What is “so remarkable about Secretary Clinton is that she understands the relationship between domestic to foreign policy and vice-versa, and to the various, specific facts and how much she worked on it”, Albright said.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had a special message for female voters Saturday on the campaign trail with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Stumping for Hillary Clinton in Concord, New Hampshire, Mrs Albright, who served in Bill Clinton’s first administration, said: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other”.
When asked whether Sanders’ argument that he voted against the war in Iraq and Clinton voted for it shows he has a better track record on foreign policy, Albright called the vote a “very complicated issue”.
Regarding Albright’s claim, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other…”
“We can tell our story of how we climbed the ladder, and a lot of you younger women think it’s done”.
She says voters aren’t “asking for much” but a “president who knows what it feels like”.
Perhaps Albright’s comments would have gone unnoticed-chalked up as typical hyperbolic campaign speak or ignored as a turn of phrase that Albright regularly uses-if Gloria Steinem hadn’t already gone viral with her disparaging remarks about young women and Bernie Sanders.
“Say that in Beijing, pretty progressive, right”, she said. “I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you’re in the media as a woman, or you’re in the professions or business or politics”.
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One supporter in NY told the Guardian on Saturday she could “list a million reasons why I prefer Bernie to Hillary”. Adding remarks like those from Albright, which suggests that women who support Sanders are traitors to their gender, and Steinam, who is basically saying that younger women are only supporting Bernie Sanders because they want to meet men, just makes it worse. We don’t want them.
