Bill Clinton is criticizing Bernie’s campaign for sexism, and that’s good. It’s high time we had this conversation. I don’t in the least believe that Bernie is consciously sexist. He is simply a man of a different era and can’t help bringing his sensibilities of 50 years ago to a world that has changed and demands something better.
We all remember how clumsy Bernie was on the issue of parental leave, trying to massage it into the uncomfortable framework of Madonna and baby. We have also seen how glaring the contrast was between Sanders and the much younger O’Malley when answering the question as to what their wives were going to do in case their husbands won.
Without being in the least aware of it, Sanders is couching every attack on Hillary in sexist terms. And when asked about the venomous woman – hatred of way too many of his supporters, he shrugs dismissively and says, “Yes, it’s wrong but we can’t control every single supporter.” Now would be a really good time for Bernie to talk seriously and at length to his supporters about this issue but he simply doesn’t have the language for it.
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Bill overplayed his hand back in 2008 when he came out for Hillary against Obama, and was accused of being clumsily racist in some of his remarks. I doubt that he’ll be accused of being “ageist” against Bernie, since neither of the Clintons are spring chickens.
But a couple of Hillary’s famous female supporters have already angered both female Bernie voters and even some of Hillary’s own younger females voters:
Gloria Steinem said that young women support Bernie to please their boyfriends, and then Madeleine Albright stated at the start of a Hillary rally that “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women.”
These campaigns always get interesting when the candidates start feeling desperate during the early primaries!
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Albright made a great speech but she’s at the age where she won’t be effective on young women. She is way too serious and not in the least touchy feely.
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Well, she won’t be effective if she tells them they’re going to hell!
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