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Monday, May 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Gender lessons

As Hillary Clinton's historic bid grinds to a close, what have we learned?

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  • Monday, May 19, 2008 09:01 AM

    tough

    It's kind of an oddity that one of the complaints is "the nearly impossible demand of women to be both tough and nurturing". The assumption here is that we want the Democratic candidate to be tough. I certainly don't. We've had 7 years of tough and I'm sick of it. I'm looking for things like "reasonable" and "well thought out". Bombing the s**t out of Iran for looking at Israel funny doesn't seem to count in those categories.

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