<p>Scratch the surface and a lot of highly educated people start talking like Jeremiah Wright.</p>
<p>I agree with Inthebiz, and I, also, supported Edwards until he dropped out. Like momofnewP, I have never supported Hillary for president, even though she is one of my senators. I don’t consider her a leader.</p>
<p>I do know one woman who is supporting Hillary for the reasons Cokie Roberts described. This woman has been pushed out of a job by a younger, less qualified male, and is now confronting ageism as she looks for a new one. She said the other day that she now makes sure people know her age before she interviews, so that she doesn’t waste time. She feels a very strong emotional bond to Hillary since she sees her position as similar. </p>
<p>I did feel angry on Hillary’s behalf last week when I saw video of a speech she gave the day after her crushing defeat in NC and her narrow win in IN. She somehow found the fortitude to go on, and the campaign set up a last-minute appearance at noon the next day in another state. A loud group of (apparent) Obama supporters heckled her and Chelsea. They were absolute boors.</p>
<p>One can admire her fortitude (which to some may appear as sheer stubbornness) and criticize her lack of judgment. In a president, the second is more important.</p>
<p>Well, my H was job-hunting recently. He was very concerned that he might be passed over by younger men or women who would cost less and have more recently acquired skills. It’s not a women’s only worry, which is partly behind the rise in men’s cosmetic surgery and other attempts at disguising age (I’m happy to report that H did land a job).</p>
<p>Another 56 yr old white woman Obama supporter.
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton my glass ceiling breaking “prize”.
I’ll wait for another woman,thank you (and she’s my Senator ,too)
to me, she’s just another main line, old style white guy politician who happens to be female.
We should take lessons from our daughters who don’t see the glass ceiling, know women can have power and will have power,including the White House.
They don’t see it as Hillary or never a woman as some older women (my generation and older) seem to.</p>
<p>I was overtly both sexually harrassed and sexually discriminated against much earlier in my life – as virually every woman I know, was. “Glass ceilings”? How about Concrete Ceilings? In many cases the sexual harrassment + discrimination occurred <em>simultaneously</em>, at the hands (literally) of the same people. </p>
<p>Electing HRC as president would have zero effect either on my own personal past or on any future for self or daughters, i.m.o. My D’s do not ‘look up to’ HC as a role-model. If anything, they laugh at her assumptions about herself as a ‘feminist’ leader. </p>
<p>Despite all her posing as a “feminist,” I consider HC to be essentially a man’s woman in the professional arena and Edwards & Obama to be women’s men. I’ll take the latter to understand & represent me, any day.</p>
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<p>I am not sure what you mean by this. At the time he made that statement, Hillary was way in front of the delegate count, and this talk of him being the VP was not even in the picture. He was trying to say that, my people wont vote for the other person, but her people will vote for me since they are core members of the party, so you have to give the nomination to me. </p>
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<p>I am not a big fun of SNL, and I don’t think I will enjoy working there, but thanks for the suggestion. I am not blindly loyal to Hillary, to even suggest this, implies I have not done my homework. I have studied her platform and I find it better than Obama’s platform. Also, Bill Clinton foundation has helped raise money for causes that are very important to me. </p>
<p>I am glad you find the interlude funny, I have always thought of myself as someone who lacks any sense of humor.</p>
<p>Just as an aside, lost in the Edwards’ endorsement is NARAL Pro-Choice America’s endorsement of Obama yesterday. A million feminists can’t be wrong!</p>
<p>Yay NARAL!!!</p>
<p>Hmmmm…</p>
<p>[NARAL</a> Affiliates Question Obama Endorsement | The Trail | washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/15/naral_affiliates_question_obam.html]NARAL”>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/15/naral_affiliates_question_obam.html)</p>
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<p>You know, that’s something I’ve long sensed about you too. But it’s a trait you might seriously consider acquiring. It’ll help you live longer.;)</p>
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<p>Source that (quote?) if you would, kind Sir.</p>
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<p>Tega, my post was highly sarcastic and related to the ridicule of Mrs. Clinton’s offer of a secondary role to the candidate who was LEADING the race. Fwiw, I find the notion that Hillary could be viewed as a uniter equally ridiculous as she is easily one of the most divisive and polarizing politicians ever. Case in point, despite her professed love for the Democrat Party she finds no reason to stop digging deeper chasms and tearing the supporters apart. Conniving, lying and bending all rules are more than second nature for HRH, they have always represented her defining character trait from her Wellesley days to today. Now we can add selfishness and hypocrisy to those nice attributes. </p>
<p>Here was the “original offer” story. If your recollection is unclear, the date was March 10, 2008.</p>
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