Mar 30 2008
Chelsea Speaks of Sexism in America
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Chelsea Clinton said Saturday that she didn’t realize how much sexism remained in the United States until she noticed the issue at recent campaign stops for her mother.”I didn’t really get how much sexism there still was in our country until I was at a rally with my mom in New Hampshire, and someone came up to me and said, ‘I just can’t see a woman being commander in chief,”‘ Clinton said during a stop in Research Triangle Park.She also noted another New Hampshire rally that was disrupted by men who stood up and told Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to “Iron my shirt.” And she quietly questioned why some people find humor in a nutcracker doll that looks like her mother.
Is it her insinuation that her mother’s faltering at the polls is due to her being a woman? Sure, there is still sexism, just like there is still bigotry of just about every kind and just like there always will be. Prejudice is apart of human nature. Everyone possesses it, some to a minimal degree, others to an extreme, but such prejudice has played no roll in Hillary Clinton’s decline in this race.
Clinton was leading all of the polls by a huge margin from day one right up until a few months ago. What has knocked her down are her long list of lies that have finally been catching up with her in the news. The media has found a new darling in Barack Obama, so they are no longer protecting the Clintons.
