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It really seems like Gerraldine Ferraro wants Mccain to win. I shared my thoughts about this on Wonkette.com.
To think I worked for the Mondale-Ferraro campaign back in the day. This is the exact moment I do need to get in the time machine and blow the mind of my idealistic 18 year old self. I could tell her that someday in 2008 Ferraro would let the bad guys win and say some racist stuff in the name of feminism. It would not change history, but at least I would have been saved the heart-break of that horrible landslide defeat after so much work.
I am a feminist. Yet this is embarrassing. What we are seeing is NOT feminism. What is feminism is a woman candidate losing and taking responsibility for losing like all other candidates who have lost. Hillary will lose not because she is a woman, but because she is the wrong person for the wrong time. She pissed off the left because she voted for war, she angers the right for many reasons. She's made political decisions that have reinforced what her haters have been saying a long time. Clinton is a candidate who is for the old way of doing things in a country that wants change.
I spent most of my life looking up to these women. When it was not fashionable in the anti-feminist backlash in the 1980s, I proudly proclaimed myself a feminist and stuck up for those who went before. It was in my lifetime that women couldn't get a credit card in her own name, even if she was the primary or sole breadwinner. There is a lot to be angry about and a lot left to be done.
Women candidates need to be able to stand up for themselves and pat themselves on the back when they succeed, but also learn to take responsibility for their failures. It takes more strength to say that you made a mistake. Clinton needs to face that she has made mistakes and those mistakes led to her being on the verge of taking the party where it doesnt want to go.
Clinton ran a poor campaign, misspent her money, and made bad choices that alienated people. It is also a generational thing rather than a gender thing. The younger generations are more ready for change than some in the older generations. There are older folk who fear change and uncertainty. There are elderly women who pinned their hopes on seeing the first woman president in their lifetimes on Hillary.
As someone who wants a female president, I deserve better than Clinton.
The big reason Hillary is losing is she has been wrong on the big stuff...Iraq, Iran, not talking to our enemies, gas tax holidays, NAFTA, hyping her credentials via lying about Bosnia trip, and numerous slights on the Kennedy family and the grassroots Civil Rights movements.
So, I say to Ferraro that I am disappointed in her and I am disappointed in Clinton.
To think I worked for the Mondale-Ferraro campaign back in the day. This is the exact moment I do need to get in the time machine and blow the mind of my idealistic 18 year old self. I could tell her that someday in 2008 Ferraro would let the bad guys win and say some racist stuff in the name of feminism. It would not change history, but at least I would have been saved the heart-break of that horrible landslide defeat after so much work.
I am a feminist. Yet this is embarrassing. What we are seeing is NOT feminism. What is feminism is a woman candidate losing and taking responsibility for losing like all other candidates who have lost. Hillary will lose not because she is a woman, but because she is the wrong person for the wrong time. She pissed off the left because she voted for war, she angers the right for many reasons. She's made political decisions that have reinforced what her haters have been saying a long time. Clinton is a candidate who is for the old way of doing things in a country that wants change.
I spent most of my life looking up to these women. When it was not fashionable in the anti-feminist backlash in the 1980s, I proudly proclaimed myself a feminist and stuck up for those who went before. It was in my lifetime that women couldn't get a credit card in her own name, even if she was the primary or sole breadwinner. There is a lot to be angry about and a lot left to be done.
Women candidates need to be able to stand up for themselves and pat themselves on the back when they succeed, but also learn to take responsibility for their failures. It takes more strength to say that you made a mistake. Clinton needs to face that she has made mistakes and those mistakes led to her being on the verge of taking the party where it doesnt want to go.
Clinton ran a poor campaign, misspent her money, and made bad choices that alienated people. It is also a generational thing rather than a gender thing. The younger generations are more ready for change than some in the older generations. There are older folk who fear change and uncertainty. There are elderly women who pinned their hopes on seeing the first woman president in their lifetimes on Hillary.
As someone who wants a female president, I deserve better than Clinton.
The big reason Hillary is losing is she has been wrong on the big stuff...Iraq, Iran, not talking to our enemies, gas tax holidays, NAFTA, hyping her credentials via lying about Bosnia trip, and numerous slights on the Kennedy family and the grassroots Civil Rights movements.
So, I say to Ferraro that I am disappointed in her and I am disappointed in Clinton.
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