What worries me is that she is accused of "playing the gender card" when citing the old boys' club, while he is seen as unifying by citing civil rights confrontations.....
Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women (with the possible exception of obedient family members in the ...
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Unfortunately, Ms. Steinem leaves very little room for the idea that a woman can be a feminist, support women for office on local and national levels, and still be put off by Ms. Rodham-Clinton. "[T]he slander that her progressive policies are part of the Washington status quo" is not so much a slander as a fact. Ms. Rodham-Clinton is more likely than either of the other two front runners to cozy up to big business. The true slander is in calling her policies "progressive" when they are, in fact, centrist.
