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MoonchildCA

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10. You're right, I can accept that...
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 01:04 AM
Nov 2015

...bad wording on my part; she was famous and not infamous.

But still, even if Obama said it first, my knee-jerk reaction says it's sexist. I doubt any man has ever been compared to Annie Oakley on the political stage. It was simply because they are both women. Call me sensitive; it was my initial reaction.

That being said, I didn't feel Bernie's "shouting" comment was sexist at all. I felt that Clinton trying to claim it as that was even more sexist, when he had been using that argument all along.

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