Weekend Soapbox
Chelsea Clinton's Mom
my wish is please ask your mom to bow out gracefully. that's all i want from her
Unfortunately, when Sen. Clinton made her HUGE gaffe (or calculated play) which could be seen as equating "White" with "hard working" (implying, of course, that "Negroes are shiftless"), she totally destroyed her contention that she was electable. Look at it this way: suppose Obama said something like, "Senator Clinton's support among intellegent, creative Americans, Black Americans, is dropping". Does that motivate a European-American to go out and vote for Obama? Even viewed from a position of White privelege, that sounds demeaning, and I can only imagine how Clinton's statement sounded to an African American. If Clinton gets the nomination, the African American turnout will be abyssmal on election day, and the Democrats will go down in defeat.
So, now that she's shot herself in the foot and become unelectable, why is she staying in the race? Is she a apoiled brat taking her ball and going home when she doesn't win? Is she "staying the course" in order to save face? This destructive behavior hardly commends her as qualified for the Presidency and closely mimics the worst of Bush' traits which have led us to the brink of National disaster.
No one would be pressuring a male candidate with the same numbers to quit. When I was young, women were always expected to stand aside for men -- in school, jobs, honors, competition, compensation, and political office. Apparently nothing has really changed -- this is pure, rank sexism.
I am a woman who supported HRC. It is not about sexism; it's about one campaign being run better than another -- not having taken winning for granted.
And sorry to beat a dead horse, but HRC'c campaign of hubris took it for granted that they'd have it in the bag by February 5. By February 6 they had serious money troubles. Is that how I want this country run after the disaster of the past 7 years?
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