It was while serving as President Clinton’s secretary of state that Albright stood in support of the president’s assertion that he “did not have sex with that woman” Monica Lewinsky.
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The pioneering feminist generation of Hillary Clinton, which sacrificed family in pursuit of fulfillment through career, now find themselves rejected by frightened and abandoned voting-age grandchildren in need of a hug.
“I absolutely believe what I said, that women should help one another, but this was the wrong context and the wrong time to use that line”, Albright wrote in a New York Times editorial published on Friday. Clinton herself doubled over in laughter after the remark. Maybe that triggered some kind of distress signal broadcast to Clinton’s high-profile female supporters and surrogates.
She said that while voters will make their decision on issues that are not just related to gender, she is “concerned by the tone of the debate about the many problems that specifically affect women”.
Just one day before Albright’s comments, Gloria Steinem received similar criticism for her statement suggesting young women support Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders because “the boys are with Bernie”.
It takes a special degree of feigned ignorance to try to pretend that the two women’s statements and the Times bestowing a common meme upon them didn’t hurt Mrs. Clinton. Many critics, after all, are looking for any chance not to take these women, or their feminist views, seriously. The reality was even worse among millennials, with 82 percent of women under 30 supporting the Vermont senator.
The line, used many times by Albright in the past, sparked a backlash from some women who said it was sexist and insulting to be told to choose a candidate based on her gender.
“I would argue that because of what is at stake, this is exactly the time to have a conversation about how to preserve what women have gained, including the right to make our own choices, and how to move forward together”, Albright said.
Gosh, Janell, what could possibly have caused Mrs. Clinton’s advantage with women in Iowa to not “hold up, at all” in New Hampshire – and by such a wide margin, moving from +11 to -10 (which Ross, as seen above, described as “narrow”, even as she characterized Mrs. Clinton’s 11-point Iowa advantage as a “comfortable margin”)? But considering Sanders’ overwhelming support from Millennial voters who are enchanted by policy proposals that are simply good for young people, it’s no wonder younger women in particular are turning away from Clinton in favor of more radical change.
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“We can tell our story of how we climbed the ladder, and a lot of you younger women think it’s done, it’s not done”, Albright said.
