It seems to really bother people when women just mention
they have been historically locked out of the power of the "establishment".
Really weird to see so many upset about the mention of it.
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We want a woman president, but...........
Well, I think that they are still going to get one.
But very happy to see you acknowledge it exists.
there has never been a woman president. Her election would be just as historical as president Obama's was in 2008.
I support Hillary because I think that she is the best qualified person running for president, but my heart fills with pride at the thought that we could finally have a woman president. Just like AA were filled with pride when Obama won the presidency.
of the candidates by the mere fact that she would be the first of her kind, if she were to win. The expectations and focus on a woman candidate are different than on the men.
President Obama said it best a couple of weeks ago:
“The truth is, in 2007 and 2008, sometimes my supporters and my staff, I think, got too huffy about what were legitimate questions she was raising,” Obama said. “And there were times where I think the media probably was a little unfair to her and tilted a little my way in calling her out.”
Obama said Clinton “had a tougher job” throughout 2008 primary than he did.
“She had to do everything that I had to do, except, like Ginger Rogers, backwards in heels,” he said. “She had to wake up earlier than I did because she had to get her hair done. She had to, you know, handle all the expectations that were placed on her.”
He added: “Had things gone a little bit different in some states or if the sequence of primaries and caucuses been a little different, she could have easily won.”
Have fun skiing!!!
There's an OP right now where someone thinks they "figured it out" when in fact all they are doing is playing the gender card in defense of their chosen one and making a mockery of feminism and real problems that women face. They actually think that Hillary is being criticized for taking all that speaking money from Goldman Sachs just because she's a woman who dares to make that much money for speaking engagements. And zealots are reccing that pos. 
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unfortunately we had the same reaction when anyone criticized Obama as some said any disagreement on policy was racist.
Why is it so hard for some people to understand how much it would mean for many women (not all, of course) to have a woman elected president? To finally break that glass ceiling.
To a lot of women around the world Hillary is an icon. I recall when she traveled as SOS how many women would want to meet her. It was touching how some of them had copies of her 1995 speech in Beijing. Hillary went to places where no SOS would normally go. For example, she went to an orphanage in Cambodia that the government tried to keep out of sight because it took in girls that had been in the sex trade. She brought it to the forefront. Trip after trip she insisted on making similar visits.
https://secretaryclinton.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-in-cambodia-pledging-to-continue-fighting-sexual-slavery/
I am proud to support Hillary and it's my fervent hope that she becomes president.
She had to suffer the indignity of living in Fayetteville, Arkansas for a year before landing a job as a corporate lawyer in Little Rock, then moving into the governor's mansion a couple of years after that, and spending 12 of the next 14 years as the governor's wife rubbing shoulders with the state's richest Republicans, then moving on to the White House for 8 years, then moving into one of the poshest neighborhoods in suburban New York after that.
Poor, poor Hillary! 
... eagerly crave an endorsement of Bernie?
Oh my! 
idea how hard it has become to get ahead - or even simply make a living - for the average American. No, what she goes on about is how everyone's TONE is discriminatory and sexist.
As someone else said, it is VERY comical... 
But that doesn't mean Hillary isn't an establishment politician.
