I guess according to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when it comes to the 2016 Democratic presidential race women shouldn’t be able to make up their own minds on who to support – they should just reflexively support Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman.
Hillary Clinton’s older feminist supporters have a message for young women who are not backing her candidacy: Shame on you.
Women were expected to help power Mrs. Clinton to the Democratic nomination, but as she struggles to overcome a tough challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders, her support among them has been surprisingly shaky. Young women, in particular, have been drawn to the septuagenarian socialist from Vermont, and the dynamic has disappointed feminists who dreamed of Mrs. Clinton’s election as a capstone to the movement.
Two feminist icons of Mrs. Clinton’s generation made their frustration known over the weekend, calling on young women who view Mr. Sanders as their candidate to essentially grow up and get with the program.
While introducing Mrs. Clinton at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday, Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state, talked about the importance of electing the first female president. In a dig at the “revolution” that Mr. Sanders often speaks of, she said that the first female commander in chief would be a true revolution. And she scolded any woman who felt otherwise.
“We can tell our story of how we climbed the ladder, and a lot of you younger women think it’s done. It’s not done,” Ms. Albright said of the broader fight for women’s equality. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”
Mrs. Clinton laughed, slowly clapped her hands and took a large sip of her beverage.
In an attempt to explain Mrs. Clinton’s struggles with female voters in New Hampshire, Ms. Albright said during an NBC interview on Saturday that women could be judgmental toward one another and that they occasionally forgot how hard someone like Mrs. Clinton had to work to get where she is.
The notion that women should vote for Hillary Clinton just because she’d be the first woman president is ridiculous. What’s more, that argument does Clinton a tremendous disservice, as it flies in the face of the work Clinton has done to show voters she’s the most qualified and capable candidate of serving as our next president.
My hunch is that the special place in hell is reserved for people like Madeleine Albright.
A very unfortunate comment by Albright. Looks like Clinton’s camp may be starting to have their own BernieBro problem. Hopefully, nothing we say is so out of bounds that it turns off voters in the loser’s camp that the winner will need in November.
Yikes. Someone needs to explain third-wave feminism to Ms. Albright. She needs to ask herself why young women are supporting Bernie rather than scolding them for not supporting Hillary.
No real evidence for the existence of “Bernie Bros”, but there seems to be plenty of evidence that many female Democrats are backing Hillary come hell or high water, simply because she’s a woman.
The fact that the Clinton people seem to think.Hillary shouldn’t have to earn the nomination and should just have it handed to her is exactly why she is going to struggle to win this thing…IF she wins it.
Maybe lots of people are looking for something past symbolism or machine politics, Hills. Maybe they want real change and improvements on their lives. It’s just a thought.
Hummm..Guess what if you read M Albrights book she was using the statement many years ago and thus repeated the phrase. Is this because some are ignorant and criticize without research. How can we educate the voter?
I do ask why some women that quote the Bible and never wonder why not one woman wrote any of it. Is it because women were prevented in learning to write. Yes admit that women have been abused because they are women.
We now have a woman btw, the only Democrat running for office and yes, I will vote for the best selection for President. So she is also a woman, tell me what is wrong with being a woman President. Fortunately not many object.
Germany does not have a problem with this. Does this mean they have advanced far more than the USA.