Clinton Tries To Backpedal From Comments Disparaging Mississippi On Women's Progress

[Purveyor]

HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to backpedal Friday from comments she made in October suggesting Mississippi was a backward place for women's progress.

Speaking to radio station WJZD-FM in Gulfport, Miss., the former first lady said the comments she made about the state in the run up to the Iowa caucuses "were not exactly what I said," even though they came directly from an interview she gave to the Des Moines Register in October.

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The newspaper quoted the New York senator discussing Iowa and Mississippi being the only states that have never elected a woman governor or sent a woman to Congress.

"How can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That's not what I see. That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism; that's not the openness I see in Iowa," Hillary Clinton told the newspaper then — a remark that prompted immediate criticism from Mississippi Republicans.

Rival Barack Obama has been running radio ads in Mississippi calling Clinton's comments insulting to the state.

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http://www.startribune.com/nation/16392046.html

[anonymous171]

1. Finally.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Nothing Hill ever says is exactly what she said. It always morphable in Hillaryworld.

[rodeodance]

3. that ad is shameful

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. The comments were shameful.

[Joe the Revelator]

10. Hillary's Naftagate ads make Obama's look like a commercial for a care bear movie

[rodeodance]

15. ha --the OHIO people are smart cookies---suck on that one!

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[anonymous171]

6. Hillary shits on a state then comes crawling back when she needs their vote.

Is that something we want in a president? She's already alienated leaders like Putin. She may need to learn to bite her tongue and stop making harsh judgments of people that might matter later on.

[jefferson_dem]

7. Bout time the press does its job. Why doesn't Hillary follow her DU supporters' advice and say...

"Damn right, Mississippi is fucked up and backwards. Deal with it."

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. Pedal faster Hillary, your past is catching up with you.

[Onlooker]

9. Hillary is an idiot

Her remark was correct. As someone else posted here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4928582&mesg_id=4928582

Mississippi is a disgustingly sexist state. Clinton should have stood by her remarks and spoken out for feminism. She had nothing to lose, since she's not going to win the state anyway, and people might have respected her more if she showed a little more principle.

[roguevalley]

14. since she expects to be the nom by hook or crook, she might have

been nicer to a state with dem voters. Oh, right. she has a fifteen state strategy. worked great with super tuesday they say.

rv, living in one of those unrelevent states

[anigbrowl]

11. She should have spoken off the record

Sorry, no rewind button.

[CoffeeCat]

12. We kicked Hillary to the curb in Iowa...

...with a pathetic third-place showing.

Now Mississippi, it's time for you to do the same.

:popcorn:

[BeyondGeography]

13. She is Bushlike in her inability to admit a mistake

Not that I'm complaining...she sounds like an ass again here.