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Hillary Clinton: Her Critics and Admirers…
In the present historic US Democratic presidential nomination marathon, the media and the blogs have now begun to write the obituary of Hillary Clinton’s ambition to become the President of America. (Did someone say that the media ‘obits’ had begun to appear right at the start of her campaign?!!!)
But the recent ‘obits’ also reveal a grudging admiration for the spirited fight she put up despite several odds, including (what her team has been alleging) media hostility.
Two such ‘obits’ caught my attention. The New York Times says: “To use her own phrase, she has been running ‘to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling’ in American life, and now the presidency — even a nomination that once seemed to be hers to claim — seems out of reach.
“Many credit Clinton with laying down a new marker for what a woman can accomplish in a campaign — raising over $170 million, frequently winning more favorable reviews on debate performances than her male rivals, rallying older women, and persuading white male voters who were never expected to support her.
“But as others watched a campaign that starred two possibly transformative figures, they felt a growing conviction that the contest was unfair. Mrs. Clinton’s supporters point to a nagging series of slights: the fixation on her clothes, even her cleavage; chronic criticism that her voice is shrill; calls for her to exit the race; and most of all, the male commentators in the news media who, they argue, were consistently tougher on her than on Mr. Obama.” More here…
And here is Arianna Huffington’s take on the subject: “I have regularly criticized Clinton over the course of her campaign (and long before it, starting with her vote to authorize the war), but there is no question that she has forever altered the way women running for president will be viewed from here on out.” More here…
(Photo courtesy AP/Elise Amendola)
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5 Responses to “Hillary Clinton: Her Critics and Admirers…”
Though I am an older white woman, I do not support Hillary. If I was undecided I would find the over hyper calls of sexism and slights by her supporters to be the biggest turn off.
They now are demanding that Hillary be nominee or else. She lost. She ran a bad campaign and yet they blame Obama for her loss and how unfair it all is.
Why is Clinton not held responsible for her own campaign? She mismanaged the money, the planning and hired and kept incompetent people. She lost 11 races in a row and anyone else would have been written off. But, her supporters whine that she is treated unfair and it's Obama's fault.
How, it is his fault I cannot guess.
But, their behavior is embarrassing and bullying. They do not want equality but, special treatment and this is what drives people crazy. And people feel resentment towards their candidate because of their overbearing and whiny behavior.
“Though I am an older white woman, I do not support Hillary.”
The fact that you are becoming a regular poster on TMV establishes that sentiment even without this declaration.
Bzzzzzzz……….. until August
I guess I could feel sorry for her if she hadn't proven herself incompetent to run a campaign, is highly unethical and clearly unready to run a country. Most alarming are her similarities to Bush, the divisiveness, bull headedness, hiring her cronies and her alliegence to the special interests that funded her campaign. I don't like how she is so determined to divide and hurt the Democrats and is trying to start more fighting. She would be a toxic leader and is unelectable in any event.
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Nice try at reuniting the rifts, Swaraaj, but the comments of the hatefilled Obama fanatics at HuffPo ruined it.