The correct Hillary Clinton stereotype:

[ProSense]

Forget the 'mommy' image. Female voters see bedrock competence.

And so, when Steinem suggests, for example, in that article that Obama is a lawyer married to another lawyer and to suggest that, for example, Hillary Clinton represents some kind of sort of breakthrough in questions of gender, I think that ignores an entire history in which white women have in fact been in the White House. They’ve been there as an attachment to white male patriarchal power. It’s the same way that Hillary Clinton is now making a claim towards experience. It’s not her experience. It’s her experience married to, connected to, climbing up on white male patriarchy. This is exactly the ways in which this kind of system actually silences questions of gender that are more complicated than simply sort of putting white women in positions of power and then claiming women’s issues are cared for.

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And I will say that I am really offended by the ways in which the Hillary Clinton campaign has not taken the high road on this. They’ve consistently used ways of thinking about her as Bill Clinton’s wife. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot both claim this sort of role as independent woman making a stand on questions of feminism and claim that your experience begins as First Lady of Arkansas. You know, you simply have to stand on your own or not. There are dozens of white women in this country who I would be a huge supporter of for the American presidency. The president of my own university would be at the top of that list, but not someone who is making this claim towards being president as her right as a result of a relationship with a former president. I think that’s exactly what we don’t need in third-wave feminism.

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* Rhetoric vs. Results, Talk vs. Action:

As we approach the primary, New Hampshire voters are seeing the difference between talk versus action, rhetoric and results.

Hillary Clinton has a real record of making change and getting results for New Hampshire families. If you want to know what kind of change the candidates will make, look at the change they have already made.

She took the lead in the White House on ensuring that 6 million kids nationwide have health insurance, including 7,000 children in New Hampshire.

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First lady and legislator? Hillary's memory ignores that major portions of the bill was written by Senator Kerry.

[Sulawesi]

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2. Where did Hillary claim to have written the bill?

Are you denying she was a major force behind that bill getting enacted?

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3. I think the articles bring to light several points of view that have gone unexamined.

Note how in Susan Faludi's comments, the woman is still EITHER the cooing, nurturing "Mommy" OR the efficient adult caretaker who is not afraid to be " perceived as a "bitch" by the receptionist on the other end." when negotiating the health care system for an ailing parent.

I'm a white woman, college educated but still working class in many ways. I worry about paying the bills, drive a used car, live in an old house with a kitchen that hasn't been renovated in 30 years. Gloria Steinem doesn't speak for me the way that Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Barack Obama do. Ms. Steinem is a nice lady and all, but she doesn't get it. I recognize that second wave feminists have worked hard for women's rights, but I suspect that the economy's need for additional labor also had a lot to do with the changes we've seen.

What Ms. Faludi neglected to mention in her piece is that for most women, taking time off from work to accompany a parent to a doctor's appointment is impossible or possible only after negotiating a boss's disapproval. What does it matter to me if my boss is a man or a woman, if I have to choose between caring for a sick child or parent and having enough money in my pay check to pay their doctor bills?