Hillary: If Fighting For Women's Rights "Is Playing The Gender Card, Deal Me In!"

[MrWendel]

By First Amendment

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/10/1468201/-Hillary-If-Fighting-For-Women-s-Rights-Is-Playing-The-Gender-Card-Deal-Me-In



Planned Parenthood held an event today in New Hampshire to officially endorse Hillary Clinton. Hillary delivered a line that drew a rousing cheer from the crowd.

It's a classic and something we may be hearing on the campaign trail in the days to come. Video below. I transcribed the quote to the best of my ability.

Enjoy!

Republicans say I'm playing the gender card. Well, if fighting for equal pay, paid leave and Planned Parenthood is playing the gender card, deal me in!

More with video in link

[oasis]

1. Keep fighting Hillary. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

[JRLeft]

2. She will, but for Wall Street.

[oasis]

3. Hillary's for a thriving American economy. She'll do whatever is

necessary to ensure that all Americans share in the new Clinton prosperity.

[JRLeft]

4. We will get millions from the Saudi royal family and Wall Street too?

[oasis]

6. What's any of this got to do with the OP?

[JRLeft]

7. I was responding to your post.

[oasis]

10. My post was a reaffirmation of Hillary's gender card remark

which was the topic of the OP.

[JRLeft]

11. And I responded to you.

[oasis]

16. I heard you the first time. And btw,

haven't you started enough "Wall Street" "corporate" OPs on GD-P today to satisfy your disdain for Hillary?

[JRLeft]

17. You're belief in her is pie in the sky.

She has bundlers to pay back, that doesn't involve the 99%.

[oasis]

19. Imagine that, a Bernie supporter scoffing at "pie in the sky".

[JRLeft]

21. You're the one pretending like her corporate dollars won't impact her decision making.

[oasis]

23. Why would I have to pretend? I put more trust in my judgement

than any of your assumptions.

[2pooped2pop]

5. wow

It sounds like you actually believe that and it just makes me say "wow"

[oasis]

8. You'll say "wow" again when it happens. Now let's return to the OP

topic, shall we?

[JRLeft]

9. She will fight harder for her biggest donors more than anything.

[oasis]

12. Why not plunk down your donation to test your theory?

[JRLeft]

13. I will never donate to another corporate candidate again.

[840high]

30. You can bet on that.

[2pooped2pop]

27. hillary may win

But we all lose if she does. As for the op, the gender card she plays doesn't really have anything to do with women's rights.
.

[daybranch]

32. What did Hillary say in those speeches to Wall Street and the big banks?

Clinton is a negotiator working for her rich donors in the oligarchy. What do you think she said in those speeches she made to Wall Street? Just like the republicans she made promises of how she could help them make more money, she certainly did not spend a lot of time saying stop it or she would not have been invited to speak over and over at those prices. Lets see what she said or is this private?

[oasis]

34. I guarantee there won't be a "Mitt Romney" type remark

attributed to Hillary showing her on a video selling out the "little guy" trying to impress the big shots.

[Hekate]

14. Damn straight! GO HILLARY!

[Dawson Leery]

15. k/r

[betsuni]

18. K&R

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Well, she wasn't fighting for women's rights in the Middle East

In fact, she has championed regime change in three secular Middle Eastern countries (Iraq, Libya, Syria) where women had more rights than in theocratic regimes in the region, and now women have lost rights in Libya and Iraq, and if she had her way, Syria would become the next failed secular Middle Eastern state.

In Libya

"As it turned out, Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship had served for 41 years as a center of gravity – a center that kept the centrifugal tribal forces in check. The National Transitional Council (NTC), which took over after the defeat of the regime and the parliamentary elections that followed, were supposed to fill the void, but proved insufficient to the task. Ms. Abaida and her cause have become victims of that failure.

Upon her return to Libya, she advocated for gender equality to be incorporated into any new Libyan constitution. She never had a chance. The tribes are tied to traditions that are strongly patriarchal. Also, the chaotic nature of post-revolution Libyan politics allowed free play to extremist Islamic forces that saw gender equality as a Western perversion."

https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/09/libyan-women-losing-rights/

And in Iraq

Since the invasion in 2003 "Iraqi women have been brutally attacked, kidnapped and intimidated from participating in the Iraqi society".[39] Yanar Mohammed, an Iraqi feminist, "asserts unequivocally that war and occupation have cost Iraqi women their legal standing and their everyday freedom of dress and movement".[40] She continues by arguing that "The first losers in all these were women".[40]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Iraq

[MrWendel]

22. Congrats...

you know way more foreign policy than Bernie does.

[zentrum]

25. Responding to a serious

…post about the destruction of thousands of women and children with flippancy and snark is one the problems lots of we women have with the whole HRC candidacy.

[MrWendel]

36. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight....

Since we are on the topic of women...

[Nyan]

29. Spot on. nt

[SunSeeker]

24. K & R

[billhicks76]

26. Ridiculous

Claiming sexism where it doesn't exist against Bernie or whenever anyone opposed her warfare policies or drug war oppression stomping on poor women's rights is NOT fighting for women's rights. In fact it is off putting to those actually fighting for ALL women's rights.

[840high]

31. Amen.

[djean111]

33. You got that perfectly right. n/t

[Nyan]

28. Ugh...

Were you fighting for women's rights when you accused Bernie of being sexist?

[MeNMyVolt]

35. K&R!