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with all due respect ljwalker
In addition -- and this is what progressives do to her -- they bash her because she isn't enough of a feminist according to "their" definition (using as an example her use of military authorization vote).
I think this is a bit of conflation between "progressives" and the rest of the spectrum. I suspect that the kind of people that populate this message board (trolls excepted of course) really do hold Clinton to a more strict feminism than say...my mom for example ;) This isn't necessarily a bad thing, or even a strictly Clinton issue. To a large percentage of "progressives" Obama's healthcare plan is woefully inadequate, but I suspect that for others, it's rampaging socialism at its finest.
Actually, this conflation (for lack of a better word) is a large part of what's been niggling me about this thread and the video that generated it (remember alice? this is a song about alice - sorry, I just HAD to get an Arlo reference in here somewhere ;) The video showed right wing blowhards (and Matthews - same diff) being, well blowhards. Remember these are the types of people that call John Edwards a "faggot". But from this we extrapolate that those who are voting in the Democratic Primary (the great majority of whom are, you know, Democrats) are holding the same kinds of odious opinions (again, trolls on this site excepted - they prolly do hold those opinions). Perhaps this helps to explain why this debate has rankled many male posters here...it paints us with the same brush as the people we hate the most (the Glenn fucking Becks of the world)
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