Hillary Clinton Sets Back the Cause of Women's Rights
I have heard all the arguments as to why I should vote for Hillary Clinton because I am a woman. I have heard that Bernie Sanders supporters are nothing but lily white men. Guess what? I don't vote because of a person's sex. I'm not pure white, my great-grandmother was Cherokee and Dad registered all of the children as part of the Cherokee Nation. My vote needs to be earned.
All my life I have had to fight to get a decent wage to live on. Because I'm female my wages were lower then males in the same job. They got the promotions. I got customers who would hang up until they got me because they knew I would do the job right. Women have had to fight and still are fighting to this day for our rights.
Hillary Clinton's refusal to debate Bernie Sanders until he changes his "tone" has just sent the woman's movement reeling backwards. It says that women get their feelings hurt if someone isn't all sugar and spice to them. It says if Sander's disagrees with Clinton's policies and calls her on it he is being a big old bully going after a defenseless woman. Really? Really?
So if a three a.m. phone call comes from Putin is Hillary going to burst into tears and hang up if he isn't "nice" to her. If she can't cope with Bernie Sanders who is a gentleman how is she going to cope with world leaders, especially those who do not believe woman should be in office?
This should be a wake up call to women everyone. Hillary Clinton is not the woman we need as President. If she can't stand any criticisms of herself, her policies, or what she has done then she is not a strong woman like she claims. We need a President that can stand up to what the world throws at them and remain a strong adult in the room. The fainting couch and my little feelings are hurt are 100 years ago.
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As usual, it's just another weapon in her toolbox.
One that she pulls out when she's LOSING.
Some people use every tactic in the book, without realizing that certain stances are in fact in opposition to each other. Hillary keeps going on about her "Strength" but then tries to claim "Vulnerability" at every criticism. Oh, it not that SHE can't take it, of course, it's just that those dumb Republican Voters won't accept a strong woman...
Where's Lily Tomlin when you NEED her?
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
It's bullshit.
She doesn't give two shits about his tone. She's used tones that are much worse. This is just a way to get out of debating Bernie. She doesn't want to engage in any more debates, b/c it'll hurt her, like it did back in '08, when support for her began to dwindle w/ each debate. Her cult of personality can only get her so far.
She doesn't have a cult of personality...
She has a doomsday cult that believes if A republican is ever put into office...
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
A Clinton supporter told me HRC was a great role model
so I sent her a response that I later put up here http://caucus99percent.com/content/not-role-model. She didn't respond. Sad.
More for her to worry about now too...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/03/hillary-clinton-em...
As for Clinton being a "feminist" - not in my book she's not:
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham C http://www.versobooks.com/books/2121-false-choices linton
Edited by Liza Featherstone
Hillary Clinton presents her campaign for the presidency and her long career in public life as a triumph of feminism. But an all-star lineup of American feminists here says, "It's not that simple." In a history of proposals and policies on welfare, Wall Street, crime and policing, immigration, international health, and war, Clinton has advanced ideas and laws that have actually hurt women--and restricted the powerful idea of feminism itself. From leading feminist figures like Roxane Gay, Laura Flanders, and Medea Benjamin to a new generation of young women writers and thinkers, this book restores to feminism its revolutionary meaning and outlines how truly robust feminist policies could transform the United States and its relation to the world.
Includes essays from prominent feminist writers Roxane Gay, Laura Flanders, Medea Benjamin, Frances Fox Piven, Kathleen Geier, Yasmin Nair, Megan Erickson, Tressie McMillan Cotom, Catherine Liu, Amber A'Lee, Magpie Corvid, Belen Fernandes, and others.
YES, YES YES ! We need to repeat your headline loudly. It
can't be said enough.
I came across this at Feministing blog. While I don't know a whole lot about the site, I have seen bourgeois feminists writing there. But this one pulls back no punches, right on from the damning headline. I am going to forward it to authoritarian HRC followers in my circle. I have repeatedly argued that warmongers can't be feminists because wars, horrendous as they are, even more royally fuck up women( & children). This one articulates that in a way I couldn't beyond 2-3 sentences :
http://feministing.com/2016/03/23/when-the-feminist-establishment-candidate-is-further-right-than-trump/