Let your anger flow through you...
Posted on 06/01/2008 1:31:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
How much anger is there among women about how Hillary Clinton has been treated during this campaign? Some of the nation's leading female politicians will tell you: quite a lot.
"From the beginning, she's been treated very badly," says Therese Murray, the president of the Massachusetts Senate. "No woman would have run with Obama's resume. She wouldn't have been considered." But Clinton has been "demonized by the press and the talking heads. How do you get away with that?"
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., says she is regularly approached "by women of all races, of all ages, of all faiths. They stop me, grab my hand and say, 'Look what they've done to her, we were so close.' They wanted this for their daughters and granddaughters. ... It's so heartbreaking."
For Rep. Darlene Hooley, D-Ore., the symbol that "sexism reigns supreme" was in the wide availability of offensive anti-Hillary paraphernalia in stores and on the Internet. For Barbara Johnson, president of the Minneapolis City Council, Clinton may have been the victim of "ageism" as much as sexism. The message, she said, was: "Your time is past, it's time for somebody new to take your place."
Many women, said Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., "knew we had made many strides. They asked, 'Aren't we past this? What's going on?' They're not happy with what they see as sexism, permitted by the media and in some cases encouraged by the media."
If there is good news for Barack Obama in any of this, it is that the rage felt by Clinton's female supporters is directed in large part toward the media. "The anger is aimed much more at you all," said Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts of Rhode Island. Added Murray: "Obama wouldn't have gotten to where he got today if it weren't for the bias of the male media — no offense."
It's true that campaigns and political movements use anger as a bargaining chip. The message is: Appease us or we will cause trouble. The Clinton campaign is hoping that such rage will strengthen its hand in the battle to seat pro-Clinton Michigan and Florida delegations at the party's national convention, even though those states held early primaries in violation of party rules.
But the conversations I had this week with prominent female politicians from around the country who support Clinton suggest that the fury and disappointment is about more than short-term maneuvering. In many cases, it is rooted in the empathy of women who themselves broke gender barriers at various levels of politics.
Murray, for example, is the first woman to lead the Massachusetts Senate. Hooley was the first woman on the city council in West Linn, Ore., and the first woman elected as a commissioner of Clackamas County. Johnson says proudly that she is the second woman in her family to serve as president of the Minneapolis City Council. Her mother was the first.
"She (Clinton) is striking a chord among women who have been involved in politics for a long time and who have been waiting for a long time," said Nancy Kopp, Maryland's treasurer.
Female politicians feel for Clinton as someone who regularly faces questions male politicians would never be asked. When a reporter queried Roberts about "my brand of lipstick and what color was it," she revealed the vital information — "Revlon Number 235" — but noted that "some of my supporters were offended that she asked me."
These are professional politicians, so they know that Clinton is on the verge of defeat because of her campaign's organizational mistakes, its failure to take Obama seriously early on, and the difficulties created by her husband's presence. Roberts points to an age split among women, noting that her 19-year-old daughter Kathleen is a staunch Obama supporter. Obama, Kopp said, clearly has a strong appeal "among younger women, though that's true among many older women, too."
Indeed, Obama has the support of many prominent female elected officials. He won significant female support in the primaries, carrying a majority of the women's vote in 13 states and splitting it evenly with Clinton in Wisconsin.
Nonetheless, even these very pragmatic female politicians who very much want a Democrat to win the White House are looking for signs of "understanding and respect," said Kopp.
"It's a campaign, someone wins, someone doesn't win, that's life," she said. "But women don't want to be totally dissed."
This is kinda funny actually. Hillary has only marginally more actual experience than Obama. Being wife of an adulterer doesn’t count as experience.
On the other side of the coin, American blacks are saying the same thing about their kneejerk candidate, Obama.
In the future, I predict ‘oppressed class’ runs based on sexual orientation (maybe both RAT’s are doing this already but are too shy about it), vegetarianism, bi-polar disorders, chronic halitosis and toe fungus problems.
Our strength is our diversity.
“Leftist feminists angry?
I don’t believe it.”
Really they are!! Perhaps the first time in history but we may need a second source just for confirmation.
Clinton has been “demonized by the press and the talking heads. This is what the MSM did to, and is doing to President Bush. It seems a way of life for democrats, so get over it.
“Ain’t it funny how they all found a pistol
at the wrong end of the race?”
I say, let’s go ugly early.....
Not so fast. It will become old stuff and the voters will forget. Wait for October!
This ain’t over.
HIllary's resume'?
Her attorney boss (a loyal Democrat) who worked on the Watergate Committee said he would never recommend her, that she was dishonest and a liar and was in favor of unconstitutionally preventing Richard Nixon from even having his own attorney!
Her "experience" with the Rose law firm is full of questionable billing practices, impossible land deals and cattle futures deals.
Her health care plan proposal during her husband's presidency was so horrible, Democrats ran away from it as fast as they could.
She is a Senator because her husband was President, period.
She locked her thighs around a man with political skills, rode him all the way into the White House and, out of her unbridled lust for power, looked the other way as her husband diddled a battalion of woman along the way.
Some resume'!
Couldn’t agree more with your observation. By the way, great tagline.
Hey I thought this notion of “female anger” was a figment of Rush’s imagination.
Prepare to be called sexist when Hillary drops out.
Wanna see angry? Check this out. This video in 12 hours has about a quarter of a million hits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KACQuZVAE3s ^
But she has one qualification that matters to the feminazi liberals - she's female. To them, that's all that matters. This is affirmative action taken to it's extreme. She doesn't have the background, the intelligence, or the mindset for the job. But she has the gender thing all locked up, and her 'flock' would put her in the President's chair solely on that basis.
Obama shares a similar fame - he's been pushed to the top solely on the basis of his race.
What a nice country this would be if people were judged not by the color of their skin or their gender, but by the nature of their character. For if that were true, both of these bozos would be unemployed and somebody qualified would be in their places.
Certainly there are people in both parties who would come together to embrace a new political force of ‘Love America First’ over the moral relativism of ‘Me First’. Clean house (both sides congress), say no to illegals on our soil, send PC reeling back on their rearends, drill for oil, massive tort reform, restore states rights (federalism), incentives for buy America first, etc., etc.
Race trumps gender...for now.
Not that NOW. The cows will come home to roost.
Let your anger flow through you...
Unless her name was Clinton.
Bingo. Live by the media die by the media. I confess to substantial Schadenfreude at the sound of these arrogant nasty skanks reduced to whining and sputtering.
Don't worry Sweetie, Hussein will call you in the morning.
Half of the Democrat Party is RACIST....the Other half is SEXIST!!! Stupidity and the Pro-DEATH culture are the ties that bind them together.
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