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Matariki

(18,775 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:57 AM Feb 2016

Hillary Battles Bernie Sanders, Chick Magnet

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/opinion/sunday/hillary-battles-bernie-sanders-chick-magnet.html

HILLARY CLINTON first grabbed the national spotlight 47 years ago as an idealistic young feminist, chiding the paternalistic establishment in her Wellesley commencement speech.

So it’s passing strange to watch her here, getting rebuffed by young women who believe that she lacks idealism, that she overplays her feminist hand and that she is the paternalistic establishment.

Bernie Sanders may be a dead ringer for Larry David, but Hillary is running the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” campaign. She can’t fire up young voters by dwelling on what can’t be done in Washington and by explaining that she’s more prose than poetry.

She’s traveling around New Hampshire with a former president who could easily layer in some poetry, and a handful of specific snappy plans for the future, to her thicket of substance and stack of white papers. But somehow, Hill and Bill campaign side by side without achieving synergy.

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Hillary Battles Bernie Sanders, Chick Magnet (Original Post) Matariki Feb 2016 OP
Maureen Fucking Dowd. Metric System Feb 2016 #1
That's the definition Matariki Feb 2016 #5
Dowd has a long history of attacking Democrats, from Gore to Obama and her favorite target- Hillary. Metric System Feb 2016 #6
Mo Dowd is a good writer with a very sharp pen for those she dislikes. senz Feb 2016 #2
Dowd's assessment of Cheney and Bush was spot on too. Betty Karlson Feb 2016 #4
She had some helpful hints for h artislife Feb 2016 #3
Really bad title. cyberswede Feb 2016 #7

Metric System

(6,048 posts)
6. Dowd has a long history of attacking Democrats, from Gore to Obama and her favorite target- Hillary.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 03:53 PM
Feb 2016

She is obsessed with tearing down Hillary and she has a record going back 20 years of it.

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
2. Mo Dowd is a good writer with a very sharp pen for those she dislikes.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 05:45 AM
Feb 2016

I couldn't stand her calling Obama "Barry" but have generally agreed with her assessment of Hillary.

She observes,

While she was giving three speeches to Goldman Sachs for $675,000, her party was changing. As the economy slowly healed, Democrats were seething with anger over the big banks that never got punished for wrecking the economy and the reckless billionaires who are still living large. A tone-deaf Hillary was there sucking at the teat and that rubs people the wrong way.


Comments at the NYTimes are always interesting. Rima Rigas, one of the best commenters, notes,

Gloria Steinem is trending on social media, and not in a good way. She gave Bill Maher an interview in which she made disparaging comments about millenial females who are voting for Bernie. Her explanation of the phenomenon? The boys are doing it.

If that wasn't disappointing enough, today, Madeline Albright, stumping for Hillary, said that there is a special place in hell for women who don't help each other. Hillary laughed and clapped, visibly appreciatively.

What is it about the Clintons that brings out the very worst in people? Resorting to the equivalent of political slut-shaming is not a good look for male or female candidates any more than whining about being victimized on the basis of one's gender is, when taking the heat for greedy and unethical behaviors. This is not feminism. These are not feminist values. These are not humanist values. This is neoliberalism masquerading as feminism and precisely the reason why our wise millenials are not with Hillary.

Bernie isn't a chick magnet. He's a moral rectitude magnet and that, I guess, is the sexiest attribute any human can have.


Would have to agree with those last two paragraphs.
 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
4. Dowd's assessment of Cheney and Bush was spot on too.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:26 AM
Feb 2016

And as for Clinton: her time - the era of Third Way or the Highway - has come and gone, and she needs to realise it. Dowd is polite by not (yet) pointing that out sharply.

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