Elizabeth Edwards slams Hillary Clinton: playing Gender Card

Elizabeth Edwards slams Hillary Clinton for playing the 'Gender Card' and blaming her defeat on sexist treatment
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So here we all sit, waiting for the lady in the pantsuit to go ahead and sing. It's going to be hard for anyone who cares about equality and multiculturalism and common ground and all that jazz to feel joy at the end of this slugfest, regardless of where they stand. For a long time, I felt bruised by the Clinton/Obama wars, but now I just feel numb, and that worries me more.

Reading Geraldine Ferraro's irrational screed in the Boston Globe this weekend, which Marjorie so brilliantly deconstructs today on The Root, did not make me bewildered or angry or chagrined. It made me tired. I just shrugged and turned the page. Whatever, Geraldine. Keep on raging against the dying of that light.

For the life of me ,I simply cannot see this rampant, bludgeoning sexism that Ferraro and her ilk keep spewing about. Sexist incidents, yes. Sexist columnists and sexist commentators and some idiot with a shirt - yes. But some kind of wholesale, bloodthirsty sexist take down of Clinton? No. One condoned, snickeringly, by Obama and his crew? No, no, no. (And I won't even address Ferraro's laughable charge that white working-class folks can't relate to Obama and his wife because of their education but somehow can relate to Bill and Hillary, who apparently attended community college on 4-H scholarships. As far as I know.) And so, not seeing it, my inclination is to brush the dirt off my shoulders and say to Ferraro and all those other Angry White Women out there: Get a frickin' grip.

What stops me is only this: Too often I have stood in that painful place where all around you people (white people, mostly, in my case) insist that your interpretation of your own experience is incorrect. You're too sensitive, you're overreacting, yeah, that's what I said, but it's not what I meant, you just don't understand. I know as well as anyone that just because a huge and particular swath of humanity does not "see" something doesn't mean it does not exist. As Tim Wise points out, in this point-by-point essay on white denial, even in the early 1960s—a time at which America still operated under homegrown apartheid—most white Americans insisted racism did not exist or was not a major factor in the lives of black folks. Gallup polls show that nearly two-thirds claimed to believe blacks were treated the same as whites in their communities, while 85 percent said black children had just as good a chance as white children to get a good education.
The power of human beings to block out what they do not wish to see is astonishing.
So I want to be careful here.
Still, I just don't see it.
And, heartbreakingly, I'm so numb I just don't care.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/06/03/waiting-for-the-...

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[chamilt6]

B/C everytime she even mentioned sexism she was playing the gender role...look back at all the footage while sexism wasn't the main factor it did play a significant role. Look at Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman the bias in this campaign was ridiculous. I am a Ralph Nadar supporter but there was a great deal of media bias, and most people can't make up their own opinion about a candidate they go off of what the commentators say.

[chuckinla]

+ * + * Hitlery * Pillary * Hellary * HillBillary * ROTTEN * ClinTURD + * + *

Good Bye Hitlery...you won't be missed!

You were a EVIL, deceitful, awful, DISGUSTING, arrogant, meanspirited, unfashionable, bloated and most of all.....

an UNQUALIFIED candidate on many levels.

You are an extremely intelligent woMAN with NO common sense. You & your advisers ran a crappy and shady campaign filled with BULLSHIT

You should be thankful that you & Bill are NOT in jail where you belong.Now GO!!

[1REVINT]

Bla bla bla bla, cry me a river bitch!

[Stormiya]

During the majority of the campaign the tone from the media was completely different, then it was for the others. When race is brought up Obama is never accused of whining.

[Stormiya]

I really don't see how Edwards was 'slamming' Hillary. As for sexism being the reason Hillary loss...we will NEVER know. I think Yes. I've been around far too many people who have told me that they don't believe a woman could hanlde the job and Hillary lost by so little to Obama you can't help but wonder if that would've made the difference.

[cheeseleaflove]

honestly as a girl a women should not become president becuase when PMS comes.uh oh we begin war with another counry becase some girl didnt like her skirt That means the whole country would go down.

[dalpaugh]

The reason is that Hillary's campaign ISN'T above a movement for change, not aside from the mere fact of her being a woman. It would just another version of Bill Clinton's DLC-style politics.

[fengfu]

clinton is obviously not sexy

[beteck123]

But the reason she never made the case of her campaign being a movement is because it isnt,ITS ABOUT HER. She says it all the time in her speeches,Vote for me and "I" will do this,that for you.

[ballin266]

The Clintons are part of the secret society ruled by rockefellers and more men behind the curtains...People wake up, they have their own Agenda to destroy the people from the inside.

Like the Bushes are doing to the USA & THe World...WAKE UP WAKE UP!!!!!

[vilchezg]

Now that she is not winning everyone who does not vote for her is a sexist. Thats equal to saying that those who do not vote for obama are a racist. When you were ahead of obama everything was fair and I can take a punch. Now that obama is ahead everyone is mean and a sexist. The leaders of the world are not going to care and you're going to have to fight for what you want. So be the fighter you claim to be and take it like a man.