Hillary stays in the eye of the storm regardless of her position in the polls. Now she is criticized for getting "emotional" about the elections as she is losing her front-runner status. Usually she's criticized for not showing any emotion - "she is a woman, isn't she?" When she does show that she has feelings like the rest of us, she gets torn apart by the media. She absolutely cannot win in the minds of some people. Where are all the women? Can they not relate to her difficult position? where is the solidarity?
It is unfortunate that people seem to have such a warped sense of who she is and they cannot seem to trust her. Many years of right-wing attacks have surely done enough damage to her image - just listen to Rush Limbaugh for a few minutes and you get a sense of the mindless attacks. He has turned her into a real witch. But I thought Rush was a clown? Who takes him seriously, anyways?
Barack Obama has been able to ride his white horse relatively critique-free - behind Hillary at first, and now as the front-runner. His mistakes are forgiven, and the media treat him gently. He seems to be a great guy... But goodness sakes, he's no Jesus Christ either!
It's hard to figure this out sometimes. It seems so unpredictable how the candidates are framed in the media. Sometimes I wonder though, how much there still is misogyny out there, even among the so-called liberals...
--- T
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