I'd say the glass ceiling exists for sure, but not to the extent Hillary wants to believe it exists in this particular instance.
I posted some of the sexist crap I saw them putting Hillary through that no other candidate has ever had to deal with. Nobody asked Obama, McCain, Huckabee, Edwards, or the other umpty candidates that started out what the derogatory nickname they got in high school meant.
Hillary got asked what it meant to be called The Fridge.
But Hillary didn't fail to secure the nomination solely because she's female. It was a factor, but not the only one, nor the most significant. Hillary failed to secure the nomination because of Clintonian baggage, the fact that she had trouble "Finding her voice," and what comes across to a lot of voters as an entitlement attitude about how she should just be President.
Honestly, IMO, the DNC should've told one of them or the other to hold back the candidacy for another time, because trying to get sexist thinking and racist thinking overcome in the same election year is a lot to ask for, and this might not have gotten as ugly if one of them had been the party candidate from the beginning.
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Date: 2008-06-08 03:09 pm (UTC)I posted some of the sexist crap I saw them putting Hillary through that no other candidate has ever had to deal with. Nobody asked Obama, McCain, Huckabee, Edwards, or the other umpty candidates that started out what the derogatory nickname they got in high school meant.
Hillary got asked what it meant to be called The Fridge.
But Hillary didn't fail to secure the nomination solely because she's female. It was a factor, but not the only one, nor the most significant. Hillary failed to secure the nomination because of Clintonian baggage, the fact that she had trouble "Finding her voice," and what comes across to a lot of voters as an entitlement attitude about how she should just be President.
Honestly, IMO, the DNC should've told one of them or the other to hold back the candidacy for another time, because trying to get sexist thinking and racist thinking overcome in the same election year is a lot to ask for, and this might not have gotten as ugly if one of them had been the party candidate from the beginning.