Hillary’s Defenders; Stop Picking on the Girl!
by Big Dog on Nov 1, 2007 at 13:14 Political
As much as Hillary Rodham wants us to believe that her sex has nothing to do with her candidacy her actions and words convey a different message. A candidate should be judged on qualifications and not on whether he, or in this case she, will be the first of something to hold the office. I will be the first woman, Jew, black, or whatever is not a valid reason and it is not a qualification to hold the office.
Hillary wants us to believe that she is qualified and her sex is not important to the process but then she cannot help but invoke the “I will be the first woman president” into her speeches. She has told, time and again, the story about some elderly woman claiming to wait her whole life to see a woman president and Hillary will make that dream come true. This is not ignoring her sex as a qualification.
Her campaign staff or apologizers, as I call them, have already used the “picking on a girl” mantra after Hillary’s reported poor showing in the last debate. Hillary was unable to clearly answer several of the questions and waffled on the questions and took two different positions during the same debate. Hillary was unable to express her true feelings about the insane plan in New York to issue driver’s licenses to ILLEGALS. My opinion is that Hillary did not have the opportunity to take a poll to decide which way to come down on the issue so she tried to leave an opening. Of course, the very next day she came out in support of the plan which means someone told her to support it to get the immigrant vote. This has to be the reason because most New Yorkers oppose giving licenses to ILLEGALS at all. It is possible that Hillary was trying to decide if she should answer it in a way that would appeal to general voters possibly feeling she has the primary nomination locked up. In any event, she did not exercise leadership.
Her rivals have been attacking her more ferociously lately because she is the front runner and she showed at the last debate that she has trouble when she has to defend herself and when she has to think for herself. Hillary though, has a mop up team that goes into action when the Hildebeast needs to be protected or when she needs to be explained (which usually means she made a mistake and they clarify her position so that it appeals to the group that will give the most votes).
Hillary picked up a major union endorsement and the guy announcing it gave her boxing gloves and said six guys against one girl, that was fair, she is one tough lady. This is, once again, invoking the pity party for the “girl.” Six guys did not attack one girl. Six other candidates attacked the leading candidate. However, the Clinton backers had to try and downplay Hillary’s poor performance by redirecting the focus to the issue of sex. How would it play out if Obama were the front runner and the candidates had attacked him and the statement made was “six whiteys against a black man. That is a fair fight, he is one tough brother.” I imagine that would not go over well in certain circles. The issue of sex should be just as offensive and as much of a non issue.
Hillary Rodham is running for the presidency and her sex is not an issue in the race. If she is not tough enough to handle the attacks then she does not belong in the race. If the attacks rattled her so much that she performed poorly (in addition to her not knowing what focus group to support) then this is information we need to make a judgment about her ability to handle the job. How will she act if she is attacked by a bunch of thugs at the UN? Will her people claim that the bullies picked on a girl?
All I can say is that over the last seven years George Bush has been attacked much more severely than Hillary was during the debate or has been since she announced her candidacy. The left in this country suffers from Bush derangement syndrome and they attack all things Bush. He has been called vile names, people have wished death upon him, and Hugo Chavez called him Satan and some people in this country agreed. No one came out and said that he was being picked on because he was a poor Christian or some other lame excuse.
Bush never seems rattled by the name calling and he ignores the people who engage in such behavior. Hillary can criticize him all she wants but he has much tougher skin than she does. She might want to be one of the guys but it is tough if she is going to cry like a girl when things get tough. Make no mistake, her people are saying the words for her so she is the one crying.
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Tags: campaign staff, candidacy, front runner, hillary rodham, illegals, jew, new yorkers, Obama, woman president
Get used to it. “She’s just a girl” will be a centerpiece of her entire campaign.
I’m a girl too!! I get picked on!! And teased!! And tattered and bantered about with…I get into with the boys and you know what, I never EVAH use the fact that I am a woman as an excuse for much of anything.
I DO use my feminine side to help me when I need to, and I am not ashamed of this. My instincts and motherly feelings and emotions guide me and most women as well- those like Hillary refuse to admit this. (Some believe she has no feminine instinct and I wonder if this is true with her?)
Good post. Keep arguing with the gals…society needs this. It keeps us alive- we humans. Hillary should stop playing her gender in this race.
BD,
I have always worked in basicly a “man’s” world. Since I started earlier than most. I have never ask any of my squads, crews, troops what ever titles we were using at that time, to do something that I haven’t done already. I have had some new bees that thought because I was a woman I would be a push over. My old guard would just laugh at them. They either met our standards or moved on. One of my people told me what a new one had said when he was assigned to me, he told the new one do you see that pen in her hand, she can beat you to death with that. I made everyone understand up front that we were a team. No “I’s”. A few washed out no surprise. But for the most part all of my squads were trained and ready to go and hit the streets running. Most were on lists for FD or PD and were sent to us to make sure they understood what to expect. I worked with recruiters from the FD and PD departments. They always took my people with no hesitation. Once I was asked if I would agree to let 5 of them go straight to the street since they were already trained and needed man power. I would not let them do that. I felt that they needed to go through the whole thing and know who and what they were working with. I did not want them to miss that or misunderstand something in their new world.
That said, if the Beast is so experienced why is she crying foul now? Her “oh I’m just a poor girl” and everyone is ganging up on me does not make good material for a President of the United States. What is she going to do go to meetings and cry? From what is known about her she is probably more of a man than the rest of them. I don’t think living in the same zip code with a president counts as experience. I do not think this is the woman to be the first president. These idiots that think they will get another few years with Bubba better wake up. It will not be what they think.
I still stand by my offer if someone will just buy her a real mirror instead of the piece of tin she is using now so she can get a good look at the “girl”. I will remburse them for the cost.