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April 20, 2008 - 7:28pm.
This is from today's Telegraph, U.K. Why women shouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton By Camille Paglia Is Hillary Clinton the saviour of feminism? Or its albatross, dragging feminism backwards under a weary weight of old-guard victimology and male-bashing? The scrum is on! Feminist grand panjandrums like Gloria Steinem have leapt back into the arena, while younger women have seized the feminist banner to proclaim Hillary the messianic Wonder Woman, destined to smash the glass ceiling of the presidency. All women, on pain of excommunication from the feminist claque, must now support Hillary. Never mind her spotty record or her naked political expediency. Any woman with the temerity to endorse Barack Obama (as I do) is condemned as a "traitor" to her sex. "Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life," trumpeted Steinem earlier this year in an article promoting Hillary in the New York Times. Barriers of race, class or economics are waved away as mere frippery. As a resident of Philadelphia, I am currently under siege by the firestorm of political adverts heading toward Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, which Hillary has long been expected to win. She has roots in this state: her grandfather was a Welshman who settled in the coal-mining city of Scranton, which remains conservative and working-class. Women there are tough and blunt, with few illusions about life. (Edited to limit amount of copyrighted material)  Technorati Tags:
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My,my, my, won't this make
Submitted by bryan mcclellan on April 20, 2008 - 7:49pm.My,my, my, won't this make her brown eyes blue...
She lies even about that.
Submitted by knockknock on April 20, 2008 - 9:06pm.She lies even about that. Don't know why I was surprised. A liar will lie about everything.
I had to trim this blog
Submitted by dougthompson on April 21, 2008 - 4:57am.I had to trim this blog entry because it posted copyrighted material in full form.
That is against the law.
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, do it again.
Sorry, Doug. I just read
Submitted by knockknock on April 21, 2008 - 7:22pm.Sorry, Doug. I just read this and won't do it again -- BUT I posted Michael Moore's letter this morning. So I'd better apologize in advance for inadvertently screwing up again.
I fixed it. But you might
Submitted by pollchecker on April 21, 2008 - 7:26pm.I fixed it. But you might take a look a how I fixed it so you will understand the formatting better. No problem.
If Hillary Clinton is such
Submitted by Flapsaddle on April 21, 2008 - 10:42am.If Hillary Clinton is such an independent woman, such an exemplar of feminism, why has she had to remain attached to Bill Clinton to get anywhere?
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
Women don't need to march in
Submitted by mbarker on April 21, 2008 - 11:07am.Women don't need to march in lockstep with Hillary. Real feminism is about making informed choices.
mbarker
Camille has a long history
Submitted by tommo on April 21, 2008 - 5:12pm.Camille has a long history of irrational hatred for Hillary.
First of all, she fails to name a single person or instance where she or any other woman was ever called a traitor to her sex for supporting Obama. She's a liar.
I think we can mark up her irrational hatred as jealousy. Hillary's accomplishments may not be comparable to Indira Gandhi, or Benazir Bhutto, but Paglia, looking down from her ivory tower, has always been green with envy.