Clinton (and Steinem) are whining because she lost. Correction: because they lost. Clinton lost Iowa and probably New Hampshire for the same reason men like Edwards, Biden, and Dodd lost them. Because Obama's just that darn good. He's a better orator than Clinton, and he's got a better, more positive message. He doesn't have her baggage of shady real-estate and commodities deals, or her utter failure* at fixing health care.
And Steinem lost most of the younger generation of women because she's dead-set on acting like a victim while, as she puts it in the article "some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system;" These days women graduate college at higher rates than men do. Times have changed, and it's time she realized it
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"Clinton isn't like Obama, she's more like Edwards or Jesse Jackson: explicitly campaigning on her oppressed-minority status, defining a large chunk of the electorate as an evil enemy, and then whining when people call her divisive
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I do not think for one moment that Hillary is "reveling in separation." Because she acknowledges she's a woman? Because she addresses women's issues and wants women to help on her campaign? Because she gave an interview to a women's web site? Doesn't EVERY SINGLE CANDIDATE try to appeal to women and/or whatever groups they think will help them? That doesn't mean they're being divisive. But BECAUSE Hillary is a woman, you think she is being so. That is _exactly_ what Steinem was saying in the column
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He's a better orator than Clinton, and he's got a better, more positive message. He doesn't have her baggage of shady real-estate and commodities deals, or her utter failure* at fixing health care.
And Steinem lost most of the younger generation of women because she's dead-set on acting like a victim while, as she puts it in the article "some women, perhaps especially younger ones, hope to deny or escape the sexual caste system;" These days women graduate college at higher rates than men do. Times have changed, and it's time she realized it ( ... )
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