Picking on the Girl

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Well, it worked durring her winning campaign for Senator from New York. Rick Lazio was required by many voters to walk on egg shells in debate in order to avoid being a mean spirited male bully.

I don't recall she ever said it herself. No, she is too smart for that. Not when you have so many willing mouth pieces:


And so Hillary Clinton seeks to have it both ways. A strategy we all knew was coming because of what happened to Rick Lazio when he ran against Clinton for the U.S. Senate in 2000. , Lazio walked across the stage dared to one up Mrs. Bill Clinton, and the media had a field day. Hillary Attacked! read the headline. “How *dare* Rick Lazio do that. She’s a woman! This is mental, verbal rape! *And* it’s the FIRST lady!", the left wing pundits in the New York Times sneered.

Confessions of a Political Junkie » Tim Russert Rapes Mrs. Bill Clinton. Just Like Rick Lazio.


And now today:


Clinton takes on gender issue

Opponents accuse her of double talk

By Jill Zuckman | Tribune national correspondent November 3, 2007 CONCORD, N.H. - Sen. Hillary Clinton found herself under fire Friday for injecting gender into the presidential campaign as Democratic and Republican opponents blistered her for parsing her words, engaging in secrecy and blaming the male candidates for the controversy.

Even as she denied playing the gender card, she evoked gender with a reference to her own familiarity with the kitchen.

"I don't think they're piling on because I'm a woman, I think they're piling on because I'm winning," Clinton told reporters at the Statehouse, where she filed papers to officially place her name on the New Hampshire ballot. "I anticipate it's going to get even hotter. And if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and I'm very much at home in the kitchen."

In Tuesday night's Democratic debate, Clinton bobbled a question about illegal immigrants getting driver's licenses in New York, appearing to both support the idea and later distance herself from it. Her campaign responded with a video showing each of her male candidates zeroing in on her. And at Wellesley College on Thursday, she said the school had prepared her for "the all-boys-club of presidential politics."

(Little more than a week ago, she curiously noted that winning the Iowa caucuses might prove difficult for her because the Hawkeye State had never elected a woman governor or senator.)

It was an unusual moment for a campaign that has banked on women voters while insisting that Clinton's own experience transcends gender. But while she portrays herself as strong, experienced and able to exact change, her opponents say she is playing the victim. And her remarks on gender seemed to open up a new vein of attack.

Most pointed was from Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who took her to task on the "Today" show Friday, noting that he didn't complain when the first several questions at a previous debate placed him in the cross hairs.

"I didn't come out and say, 'Look, I'm being hit on because I look different from the rest of the folks on the stage,'" Obama said. "We're not running for the president of the city council. We're running for the president of the United States of America."




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Perhaps it will be the most effective way of overcoming her real problem: Being such a personally ruthless ambitious and untrustworthy human being?