Candidate Clinton: The Girl Can't Help it

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Defending the Rights of Polygamists/ACLU Re-Considers

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• Sarah J said:

  Just like everything else this primary season, Clinton wants to have it both ways.

  May 12, 2008 7:37 PM

• jerry said:

  I find both candidates want to have it both ways....  The more general rule is that all candidates want to have it all ways.

  I find Clinton's remarks here typical of much of "you go girl" feminism which often finds a way to rationalize all sorts of irrational, unscientific beliefs, myths, prejudices, biases.

  As part of a speech I don't mind it so much.  I think it's on a par with Obama's faking a "black style of speaking" as he does in many of his speeches.  (It's been noted by journalists that "grew up" with Obama in Chicago that alone he has a very plain linguistic style, much as you might expect from someone who grew up in Hawaii.)

  If she changes that into policy, that's a different matter, but again, I find that many current feminist policies shoved into legislation already legislate unscientific, irrational, unfair, sexist putatively feminist policies.

  May 12, 2008 7:47 PM

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