Hillary plays the gender victim card

[local 12 proud]

WASHINGTON -- A prominent feminist, allied with the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards, accused Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday of "disingenuously playing the victim card" by infusing her campaign with messages about gender.

"When unchallenged, in a comfortable, controlled situation, Sen. Clinton embraces her political elevation into the 'boys club,' " Kate Michelman, the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, wrote in a posting on a blog of the liberal group Open Left.

"But when she's challenged, when legitimate questions are asked, questions she should be prepared to answer and discuss, she is just as quick to raise the white flag and look for a change in the rules," Michelman said. "It's trying to have it both ways."

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, a top rival to Clinton in the Democratic race, said of the New York senator Friday that when "people start challenging her point of view, that suddenly she backs off and says, 'Don't pick on me.' "

Michelman reacted similarly.

"At one minute the strong woman ready to lead, the next, she's the woman under attack, disingenuously playing the victim card as a means of trying to avoid giving honest, direct answers to legitimate questions," Michelman wrote of Clinton.

"It is not presidential," Michelman said, adding that women "know better than to use our gender as a shield when the questions get too hot."

:bleh:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na...litics-campaign

 

[Garfield1966]

lAny political candidate will use anything at their disposal to win an election. Clinton has raised $90 million and Obama has raised over $80 million. Those inverters expect a return on their money and they expect their candidate to win and to use every means at their disposal. W had Rove rail road McCain in 2000 in S Carolina and Rove railroaded Kerry in 2004 with the Swift Boat idiots.

The tab on the 2008 election is expected to surpass $1 billion. They are not play for the hell of it, they are playing to win and they will all use what ever means necessary to win.