Because they’re Obama partisans who feared, correctly, that without a mountain of pressure the Clintons’ mad ambition would lead them to drag this thing out to the convention even though they stood no realistic chance of winning? Alas, no, that’s the reasonable, nondogmatic explanation. The Steinem explanation: Misogyny, of course. Never mind the grudging Strange New Respect Hillary earned from people like me for fighting on, and never mind that we here at HA were grumbling about Huckabee staying in race too long even though he posed far less serious of a threat to McCain than she did to Obama. The Narrative is cast, amid the exquisite irony of Steinem warning us against simplistic, single-factor analyses.
Exit question: Does anyone here think Bill was one iota less determined than she was? If this is all about hating on women, presumably there should be some distinction within the media in terms of how BJ’s own ambition is perceived vis-a-vis Hillary’s. Anyone sense that at all? Please cite examples, because I evidently missed it. Click the image to watch.
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