Lord stuttered. “I mean, she is the woman going around saying isn’t it time for a woman president.”

“A lot of people would say amen to that,” Pereira observed.


read: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/cnns-michaela-pereira-destroys-trumps-attack-on-hillary-she-is-a-woman-its-not-a-card/

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MadDAsHell

(2,067 posts)
2. How about "It's time for a progressive President", and if the person happens to be a woman, YAY...
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 02:17 PM
Dec 2015

How naive and shortsighted to assume we're going to get some huge change in policy/practice because the President has something different between his/her legs.

bigtree

(86,005 posts)
4. that's a good point
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 02:22 PM
Dec 2015

...but it doesn't address Trump's statement (the subject of the op) :


NYT:

On Monday, Mr. Trump accused Mr. Clinton of having a “terrible record of women abuse” and warned that he would be a liability to her campaign.

If Hillary thinks she can unleash her husband, with his terrible record of women abuse, while playing the women's card on me, she's wrong!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2015


The assault on Mr. Clinton’s character has been couched as a counterpunch. Mrs. Clinton said last week that Mr. Trump had a “penchant for sexism” after he said that she was doing “disgusting” things in the bathroom during the last Democratic presidential debate.

Over the weekend, Mr. Trump said that that Mrs. Clinton was playing the “woman’s card” and that her husband’s sexual history would be fair game as the 2016 race ramped up. “His presidency was really considered to be very troubled, to put it mildly, because of all of the things that’s she talking to me about,” Mr. Trump said Sunday on Fox News.


read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/28/donald-trump-takes-on-bill-clintons-behavior-toward-women/

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
5. Trump thinks Bill is running, not Hillary
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 03:56 PM
Dec 2015

I guess he blames her for staying with him. I admire that myself. If you love the other person, it can be forgiven. A lot of women ( and men) do forgive and move on.

bigtree

(86,005 posts)
6. accusing her of sexism for calling him out on his 'disgusting' remark
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 04:04 PM
Dec 2015

...he's trying to change the subject. Obviously, he believes 'sexism' is daring to confront bigotry; not the bullying, itself.

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
8. Is "playing the woman card" like waving a tampon around to scare men?
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 10:31 PM
Dec 2015

Must be. I'm sure what else about women would be so intimidating to a guy like Trump.

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