Hillary Clinton is a has-been

“I know that young people were offended by it, but it was a mistake”, she said, adding that she still respected Steinem very much despite her comments.

Before the primary, the notion of voting for a woman because she is a woman – decried by some as sexist and a backward step for womanhood – had led to a “level of tension” among feminists, according to Lauren Bruce, founder of the Feministe website and a former blogger there. “Secretary Clinton has been going around the country saying Bernie Sanders wants to dismantle the affordable care act”, Sanders shot back.

There’s been a lot of talk recently from feminists like Gloria Steinem that say that women and especially feminist women should support Hillary Clinton and supporting other candidates is somehow maybe against feminism.

“Hillary Clinton will always be there for you and just remember there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”, she said.

He won not because of hormonally enraged voters, he won because in that state, voters decided he was the most qualified person to win their votes.

Fighting for women is not for the faint of heart.

Clinton’s “strategy was pretty simple, it struck me”, Shields said. As the awkward, wonky scion helming the political machine of a dynasty that has already exhausted its current eligible stock of presidential candidates, Hillary most resembles Jeb Bush, and she would probably be doing as poorly as star-crossed Jeb were the Democratic electorate as committed to self-immolation as their Republican counterparts.

I’m not referring primarily to the Bernie Bros, those Bernie Sanders supporters who fill the Internet with misogynistic filth about Clinton.

The Democratic debate has kicked off in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

That is “campaign hooey”, Harding said. Second-wave feminists of Murphy’s ilk, whose ideology originated in the ’60s, tend to support Clinton because they long to see a woman – any woman – in the White House. For the first time, the concerns of the other half of the human race rose to the forefront of foreign policy as US embassies and consulates around the world were directed to promote programs to advance the status of women. But the rallying cry around which feminism united in the 1960s – “the personal is political” – is haunting the presidential prospects of one of that movement’s prime beneficiaries. What drags down her candidacy is more pervasive and far subtler – unconscious, even.

Where, asked Monica Lewinsky in a 2014 Vanity Fair article, “were the feminists back then?” The episode was part of a stream of commentators (generally men) taking issue with Clinton’s demeanor and conduct in a way they don’t do with Sanders.

“She’s been secretary of State”. It’s also hard to imagine a male candidate being faulted for his wife’s misbehavior the way Clinton is blamed for her husband’s.

It’s a sad time for Hillary Clinton’s fans.

Worse, less than a third of voters say they trust Clinton, who is now draping herself tightly in the progressive politics of the Obama era, and can appear a bit of a political chameleon after more than two decades of national prominence.

Woodruff pointed out that Clinton’s rival, Sen. Carly Fiorina most likely won’t win because her agenda is offensive to many women, particularly her opposition to family planning services and lack of support for equal pay legislation.

“I’m only here today to make Bernie Sanders an honorary woman”, Steinem said at a Sanders re-election campaign event in Burlington, Vt. on October 21, 1996.

And you can bet women voters have been targeted with tightly focused messages for the New Hampshire primary.

In light of these comments, Clinton stood by Albright.