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Jen the Michigander


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122301315.html

Ferraro was livid, and distraught. What more did Hillary Clinton have to do to prove herself? How could anyone -- least of all Ferraro's own daughter -- fail to grasp the historic significance of electing a woman president, in probably the only chance the country would have to do so for years to come? Ferraro hung up enraged, not so much at her daughter but at the world. Clinton was being unfairly cast aside, and, along with her, the dreams of a generation and a movement.

As the primaries played on that spring, the same scene played out in living rooms from coast to coast. Mothers and grandmothers who saw themselves in Clinton and formed the core of her support faced a confounding phenomenon: Their daughters did not much care whether a woman won or lost. There was nothing, in their view, all that special about electing a woman -- particularly this woman -- president. Not when the milestone of electing an African American president was at hand.

Clinton, the former first lady and one of the most famous women in the world, had spent all of 2007 as the overwhelming front-runner, leading in all the national polls and raising huge amounts of cash. She looked like the inevitable nominee, and her effortless climb reinforced what young women thought they knew: Pretty much every battle of the sexes had already been waged and won. Raised in a world where women made up more than half of all undergraduates on college campuses and half of the students in all law and medical schools, where discrimination was illegal, where nearly half the work force was female and their mothers had been free to work -- or not -- younger women were not drawn to Clinton by any sense of history, and they recoiled at being told they should be. Feminism had long ago been declared dead, then rendered meaningless.


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Thanks for this article, I see the media is busy pumping 2010. I am sitting here this Sunday morning, and they are reviewing the year for Obama. I just about gagged when one news woman (Ashland) said right off that Obama passed the Ledbetter bill real fast, and that the health care bill was more complicated and took longer. What she needs to know is that Obama didn't do anything to pass the bill, other than pick up a pen and sign it. It was Hillary
who worked her butt off. My point, here is a woman giving the credit to Obama. Then I think how many years, decades more will it take to earn the same wage as men?
So when you compare health care to women's rights, hell we've been at it for over 150 years!
We've been the health care givers, but please don't give women the credit for anything they've ever done in this society.

Here's another read:

http://outragedamericansforjustice.blogsport.com/2009/12/what-happened-to-feminist-cajones.html



-- Edited by Building 4112 on Sunday 27th of December 2009 11:42:21 AM

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Well, I'm hoping Ferraro's daughter and every other woman that was BAMBOOZLED into voting for the person that HMG calls "superdummy" - biggrinbiggrinbiggrin - now can at least tell they made a HUGE mistake.

Onward and upward!wink



-- Edited by Alex on Sunday 27th of December 2009 11:47:11 AM

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Jen, I could not go to that link.. and tried a few versions; still did not come up.. My network connection is working good.. please check the link. Thanks.


Yes, women really needed to sit back and notice that Hillary is the proven experience on the ballot and a female who has earned her place in her own right. Not seeing that and getting dazed by the halo of candidate Obama has done irreparable damage to women's causes.

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Excellent article and like I said I understand African American women because they had two ceilings to break but for EVERY other woman in this country shame on them. There is no excuse.  African American women are getting flack by women's groups but I don't like for anyone to tell me who to vote for either African Americans or women.  I have had both and it makes me angry.

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Thanks for this article, I see the media is busy pumping 2010.

Building, did you mean pumping or pimping? lol.


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freespirit wrote:

Thanks for this article, I see the media is busy pumping 2010.


Building, did you mean pumping or pimping? lol.



 pimping is better lol



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I needed that laugh this morning! It's really one and the same.

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