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Submitted by MsGrin on Thu, 04/28/2016 - 2:10pm

This morning's On Point with Tom Ashbrook which airs on NPR has this topic:

Women Voters, The ‘Gender Card’ And Hillary Clinton

There's a whole, long, very serious discussion about WOMEN and the potential momentous all, yadda, yadda, yadda... (Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to a female president as much as the next gal...)

But then the last part of the show is comment, after comment, after comment, after comment from women saying why they absolutely do not support Hillary.

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Most of y'all have noticed, I think, my sig line from Bernie, which I heard from him for the first time when he spoke in Austin in February. I had missed that this week Hillary used the line as her own in her victory speech, and Ashbrook attributes it to her in speaking about the clip he played from that speech.

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Thu, 04/28/2016 - 3:58pm
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I have to skip over whenever she speaks. She's AWFUL! I love the women who have called and said NO HRC FOR ME!
HA! Take that! Love it!

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Submitted by GreyWolf on Thu, 04/28/2016 - 5:06pm
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Borowitz Report - News Satire

“We’ve always bought Republicans, and our father bought Republicans before us,” Charles, the elder Koch, said. “They’re bred to be obedient, and they respond to simple commands.”

... He said that he and his brother had considered acquiring a Democrat only after determining that none of the Republicans on offer this year was worth adding to their collection.

“It’s kind of a scary proposition for us, because we’ve never owned a Democrat before,” he said. “We don’t really know what we should be looking for.”

Koch said that he and his brother learned, after making some phone calls, that other oligarchs have bought Democrats in the past, and “had good experiences with them.”

“That was very reassuring,” he said.

But he bemoaned the absence of online consumer reviews that could help people who are, like him and his brother, interested in purchasing a Democrat for the very first time. “Yelp needs to jump on this,” he said. ...

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Submitted by wilderness voice on Thu, 04/28/2016 - 11:26pm
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Hillary could provide good references.

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Submitted by esmireldazimbabwe on Thu, 04/28/2016 - 5:54pm

It's nice to know that the likes of Jiiillll Abraaamsooon (Gaawd, could she sound any more like a cartoonish upper crust socialite?) doesn't have any more prescient insight than the rest of us as to why women aren't necessarily flocking to Hillary's side. It was certainly the callers who hammered the trust issues. Although, I thought semi-condescending Ashbrook's flash that maybe we're past prioritizing gender was an interesting take, and worthy of a whole discussion of it's own. After all was said and done, though, the biggest take-away and surprise for me was Ms. Abramsons call for Hillary to release the speeches. Holy crap, did she just say that?!? Enjoyed the listen. Thanks!

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Submitted by MsGrin on Thu, 04/28/2016 - 7:33pm
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post-gender. I've realized recently that they know something that only dawned on me this way because I see that THEY see it: We WILL HAVE a female president, AND SOON. It's gonna happen - it's no longer a question of 'if.' And I strongly suppose Secretary Clinton has personafied this.

But now that we've established that it is immanent, it is also very clear how necessary it is to have THE RIGHT WOMAN be the one to do it - someone we'll be proud to point out to the coming generations as the person who crossed that line.

I happen to feel this very personally because of an experience I had in college. I was in a position to break that barrier at my school, and it actually turned out that the anti-establishment, establishment (yes, I meant to type that twice) campus paper ended up endorsing my opponent who was a male and in many ways less involved than I was in issues prioritized by that periodical. I lost. It happens. But the following year, a woman won. Someone I admire and who was extremely qualified - I supported her. But she realized somewhere during that year that doing the kind of job she felt she needed to do was interfering with her GPA, so she stepped down. Somehow, her stepping down hurt me more than my own loss did.

I was perfectly happy to put the bulk of my energy into student government work (actually, my father had told me that my first priority should be serving others and I had not yet come upon the concept of codependency) as opposed to my studies.

The one MAJOR accomplishment I had while I was on campus is remembered as if someone else accomplished it, although both the idea and the execution were my brainchildren - he did something which supported it tangentially and then he got media coverage for that. His efforts ended up being lucrative for him, but I got the thing itself done. The other marks I left on the campus were actually shot down while I was there, but the seed I planted ended up sprouting and bearing fruit after I left campus. Leaving a changed approach and more nuanced values is a lot more important to me than my name being in lights.

At any rate, we WILL have a woman president - and one who actually cares about the womanhood of others as much as she does her own.

I'm still not convinced THIS woman becomes president. StillSanders!

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