Clinton: Playing Field for Her as Candidate Not Even Because of Her Gender

It’s not because it’s hard, it is because you didn’t look beyond the first Super Tuesday. It’s called poor planning and over confidence.

WestCoastLib
Dude, you do realize that your girl HRC has officially abandoned the Rudy strategy and adopted the Huckabee strategy, don’t you?

Oh NO! She finds a way to “cry” right before every election!!! MORE tears! Feel sorry for me because I’m a woman. I am a woman and don’t find the need to have people feel sorry for my gender in order to do MY job!!!

If Clinton thinks it’s harder for her to run being a woman try running as a black man…there’s a REAL reason why he has more security.. LOL She takes the cake and would sell her daughters soul for a shot at the White House.

WAIT A MINUTE I just read the post where someone leaks from the mouth and says Trapper does not get it because he is a man…it’s people like YOU who don’t get it! She needs to stop making excuses for her poor showing and take responsibility for her own decisions during this race and her past life. SHE choses to lie time and time again and people are tired of it! YOU denegrate ALL women with blanket statements such as that and I for one don’t appreciate YOUR attempt at explaining why someone won’t climb on the pity wagon with a weak woman!

I think that I agree with her that there is sexism, but we’ve seen clear evidence of racial overtones in the media and by surrogates as well. The difference is, if Barack Obama mentions his race as a hardship he is playing an affirmative action card that will be seized upon and he’ll lose votes.She gains a sympathy vote here.
I think overall, this was smart because she needs to make the case for women to rally around the flag.
The real untold story here: Hillary Clinton is a politician with HUGE historical negatives. If Elizabeth Edwards ran for president with HRC’s resume, she would have locked this down in Iowa. Why? She has more charisma, sharper on the stump and more inviting, and can launch an attack without incurring the shrill and annoying labels (note her fight w/the media and taking on all Edwards enemies and acting the vP).
We need a candidate with political skills: NY was a cornoation in the primary and Giulliani got sick. She hasn’t fought a serious fight before this, a lot like the rap Obama gets. Hell, McCain is in a similar boat.
This is a hail mary play that is bad for women as a whole IMO.
But, whatever.

Hillary has worked extreemly hard. Also, I can’t believe the media denies their love affair with Obama. Anything Hillary has said, whether it be positive or negative, is put in a negative light for an indefinate amount of time. Moreover, I watched Ohio’s debate and Hillary was more specific than Obama and looked like a stronger, more polished candidate than him (even though the “experts” wouldn’t agree). When it comes down to it, I really don’t vote based off of bias media reports, but rather on issues themselves.
Tapper, lets hear about how Obama’s campaign called the Canadian Ambassador and told him to ignore their negative NAFTA comments. Even though this should speak volumes on Obama’s “commitments” he’s making to voters, this story will probaly die tonight.
Can’t wait to watch SNL again!

Naturally, if you disagree with Hillary or don’t support her, you hate women in general. A wonderful platform.

A senior official from the Obama campaign contacted Michael Wilson, Canadian ambassador to the United States, and told him that the Senator was going to harshly criticize NAFTA during his race against Clinton in Ohio, but added: “Don’t worry… it’s just campaign rhetoric…Don’t take it seriously”.
He is a liar. Don’t trust him.

Hillary is right, it would be harder to elect a woman than a black man at this time. I’m an Obama supporter, but I sympathize with her. I would like there to be a woman president soon but there was too much at stake to risk going with her this time around. Obama will win easily. Clinton might have won, might have lost. I wasn’t willing to take a chance on that. I firmly believe that Hillary can continue to do good things for this country w/o being president and the next female serious contender for prez will be more likely to win because of what she’s achieved this year. Go Obama! Go Dems!

Are there hate groups that want to see a woman dead simply because she is a woman?
Level playing field? Hill’s getting good at putting her foot in her mouth lately.
Anyone notice that Bill’s been relegated to the back of
pick-up trucks for speeches?

Clinton campaign song: “Please cry for me, Ohio…oh, how I need your vote, I will stop NAFTA, unless it’s for Texas…”

Due you want a litte cheese with that whine. What a baby. She wants to lead the free world? Please!!!! Honestly, what do some of you see in this egomaniac, enabling, shrill woman???

This would be funny if she were only running for dog-catcher! Face it Hillary, the media has demoted you to whiner and has elevated McCain to your former status of victim and has elevated Obama to your formerly former status as “she who can do no wrong”. Sorry about that!

Wow. I just watched Senator Obama and I’ve changed my mind. He has my full support…and my vote.
Obama in ’08!!!

I cant believe she really thinks that this crap is going to work. You act like a snake all your life and then complain that it is hard to be a lady when hissing striking their ankles with the venom of the worst poison imanagable.Good thing the American people woke up before she became POTUS. Now lets just hope they wake up to the dangers of Obama

There is nothing harder in this country than the business world, and that includes politics. But, I don’t look around and see female CEO’s complaining. Oprah Winfrey has made a fortune and has built an empire. Meg Whitman presides over E-bay and there are many other female CEO’s excelling. The difference is, they don’t waste their time, or their resources whining about how hard things are. Hillary Clinton whines about this, just as she whined about not being able to make good on her Senate campaign pledge to create 200,000 new jobs in New York because a Democrat didn’t win the White House. Yet, she says she’s tough and will fight and lead the country and has the foreign policy experience to sit down and deal with Russia and China and North Korea and Iran? Will her whining work on Vladimir Putin who interrogated prisoners in the dungeons of the KGB?

Obama cant do anything wrong in the eyes of MSNBC.He could be seen kissing Farrakhans ass and they would find some excuse for it.

At least Hillry is not afraid to admit that she is a woman. Mr.Obama failed to show up at the State of The Black Union,will not campaign with Jesee Jackson or Al Sharpton both of whom have endorsed him. He does not like the photo of himself in african garb even tho he had a film crew folling him the whole time. It appears that Mr. Obama is afraid to run as a black man. Hillary is not afraid to run as a proud woman!

Just joking. I’m an Obamacan.

I find it laughable that Hillary Clinton is playing the “poor little woman” card. Does she not think we remember her shaking her head in that (Gennifer Flowers? Paula Jones?)interview long ago and saying she was not “some little woman standing by her man” or that she “chose a career instead of staying home and baking cookies”? She is one tough cookie, and it is a pathetic ruse to try and act otherwise now.
Believe it or not, I started off pulling for her in this campaign, thinking that she had done a good job in the Senate, etc. It didn’t take long to see her claws come out, the cheap shots taken, and the win at any cost attitude. What a turn-off! I am on the band-wagon for Obama, one of the millions of disillusioned folk aching for change from this mean state of politics.

I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR!!!….until the mean mens start being bad to me…and then I am tiny, and oh so vulnerable and bitsy tears run down my cheek because it is sooooooo hard, and then…and then, I winned New Hampshire and then I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR!!!until the mean mens started being mean to me again……..Yawn

I am not a Senator Clinton supporter, but I do believe that she does has a point.
I am reminded of Shirley Chisholm the first woman to run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, and the first black female congressperson. She said “Of my two “handicaps” being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.”.

Hillary can’t be serious.
Every rally she has attended, every campaign stop she has made, there are women out there supporting her.
Obama, on the other hand, travels through (and campaigned in) whole states where there are not enough Black people to fill an auditorium. The same can be said about Mitt Romney and his fellow Mormons.
When she was leading by 30 points in the polls, you never heard a peep about how hard it was for a woman. Nary a word when she won California and New York.
What is she going to do next? Start crying again?
In 1988, Jesse Jackson proved that it was possible for a Black American to win the White House. It just wasn’t going to be him.
In 2008, Hillary has clearly proven that it is possible for a woman to win the White House. Unfortunately for Hillary, that woman will not be her.
To be fair, Hillary faced some sexism out on the campaign trail, some subtle, some outright. But in a few short years when the first female president is elected, she will be standing on the shoulders of Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, Pat Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro – and Hillary Clinton.
My bet is that she will be a governor or a sitting vice-president.

HRC’s problem is not being a woman. In fact that’s the only reason she’s still competitive in the race. It’s clearly the only reason she won New Hampshire.
She has no plan … her surrogates paint a picture of detailed, “Day 1″ plans but she doesn’t have one. What has she said concrete? Nothing. She’s talked about healthcare … she’s laid very little specific out there, except she’ll garnish wages and continue to erode the spirit of the “land of the free and home of the brave.” As if the fee and brave have their wages garnished.
Experience? She has no more than any other 1 term Senator, less than many.
She’s losing for the same reason many men lose elections — she’s not a good candidate.

Hillary has worked extremly hard. I can’t believe the media denies their love affair with Obama. Anything Hillary has said, whether it be positive or negative, is put in a negative light for an indefinite amount of time. Moreover, I watched Ohio’s debate and Hillary was more specific than Obama and looked like a stronger, more polished candidate than him (even though the “experts” wouldn’t agree). When it comes down to it, I really don’t vote based off of bias media reports, but rather on issues themselves.
Tapper, lets hear about how Obama’s campaign called the Canadian Ambassador and told him to ignore their negative NAFTA comments. Even though this should speak volumes on Obama’s “commitments” he’s making to voters, this story will probably die tonight.
Can’t wait to watch SNL again!

Guys…I just switched to Obama!!!

A different Hillary every day.

Right on target, Hillary Clinton! Obama plays the race card and he looks ‘unifying’. Her gender is seen by
all media as ‘divisive’. He is authoritative. She is shrill. She had to work twice as hard and be far more qualified than this political neophyte who’s yet to learn to change his political diapers!
Sure, His New Age Hopeness may get nominated. But his anorexic (xeroxed) resume will be devoured by old warrior McCain–without digestive enzymes!
Obambi has a Dream. But hard-working, overqualified, smart Hillary is the one with the prescription for America’s recovery! But the sexist comic journalists(?) are used to covering blondes in rehab and two-headed babies. Covering Politics is not tabloid journalism’s job any more! It was left to TINA FEY on SNL to get it right!
P.S. Start filing your applications for IMMIGRATION TO CANADA come November if Obambi gets in!

You never heard the Iron Maiden, Margaret Thatcher or Isreal’s Golda Meir whine “ohhh its sooo hard being a woman running for office, blah blah blah.” Those tough ladies lead their countries in times of peace and war. Golda had enemies on three sides and exacted vengance upon those who slaughtered Isreali athletes in Munich. Hillary is not fit to clean their bathrooms.

Kim: I’m not an “expert” either, but I wholly disagree with you. In my opinion Sen. Clinton lost the debate in Ohio badly. On the question of Health Care, her strongest issue, she and Sen. Obama were a draw. However, on Iraq, NAFTA, PAC contributions and the economy, he clearly bested her…as far as the allegations that his campaign contacted the Canadian Ambassador, they are false, as has been verified by the Ambassador’s office. That story doesn’t have legs because it’s propaganda and a lie. The reason why the NAFTA allegations will plague Sen. Clinton is because in the same week she talked in Texas about how wonderful NAFTA is, while in Ohio she talked about how devestating it is…

TINA FEY ENDORSED HILLARY!!
WATCH THE SNL video on NBC. THE REST OF MISOGYNIST MEDIA ARE HYPNOTIZED BY OBAMARAMA!! WAKE UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!!

For all those who thinks that Senator Obama is getting special treatment, let me tell you once and for all:
THE DIGNIFIED, POSITIVE, UPBEAT & PRINCIPLED BARACK OBAMA GETS THE RESPECT HE EARNS!
Barack Obama hails from a lineage that has produced leaders of men down the generations.
THAT IS WHY “THIS IMPROBABLE JOURNEY” TO THE WHITE HOUSE IS JUST WATER OFF A DUCK’S BACK TO OBAMA!
No offense; but Hilary Clinton is of a peasant lineage. Leadership of men IS ALWAYS going to be a burden for her, and not because of her gender.

Neither Obama nor Clinton have the QUALIFICATIONS to become POTUS. Period. But not because of their race or gender. Rather, they disqualify themselves from any world leadership position simply due to their failed philosophy. Neither of them will be strong social, military or financial leaders. The Democratic/Socialist philosophy is dead; the only people who support it are those who get a free ride, and those who profit from giving people a free ride.
I expect both candidates to play their respective “card” whether it be the race or gender card, because that’s ALL either of them have to go on. And the mental midgets who would vote for ANYONE in ANY party because of their gender, race or looks really aren’t qualified to vote.
There is NO “level playing field” in the REAL world. The idea that a level playing field is a hoax driven by left-wingers who want to see Socialism rule the world. It’s a good thing that thinking people won’t tolerate that sort of thing.

Why does it matter that a presidential candidate is black? Blacks and whites have fought and died together in every single war this country has waged. Blacks fought on the side of American colonists during the Revolutionary War, even though the British were offering them freedom. Blacks have been patriotic on the front lines, and many have bled and died for the United States of America. Yet, “fair-minded” Americans say they’re “not quite ready for a black president.” What does that mean? How can you say you believe in a creed that says all men were created equal, and then hesitate about electing someone simply because of their skin color? Which one is it? All men are created equal, or some are a bit more “equal” than others?

Standard: If you approach your vote for Sen. Clinton, the same way Sen. Clinton maintains her stance on issues, like say NAFTA, does that mean if you travel 100 miles in any direction in your state that you may vote for Sen. Obama or Sen. McCain?

Give me a break…the Clintons have enriched themselves at the public trough for long enough and now she’s whining. A more privilidged existence has rarely been lived. HARD! How is it hard when Hilliary had every advantage. The truth is the more the american people listen to her tripe the more we realize what a lightweight she truly is. All politicians lie and promise the world during campaigns but she is almost as good a liar as Bill. Almost.

Yes, STAND tall Obama, and maintain the high road. Don’t let the Clintons and their sleezy politics get in your way. OBAMA 08′

Take My Money
Glad to hear you are going to vote for
Hillary. With your vote and other ignorant voters, she might get to 30%.
And You deserve for somebody to take your money

I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR OBAMA: I believe the wife you’re referring to who never knew how proud she became is actually, much more appropriately applied to Sen. Clinton, who was humiliated by her husband, and took it on the chin because she wanted to further her political career and found herself extremely proud at the start of this race when she was in the lead…not so much now…

Is this an excuse for losing? Real or perceived, Hillary has been labeled as manipulative. I have to wonder if she is trying to sway some of the undecided women voters with this story.

The irony doesn’t escape me. Back in 1992 nobody saw Bill Clinton coming. Some hillbilly from Arkansas running for President? And he won. Fast Forward 16 years, Bill and Hillary never saw Obama coming. Shakespeare in his wildest dreams couldn’t have written anything better! I guess conservatives are more in tune to seeing history repeating itself.

Catmacdee: Yes, Dan Abrams, he’s a solid source for things, the guy who wet his chops on the O.J. Simpson trial, expounding on the virtues on Mark Furman…

HRC is the smartest and most knowledgable presidential candidate and will be the best president.PERIOD.I predict that she will be better than her husband.In addition to being ready on issues, she is also a kind and caring woman as her battles for civic,women’s and childrens rights show.Can you see the obvious bond and love between HRC and Chelsea.She is a loving and caring mother.The only other candidate with understanding with the issues of the people was Edwards while he was in the race.Hillary for president.

To: JOHNNY T
Don’t speak for Latinos Johnny, because I’m a Latino and I know lot’s of Latinos who voted for Obama. My mother is conservative latino and she voted for Obama.

Blah blah blah. I’m so tired of hearing people whine about how it’s more difficult for them to lead a normal life because they are (insert “minority” status here). You know what? Bullcrap! It’s 2008 — unless you live in some inbred little dirthole of a town, you most likely have the same chance to get ahead regardless of your race, gender or religion. In fact, if I had to name one group most at a disadvantage now, it’s the straight white Christian male!

Henbell: I’ve never quite heard anyone defend a candidate’s qualifications or ability or good judgment by pointing out how cleverly they evade continued scandals and their ensuing investigations. I guess that’s something to consider, if your benchmark for presidential ability is such a comparison, I think the Whitewater scandal and Mr. Foster’s murder investigations pale in contrast to say, Watergate, since Nixon was forced from office. Perhaps Sen. Clinton should be running Walmart or Enron or…oh, yeah, she was on the Walmart board…

American2: What if the first question was posed to her out of courtesy because (1) she is the more senior senator, and/or (2) out of general decorum because she is a lady? Why does it have to be some conspiracy?

ASLAN, my point is, there is nothing there. the clintons do everything clean. when she release her tax, they would look and look. but not incriminating or damning. the hater never learn..

You must be kidding. Anyone with 1/2 a brain can see what is going on here. She is targeting women big time now, as she most likely sees this as her only way to win as all her other demographic groups have dwindled. As I read her comments I cannot believe that anyone could not see through her tactics. This is all for show to get votes based on pity. Pretty weak if you ask me. But….she will do and say anything to win. Enough said about her charactoer.

This woman complains about everything. She can really belly-ache with the best of them. No wonder people are turned off by her. She’s predictably tiresome!

Steve: My head would be hurting too if I spent my time making things up that didn’t make any sense. Next time, could you at least be funny?

Victory…nice comment, good point.

Phillygirl…glad to have another voice of reason here…nice…in particular about the slimy overseas business dealings. At the end of the day, you’re right…clinging on to coattails can take a person all the way to the Senate.

Historically speaking, women have had a harder time politically than African American men in some ways. While the woman’s movement fought hard for the abolition of slavery, they were amazed that women were not given the same rights as African American men after the Civil War was over. In fact, this resulted in a split in the woman’s movement for some time.
However, Hillary is right. It is a sad commentary on the state of journalism, particularly that of television journalists, that they do seem to take great glee in her downfall and have tossed Obama softballs.
But then, I wonder if it is just that Hillary is a Clinton and a lot of people simply do not want 4-8 more years of the Clinton soap opera. I think that Obama may be getting a lot of Independent/Republican votes which are not necessarily pro-Obama but Anti-Clinton. If so, this may make the race between McCain and Obama very interesting.

If you do not buy into Hillary’s sad excuse for a campaign then you must be part of the vast sexist American (male)conspiracy determined to destroy her and other strong, moral, pure champions of women and protectors of children, and the American dream.
Her rant is a classic example of the paranoid style of politics.

Preaching hope, inspiration, change, with no substance, no specifics, no media challenge, and media fawning, Obama is instructive of how demagogues rise to power to inflict horrors on humanity.
The pro-Obama biased media against Hillary Clinton have swayed votes to cult leader Obama. The pro-Obama biased media against Hillary Clinton continue to undermine the Democratic nomination process.
Maureen Dowd in the Washington Post spews ascerbic diatribe daily against Hillary Clinton. Jonathan Alter of Newsweek magazine wrote a biased article stating Hillary Clinton should “get out” of the Democratic primary. Both Maureen Dowd and Jonathan Alter are in the traveling press for cult leader Obama. Both Maureen Dowd and Jonathan Alter interact socially with cult leader Obama on his campaign plane. Jonathan Alter was recently on the Ed Schultz radio show expressing strong biased comments against Hilliary Clinton. So there is clearly complicity and conspiracy between cult leader Obama, Maureen Dowd, and Jonathan Alter to use the media power of the Washington Post and Newsweek to attack Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton will win Ohio and Texas. If she doesn’t win these states, it will be because of the pro-Obama biased media against Hillary Clinton that swayed votes to cult leader Obama.
Hillary Clinton is about the future of America; she is the qualified, experienced, visionary leader America needs to make change real and restore America to prosperous times and restore our good standing in the world.

That’s very obvious. It is harder for her to run as a woman than it wuold be for ANY man to run as a woman.
Who would want to?
And this is from the “smartest woman in the world”??
I guess she came a long way baby, and it wasn’t far enough to make it, eh?
What a total loser.

Hillary is desperately trying to scrounge sympathy votes from gullible females. It worked for her in New Hampshire, with that Oscar-worthy display of waterworks, and she’s hoping that it will work again, with this “level playing field” line. I think, by now, most people know her game: she’ll say and do virtually anything to get elected. As our President most eloquently put it: “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” Hillary…you’re done. The people will not be fooled again!

Maybe it’s time to realize that many people just do not like Hillary. SHe comes across as condescending, cold with contrived emotions, privileged, she tells people what they want to hear with what strikes me as fake sincerity.
I believe this whole episode starting with moving to New York and becoming a senator is about Hillary and a legacy, the rest is just doing and saying what she needs to do to win the position. If she can not take a first question, maybe she’s not day one material If it’s too hard now because she is a woman, how will she deal with those who don’t give a what she is in the real world of leadership and international turmoil.
Concede and fade away!

One has to wonder who is the BEST QUALIFIED to be president not whether s/he is the first black or the first woman to run for the job. Just because someone is black or a woman, does not make them more qualified than a white man. Furthermore, I can’t imagine Margaret Thatcher whining about a fraction of what Hillary whines about (or whining at all for that matter). Thatcher could not only play with the big boys, she could beat them too — without using crying or whining to manipulate people. Thatcher earned the respect she got … she didn’t demand it as Hillary has.

This is ridiculous!!! She is full of it…… Lets face it! Has nothing to do with gender….has everything to do with her and her husband……
We dont want you back! Try to understand this! If you can?????

Hillary deserved to be treated the same way Obama has been treated by ABC; you guys are practically drooling over every letter of his name.

Republicans will help rescue poor Hillary in the Texas vote by voting in mass for her. Just to be nice.

This is why she’s losing.
There are currently 16 female senators and 1 African-American Senator. To think that she’s losing to Barack Obama because she’s a woment is ridiculous.
The fact that she can’t figure out why she’s losing just shows she wasn’t presidential material to begin with.

What’s Hard?
Flying around in a charter Boeing 737, Fleet of Cadillac Escalades, eating 5-start catered buffet 24/7, Hotel Suites, staff of 200+ assistants: hairstylists, make-up artists, wardrobe, secretaries, pollsters, image consultants, speech writers, etc., etc. $150 Million spent since January. That’s Hard ?
A Challenge is working for a living, paying the mortgage, ever increasing taxes, cooking meals, raising children, cleaning house, doing the lawn, having bad bosses & job changes every 5 years.
Clintons don’t live in a world like average people do, they are out of touch with the real world — they’ve NEVER been a part of it!!

If Obama said “BLACK MAN” for Every time Hillary said “woman” America would be up in arms and he’d surely lose the race!
Hillary’s over emphasis on “women” can be a turn off. That may be part of the reason why the white male base has shifted away from her.

“Not a level playing field”. No it is not! Who else gets to carpet-bag to a state she never lived in before, become a U.S. Senator as an entry-level job, and run for President after 1.3 terms on the job?
Someday a woman will run for President who REALLY did qualify on her own (Big-time CEO, governor of a state) and NOT run as a woman, but as another qualified candidate. Hillary has done none of that.
She got where she is because of who she married, period. She’s done almost nothing to qualify herself for the job. She’s never lead anything or anyone.

Oh, geez, here we go again. Hillary and her: Poor me! I’m not getting a fair deal! The press is against me. So all you women out there must realize what it’s like to be persucuted by men. Good grief, Hillary. Get a grip. Where’s the Hillary who spoke proudly of her accomplishments and compared her positions with those of her opponents in clear concise terms? She ‘found her voice’ alright, and since super Tuesday, her campaign has become little more than spiteful, whining, pettiness. And THAT’s why many of her staunchest female supporters are looking elsewhere.

Thank you Liberals for putting out Obama.
McGovern 2

I don’t disagree that there are some gender obstacles and running as a woman can be tough, but I think running as a black man with a Muslim-sounding name is a lot tougher. Clinton is not behind because she is a woman. She is behind because Obama has run the better campaign, plain and simple. I am not unsympathetic to the gender bias in this country, but I think the persistent racism as well as fear of racism among Democratic voters who fear Obama’s skin color makes him unelectable more than cancels out any gender disadvantage in this race.

I think that there is some truth in her message. You look at the history of congress, the house, the supreme court, in each group, the order is –white men gets there first, then black guys in before they get a woman in. So, it has been going on for a long time but nobody wants to admit it.
Another thing is the Obama plays the race card very well through Bill Clinton. Obama’s camp was the one who brought up the charge against Bill Clinton about using the race card, and the press just follows suit without carefully investigating where the source of the accusation comes from and the context of Bill’s comment. For some reasons, the country is so paralyzed with fear of being labeled ‘racist’; Obama gets upset and McCain has to apologize because somebody calls out his entire name including middle name; Obama gets furious of the photo of him wearing somale (sp?) clothing;
Somehow, being sexist is more acceptable label than racist. Clinton is an easy target because of those experience with Bill’s scandals and she is a women on top of that.
Instead of looking at how many ‘firsts’ that she has achieved and opened many doors, the press is focusing on Obama’s first black candidate who is a great speaker. Even Obama’s wife is benefiting from Clinton’s effort; she broke the mold of what it means to be the first lady – that it is ok to be a first lady and have a career minded, instead of the traditional one-choice path for a woman, a stay-home wife. There is nothing wrong with the choice of staying home, but it was wrong that it was the only acceptable choice.
Nobody said that Obama was whining about Bill playing the race card, he did not know which Clinton he is running against, his photo in foreign clothing, etc. but if Clinton makes any negative then it would painted as whining
Clinton is not just running against Obama, she is running against years of ingrained perceived beliefs about women.

The press in this country does not have any objectivity. It is totally corrupt. This was just as clear when they were riding the “Inevitability” thing with Senator Clinton. They were never objective in saying that either. Senator Obama and all the other candidates attacked her every chance they had. Senator Clinton did not respond to those attacks. She tried to be a good candidate. The press played along. From that time, the press never thought twice. She was red meat to them. Senator Obama continued with that attack approach while the Press continued to give him a free ride. He has been treated like someone who would not have stood on his own and needed help to have a head start. No one asked him hard questions. So he played his strengths, which his oratory skills. And since people would follow the “feel good” train in this country, they just did.
Remember George W. Bush candidacy against former V.P. Al Gore? The press told us that then Governor G.W. Bush was the kind of guy you would have a beer with. The press gave him a free pass and never questioned his inability to even speak correctly. George W. Bush took advantage of that and turned his “intellectual weakness” into a strategy against the brilliant Al Gore with the blessing of the press. The press told us Al Gore was boring. They critized his clothes, and everything else. Please understand that the press has the capacity to sway public opinion. Most people have given up thinking in this country. They follow the sound bites from the press.
We are witnessing the same thing here again. I am hoping that some day, we will have a mechanism for holding the press accountable in this country. They seem too powerful.
Take this one example: After the Ohio debate, I watched on the internet and noticed that MSNBC for instance brought Jesse Jackson to comment on the performance of Senator Obama. Well, he is an Obama supporter so his comment were going to be favorable to Obama. There was no one to positively speak for Clinton. These are some of the things they do, very subtle, but very effective. People did not hear a positive comment on Clinton at the same time they heard a positive comment on Obama.
Senator Obama is being set up here because should he be the nomminee, he will have a very hard time competing against the republican machine. Let’s wait and see.

Never doubt for a moment that HC will use whatever means necessary to get to the White House. Anything goes – anything. Why? If she gets there, it will never matter how, just that she got there. That’s the way this game is played.

Senator Clinton has had the advantage of association with her husband a former president, huge political and other connections and personal wealth, as well as the advantages of being born into a relatively well off family who were able to give her a good private education.
There have been world leaders who were women who came to prominence through their own individual hard work: Margaret Thatcher, Mary Robinson, Angela Merkel.
Clinton does a disservice to feminism.

Two words, one name. Margaret Thacher. Can you imagine Margaret Thacher whinning? I can’t. I would be happy to vote for a woman or an African American or any other protected class if they were stong leaders and shared my vision for the future of the country. Just so happens this cycle the only person that matches that descripiton in a white male (again).

There is so much false reporting in the media. As is common, so many articles talk about Hillary’s big comeback win in New Hampshire. Yes, she won the popular vote, but Hillary LOST new Hampshire by delegate count.

And Obama is a black man. When will the excuses end. Maybe she should just fact the facts… WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE CLINTONS. One scandal after another.

give me a break….if she can’t take the “uneven playing field” after she was set up with the largest money machine and all of the connections based on her husband’s office, then HOW IS SHE GOING TO STAND UP TO THE BIG STUFF??? She’s a joke. I have hated the way the Clinton’s have marginalized Barack Obama’s candidacy and nobody had a more intelligent political organization than he did. He really is ready from day one, and he’s endured more stereotypic insults and received more apologies than any of the other candidates. And who cares about Tina Fey????? Hillary has made all women look like they “cry baby cry” when things get hard. Wasn’t Bush the one who used the same silly little word when he was defending how “hard” it is to be in at war. Obama is not a complainer. He is a man of great behavioral consistency. A true leader.

Oh, and if I remember correctly, HRC once made a snide comment about women who stay home to “bake cookies”. Well, guess what’s on the homepage of her site? A recipe for Snickerdoodles . . . yep, SNICKERDOODLES!
Hmmmmmmmm. Can someone tell me what snickerdoodles have to do with running for President? If she doesn’t want to be attacked for her gender, she should stop pulling out the gender card whenever she thinks it will work for her. And she should definitely fire the high-schoolers that control her website.

We’ve gone from the vast right wing conspiracy to the vast media conspiracy, and now we’re in the vast sexist conspiracy.
Please Hillary, STOP IT NOW!!! You’re making all women look bad with these antics.

Hillary whining about “how hard it is for a woman” sets women back more than anything else possibly could.
Playing the gender card is exactly what certain types expect her to do, and it’s exactly what she does.
She’s losing because the more you see her speak, the more you see how she runs her campaign, the more you see the low blows she constantly throws, the more you realize she’s just an empty pantsuit with an oversize lust for power. That’s it.

I’m an Obama supporter but you better believe it’s been easier for Obama than it has been for Hillary. A lot of this has to do with her being a woman. The fact is that it is far more acceptable to be openly sexist than openly racist in the US.
The media have been unfairly tough on Hillary, too. It makes me feel a little guilty for supporting Obama; I don’t want to be cast in the same lot with the likes of you.

GermanGuy: Great post. These old farts are shaking in their boots. They’re claiming to be “glad” that Obama will be the nominee but it’s false confidence or stupidity. They don’t care about America. They care about the status quo being maintained. They’re afraid of what might happen to their lot in life. That’s Hillary’s problem. She can’t grasp the audacity of this 46-year-old who should wait his turn for the presidency. Unfortunately for these dinasaurs — and I mean both Dems and Repubs — they’re not intelligent enough to grasp the enormity of what’s happening. They’re hanging on to yesterday. Remember, EXPERIENCE IS OVERRATED. Revolution of the mind and body politic doesn’t come from career politicans. It comes from mavericks who don’t have to kowtow to their friends in Washington. EXPERIENCE prevents you from taking risks, from rocking the boat. EXPERIENCE is indeed a handicap. You owe too many ppl in Washington if you have this EXPERIENCE. I don’t want a EXPERIENCE. I want COMPETENCE, INTELLIGENCE, VISIONAIRIES. You can have the Hillarys. I won’t badmouth McCain though. I think he’s an honorable and decent man who deserves respect. People who are saying Obama will be a disaster are really HOPING he will be one. It’ll make them feel better about the last guy they voted for president despite his four prior years of incompetence — that little blow monkey GW Bush

How hard has she had it for crying out loud?
She’s a U.S. Senator and former First Lady! She and her husband are worth more than $45 million!

I love how Hillary thinks she is the great representative of all women’s struggles. I know a lot of women that throw up a bit in their throats every time she opens her mouth.
That doesn’t sound representative to me.

To Jaine: You don’t get the SNICKERDOODLES thing? It’s comedy, kinda like working women jargon. Staying home and baking cookies! Tammy Wynette took it the wrong way, but it has become a comical slogan Hillary has learned to live with. I like it! When working, I didn’t have time to stay home and bake cookies either.

1: Start the Crying next for sympathy and that will pickup a few votes.
2: Blame Media
3: Keep Bill out of spotlight as much as possible
4: Try the “I’m Proud To be Running With Obama”
After loosing, demand recount…..Then the ole tried and true “Vast Right Wing Conspiricy” line

Snickerdoodles? Funny. Campaigning is a strategy; targeting votes is apart of that strategy. This doesn’t mean she isn’t the best candidate. I don’t mind the silly gender card that’s being played. Hillary does care about people, will change healthcare, and will rebuild the middle class. Her history speaks for itself. I would suggest everyone do some research on these candidates instead of voting by what you hear. The media is using what’s called imagery. It’s where you paint a picture of someone and they are no longer the “person”, but rather a title. The army uses this type of method as well. When going into combat, they usually will call the enemy by a different name, causing the soldiers to forget that they’re people. It’s easier to dismiss someone that way. The media has painted Hillary as a cold, sneaking, manipulative, whiney women. Yes, she may be playing cards, but friends- so is Obama. I just encourage everyone to do INDEPENDENT research. Look in other reference sources besides the information the media put out. Even if you don’t vote for her, she’s still a human being who cares for people (fact).
Open your minds!

Really? Women have it tougher? How many women are currently in the Senate? Sixteen. How many blacks of either gender? One.
Women have it tougher? How many women governors have there ever been? Over 20? Hmmm, and how many black ones? Two. Ever? Yes. Two.
Only one campaign has stooped to making this all about race and gender — and that’s the campaign that has everything to gain by marginalizing blacks and kissing-up to women. Oh wait, but women have it inherently tougher. Right.
If Hillary and her supporters think that she or any candidate can win a general election by insulting state after state that doesn’t go their way, mocking the majority of voters of their own party by insisting that party elders pick their candidate over the will of the people and dividing America along gender warfare lines, they’re nuts.

Thank goodness, less than a week to go and DING DONG the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead.
Keep it up hillary, its so enjoyable watching you self distruct.

Obama is a flip flopper
and nobody will vote for him next tuesday nor in the fall if he gets the nomination.
Mccain said we are in war with Islamic Fascism means do not vote for obama….
Obama hussain will never win in his life or 1000 life times..he done gone a fade, hype just an empty memory.
keep going muslim hussain obama

Obama thinks he has earned the respect of the AMERICAN people…keep dreaming
you might have the media but never the voters in the FALL!
I will never vote for a muslim jew hating farrakhan loving president…never

Steve: I don’t know if he’s anti-Jewish; however, he did seem uncomfortable talking about that in the debate.

I’m not a hater but I love free speech. if you don’t believe people should be able to speak their minds, move to Russia, or any dictatorship countries for that matter

Feel sorry for me because those mean old men are picking on me because I’m a girl. Seriously? You really want to be a world leader with that attitude. Let me find you a copy of Golda, I’m sure there has to be one here somewhere.

DIRTY DEALS AND FALSE PROMISES BY OBAMA!!!
Opponents slam Obama after CTV story on NAFTA
Updated Fri. Feb. 29 2008 12:37 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Allegations of double talk on NAFTA from the Obama and Clinton campaigns dominated the U.S. political landscape on Thursday.
On Wednesday, CTV reported that a senior member of Barack Obama’s campaign called the Canadian embassy within the last month saying that when Senator Obama talks about opting out of the free trade deal, the Canadian government shouldn’t worry. The operative said it was just campaign rhetoric not to be taken seriously.

I like how some people are so poorly educated that they believe Obama to be Muslim. This shows nothing but sheep marching to the tune of warmonger McCain’s drums or Hillary’s lies. You know, if you stopped being so stubborn and managed to do your research, you’d know that Mr. Obama is a Christian man of faith. You’d also notice how clean he’s been playing this game. While Clinton lies and cries, he takes it with a grain of salt and doesn’t fling such horrible things back. Her superdelegates are switching sides. She’s losing votes. She has lost this race, and she’s too headstrong to admit it. I hear she’s suing Texas – you might want to look into it. It wouldn’t surprise me if you didn’t, however, seeing as it seems few on these comments have any knowledge of what they’re speaking of at all! The only way for her to look good at all at this point is to pull out gracefully and run again in four years. She may even regain some respect.
Obama ’08. :)

andonandon: What cards do you think Obama is playing? He may not be playing the gender card; however, he’s got a card up his sleeve. Don’t be fooled.

Obama can’t talk with allies that’s funny, NAFTA SCAM!!!
keep making false promises and deals Obama you are under full scrutiny now… I hope you will see what it feels like to run a campaign filled wit fake promises

TJ: Obama Christian? I’m not saying for sure he’s not. However, He came out with his Christian statement after the first time he was being questioned about whether he was Muslim or not. I’m not saying he is a Christian or Muslim; nevertheless, I do think he’s playing the Christian card so people don’t question his faith. The pastor of his church sounds questionable.

Sexism is alive and well in America! You can read it in post after post here. Men still don’t want to admit it. Especially in the media. But guess what? Women, unlike you, are fully aware of its existence. Hillary Clinton doesn’t need to spell it out. Tina Fey just brought attention to it. It’s something most women have had to battle in one form or another most of their lives. But women are resilient and tenacious. I think deep down most women know how hard it must be for Hillary. She is in uncharted waters right now. But I think what some men may view as whining, a lot of women will view as fighting for your rights. Fighting for what’s important to you. Having to battle for every point. And when the stakes are this high, every point counts. Every issue matters. Because it seems clear to me that she has received very negative media bias. And unlike Obama, who can count on the media to do the negative campaigning work for him, if Hillary points out the negative, she is considered a shrew. I think it’s fine for a man to not want to support her as his candidate, but the sexist remarks should not have to go along with it. It’s seen as very demeaning to women and completely unacceptable. I think one of Hillary’s dreams might be a level playing field for all women, and who knows maybe as the first women President she may be able to speed that along. Go Hillary!

i agree with Hillary anyone who doesn’t is a Moron. Women have it harder then men , its a fact

It’s clear. One candidate is going to try to bring us together to work for solutions (no preconceived hard and fast plans) in a bipartisan, multi-regional, fresh way. The other candidate is going to play groups against each (race against race, religion against religion, gender against gender) and we’ll have 8 years of more partisan warfare in Washington. The choice could not be more stark.

Hillary is now seeking sympathy because she is not a man? No surprise there. What is insulting is that she feels the need to collect more sympathy for herself – on the backs of women that have successfully learned how to compete and survive in the world – despite the fact that they are – women.
A ‘man’s world’ is unfair or too hard for Hillary? According to her example, every woman in America should just sit right on down and start complaining because you know, those darned men, well, they are just too domineering for the rest of us to deal with. Hillary needs to find another excuse, outside of living in a ‘man’s world,’ for her poor ratings from voters.
I hope that our daughters never accept the message that Hillary sent to women today. Women are not weak, women are not ‘outgunned,’ we are not second-class citizens, and we should never allow anyone to define who we are or what we can be.
A ‘man’s’ world – is now a ‘woman’s’ world. If Hillary truly believed in her own power as a woman and as an individual – she would have left Bill at home when she started her campaign.
‘Pity me because I am a woman?’ No. Message – rejected.
On media coverage, it has been pro-Hillary since day one but I have to say that seeing the shock on some anchor’s faces as Mr. Obama pulled forward to date was priceless. The overt Clinton supporters (Matthews) literally looked as if they were in a trance for a few days but appear to be coming around. The saddest aspect of that discussion involves the fact that the media was/is so far out of touch with the level of anger – on the US street.
‘Fair’ media coverage would require an equal number of pro-/anti-Clinton and pro-/anti-Obama stories, every day, until one candidate wins. Integrity in journalism and reporting – is it still possible?

Hillary, your biggest problem is that you’re just not a likeable person. Stop being your underhanded, phoney self and stop pointing your finger everywhere else except at yourself. You have run the single worst major presidential campaign in modern history and squandered 10′s of millions while you were at it. And you actually think America’s going to elect you? No way!!

My ten year old son summed it all up one day about a month ago.
He said, “Mom, nobody is going to vote for a girl to be President.”
Obama’s race isn’t even an issue. He has always gone to multi-racial schools and in preschool he would refer to his brown friends. I thought he meant the hispanic kids but when he pointed out one of his brown friends I was surprised it was an African American boy.
Then it hit me. Black people aren’t really black – they are simply shades of brown. Children see the world how it is – not how we want it to be.
Even a 10 year old boy knows that a girl being President is a way bigger deal than a brown man becoming President.
Out of the mouth of babes as they say.

In current American society, some women want it both ways. They want a level playing field and then complain when they are treated as men always have been treated, coldly, harshly, and sometimes even brutally. Hillary and her supporters should just quit whining and get on with the job of running for the nomination.
Both remembered and documented history works against Hillary. Eight years of being , as she likes to portray, co-President with husband Bill, the cattle futures scandal, Whitewater, the Rose Law firm billing fiasco, her public acquiescence to Bill’s rather flagrant philandering, and the large amount of smoke (and maybe a little fire, too) about Arkansas dope deals, Vince Foster, the lost records, and ad infinitum all paint her as tainted goods, part of the business-as-usual crowd which Obama offers to stand against and change.
People who like it the way it is will vote for Hillary. People who want change see Obama as the best chance in any recent time. He is new, fresh, and charismatic, and a hell of a lot more personable and likable than Hillary ever was or is.
Hillary is losing this race on her own steam, not because she is a woman.

I think that affirmative action should apply to politicians as well.
Before the presidential election starts, a women or an african-american, should start off with 200 extra collegiate votes to make the playing field level. – - or – -
Mccain should not be allowed to receive any votes from the two largest states since he is a white male.

She is a phony and people don’t like her. Not because she’s tough, but because she will say anything to get elected.
Obama has resorted to the Shame on you crap that she has. Her husband has tried to make Obama the black candidate.
. Also, if she is such a great leader why did she get rolled on Health Care despite having a large mandate and a Democrat Congress. She got beat so bad she lost 35 year grip the Dems had on Congress. Then what did she do, write books from the perspective of the damn cat. We didn’t hear a peep from her again, until Bill cheated on her.
Do you really think she has shown judgement about people. Most people can agree that Bush got duped by his staff. Look at how she has been duped, do you really think she thought her husband didn’t cheat on her again or was she just lying.
Also how come she can find out Barak billing 3 hours for Tony Resco but she lost her hundreds of hours of her own legal work.
I can understand problems in marrige but if she is such a strong women why then did she let her husband make her look like a fool time and time again.

While I am sure that this not the reason they[hill&Bill} are running, Ya’ gotta wonder :Should she win the race and live in the whitehouse again, will she wait until the final days to steal all that hundreds of years old furniture or simply try to take on her last day like last time?
Until New York, They never owned a house;it was always provided by the public at the public expense. Now they In a mansion in upstate N.Y. and their monthly mortgage is approx $10,000.00 per month …guess how much they rent out the Garage to the secret service that protect them for? $10,000.00 per month …So we are not just Paying Bills retirement, we will also be paying hillary’s senate retirement ,plus we might be also paying her $300,000.00 per year for the rest of her life as well as their mortggage ….So Bill gets #00 K plus she will get her senate retirement,I think it is about $134,000.00 a year plus her retirement for as either of them should live .
That comes to approx $750,000.00 a year plus $10,000.00 per month to pay for her or his secret service to live there .
Ain’t America Great …all this fot the two biggest crooks in America. In the very unlikely chance thatshe becomes president, at the swearing in , she should be wearing a mask ….

I just find extremely coincidental that before a big Tuesday election, ABC channel with the special Night light manages to have an interview with Mrs. Clinton. I was, and I still waiting for the interviews with the other two candidates. This shows me how “balance” this ABC station is, and specially Cynthia asking the wrong questions letting Mrs Clinton give a fair answer to them. For the closing of the interview they showed a video of Hillary waving from an airplane like presidents do.

gender is a grammatical term.
you ar eusing the PC term gender when you mean SEX!
this is the uptight people who wnat to pretend there is no difference to use the incorrect term of gender when it is SEX.
yes, it’s SEX.

I am a 62 year old female …retired from a job that had always been held by a man prior to my getting it 35 years ago. and my advice to Hillary..based on my 35 years experience is this…IF YOU CAN’T RUN WITH THE BIG DOGS…STAY ON THE PORCH. And quit whining…you only make it worse for other women.

Even playing field? How ’bout having a former president of the U.S. as your partner in strategy, co-campaigning and “asset” on the ticket?

If you can’t even admit Obama is getting a free pass from the press — then you are all lying to yourselves.

Hillary just got done playing the Mexicans against the Blacks … now
it’s on to playing males against
females … “those terrible men just
aren’t being fair to me girls … so
you have to vote for me – us women are in this together”

Since mid-December, when the presidential candidates turned their full attention to the Iowa caucuses, Sen. Barack Obama has led the race for good press and Sen. Hillary Clinton has lagged the farthest behind. From Dec 16 through Jan 27 five out of six on-air evaluations of Obama (84%) have been favorable, compared to a bare majority (51%) of evaluations of Mrs. Clinton.
Go read the facts… The press hasn’t vetted Obama. It isn’t that Obama has no negatives or spun his negatives into positives — it is the press coddling him.
Why hasn’t the press looked into who is contributing to Obama’s campaign for one.

oh poor poor Hillary… i’m a woman and i’m getting tired HRC complaining about Obama’s moving speeches, mailings on her healthplan, being picked on by the media, leveling the playing field, etc etc..
It’s always easy to blame the other but never your own self! Get a grip Hillary and release your tax returns!
BTW, if women vote for her is because they feel sorry for her. HRC is trying, like she did in NH, to make women feel guilty into voting for her. It’s a shame!

Go Senator Clinton!!

Forget gender. What’s remarkable is how the main stream media now colors almost everything written about Senator Clinton with implied negatives. Even in a positive story, there is always the prominent “yes but”. This is how conservatives have been dealt with by the MSM for decades. The MSM denies this but its obvious. It does cripple political movements. It is also why so many news aware people no longer use the NY Times or other MSM as their source for news.

Riz I guess Hillary Clinton during her life has not had to face any “cons”. She is 60 years old. She has earned every one of her successes and they are numerous. She has worked extremely hard for what she has achieved. She graduated from Wellsley College, Yale Law School, at a time when there weren’t that many women doing such things. Did they make it easy for her at Yale? I don’t think so. She’s devoted her life to public service and truly believes and has dedicated herself to helping the disadavantaged. She has been a pioneer for women. She has been a champion for women’s rights around the world. She has also devoted herself to children’s issues. She is dedicated to ensuring that Americans have healthcare in this country. Fifty million Americans do not. That is no easy task. But she is willing to take it on. She is a fighter and that is what this country needs. She has become a twice elected senator. She became the first women ever to win the New Hampshire primary. She could be our next President. Obviously you know nothing about her. She isn’t playing the “gender card” because the majority of Democratic women voters are supporting her. She has won their support based on her qualifications. It’s a shame some people don’t like to see successful women. I am proud to be supporting Hillary Clinton.

she is a liberal, of course she is going to play a -icsm card, it is just a matter of which one.

I believe Obama has more of a hurdle to overcome. Blacks were granted the right to vote in 1870 but were socially prohibited (primarily by Democrats) until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Women won the right to vote by the 19th amendment in 1920 with little resistance, thereafter. Along with this there was still the stigma that blacks had to undergo (drinking fountains, restrooms, etc.) that white women were not pressured with.
All of this from the woman that says she is ready from day one and still whines about always being asked the first question in a debate. She feels entitled to the office of POTUS but lacks the fortitude.

GEEZ!! Had to mention HRC and “leg up” in the same post. Now I have to poke out my mind’s eye!!
Seriously, she has basically told women and girls that being an enabler for a serial adulterer and suspected rapist is a fair trade off for personal gain.

Obamabots: Hillary Clinton wasn’t complaining about being asked the first question in a debate. But being asked the question first many times during the debate. And this causes an unfair advantage to your opponent. Hillary should know, she was the champion of her debating team at Wellsley College, (no small feat). Barack can sit back and listen to her answers and then basically just say I agree with Hillary on that and repeat her answer. He’s done this so often that I’m sure she was well aware of it. If Barack were forced to answer some of the difficult foreign policy questions she had to answer, he would have been speechless. Ex. The name of the successor to Putin. Of course, Hillary had to answer this one and got it right. If any of you actually watched the previous debates you would have noticed it. Maybe not. She was right to call this out. She should have done it at the last debate. Or the one before that? When the media doesn’t play fair you have to call them on it.

She will do anything to get what she wants. It just shows what happens when you try to put ten pounds in a five pound bag.She thinks she is God and we should all just step aside and let her do what ever she wants because she is correct, we are dump, so get out of the way.

Does Hillary know Barack is black?
That’s got to be it! She’s so busy thinking about new ways to win at any cost, she hasn’t noticed he’s BLACK.
Sorry Hillary. “It’s so hard.” doesn’t stack up to a couple hundred years of opression, being taunted because you’ve got a black face, and worrying your kids will have fewer options because of the color of their skin.
Concede, already- and put us out of your misery.

She will do anything to get what she wants. It just shows what happens when you try to put ten pounds in a five pound bag.She thinks she is God and we should all just step aside and let her do what ever she wants because she is correct, we are dump, so get out of the way.

People who should be voting for Sen. Clinton are not. The majority of those going for Obama are male. A black man became a congressman over 30 years before women even had the vote. So is sexism okay but racism not? You bet and if Obama were white he would never be in the position he is. Is there white guilt? Do people think they are being progressive if they vote for this empty suit? You bet. He really has nothing substantial to say in his speeches. They are gears towards those who don’t care about policy or issues, two things he know little about.
He needs someone to give him the facts during interviews because he doesn’t have a clue. The first time he actually showed up for a meeting of the Foreign Relations committee, of which he is a member, he handed a staff member a note stating “shoot me now”…amusing? Not in this day and age it isn’t. The more he goes off message the more you see his inexperience. And YES experience does matter…even so his views on foreign policy and his promise of unity are as foggy as the man himself.
He is now using the use of his middle name to get our minds off his negatives. Reminds me of a current President.

As a supporter of HRC, I find all these attacks against her distasteful. I’ll nver vote for Obama and his singing angels. HRC has the substance, the experience and yes, she is the first female candidate that has come so far. What is so wrong to utter Barrack Hussein Obama’s middle name? We have George Herbert Walker Bush, James Earl Carter, William Jefferson Clinton – all were known before they got elected, so Hussein is Hussein…so what…there are so many Hussein in the world who are allies of us. If Barrack can’t handle people talking his middle name, too bad, grow up. Michelle Obama said people saying Barrack’s middle name is desperate, drop the fear bomb etc etc, big deal. BTW, I don’t find two millionair blacks running around telling people it is hard, it is difficult and can’t be proud of this country have a lot of “hope” to offer. Tell to the white girls growing up poor and can’t goto college because of there are no affirmative action for them, there are no special scholarships for them. Tell to the white women in this country that they gotta be a racist because they don’t support Barrack. I can’t understand why people are beating up Hillary saying she is playing the victim card, she is too emotional, she is too manufactured. Well, at least she knows how to run a tough campaign, at least she will promise base on reality, and at least most of us will know what kind of President she will become once she is in the office. Look at Deval Patrick of Mass. Now that he is the first black govn. of Mass. (a very blue state with single party ruling), what has he done to fulfill his soaring rheortic during his election campaign – a big GIANT ZERO. Beware of Barrack, if history is the guide, we democrats will yet find ourselves to have a president promises one thing on the trail and accomplishes the opposite while in office. Go HRC go, forget the Obamabots.

Well, sorry, Hillary, but Ahmadinejad doesn’t care about the levelness of the playing field.

How insulting!! This is pathetic pandering. And I’m a woman. She sounds like George Bush. He said it was a hard job. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

Never doubt for a moment that HC will use whatever means necessary to get to the White House. Anything goes – anything. Why? If she gets there, it will never matter how, just that she got there. That’s the way this game is played.

LEVEL PLAYING FIELD? Are you kidding me? Clinton had ALL of the benefits-a 2-term President stumping for her, endless amounts of cash, and she’s complaining that her gender, which she’s used as a weapon along with race baiting and deception (yeah, I’m SURE you had no idea where that robed photo of Obama came from), is somehow a handicap? It’s yet more proof that the Clintons will do ANYTHING, say ANYTHING, to get or retain power. It’s just the way it is. Of course, I guess that depends on what my definition of “is” is, right Bill?

Amazon, you obviously believe that HRC belongs in the WH just because she is a woman and anyone that thinks different is a misogynist. Sorry to disappoint but I have seen, heard and read enough about her, in particular, to know that I would not want that precedent set to judge other qualified women that will come later. She is a hateful, self-serving person that could teach Cruella DeVille lessons. There is no joy in that laugh of hers except possibly the kind that comes from a child pulling the wings off butterflies. Don’t leave that taste in people’s mouths that could prevent them from voting for a woman that could be really good.

One more time. Hillary did not get Medvedev’s name right, she mumbled something with most of the letters and followed it by the phrase ‘whatever’. And as she was stumbling over it Tim Russert helped her with the pronunciation. Had George Bush done the same thing there would have been an outcry over how stupid he was. Unfair – give me a break (and I’m no George Bush fan.)

Indira Gandhi.
Golda Meir.
Thatcher
Vast range of politics and policies
All women who have in common: No Whining

It’s about gender one day, then she says that it is not about gender another day. the fact is this is what’s wrong with her, she is a shameless panderer. Obviously she is losing women votes to Obama, this is a last ditch effort to leverage gender, but gender won’t trump race in the “what’s been tougher” arena. what is encouraging is that people are tired of the clintons,this ain’t the 90′s,hil is not bill, and they can’t strong arm people any more. Their scorched earth tactics in the past just don’t work now. She simply looks weak and whiny,not tough, you think the rest of the world leaders care about Hilary feeling sorry for herself with the privaleged “hack” life she has had, her millions ? Maybe she will now work on real causes and actually help people instead of her phony “self promotion end game run” of trying to be president. Any guesses on when her next new gazillion $ book release happens ? Jimmy Carter picked up a hammer, she will do what she is best at, pointing fingers in the senate.

Why are so many men threatened by this. Most of these comments are from sexist men. LOOK at you words.

It’s not any harder because she’s a woman! It’s equally difficult for everyone but she’s only a girl so it shows harder. LOL! Getout!

Like it is so much easier for a black man to run for President. She only has the advantage of geting whatever press she wants when she wants it; a former two-term persident to stump for her; the backup of what many know will be a “co-president”. Poor, poor victim Hillary, so terribly abused.
I think we have proven that at the beginning of the 21st century we are very much ready to elect a woman and a minority as President — even if they both lose to an old white man.

And this is why white males continue to dominate …some minorities seem to want to argue about who is the most disadvantaged instead of working as a team. I am a woman veteran in a male dominated field all my life and I don’t for a minute believe I have had it any harder than an african american, hispanic or anyone else who doesn’t fit the WASP mold. I hate that the bickering between the two sides may drag them both down and ruin what is the best opportunity we have had in years to shake up the status quo.

I am woman hear me roar!!! More like a whimper from a dog that has been beaten – and beaten badly.
HRC needs to come to the conclusion that it became hard once the Dems had a choice. And it became harder when they actually listened to all the candidates and actually chose someone they wanted. Now that they did, HRC wants to nullify that voice and/or play the gender card. Grow up HRC!!!

Clinton had every advantage going into the campaign. She was way up in the polls, and was “inevitable”. She had more money than the other candidates. The campaign was hers to win begin with, and her’s to lose.
Through horrendous blunders, ego, fake displays of emotion, setting Bill loose to pi$$ off the American public, she has managed to destroy her own chances. Booo hooooo, it is so unfair.
Yeah right!!

If we know too little about Obama we know too much about the Clintons (both) and that is her downfall. For a few days there when her finances were from her own pocket it even looked like she was applying her own makeup (and can you imagine the men using that much reflective material to hide their age?) The way she has gone through her campaign funds living high on the hog only shows the way she will be going through the US treasury-she has always lived through the largess of other people’s contributions. Hillary we know you too well!

Thank heaven Hillary won’t become president! Whining and excuses and “playing the gender card” at every turn would have remained continually disgusting. Its great that the Democrats are freeing both the Democrats and the Republican Party interactions from the slimey Clinton plague–let’s purge ourselves of their legacy, and take a breath of fresh air.

Marry a man who becomes Governor, and get and job with a big law firm due to your political connections. Make a sudden windfall in the futures market of $100,000 trading with a broker known for illegal activity, conveniently connected to businesses that need the support of the Governor. Travel the world at taxpayer expense as First Lady. With no political experience, move to a state where you never lived with a huge Democratic population, and have experienced candidates drop out so that you can get a Senate seat. Run for President claiming 35 years of experience, without releasing any records showing what you actually did as first lady, and having sponsored no significant legislation as a Senator. The playing field is not level. HRC has had every advantage, and whines about her troubles. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

The reason Hillary C is even a potetial nominee is BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN. She only has name recognition at all as a result of HER HUSBAND.
Get out now.

People aren’t rejecting her becuase she a woman…. they are rejecting her becuase they don’t like her, or trust her, or like her policies.
She is right the playing field has not been level… she has had every advantage… We just don’t like her!

No offense; but Hilary Clinton is of a peasant lineage. Leadership of men IS ALWAYS going to be a burden FOR HER, and not because of her gender.
HOW MANY WHITE FEMALE US SENATORS EVER? 35
HOW MANY BLACK US SENATORS? (MALE OR FEMALE)? A FEW
HOW MANY WHITE FEMALE GOVERNORS?
HOW MANY BLACK GOVERNORS (MALE OR FEMALE)? A FEW MALES?
So from the above statistics, does gender trump race for US political leadership? YES!
The Clintons are just p!ssed and whining because they are being bested by an ‘assigned’ Black American, for a THIRD TERM US Presidency they deludedly think is due them as WHITES!
In the same way that there have ALREADY been MANY WHITE FEMALE US Senators & Governors, there will be female President and Vice President. They just won’t be Clintons!

I will generalize here and state that guys don’t have a problem with A woman running for President. We have a problem with THE woman who is running for President. Hillary continues to act like she’s entitled to something; and that will continue to be her downfall. It’s too late in this election cycle for her change her approach.
Give us Elizabeth Dole and I’ll campaign all day long. I’d even cross party lines to do so.

She’s just another feminist playing the “victim” card. This is what being a feminist is about? sad… Oh, and ah, by the way, Hillary Clinton created a false affidavit signed HERSELF against a 12 year old to win her first big case.

The “Clintanic” is listing to starboard and slowly taking on water. It is going to sink to the bottom and merge into all the other putrid crap mongers that have attempted to buy, extort or steal elections.
AMERICANS, you have finally spoken, you all have “done good”
Now, we must develop and vote into the Presidency a worthy individual. Sadly, the available selections are not really viable.

this is a slap in the face to other women in power. nancy pelosi doesn’t complain about an uneven playing field, neither do sandra day o’connor and condoleeza rice. the fact is that she is losing and is showing how shallow she believes the women electorate to be. she has no dignity and no shame.

I thought women wanted to be treated equal? Oh, that’s right, they only want to be treated equal when it is to their advantage. When being treated equal to their disadvantage, they whine about things not being fair. Grow up, this is not a fair world. Poor people think it is unfair that rich people have more opportunities. Dumb people think it is unfair that smart people have more advantages. Unlucky people think that it is unfair that lucky people have more advantages. Weak people think that it is unfair that strong people have more advantages. HRC is not losing becasue she is a woman, and it is not harder on her becasue she is a woman. Politics is just hard, period. It will turn the strongest of people into crying little children. It will destroy peoples lives. Grow up HRC and everyone who thinks it is “Too hard” on her just becasue hse is a woman. If you can’t hang, get out. Period. Life is hard for everyone, but some people handle it better than others. HRC is not one of them.

You know: this isn’t really about her being a woman. It’s about the idea that she thought she was the -inevitable- candidate, and it turns out that she was just -another- candidate is an election cycle that, frankly, has no real inspiring messages at a time when the American people are a little burned out regarding partisan hatchet jobs.
My opinion, fwiw, is that Obama is a Jimmy Carter — someone extremely nice and not very seasoned who has captured the American imagination in a way which Senator Rodham-Clinton can not. He is affable and comes across as intelligent without being self-involved. She isn’t. Hillary Clinton comes across as shrewd, calculating, and somewhat self-entitled.
BTW, if you Democrats are really looking for a candidate who would leap over the gender barrier and shatter stereotypes, you need to think about finding more women in your ranks like Camille Paglia. Then the issue wouldn’t be likeability or credibility or whatever: it would be your politics, and you could then make a real assessment about whether or not you have a vital political philosophy and purpose which the American people will buy. Or at least vote for.

EVEN PLAYING FIELD?
This from a person with a hugely disproportianate amount of media coverage and name recognition. Ask Ron Paul about even playing field. Ask Kucinich about even playing field. Ask NAder and other third party candidates about even playing field.

The succession of caucuses and primaries prior to the nomination in an American presidential campaign is a lot like qualifying to participate in the decathalon in the Olympic games. If you have not properly prepared for all ten of the individual competitions, you fail to qualify for the finals. As just one example of failing to prepare, Hillary’s campaign did not file entire slates of delegates in the 19 Congressional Districts for the April 22nd primary in Pennsylvania, a state where Hillary supporter Ed Rendell is governor. Yet somehow, the campaign of that never-was-a-frontrunner Ron Paul accomplished the task. Hillary’s campaign is coming undone because of the failure to plan because of the arrogance of her early expectations.

She is losing but finishing a strong second. If she drops out graciously and throws her total support behind Barack Obama she may still become the first woman to be elected President of the United States of America. Only a few are lucky enough to make it on the first try. If she learns from her mistakes her next try could be a real winner. The whole world will be watching on Tuesday night. She should seize the moment.

With the left-leaning media, Hillary now feels the effect that every Republican feels when running for office. For years the Clintons could do no wrong in the eyes of reporters. After a Republican was elected president, the Clinton Adminstration took on the aura of the mythical King Arthur and the round table. Now with a further left-leaning candidate, Hillary now sees what every Republican sees. The last person who pointed out the unfair and biased treatment of the Press was Richard Nixon. He too was correct, but it did not do him any good either.

Anyone who believes anything that Clinton says is an idiot. She is losing, so anything goes.
1. Seat Florida and Michagan (even though her campaign was a part of the original sanctions when she was heir apparent).
2. Superdelegates wait until after Texas and Ohio to announce support (once they began to jump ship to Obama).
3. Drops her Hispanic campaign manager for a Black manager when Black voters began to back Obama (figures she has the Hispanic vote no matter what).
4. Attacks Hope and Faith with a childish satirical outburst (we should abandon all Hope and have Faith only in her?).
What has happened to Clinton? Nothing. She is still the same evasive (tax returns), calculating (when to cry, when to attack), Washington insider that she has always been.
What has happened to Obama? he has evolved. He has learned vry quickly how to deal with the attacks of both Clinton and McCain. He has learned that people do have Hope and Faith that things can change for the better.
He has learned that it is better to be supported by the people that by the system.
Clinton has all the answers, all the solutions, and wants to rule
Obama realizes he does not have all the solutions and needs us to help. He wants to govern.

She needs to shut up. The only thing she is missing is being black. The media loves liberal, women and minorities. So she has no one to blame but herself

Most unfair, however, was Hillary’s failure to realize that almost every black not on her payroll would shift support to Hussein. She failed to realize that all the dem brothers would shift their support to the brother. And, now that she sees that fact, she says it’s unfair.

Level playing field? I suppose the millions of women that vote for you just because you are of the same gender makes it “unfair” to you? That provides an uneven playing for Obama. Get over it former First Lady! The bottom line is that you are a terrible candidate with no likable character qualities. Obama, on the other end, has great character and only wish he supported the policies I agree with.

Notice a pattern? Everytime Hillary is about to lose a primary, she either cries, whines, gets misty, does anything to expolit her gender….She is the biggest phoney to ever hit the political sceen…Will do anything, say anything to get elected…Commander in Chief? how about Commander in Cheat!

how manipulative!! tugging at the emotions of women who feel discriminated against. everyone has something against them. the deal is to accept it, rise above it, and enjoy the ride. hillary isn’t that sound, neither was bill. and the beat goes on. I don’t hear obama complaining about being black, or tall, or from illinois. he believes he is a human, a man, not just a black man. he wouldn’t be resonating with people so well if he behaved as a victim of others shortcomings.

well Hill, it might just be that the playing field will never be “level,” since most all of the world leaders are boys…
You won’t get much pity worldwide by whining when you don’t get what you want from these boys, espesially since some actually treat their women like property… get used to it, or go home.

Hillary was given the nomination on a silver platter: biggest names in the party backing her, a huge war chest, national name recognition, she received a gift wrapped senate seat, and had the media oohing and aahing all over her for a year about her being the presumptive nominee. She dropped the silve platter and blew the race all by herself. Obama out hustled, outworked, out organized, outflanked, and basically us just a better politician than she is. If anyone could complain about an unfair playing field, it is Obama, not her.

She wants to have it both ways. If she weren’t Bill Clinton’s wife she never would have been a Senator, let alone a candidate for President. Now she claims that because she is a woman this is an “un-level” playing field.
What a crock.

Well, me, I’d like to see Clarence Thomas as President (because of his intellect, fairness, dedication to ‘truth, justice, and the American (Constitutional) way’, and (if it were possible) Ayaan Hirsi Ali (only as VP because I’m not sure about ALL of her principals, just some important ones), but it’s just a pipe-dream I guess.

Poor poor me! I’m a victim! Is this what she’ll tell Putin? Ahmadinejad? Hu Jintao?
It’s a tough world Hillary! Stand up or get out of the way!!!

Hillary — you go girl!
I would support Hillary all the way up to and through the convention up to the point where she gets the nomination.
She is the kind of candidate that we need to challenge Republicans.
Naturally, the electorate will make mincemeat out of her in the general election, but that is a good thing for the country.
Hillary — you go girl!
Just say No-bama.

she rides her husband’s coat tails for as far as they will take her and when it comes down to just her, she doesn’t have “it”. Face it Hillary. People just do not like you. Even Bill voted against you with his intern under the table.

Hillary is single-handedly destroying the feminist movement by whining and crying whenever things don’t go her way.
This is an example of a strong woman?
She wouldn’t even be a senator if it wasn’t for riding her husbands name to get elected in NY.

Are there any gender specific election laws on the books? Or, is this a response to how she perceives the Media has treated her? This is the reason for her slide in the pols in the first place! How can we trust her with our futute when she is still operating in the past!

I am skeptical that HRC’s principal campaign difficulties are anything to do with her gender. They are much more to do with poor management, persistently high negatives in the polls, and a failure to put forward anything resembling a political message until the eleventh hour.
In the early going she ran almost as an incumbent, taking great care to avoid answering any questions of substance. This was perceived by voters as presumptuous and arrogant. She has now changed her tone to one of shrill desperation as she continues to assert that she is the candidate “ready to hit the ground running on Day 1.”
She will be hitting the ground long before Inauguration Day, and she ain’t gonna be running.

The Clintons represent the worst that is Amerika!
While you might not like George Bush or Barack Obamas policy ideas. I believe both of these men are good and honorable. The Clintons, on the other hand, represent WINNING at any cost. They have many evil and scorched earth tendencies.
And,finally, POOR LITTLE HILLARY…Does she want us to treat her like a Southern Belle?

Whining is so unattractive!!!
REAL women don’t want to vote for Hillary. Long ago, Hillary was making condescending remarks about women who make the choice to put their families first. Sometimes staying home and making cookies for your kids is more important than climbing the corporate ladder.
I would gladly vote for a qualified women for President. The problem is that all of the policies and big government programs Hillary supports would put an even bigger tax burden on families. Women who would like to be home to take care of their children are usually forced to work because the government takes so much of our money in taxes. One income families are almost impossible.
A note to Hillary: If you did’t seem like such a calculating, heartless, self-promoting woman, you might get more support.
I have friends who will not leave their unfaithful, selfish, husbands. I look at them as extrememly weak and vulnerable. How are we suppose to view your tolerance of a cheating, lying husband? If my husband treated me the way your husband treated you…. I’d have enough pride and self respect to have dumped him a long time ago.
Hillary, you are not the kind of woman we would ever want running our great country.

Well, me, I’d like to see Clarence Thomas as President (because of his intellect, fairness, dedication to ‘truth, justice, and the American (Constitutional) way’, and (if it were possible) Ayaan Hirsi Ali (only as VP because I’m not sure about ALL of her principals, just some important ones), but it’s just a pipe-dream I guess.
Posted by: Mark Paquette | Feb 29, 2008 10:13:01 AM
Mark, I prefer Ambassador Alan Keyes because of his issue positions and superior ability to articulate them.
And no, I’m not Sen. Joe Biden who says about Barack Hussein Obama, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American presidential candidate who is articulate and bright and clean-cut and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
But Justice Thomas would be a close second.

well Hillary now knows what it’s like to be a Republican. The difference is the media still is going soft on her, they just prefer Obama.
If she thinks the media is too tough on her, wait until she has to deal with world leaders who hate her. They are alot worse than the lazy media.

Maybe the problem was that she thought it was going to be so easy! If so, that misjudgment alone should disqualify her.
BTW, I’m in the over-60 female (physician) demographic that she wrongly assumed would support ANY woman who ran for president.
SK

Hillary is going to lose and what we hear from her is:
1) it’s because it’s harder for a woman
2) it’s because Obama is being superficial
3) it’s because of an inept campaign staff
What you DON’T ever hear, is
“it’s because of me (Hillary)”
And THAT my friends, is why she will not win. A complete inability to take any personal responsibility herself.
End of story.

The correct cliche is “LEVEL playing field,” not “even playing field.” (The phrase was originated or at least popularized by the late Walter Wriston, former chairman of Citicorp.) How can you have confidence in a candidate who can’t keep the facts straight?

Hillary Clinton’s problem IS that she is running as a female candidate for President. In these moments of desperation, her weaknesses are exposed by her need to classify herself as a minority. Successful leaders do not identify themselves by their race, gender or sexual preference, rather by their positions, experience and abilities to do the job.

“Whining Hillary Shrine” Posters should be made available to all those voters that believe this manipulative woman is
“experience-ready” to lead any nation.
The voting public is still wating for the Clinton-Clan Tax Returns. Maybe her
“friend” Mr. Foster took them along when he died?

Folks,
Don’t miss Hillary’s real point, one she hopes everyone will think of without her having to mention it directly. Although she alluded to it when she said that she’s “been tested” and has had to “face [her] share of crises.”
We’re all supposed to run out and vote for her ’cause her husband stuck a cigar in an intern in the Oval Orifice.
How’s that for qualifications?
Well, that settles it.
Ready on day one.

Hillary can level the playing field if she’ll stop acting like a post menopausal woman-victim and stop with the trembling chin, faked vulnerability, and crocodile tears. Man up, Hillary!
John McCain (whom I can’t stand) isn’t whining about elder abuse.
Barak Obama hasn’t bitched about racial discrimination holding him back, but rather seems grateful and amazed that he is being accepted so widely.
Hillary is just dazed and bitter that she and her husband have been trumped by a younger and much smarter black man. They expected to be crowned the heirs apparent by now and it hasn’t worked out that way. Seeing Bill and Hillary together so much in recent months brought back the 90s in a bad way (and I’m a democrat)
I’m white, a woman, and I love how this campaign is going.

I wonder what would have happened if a male candidate had teared up in response to the question, “How do you do it?”
As a woman, I find it offensive that a very rich woman (who won’t release her tax info, by the way), who is the wife of a popular former President and was considered the front runner in this campaign for a long time has the nerve to talk about how hard it is!

Leaders will lead and followers will follow. If she is gathering fewer followers than her opponent, it ain’t rocket science is it?

she couldnt stand in the same room with any of these women…..
Indira Gandhi.
Golda Meir.
Margaret Thatcher.
these are real women leaders from all different political arenas

Funny how Hillary did not consider the even playing field when her husband was doodling young impressionable interns, or attempting to fondle a poor unsophisticated woman like Paula Jones. Where was the playing field of equality and decency then?

It would be great if all these guys would stop whining about Hillary.
Translation: How DARE anyone say anything negative about Hillary. No criticism of Hillary is allowed.
Other than the supercilious comments that are lacking in connectivity to logical real time thought,
Translation: Look at how many big words I can string together into a meanningless sentence!
these men are just whining, whining, whining.
Translation: Much like Hillary, I am going to PROJECT my own faults onto others instead of facing up to them.
I certainly won’t bother to REPLY to any of them, nope, I’ll just attack the messenger.
Wait until they see what’s really happening in Texas.
Translation: I have no idea what is really happening in Texas, but since Hillary hasn’t lost THAT vote (yet) I can pretend like she’ll win this time. After all, it’s HARD to lose 12 in a row.
The boy media misses the real story and they are afraid to tell you, ’cause you would whine and whine.
Translation: I’m going to play the “sexism” card because the press isn’t giving us free positive coverage anymore. WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Vote smart! Vote Hillary!
Translation: The Hillary campiagn still has just enough money to pay their plants to come onto message boards and pretend like Hillary has a chance to win.
Posted by: AmazonTraveler | Feb 29, 2008 10:57:07 AM
Translated by: IronChefofMunchies.

I wonder if she shed any tears when Vince Foster was murdered errr committed suicide?

Hillary is consistently paranoid. She always refers to the ‘Republican attack machine’, famously the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’, she’s whined about media bias, the way questions are asked at debates, etc. I have not heard any of this from any of the other candidates. She never fails to reach out to blame others.
The Clintons did not invent the politics of personal destruction, but they certainly used it effectively. In the process, they’ve destroyed their own credibility. Now that it appears that they have little political power left to wield, people are jumping ship.
It will be interesting to see how her Senate reelection bid goes.
Hillary, people aren’t against you because you are a woman, they are leaving you in droves because you are a loser.

what hillary won’t accept is the real truth of why she is doing poorly — most Americans can’t stand her, it’s that simple.

I THINK SHE PUT HER BIG GIRL PANTIES ON AND DEAL WITH IT

If she were more than just a ball of unbridled entitlement and ambition she would be taken seriously. It is her calculating the political impact of words and tears that has discounted her, not anything that’s reactionary or misogynistic about us.

Oprah, Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver, Susan Eisenhower, Lorna Breet Howard, Naomi Wolf All thinking women!!!!!

It is not about the GENDER/ a woman, but about this woman. I don’t think she was a regular normal American woman; she didn’t have her own house till recently. They bought one when it was required by NY election law. She ” stand by this man” for future oportunistic political reasons. How does she expect the majority of American women to identify with herself and vote for her ?

I’m not ‘threatened by powerful, competent women’ as Ariel suggests, and I don’t believe most other men are, either. There are plenty of powerful women that I admire- just not Hillary.

Interestingly enough, CelticOdyssey, I never indicated that specifcally men are threatened by powerful women, merely that Americans are. You inferred that on your own. There are plenty of women in this country who are under the impression that they are inferior beings, simply on the basis of their gender. Almost all oppressed groups have self-hating members.

When will ABC News and all the rest of the media outlets stop referring to Obama as a “black man” when he is in reality a “mixed race” person.
I can call myself an eskimo, but that doesn’t make me one.
He identifies himself as black because it is politically expedient for him to do so. A white person with his experience would not have been taken seriously as a Presidential candidate no matter how good a speaker he was.

Isn’t this the “person” who is “ready on day one”? 35 years of experience? Been vetted by the Republicans for 16 years?
OMG! She has shown us her real self as most of us have known since the White House years…
Debating over the word ‘reject’ vs ‘denounce’? Oh, yeah, she’s really ready for global terrorism, economic trouble, energy trouble, education demise, etc, etc, etc. She is and always was a sham!

Oh, yes, she’d definitely have a much easier go of it if she were Bill Clinton’s brother! And if only her daddy had enough money and gave her encouragemet enough to get into an ivy league school.

Amused asked. “Will Cynthia McFadden remark on the comments that have been posted here at the conclusion of this piece?” Does anyone know the status of the IPA/John Burgess sexual harassement case? He is one of her biggest donors . This was one of the EEOC’s largest lawsuits ever filed, The last thing I heard was that HRC was refusing to return his donation – yet she keeps saying she is a strong supporter of womens issues. Are any journalists investigating this?

I don’t refuse to vote for Hillary because she is a woman. I refuse to vote for her because of her platform.
I don’t agree that it is tougher for her because she is a woman. I think the playing field is even and she just got beat on her beliefs.

If she’s fighting a stereotype then why did she cry before the NH primary? Hillary played the ‘woman card’ there to great effect and she is trying it again by playing upon women’s own fears to garner a greater vote share in the hopes of defeating Obama. Fact is that is all she has left at this point.
Obama is much more charismatic than her and she is outclassed in every way. Since Super Tuesday he has steadily reduced Hillary’s vote share in nearly every segment of the population.
Added to Obama’s charisma is her own gross overconfidence and she has clearly underestimated his abilities. Hillary’s serious tactical errors like getting Bill to engage in attacks on Obama before the Carolina primary, leaking ‘Taleban-esque’ photos of Obama to Drudge, and just not differentiating herself from Obama in any significant way have put her in the position she’s in now and it matters not what sex she happens to be.
When Kennedy ran against Nixon in 1960 nothing could prevent JFK from winning because he had charisma and the ability to connect. Her husband had the same abilities during the campaigns in 1990 and 1994; why then did she not think a message of experience would matter less than the ability to connect? She had a poorly thought through campaign and she might get another shot like Nixon, but 2008 will not be her year.

You name them (Lincoln, Kennedy, FDR, TR, Washington, Reagan, Jefferson, etc)if any of them had worn a skirt they would have been baking pies. Hillary is the greatest political leader of all time. She was the backbone of his Bill Clinton’s 8 great years in office. Her healthcare plans were shot down by a vast right wing sexist conspiracy. A woman of low self esteem was planted in the oval office by sexist pigs to distract Billy C via his “course male” needs. Yet Hillary endured and showed us great character. She moved to the mean streets of NY with hardly a penny in her pocket and overcame the “Rick Lazio hate machine”, and now, she’s supposed to move aside for somebody who’s only qualifier is an endorsement from a woman who provides lightweight tv shows for low self esteem homemakers. When will we be shown the light.

Women say all the time that men and women are equal. Men are outnumbered in this country. So, what’s the problem Hillary? Oh yeah, you also have “35 years of experience” behind you!

Would Ms. Clinton be making the same comments if she was winning. Exactly!
She will say or do whatever it takes to WIN.

Playing the gender card again. Does she have no shame? No, Hillary, it’s not about women in general — it’s about YOU and only you. I worked for Geraldine Ferraro when she ran for VP with Mondale, so please don’t foist this claptrap on me.

So, let’s. see . If any other candidate had lost 11 primaries in a row, would the press still see him/her as a contender? She won’t release tax returns showing $5 million loan and where the $ came from; The press does not question her campaign aides who say she took in $35 million in February after all her losses; they just accept it hook, line & sinker.
You’re telling me that 500,000 people sent in $70. each on the internet to Hillary??? She gets so much deference from the press because she’s a Clinton, and a good story. Give me a break

Oprah and Obama are corporate shills. Hillary will set us free. We will no longer be oppressed by fat balding right wing men. Hillary will kill Osama Bin Laden with her bare hands and liberate his 200 wives. This is all one big media conspiracy. The whole thing is rigged by the Bush and Royal family so they can turn the world into a big golf course. Wake up America. You fight that machine Hillary.

Most of us democratic voters will feel a lot better when HIllary will bow-out,hopefully with grace, leaving the democratic party with dignity.
righ now she is to polarizing and divisive.

For those of you who think woman have it hard in this country, I suggest you read “Boys Adrift” by Leonard Sax. It outlines the problems with todays young men and the challenges they face in todays society. Many young men are unmotivated to achieve anything in life, and resort to the internet and video games for an identity. College enrollment has decreased significantly, today 58% woman 42% men, and the gender gap will worsen.
We are creating a generation of hard working women, and lazy, unmotivated men, which will have far reaching consequences for years to come for our society. I am all for woman succeeding, as they tend to be the best and brightest students. However, having young men self loathing themselves due to the messages we keep sending them as they grow and develop as boys, will hamstring our society.
Hillary is crying because she is losing! She had every advantage going into this election cycle from the Democrats. She and her team blew it and are playing the blame game!

She couldn’t have it easier. She was the frontrunner and expected to win by everyone. She is much, much wealthier personally than Barack. She had total name ID. Barack is black and has an Arab middle name. How much easier did she want it? So here she is talking about how hard it is for women — which it is — but is using that as a manipulative tool (which has been the sum total of her campaign). It is “hard” to lose, but for Hillary it’s hard not to be campaigning and obsessed with winning this office because it has been her life-long ambition.

When are we going to see the end of this self-important moron HUSSEIN OBAMA? We are all sick and tired of his bragging and Empty Words! Hillary’s got more substance in her little inert finger than He has in his whole non-activated brain.
Hey, did you see his smirk when he looks at Hillary, wow, the guy’s some weird insecure piece of work. He sure HATES WOMEN!!!! Hussein’s XEROXED WORDS IS HIS PRESIDENTIAL TICKET!!!! Great stuff…but one day we’ll be asking ‘WHERE’S THE BEEF’, HUSSEIN???!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It IS harder for a woman. Most men would rather have any man than a woman be their leader. I work for a company who has a woman CEO and many of the men in the company resent her just because she is a woman. I say Hillary is smart,
strong and very capable of being President of the United States and more qualified than Obama.

I tell you all what, women will be set back at least another 200 years if Hillary does not win.
She is the most qualified person running, and see what the media is doing to her.
She defines Obama the way Obama defined himself in his own book, and see how the media make her comments on defining Obama as if those are her words.
Wake up people!

Good point about the CEO’s. All male ceo’s are loved by MALE workers. Nothing bad is ever said about male ceo’s as long as they hand out corporate golf apparel for their male employees. Put a woman in charge and you hear nothing but the “b” word. Same goes with presidents. Nobody ever said anything bad about Bush because he was a MALE. If he had been a female you would have heard about him being the worst president of all time, warmonger, chickenhawk, etc. I tell you. We really do live in a sexist world. Especially here in the USA. At least in the middle east women aren’t coerced into wearing makeup to please male corporate interests.

Mrs. Clinton back in 1998 started a program which became the law and has helped thousands of families with handicapped children with their treatment and education needs. It was called then Medical/Education for Special Needs Children. It passed into legislation shortly thereafter.
Hillary Clinton has been a consistent staunch supporter and a real fighter for the issues that matter to Women and Children. Who benefited was the American families. We should not ever forget this woman’s gigantic efforts on behalf of families. Even vising China in 1995 at the UN Conference, this brave woman dared to confront the Chinese officials, telling them Women’s rights are Human Rights. No one can match Hillary Clinton’s fighting spirit and much-applauded record in this area. Epileptic children got a big funding boost and research Fund for Epilepsy. It was Mr. Obama’s Campaign manager, Mr. David Axelrod’s wife Susan who had asked Mrs. Clinton for help. And Clinton visited the hospital and talked to children and then started her immense efforts to assist the children.
And look what Mrs. Axelord’s husband is doing to her now. I support Hillary Clinton all the way. She deserves it.

Between Clinton crying because the campaign trail is too hard and this wimpering kind of self-pity, I believe Clinton has put women’s politics back about two decades. She is the most calculating politician I have had the displeasure to watch and the most self absorbed that I have EVER heard of. While most of the other candidates speak about their platform aim barbs at the other candidates, Clinton can only complain and whine about how SHE is being ganged up on or how SHE is so tired or how SHE is blah-blah-blah. Get over yourself woman and realize that if you want the presidency, a position which was created to be the most comletely selfless public service position in the United States, no one cares about your personal feelings and you should worry about it even less. As a woman who has spent 30 years in a “man’s world” (engineering and the military) I have ZERO sympathy for her whining about the boys club.

We all know Hillary is white man in this race.. She wearing the pants in this family. She is being treated like any other person running for this office. She is not above being told she is incorrect. Now she has played the gender card. .She can not do dealing with world leaders. The Bristish had Thatcher as PM.. She held the world attenton… Hillary is no Thactcher

ecog and others who claim Obama has done nothing with his so-called magic in the senate, how about you do an internet search on Lugar-Obama. There’s a nifty little piece of legislation, very important in terms of foreign policy and national security that he not only co-authored, co-sponsored and managed to push through with a unanimous vote, plus Bush signed it into law despite his threat to veto it. There are many, many more like it. Obama has done plenty in the senate, which is why senior senators encouraged the junior senator to run for the Presidency.
As for the unlevel playing field, cry me a freakin river. Out of one side of her mouth (and the medias) we hear how she’s been vetted, she’s a fighter, the Clinton Political machine is phenomenal and entrenched (this is true, sadly). She started out on the upper hand, and every male candidate for president KNEW they’d have one helluva fight on their hands to best her. Add race to the issue, and this is why Obama, despite all his work and positive change at both the state and federal levels, was considered a wash before it began. Besides all of the above, he has his race to contend with, and NO ONE, political insider, media personnel, political pundits, thought that he could do this.
Lastly, this blog just makes me sad. One would think that after a year of this campaign the hate mongerers – and yes, I am pointing at Jake and Hil for Pres (something I never, ever do) would crawl back under their veils and stay there. This is supposed to be about education oneself and talking about REAL issues, not talking points collected form the media or Sen. Clinton’s campaign.
And Sam1, the only way a Clinton loss sets women in general back 200 years is if we women lie down and let that happen. That’s a load of bull. I’d love to see a woman president in my lifetime, but not this one. I want one who can stand on her own, not ride her hubbies coat tails and those of the special interest and career politicians she paid to get the lift. (Lord knows, she isn’t done paying yet!)

This crying thing is getting old, Hillary.
Boo hoo; yeah, we got it.

GAG ME WITH A SILVER SPOON! How dare HRC play the “gender” card. She’s never ACTED as a woman, never faced the TURMOIL of being a single mother or SINGLE WOMAN. She’s attached herself, like a Remora (sucker fish) to her “man.” A real woman would take sufficient CARE of her “man” … so he didn’t need to stray. She hitched her wagon to what she thought would be a “star.” And reeked havoc wherever she went — was so “bitchy” she couldn’t get a HEALTH CARE BILL passed WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS president and PUT HERE in charge of Health Care. READY ON “DAY ONE” >??? PLEASE! This “woman” has never experienced the REAL EVILS in the world; never had to worry WHERE her next meal was coming from. And never spent one second WONDERING if her child was getting enough to eat == or medical care sufficient to survive!
PLAY THE GENDER CARD — NO WOMAN IN HISTORY has “played” THAT CARD .. until now!
HRC is not a woman — she’s a political cut out … a paper doll assuming the “BOSS” role she’s always wanted to PLAY – BECAUSE she doesn’t have the “personal POWER” to make it ON HER OWN!

Nicol. I think as an African American woman, if Barack Obama were not in this race, you would be supporting Hillary Clinton. As would most African Americans, including Oprah Winfrey.

As a woman, I don’t buy into Clinton’s argument. Obama has run a much better campaign with extremely motivated ground team and volunteers. I organized an event for BOTH campaigns to speak in my county after I was contacted by the Obama campaign. It took 10 phone calls to the Clinton campaign to before they found speaker..who never showed due to a flat tire. Not only was the Obama worker on time, but graciously suggested that we use the speaker feature on my cell phone to enable the crowd to ask the Clinton campaign worker questions.
My county isn’t the only one that felt the Obama campaign was much better prepared. The active democrats (precinct captains, chair, elected officials, SDEC member) in the next county are now all for Obama for similar reasons.
It’s not only the message, it’ the superbly organized Obama campaign that’s swaying voters.

OH WHAT A PITY PARTY
RACISTS AND SEXIST ATTITUDES ARE AT WORK ALL THE TIME AND ALL WAYS.(REMEMBER THE DUKE LAX PLAYERS WHO WERE CRUCIFIED BY THEIR OWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT/PROFS AND THE LIBERAL MEDIA BECAUSE THE LIE WAS TOO GOOD NOT TO SUPPORT.)
HILLARY HAS HAD EVERY ADVANTAGE IN LIFE BUT STILL CRIES FOUL WHEN THE SUN DOESN’T SHINE EACH AND EVERY DAY.IT’S ALL ABOUT POWER FOR HER AND BILL.

Wonder if Obama was a black woman, wo uld he have gone as far as he has? I doubt it. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM back in 1972 was a black candidate for President. If she were here today there is no way she would support Obama. She would tell him openly DON’T USE THE RACE CARD. I know it works, but it’s not playing fair.”:
Race card’s been played as ‘unifying’ but Hillary’s gender as ‘divisive’. Try throwing at Obama the abuse the media and everyone else has been throwing at Hillary. You’d be sued! It’s a hatred crime. But you can be a Sexist with impunity in this country.
Thanks for the article.

Hillary just tried to play the Mexicans
against the blacks. Now she is gonna play women against men. Notice her
exact words
“It’s hard being a woman out there. It is obviously challenging with some of the things that are said that are not even personal to me so much as they are about women.”
Crying worked for Hillary before and she’s counting on arousing hostility in eenough women to help her now.
Ann Coulter is probably laughing right
now. She said that from the way women
were led like cattle by this stuff [crying and gender envy]- that she regretted women even having the vote.

Kay,
We’re ready for a woman president.
Just not Hillary Clinton.
Liberals and Feminists just don’t seem to get that.

……AND……obama plays the RACE CARD, HILLARY has EVERY RIGHT to use that Gender Card. GOOOO Hillary!!!!!!
We’re behind you all the way, sending you money and more money!!!!

Good God people, Hillary is behind because of one thing: She ran the worst campaign in recent American history. Mark Penn is an idiot. The democratic nomination was Hers. But her messages were cluttered and incoherent. She came off as calculating and disingenuous. She did not plan for a campaign past Feb 5. She had very poor grass roots organization ( which is why she loses caucus states). She blames the media for her poor press, not realizing that it’s her own doing. Her rallies have become schizophrenic, going from angry-Hillary to sarcastic-Hillary in 24 hours.
She began her campaign positioning herself for the general election. Even then her campaign was run as a incumbent style campaign like Bill Clinton’s 1996 campaign.
None of this has anything to do with her being woman. IF that mattered at all, she would not be in the place she is. She herself is a very compelling figure, she’s a terrific candidate. The fact that she still has a shot at the nomination ( albeit a long shot) at this point is credit to her as a candidate. Had her chief campaign advisers not been absolute morons, I think she would have had this locked up back on Feb 5.

PEOPLE JUST DO NOT LIKE HILLARY.AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HER BEING A WOMAN.IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH HER AS A PERSON AND HER ACTIONS!E.G.ALL OTHER CANDIDATES OPEN UP THEIR TAX RETURNS—SHE REFUSES.ALL DEM CANDIDATES AGREE THE FL/MICH DELEGATES WILL NOT COUNT—SHE WANTS TO SEAT THEM.
GET THE TREND IT IS ALL ABOUT HILLARY.MOST PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THAT POINT AND CANT STAND HER.TIME TO TURN THE PAGE AND GET RID OF HER .TBROWN

So, Matt, how do you explain the smartest woman in the world surrounding herself with idiots? Not so smart, I’d say…

Well Ben, I can tell you something that I have noticed…any publicity is good publicity. I have seen Hillary’s picture plastered everywhere in the media. The story might be about polar bears, and, low and behold, there’s Hillary picture. Honestly though, any story about Hillary and Obama, whose picture is at the top of the page?
And since Hillary is running on the “I care about women and children more than anyone else” motto, then I think she should be called out on this. It’s not being sexist…it’s about ‘stealing someone else’s words’ when running on rhetoric, no?

At least she is not pointing out that Barrack Hussein Obama’s first name is the mythical winged horse ridden by the prophet. Probably that weasel McCain or one of his surrogates will bring that up. He is running from his middle name and no one thinks to look at his first name, how ironic. It wouldn’t happen if he were a woman.

westcoastmessenger, we get, you are voting for hill because you are a woman…

the vast right wing “media” conspiracy…always someone else to blame,small states,caucus state,not enought women, the media is biased etc
IS THAT A STRONG WOMAN?

Poor, poor Hillary, finding it hard to be in this race as a woman! My four daughters, my daughter-in-law, my woman friends and I snort in disgust at her ‘poor me’ whine. If it’s that “hard”, Hilary, go home and bake cookies.

Hilary Clinton is hardly the “liberated” women she is often made out to be. The whole point of feminism is that a woman doesn’t need a man to define her and to have some degree of self-sufficiency. Hilary has not only used Bill to define her, but has ridden on his coattails to political power.
This is in sharp contrast to Obama, who has struggled hard his whole life for his current position.

Actually……….the question is.
IS THIS GROUP THE BEST WE CAN COME UP WITH.
AMERICA IS SICK OF HEARING ABOUT THE CLINTONS.
Hey people were talking about the President of the USA>

It’s very interesting that the Democrat Party which touts itself as the “Big Tent” party; the all inclusive party; the multi cultural party; the party which champions women’s rights; the party which promises the moon to African Americans, but never delivers – shows itself to be in reality an ugly racist sexist organization that has as at its only goal, power over the people.
Democrats, take a real look at your party. It stinks.

MommaKat, Lugar-Obama is boilerplate. There’s no REAL CHANGE in that legislation, strictly status quo fare. I also rather doubt Obama could make any national security points on or without Lugar. Does anyone reading this think Obama could have answered the Ohio debate question given to Hillary re Russia’s next president? I wish she would have written down the answer and then asked Obama to answer the question. That would have been a classic. I’m guessing jeans-creaming Obamaphile Tim Russert would have intervened on Obama’s behalf before anything got out of “control”. I’ve always voted for the Democratic candidate in presidential elections. If the Mulatto McGovern is heading the Democratic ticket, I’ll be voting for Nader, McCain, hell, is Lyndon LaRouche running? Anyone but Obambi. I’m voting against Obama because of his color. No, not because he is half-black, but because he is totally SPRING GREEN. The treachery of the media also factors in to my decision. A vote for anyone other than Obama in November, assuming spinless, idiotic superdelegates cave and give the Mulatto McGovern the nomination, is a vote for Hillary in 2012 as I figure it! Any other Democrats out there who, like me, will not vote for Obama for President in November 2008?

Hillary is a disgrace to women. She pulled the Tammy Wynnette card with Bill’s philandering. She cries when things aren’t going her way. She made a name for herself not with Hillary Rodham but Hillary Rodham CLINTON. She has ridden her husband’s coattails for years. This is not how women succeed.
I think a woman can be President. The late Jeanne Kirkpatrick would have been a wonderful President had she lived. She was intelligent, well-spoken, and had something HRC will never have – RESPECT.

i think the real question is….. is she really a woman? … the closest thing to womanly i have ever seen her do was that fake cry in new hampshire … otherwise she is more manly than her husband ….. lets tell the ice queen to go home

I love all the Hillary supporters who use terms like “Mulatto McGovern” or try to imply that he’s some sort of secret squirrel Muslim in order to deride Obama in their explanation of why they’re not voting for him. Can’t they just explain their reasoning behind supporting Hillary without resorting to racial epithets? It really demeans their argument against Obama. Not impressed.

hey “dave | Feb 29, 2008 3:49:26 PM,” i don’t know that obama has struggled his whole life to get where he is. he went to an ivy league school (who paid for it?) and hasn’t seemed to have done much to get where he is (e.g.; no resume). the statement of “struggling to get where he is” implies that he got there even though he’s black. i submit that he’s gotten where he is BECAUSE he’s black.

Classic liberal politics – the politics of division! Now it’s supposed to be men against women…?
I don’t think so. I would gladly vote for a woman president, but I will NEVER vote for this woman – even if she were a man! THAT’S NOT SEXIST!

Most of my female friends are smarter and more intellectually stimulating than Hillary, whose moniker “the smartest woman in the world” is the polar opposite of who she really is. Workaday women and stay-at-home moms have accomplished far more than she has, and they keep this country going. Unlike her, they manage their homes, families, and good reputations. We don’t need her shrill, controlling, manipulative shenanigans solving problems that she perceives us to have. We’ll solve them ourselves, thank you.

“it’s tougher for her to run as a woman than it is for her male opponent”
Yeah it probably is tougher for her to run as a woman than it is for Obama, cause unlike her, obama has a feminine side. Not meaning to discount obama in anyway, but seriously we need to check whats under this woman’s skirt

Even playing field? How is an election not even? Is she not allowed to raise as much money as other canidates? Is she not allowed as much speaking time at debates? Is she not allowed all the airtime she can buy just like everyone else? How can the playing field be more even then it is? Think about it an election is as even as it comes. This has to be the dumbest statement I have ever heard from her.

I’ve heard insults hear about a persons gender their age and their color.
Also about their experience or lack thereof. The congess and the senate are the ones who really decide how to waste the money they take from the working people. Without them signing off on legislation nothing happens.
There has not been one President that has accomplished anything good or bad without their approval.
The next President regardless of their gender race or age is going to change anything.
It’s business and their interests that influence policy and the policy makers.
We are just the disposable “mules” that make this country the country it is. We need to demand from everyone in a position to make and implement policy that they do it in a way that improves the life of all of us women, men, black, white, red or whatever we are.
As soon as we cut off the monetary influence that drives any and all of the elected officials then we might have a chance at saving our country and “WE THE PEOPLE”. Demand more from these people and get the pigs off the public trough.

Hillary’s problem turned out to largely be her husband and his mouth. If she cannot control him or manage her own campaign, then it is no one’s fault except HILLARY’s!

Hillary–MAN UP! Is the poor little girl getting picked on by the mean old bullies–the media, the men, the VOTERS? Well guess what? Bin Laden, Putin, and other evil world leaders are big bad boys, too. You chose this fight. No one forced you into this race or pulled you into it kicking and screaming. And you created an uneven playing field for Monica, Juanita, Jennifer, Paula, Kathleen . . .

if you want a QUALIFIED ex-first lady, then you need to enlist Nancy Reagan.
At least she was acting president for a couple of years there when ol’ Ronnie was checked out!

I so called this. She sees herself losing and is now doing everything to regain her spot. Will she cry next time she loses a state primary? If it gets someone to change their mind probably. She has little to no shame and is now changing the focus of this election away from the issues that matter, like Iraq and the economy, and pointing it at herself. I may not be a woman but I do not want someone in the Oval Office that will so easily shift their campaign from the things that actually affect everyone in this country to making it solely about herself. The focus of this election should be about the future of the Middle East conflict and the US’ stagnating economy not about where someone keeps their reproductive organs.

hillary will never go quietly she will use a scorched earth approach to win this if necessary…. she doesnt know how to lose with dignity

This is the same Hilary who thought nothing of ending the careers of 5 military officers and an entire radar room of enlisted when AF-1 was at Columbus AFB, MS. Flight of two aircraft one with a full blown emergency and AF-1 wanted to leave. The watch supervisor and the OIC directed that AF-1 hold its position until the T-37′S landed. Twice AF-1 demanded departure clearance, twice denied. Aircraft landed without incident and then 48 hours later all of the controllers in the tower/radar and the pilots of the planes lost their ratings and the pilots automatically were removed from training.
I wonder if Hillary wants to shed any tears or say she isnt manly enough. She shredded these people as all Clintons are wont to do.
I can hardly wait for Chelsea who is at 27 making 250,000 a year as a consultant.
250,000 a year and she doesnt like her company paid for healthcare insurance either. 100% covered and she aint happy with it.
All these people want to do is get back into power at all cost.

Hillary is so pathetic. First we are told how strong she is, how experienced she is (e.g., at forgiving Bill for his many affairs, etc.) And now we are told that she is losing because she is a woman, being beaten by a black man? PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Typical whiny liberal Democrat.

I find it appalling that such a “feminist” figure as Hillary Clinto would start playing the gender card, as though her ovaries are the reason her campaign is not succeeding. As a “feminist” myself, my advice would e leave gender out of it, suck it up, and fight on the playing field you are on instead of degrading all of us because you are grasping at straws. This is not behavior I’d want young women to idolize.

i hope hillary gets to read this blog …. she is getting the same compassion she gives out …….SEND THE ICE QUEEN HOME ….. wherever that is?????

I loving the fall and demise of these two rats the Clintons! I’m a Republican here in Texas and used my little one vote to vote for B. Hussein Obama. I’m absolutely loving it that we in the Great State of Texas my indeed be the house that finally falls on the Witch! But I cannot celebrate until her feet crumble and go underneath the house. There is a GOD!

Maybe it is hard for her because she is a positively awful candidate and thoroughly unsympathetic person. With all the campaign themes she has tried to employ, this is the most pathetic. Are we honestly supposed to think she will be “ready on day one” if her reaction to a “hard” task, job, etc. is to start playing the Damsel in Distress?

‘…I don’t expect any kind of, you know, allowances or special privileges, because I knew what I was getting myself into.’
You knew it was hard yet you complain how hard it is? More Clinton double speak.

Come on! What a joke! I’m sorry but I could give a rats butt what her gender is! And I think most people would agree her losses to Obama have NOTHING to do with her gender! People are just sick and tired of the Clinton “crap”! She can whine and cry and say its about gender all she wants, it won’t change the fact that people just don’t like her! She’s not a good person! It’s no surprise she’s using the gender card though…..the Clintons are used to lying to themselves…..so they can sleep at night!

Let’s see..until March 1998, straight men and black men occupied the bottom rung on the employment ladder. Females, regardless of race, have not occupied the lowest tiers of employment since 1973. Hillary, please spare us the feminist histrionic and passive aggressive behavior.

Liberals are so hung up on race and gender that they cannot comprehend that a person might actually dislike a candidate, not because of their gender or race, but simply because THEY CAN’T STAND THEIR POLITICAL VIEWS and THEIR LACK OF CHARACTER!!!

Hillary boasts that in addition to her “35 years experience” she “participated” in meetings while first lady….so did Monica Lewinsky…does that make her qualified to be president…the Clintons just don’t know WHEN TO LEAVE.

Sean: Hillary Clinton is the best candidate in this field. By far. She should never drop out of this race. It’s not over yet. Don’t believe the media. Come on Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island. Get out the vote. Help Hillary Clinton win the Democratic nomination and become our 44th president. I know many Women and Men who are supporting Hillary because she is Simply the Best!!! Go Hillary!

Uneven playing field? Which other candidate had a wildly popular (among party faithful) ex-Pres for a spouse?Which other candidate had the huge name recognition at the outset? Which other candidate had a full blown (sorry for the words) political machine at the outset? Which other candidate had a Rolodex of big money Dem players to tap into and the biggest warchest when primary season began? ENOUGH!

Is she telling us that she is just not quite up to the task?? How in the world does she think our adversaries are going to treat her??? Used to think she was a pretty bright woman, but I am now just baffled at being so wrong!
The biggest thing Hillary has going for her is her own personal sense of ENTITLEMENT!

This election season is a joke.Obama’s delegate lead is based upon winning caucuses.Guess what?There won’t be a caucus on November 4th.Hillary is destroying him in the large states a Democrat absolutely must have.If Obama can’t beat her there,how is he going to beat McCain when everybody votes?This should be Hillary’s main thrust.

Why does poor HRC get treated so differently? Do other women get treated differently when they run for Senate… doesn’t seem so? Perhaps its because she is running for a higher office …. but I think its because she is a ‘cloak-and-dagger’ Clinton. She gives up on caucus states that do count, but runs to Florida to claim victory which did not count.

PLEASE HILLARY JUST GO HOME, IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO
EXIT WITH DIGNITY IF YOU AND BILL HAVE ON. WE USED TO LOVE YOU SO MUCH BUT UR TIME HAS PASSED

I wonder how terrorists or any other US enemies would respond to hilary’s wish for an even playing field

I wonder whether Margaret Thatcher ever complained about a level playing field? Golda Meir?
Heads of State don’t whine. They take responsibility for their decisions and don’t make excuses for making bad ones or losing. The good ones are also principled.

Do you know how many times I have been called a racist because I said I do not support Obama? This is absolutely ridiculous. You can’t say ANYTHING about the guy without the race card being thrown at you. I’m a CONSERVATIVE and I don’t like socialists. I don’t care if they are PURPLE.

For the past 20 years either a Bush or a Clinton has been president. We are sick of both of them and don’t believe in a dynasty of any type! I can’t believe so many people can’t see through her superficialty. She has such a high negative rating, the Democratic Party must have a death wish if they nominate her. It’s plain to anyone who is not blinded by the Clinton aura that they will do and say anything to get what they want!

Regardless of what happens, as a woman I am eternally grateful for what Hillary has done for the women in this country. She knew it was going to be tough, but she has kept on fighting. Every time there is a breakthrough in society someone has to step forward and get their nose bloodied for the sake of all those who will one day follow. What Hillary has done in her quest for the Presidency is make great things possible for those women who will follow her. This country’s representation of women in the government is a disgrace. Women make up half the country but only account for 14 percent of our elected officials. Out of 105 countries the United States ranks 55th in the percentage of women who hold government office. I find this sad in a civilized country that is supposed to be the leader of the free world. I say thank you Hillary for taking on this fight. I hope I live long enough to see the first female president. To all of you Hillary bashers my hope is that no one treats your wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, girlfriends with the same disrespect and hostility that you have thrown Hillary’s way.

I’d vote for Boxer, Fienstien, or Napolitano for president before I would vote for Hillary Clinton. I might even vote for them over Obama. This playing field is about as level as you get, especially since all the white guys were knocked out of the race early by these two. Hillary just does not strike me as the right person to lead this country. Experience means nothing to me, I want to see DC be less emboldened to corporate America. That is more likely to happen with Obama than with Clinton – hands down.

I am a woman. For Hillary Clinton to blame her failure on the fact she is a woman is very disgusting. She has failed because she is so phony that she is a horrible candidate. She is so incompetent she has run a disastrous campaign. She is so condescending she is detestable. She may not be a bad person,but she is not the kind of person most people like. For her to whine about being at a disadvantage in this election -it’s ridiculous. She has had so many special considerations, She has had so many passes. Without having been married to Bill, she would not be anywhere near being a candidate. She did not do it on her own. I live in Texas, I know a lot of people and I don’t know any who like Hillary. In fact I don’t dislike her as much as most of the other people I know. And by the way I’m talking about TX Dems not Republicans.

what a crock! this woman has vast amounts of privilege, yet she’s complaining (falsely) about “it’s hard out here for a woman”??? she REALLY thinks we women are stupid! we may not all have a wellesley education, millions in the bank, and a former president for a husband, but STUPID we are not! that’s why so many of us are supporting OBAMA!

Will Hillary never stop blaming anyone but herself? She had the largest, most experienced political, fundraising, media operation to ever run a non-incumbent Presidential campaign. She had the most name recognition of probably any non-incumbent Presidential candidate since Washington. She easily outshined several more experienced candidates (Biden, Dodd, Richardson, etc.) and made them non-factors throughout the race. The only two post-Iowa competitors were a one-term Senator and failed VP candidate and a first-term minority Senator. She’s right, the field wasn’t level because it was tipped dramatically in her favor.

Orlando, are you serious? Obama would make a terrible president. He lacks substance, and the things he has said have scared me. He said he wants to bomb Pakistan. He aslo said he wants to turn social security into a welfare program by removing the payroll tax cap. That would also, by the way, be the biggest tax increase in our country’s history.
Also, if Obama isn’t calculating, then why did one of his advisors tell Canadian officials not to worry about his anti-NAFTA speeches, that it was just empty rhetoric? Obama will say and do anything to get elected, and there are just enough stupid people for this to actually work.

JJ: “Of course it’s harder for women. Talk to some of your male friends and family member about their views on women. Sexism still exist? Yup.”
Counterargument: Talk to some of your female friends and family members about their views on men. Sexism still exist? Yep.

Thatcher,in the UK,got voted in because
she stood for policies which all races and genders could equate to,she was not on the feminist ticket,there’s the difference between her and hillary.
Imagine a man running for the white house promising that men and children would come first,that women would be legislated against and surrounding himself with an inner circle of male only advisers.What chance would he stand?Politicians should be all things to all people and have clear policies
to help all people or at least to be as
even handed as possible and not to favour men or women or blacks.In the UK
no women mps admit to being out and out feminists until they get their feet under the table.
The american election looks like it is going to be very confrontational and dirty and unless the democrats get their house in order my bet is that there will be another republican in power.

Dak, I don’t know a women who say they won’t vote for a man for president. I know a number of men who say they won’t.
Check mate you irrational fool.

I LOVE HILLARY AND IAM FROM TEXAS BUT IF OBAMA WINS MR.MCCAIN WILL GET MY VOTE IN NOV.OBAMA HAS A FEW IDEA’S BUT DOESN’T TELL US HOW HE WILL PAY FOR
THEM.
YES THE NEWS MEDIA HAS GIVEN OBAMA A FREE PASS EVERYBODY IS SCARED TO ATTACK HIM

There is a certain amount of irony in Hillary being a candidate and having to face an opponent who is a black male because of the history of Hillary and because of he has been compared to JFK, who was white, but also because race relations, in addition to the war in Vietnam and Nixon’s impeachment was at the center of the 1960′s civil unrest, of which Hillary was there at inception both in her valedictory speech which put her on the Life Magazine cover, and because it seems to “turn back the clock” on issues that Hillary was fully engaged in then. Most assuredly like deja vu for her, it isn’t for Obama, but does represent how the Obama Presidency means different things to different people in 2008.
The unresolved status of women is not the least of these considerations given the long history of race relations and the number of KKK incidents and interracial rape cases that capitalized upon white female chastity as their reason for being.
So the sexism and racist challenge of the election is in no small part due to our unique history in both these areas as white males used antagonism and white females to justify their racism, and retain control of their accumulated white property, not the least of which were the white females of their household which black racism threatened to destroy, or tarnish.
The black rapes that have been the outcome of race relations is no small concern in their challenge to white females, and the hateful origins of those acts can be considered the backlash upon white males.
So, for white males, the question is whether they stand with their forebears and defend white female honor, or whether they are progressive to stand with black males and assert their right to insult, tarnish, impoverish, and torture all women, black and white together by asserting dominance and continuing oppression.
No doubt women will be watching to see how this imbrogglio develops, sinc it is sure to set the stage for gender relations and race relations for the next generation. The question of whether it is progress, however, is debateable, if not folly for all concerned.

Love to see Hillary ridiculed and criticized; it shows she’s a big girl, can take, probably expects it, and doesn’t have to whine racism like Obama does when he is criticized.
Should men expect her to whine if it gets too tough? Absolutely; it wouldn’t be America without it but no more so than it should be for men to be rightly criticized. And fair’s fair; it works both ways, doesn’t it?
It’s especially good when Hillary is able to counter the cutting criticism of Stephanopoulos since he was once a White House insider for Bill, and ducked out early because of a conflict with Hillary, or so he said in the book he published afterward to capitalize upon the Clinton terms, among the many who did.

It is plain and simple, she is trying to get sympathy..again! Last time she donated publicly to her campaign more people started donating. The last time she whined that she was getting picked on by the media..they went negative against Obama. Again..she is injecting race and gender into the mix. I have never seen Obama use the “race” card. The Clintons and the media brought race into it. Now Hillary is doing the same thing by stating that “white people” support her more than Obama.lol She is losing and evidentally she has to play the race and gender card..Pretty pathetic and desperate to me and totally lacks class!