What an embarrassment!
What's Hillary Clinton trying to do? Take women back to the 20th century?
By crying about "the all-boys club of presidential politics" ganging up on poor little Hillary, she's validating the boys' club.
I have no respect for how she's handling her disastrous debate performance on Tuesday at Drexel University.
There are lots of reasons I don't respect Hillary.
I find the way she's playing the gender card in this case particularly reprehensible.
Her address at Wellesley College was nauseating.
"In so many ways, this all-women's college prepared me to compete in the all boys' club of presidential politics," Clinton declared, prompting yells and applause.
...debate in which she came under sustained and withering attack - her campaign accused her male rivals of piling it on - Clinton visited the friendliest territory imaginable to unveil her campaign's new effort to organize campus groups. The issue was not whether Clinton has waffled on fixing Social Security or giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, but whether she will be the first woman elected president.
More than 1,000 young women, and a few men, screamed at top volume, stomped their feet, and danced in the aisles to welcome the class of 1969 alumna, who in addition to asking students to volunteer for her campaign, spoke at length about women's advancement in society.
"We're ready to shatter that highest glass ceiling," she said.
...She told a couple of stories about witnessing sexism in her career, including when a colleague told her that it would be impossible for her to be a courtroom lawyer because she had no wife to make sure she had clean socks during a long trial.
Members of the campus group supporting Clinton wore bright blue T-shirts that said, "I can be president, too." (One freshman had a T-shirt that said "Hot for Hillary.")
Several students said they were inspired by Clinton's candidacy. "Maybe one of us will be the second female president," suggested Courtney Streett, a junior from Delaware majoring in environmental policy and Africana studies.
Others, however, said the gender barrier in the White House isn't the most important thing, including Alia Radman, a sophomore who had lived in Bosnia and said she has long loved the Clintons because President Clinton intervened to end the war there.
"It would bother me if people would only vote for her because she's a woman, because that demeans what she has to say," said Radman.
By playing the gender card, Hillary isn't only demeaning what she has to say as a candidate, as Wellesley sophomore Radman suggests, I think she's demeaning women.
When the going gets tough, woman Hillary relies on her gender to get her out of the mess.
She says that she's "ready to shatter that highest glass ceiling."
Obviously, she's not.
I don't think the presidential glass ceiling should be shattered by someone depending on gender as the means to do it.
Without question, someday a woman will be the President of the United States.
I hope that woman will exhibit character, strength, and wisdom. I hope she'll be elected because she is the best candidate and the most capable person to run the country, not because of her XX chromosomes.
In my opinion, any woman willing to play the gender card is not fit to be the first woman president.
Any woman willing to vote for Hillary solely because she's a woman is selling out.
Casting such a vote would be a sexist act.
Hillary is exploiting sexism rather than conquering it.
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