<p>This article was in the Newsweek I just got.</p>
<p>[I</a> Am Woman, Hear Me Snore | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/105587]I”>I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore)</p>
<p>I don’t understand why women were expected to vote for her just because she is a woman.</p>
<p>I don’t hate her- & I wouldn’t even say I don’t * like* her- but I don’t really see any great strides that she has made that I can relate to.</p>
<p>I resent the idea that women should vote for women (just because they are women). I vote for who I think is the best candidate no matter what sex, race, religion, etc. </p>
<p>Reminds me of years ago when my parents first moved to Florida my mother called me all excited because I woman was running for the Senate. When I pointed out the woman was Paula Hawkins and she supported everything my mother did not support, (and vice versa), my mother was very disappointed. She REALLY wanted to vote for a woman.</p>
<p>Fast forward 20 years . . . yesterday my mother voted for someone other than Hillary. I guess she got over that wanting to vote for a woman thing.</p>
<p>I personally do not hate Hillary. I do not trust her. I think she has no scruples and is an opportunistic egocentric individual.</p>
<p>This is not a gender or even partisan thing. I have the same exact feelings toward Rudy Guilliani.</p>
<p>“I personally do not hate Hillary.”</p>
<p>That certainly was a news to me.</p>
<p>There is a difference between hating a person and hating what he /she stands for.</p>
<p>You don’t hate Obama do you?</p>
<p>Oh, this thread is going to be so much fun!!</p>
<p>I find it insulting that a lot of people assume that if one doesn’t vote for Hillary, it’s because she’s a woman. If I don’t vote for Giuliani, McCain, Romney or Obama is it because they are male? Give us some credit for looking past race and gender and voting for the best CANDIDATE.</p>
<p>I agree with the majority here. I do Hilary the honor of judging her as a person, not a woman. And that person does not represent what I’m looking for in a candidate. I don’t hate her, never understood the hate, but I don’t particularly like her, either. Don’t like her approach to issues, don’t like her manner of conducting a campaign.</p>
<p>It’s insulting that I’m supposed to kneejerk vote for her as a woman.</p>
<p>I don’t “hate” Hillary but I do not care for her. To me she has a sense of entitlement that she is “owed” the Presidency. I feel that she and Bill would do anything and I mean anything to get elected. I do not trust them. I do not believe they have the public’s best interests at heart.</p>
<p>“Why (some) women hate hillary.”</p>
<p>One word for you “socialist.” C’mon she has commercials about giving entitlment christmas presents to our country.</p>
<p>Have any of you actually read the article?</p>
<p>I read…</p>
<p>Just curious. I didn’t post this to imply that anybody should vote for her just cause she’s a woman, but I am an ex-Hillary hater myself so when I saw this today, I thought, hmmm… why do some of us have such a knee jerk reaction to her. For years I think it blinded me to looking at what she was saying or thinking. I just shut it out. This time I’m trying to be objective. That’s what 8 years of W can do to a person. If you’re a republican that is.</p>
<p>fwiw - if Hillary gets the nomination, whether I vote for her or McCain will depend on who the two VPs are.</p>
<p>I’m all for change … just not sure Hillary represents the change I want right now. I’ll support her if she’s the Democratic nominee, but at this point I prefer Obama.</p>
<p>I have to go with Obama. I’ve been really disgusted with the Clintons’ win at any cost mentality. They may not intend to take that approach, but that’s how it’s striking me. </p>
<p>I like Obama’s message - it’s our government. He’s empowering people to get involved. We need that right now, after 8 years of unaccountability in the government. </p>
<p>I just read on MSN.com that Edwards is dropping out. He praised both Obama and Clinton, but said he’s running against two celebrities. I have to agree with that statement. There’s been so much press for Obama and Clinton that Edwards got very little airtime.</p>
<p>We have a local state representative that is a woman, and I can’t stand her politics. She is a “democrat” cause that is what gets elected in her district,b but she is no Democrat in my book. The man that ran against her was more for women’s issues than she was</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, yes. And what a piece of garbage it is! </p>
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<p>It seems that this thread contains a number of clear statements about Hillary by educated and professional women and otherwise intelligent and tolerant who do not idolize her … as expected.</p>
<p>This is not about people detesting Clinton or being obsessed by a visceral hatred for her. It’s simply about weighing not liking her, her policies, her lack of integrity, her lack of morals, and the endless list of negatives against the record of a junior senator who just happens to be married to an ex-president and carry a name that carries either blind and deaf affection, or according to this article, an irrational hatred. </p>
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<p>Yes, if you do not like the answers, it is best to demonize the people who spoke their mind. Why not, if fits perfectly in the agenda of Clinton’s fans.</p>
<p>I think it is a visceral thing. I don’t think she’s viewed as amoral and a lot of the people who hate her would actually agree with her policy wise. I think it’s tied into her being seen as a woman who let her husband get away with adultery in exchange for power. She’s seen as being angrier at those who exposed her husband than at her husband himself. It’s okay to stay in a marriage for the sake of your kids, or for sincerely held religious beliefs, but not so that you can continue in a co-presidency and later run for senate. </p>
<p>I don’t know a single person who supports Hillary, and I’m a democrat in a blue state. I hear a lot of excitement from kids for Obama, and a well he’s better than Hillary response from adults. I’ll be voting for Obama. The change thing resonates.</p>
<p>I read the article, as well as the posts above. I also read the very good article in this week’s New Yorker about her, in which she emerges as a very appealing person (I thought so, anyway). </p>
<p>I agree with much of what people wrote above. I am in the demographic group that is, for the most part, favoring her (women over 50). But I am firmly supporting her opponent because I truly believe in his capacity to inspire and excite people to work for the good of our country. I LOVE watching the way he inspires the young people with whom I am working in his campaign. He makes me want to be a better citizen–more involved, more compassionate, more generous. His policies are specific (check them all out on his website) and he inspires cooperation, not opposition. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, for reasons that are in part Hillary’s responsibility and in part not, she inspires the opposite in many, many people, including me. I do not believe that it is for the reasons stated in the article. Before I really saw how Obama can lead, I was supporting her. </p>
<p>The stories–which have come from people of every political persuasion and from many, many people who have had close personal relationships with them-- about the brutality with which the Clintons, husband and wife, deal with their opponents are what bother me more than anything. They seem to be narcissistic and hypocritical, wanting compassion for the less fortunate not so much because it is the morally right position, but because it is THEIR position, and wanting to lead by bludgeoning and ridiculing their opponents, not persuading them. Obama persuades people and reaches out to all in a positive way.</p>