No sh**, Sherlock.
Posted on 10/24/2007 4:45:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hillary Clinton has made a political calculation to capture the women’s vote by playing gender politics to make herself the first woman President.
Her approach includes an often made pitch to women that she needs their votes to “make history” and “shatter the highest glass ceiling” by installing her in the White House.
To make Clinton’s winning strategy appear less mercenary, however, it comes with a heavy dose of feel-good, “you-go-girl” rhetoric that includes hair and make-up gossip on the talk-show circuit and light-hearted jokes about Republican men who can’t stop obsessing over her candidacy.
In a breakfast meeting with reporters, Penn predicted that 24 percent of Republican women would vote for Clinton, and released a campaign memo that said Clinton “enjoys her deepest support among working and middle class women - people who care most about issues like health care and child care, issues that Hillary has worked on throughout her life in public service.”
A June poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News revealed that Clinton polled “especially strong” among “lower-income, lesser-educated” women. Her campaign characterizes these voters as “women with needs” and some of her subsequent policy proposals, like her $110 billion per year universal healthcare program, would benefit them.
On the third day of her women’s outreach tour, Clinton proposed spending $1.75 billion per year to provide universal paid leave through expansion of the Family Medical Leave Act at a YWCA in Manchester, New Hampshire.
There, Clinton recounted her time working as a lawyer when she became pregnant with her daughter, Chelsea. “I kept getting more and more pregnant, and the lawyers just kept sort of walking down the hall looking away.”
She also lamented women could be discriminated against today for getting pregnant. “Women can be fired just for being pregnant, if their employer has no leave policy,” she said. “If that sounds horribly outdated that’s because it is.”
On October 16, the Clinton campaign held a women-only fundraising event dubbed the “Woman’s Finance Council Summit” that cost participants at least $1300 to get in the door. It netted her a cool $1 million.
She remarked that the event’s success indicated a “tremendous outpouring of support for us, for what we will do together.”
To further court the women’s vote, Clinton is even offering personal details about her relationship with Bill to media.
http://www.essence.com/essence/lifestyle/voices/0,16109,1670480,00.html“Oh, he’s so romantic,” she told Essence, a fashion magazine that’s targeted to black women. “He's always bringing me back things from his trips."
She listed a watch with a wrist strap made of “white cubes” as one of those gifts. “I had dental surgery and it reminded him of teeth,” she told the magazine.
When pressed for details on how she managed Mr. Clinton’s infidelity she said, “I never doubted that it was a marriage worth investing in even in the midst of those challenges, and I'm really happy that I made that decision."
Then, Clinton remarked “it's so important for women to stand up for the right of women to make a decision that is best for them.”
The interview will be published in the November issue of Essence.
Hillary is not a woman. She is a cold, calculating android, fixated on running the world. Surely women aren’t that gullible. If so, the Nineteenth Amendment needs to be repealed for the good of the country.
Needs barf alert. Clinton can’t win on her own so she wants to set herself up to be a symbol of all women. Give me a break.
By the way, I was a pregnant attorney too, three times, and nobody “looked away” or otherwise discriminated. Of course, I never demanded the same privileges as those working eighteen hour days, either. I made a choice that my kids come first and ambition second. At the same time, I didn’t ask for any quarter. I came back to work after only two weeks, toting my baby with me or worked to do the laundry and housework, a government-paid nanny to let me sleep through the night, or a personal secretary to arrange my social events. Sorry but she is no symbol except of incredible hubris.
I challenge the notion that 24% of Republican women would vote for a candidate merely because she is a woman. Where do they “create” such statistics.
STDs?
The only people who think she will carry women voters are the liberal women already supporting her, the ratmedia and of course lil dick morris. I think as many new female voters will turn out to vote against the beast as vote for it.
Lost some words there in the second paragraph. It’s early here on the Left Coast. ;o)
Meant to say: I came back to work after only two weeks, toting my baby with me or worked from home. And I didn’t have a governor’s household staff to do the laundry and housework, a government-paid nanny to let me sleep through the night, or a personal secretary to arrange my social events.
Fixed it.
Better put some ice on that Hillarious.
once she “shatters the higest glass ceiling”, what will become of hte women’s movement? Their biggest phony issue will then be gone and what will they wail about?
My guess ios that they will appear to support her, but nto really since if she gets in, their agenda flies out the window.
I think as many new female voters will turn out to vote against the beast as vote for it.I think so too. I've read polls (or discussions of polls) that seem to indicate that women tend to be particularly critical of which women politicians they support. The Beast won't stand up well under a critical light, once the unfettered criticism begins.
In the general election, the Beast will face criticism that even the slavish mass media won't be able to suppress.
Nope!!! She's just still a little pissy about having to give back some of the stuff she lifted from the White House.
Additionally, although Ken Starr had enough to indict and prosecute Hillary for various and sundry crimes, he chose to go for the Big Enchilada --> Bubba!
The above statement is a result of reading Carl Bernsteins matter-of-fact account of Hillary's crimes, " A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton."
The account is further expanded in "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton" by New York Times reporters, Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.
But Bay Buchanan's book, "The Extreme Makeover of Hillary Rodham Clinton" brings it all home.
The Hildabeast is a psycho!!!
Women succeeding their husband’s office is as old as Monarchy itself.
In my original home state of Connecticut, Ella Grasso was hailed as the first woman governor ELECTED IN HER OWN RIGHT, that is a woman governor whose husband was not also governor.
Since she would be no more than partner in a law firm or maybe director of a social welfare agency in her own right, this accomplishment is not an accomplishment at all.
“She listed a watch with a wrist strap made of “white cubes” as one of those gifts.”
Errr...mmmm...ah...I believe that was intended for Roger.
No sh**, Sherlock.
I do believe that we need to start a campaign whearas we show up to Hil events and ask her to make certain promises.
1. Will you promise to not try to remove presidential term limits?
2. Will you support free speech on the radio and not silence your critics?
In my heart I truly feel that her ultimate plan is a total Roman style takeover of the republic. We should all read up on the Social Wars of Rome in the last century BC. Politicians like Sulla and Marius silenced the opposition througn genocide. I have never feared a political candidate so much in my life. I wish I could say that I am just being paranoid..but I can’t help imagining her loyalists coming for is in the dead of night.Right after she removes term limits and silences our voices. Am I being extreme?
We know the radical man-hating feminazis will vote for her. Sane people won’t.
Sure she's a woman, look at those beautiful legs{?}
And look at her before surgical fixup.
Oh, yes, that woman made brazen overtures
With a gilt-edged guarantee
She had a golden glint in her eye
And a silver voice with a counterfeit ring Just melt her down and you'll reveal
A lump of lead as cold as steel
Here, where a woman's heart should be!
STDs?
She won’t catch anything though - - there’s been no intimacy since Chelsea was conceived.
(Then again, that might have been David Crosby's doing the work that lesbians can't)
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