"Calling Hillary Clinton Not Qualified Is Like Fingernails On A Black Board To Many Women"

[Cali_Democrat]

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in this race and his supporters are passionate for a good reason. And I think that all of us are reluctant to say to Bernie Sanders and his supporters that the math doesn't work. I think this will take care of itself as long as the campaigns stay by and large very positive about the things we agree on and don't go into negative attacks. And calling Hillary Clinton not qualified is like fingernails on a black board to many women across this country, and I think Bernie probably knows that.

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Well, I just think it's one of those things that -- maybe it's not right -- but I think women who have succeeded in male-dominated fields have been used to being marginalized about whether or not they are truly qualified and this is an example where we have a candidate for president who is the most qualified and happens to be a woman. And I think there are many women that are excited about that and for anybody to call her unqualified is hard for those women to hear.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/07/mccaskill_calling_hillary_clinton_not_qualified_is_like_fingernails_on_a_black_board_to_many_women.html

[NWCorona]

1. Isn't this the same person that eluded he's a secret commie?

[TCJ70]

2. Lets turn Hillary supporters talking point back on them...

...Did he say she wasn't qualified because of her gender?

[Press Virginia]

11. nope. He was very specific about why

and her naughty parts weren't on the list

[dsc]

12. He endorsed Kerry

who did all of the things he says makes her unqualified, one wonders what the difference is.

[JTFrog]

16. So did a lot of Bernie supporters here.

And they still try and contort and twist and say it has nothing to do with being sexist.

[TCJ70]

22. Looking back at the candidates of that election...

...there wasn't one, except Howard Dean who couldn't have voted on it anyway, who questioned the Iraq War. This time, we have a choice in candidates who have big differences on these things. Different primary, different situation.

[dsc]

29. of course

it just so happens that every single solitary man who did what she did is just hunky dory but let a woman do it and she is unqualified. But if we dare point out the discrepency and we are the problem.

[geek tragedy]

14. no, but he never questioned the qualifications of men who had similar

positions.

he sure as shit didn't have the gumption to say that about Obama.

[TCJ70]

17. This is a two person primary...

...is that his fault as well?

[geek tragedy]

20. no, it's his fault for not thinking and talking like a Democrat.

Democrats know that you don't call primary rivals unqualified and unfit for office.

Because they're all Democrats and have to come together for the general.

Bernie isn't a Democrat, so that thought never occurred to him.

[TCJ70]

23. What was it Hillary's campaign said?

"Disqualify and Defeat. Party unity later." Those are her campaigns words, from before any of this "unqualified" talk started. Don't act like you didn't know.

[JRLeft]

27. Hillary is always the victim.

[geek tragedy]

31. And then Bernie came out and said, party unity never.

Because, you know, only a third party saboteur would try to contest a convention despite having lost the pledged delegate count and having less than 10% of superdelegate endorsements.

Or do you think Jeff Weaver is lying when he says they're going to contest the convention no matter what?

[timmymoff]

37. Talking and thinking like a clinton democrat

got us nafta, Iraq, Libya, Syria, it also halved minimum wage in Haiti, and set up an even greater ability for more offshoring of tax dollars in panama. Nothing quite like someone in the 1% to understand the working man's plight. Nothing like a person who make 225,000 an hour to understand what working two jobs for minimum wage is like. I wonder does she apologize to Iraq war veterans (dead and injured) for her hideous vote? Does her heart get sadden by the death and destruction that follows her votes and term as secretary of state? Does she know how many people, how many families she destroyed with her support of credit card companies re : her bankruptcy bill vote. If she's a democrat i'd hate to see her when she was a republican. Oh wait. We are seeing it.

[DFab420]

3. Her record has nothing to do with her gender. Her taking money from

Wall Street and Oil and Gas companies has nothing to do with her gender.


The only people who are trying to make this about her gender are her supporters.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

4. some people do not like truth

no surprise

[morningfog]

5. No nails when she wanted to disqualify Bernie though?

Sexist double standard.

[geek tragedy]

15. except she didn't say he wasn't qualified.

because she's smarter than him and knows that's something that the candidate themselves shouldn't say

[morningfog]

18. Nah, she's just too dirty. Passive aggressive bully.

Bernie shut her up.

[geek tragedy]

21. yeah, he shut that woman up by talking about how unqualified she is.

P.S. Taking the high road isn't a sign of weakness. And Clinton hasn't shut up, and her people are still hammering Bernie here.

[morningfog]

26. A high horse is not a high road. He exposed her, she wasn't

prepared for him to take her on directly.

[geek tragedy]

30. LMAO. Yeah, Hillary Clinton has never been attacked or had mean things said

about her before.

Which is why everyone's talking about what a desperate liar she is.

Oh wait, no, that's Bernie they're talking about.

He gets his followers and fans all whipped up with this stuff, but it plays very poorly outside his revival tent.

[GusBob]

6. Not just women, all minorities and the disabled

"Qualified Applicant" is white male privilege code speak

[AgerolanAmerican]

7. Ah so her starting the "not qualified" spat was a gender card bait trap

Isn't it awesome to be so cynically manipulated?

Technically they're both qualified, because there are only 3 qualifications:

- Natural born US citizen
- Over 35 years of age
- Lived in the US for 14 years

Any additional qualifications anyone wants to add are entirely subjective.

Can we get back to discussing actual substance? Or get to it, anyway?

[dr60omg]

8. How many does many signify. Do you have a number or data to support your claim or McCaskill?

I suppose being one of those women who succeeded in a male dominated field my need for precision begs the question can you enumerate what you mean by many? Do you have data to support this. My mom used the use the word many which was actually a signifier for I think everyone feels the way I do ... SO

Show me the data

[revbones]

9. Truth = fingernails on a blackboard. Got it. Will try to remember for later. nt

[Bread and Circus]

10. Playing the gender card hasn't really worked well for Clinton so far, it's surprising you keep

trying to play it.

Pathetic.

[ibegurpard]

13. deal with it

[me b zola]

19. Fingernails on the chalkboard for this granny

...is to equivocate on reproductive rights.

I know what Senator Sanders meant, its really not that hard. If any person running for office has shown a pattern over a long period of time to have horrible judgment then I feel they are disqualified as a candidate (for me).

[Zen Democrat]

24. Here's how qualified Hillary is:

Served in the Senate from 2001 - 2009 (8 years)
Served as Secretary of State 2009-2013 (4 years)

That's not the heaviest resume I've seen.

Bernie has been in elective office since the 1980's:

Mayor of Burlington VT for four terms
Congressman from Vermont for 8 terms (16 years)
Senator from Vermont for 2 terms and reelected with 71% of the vote.
That's a breadth of experience that Clinton doesn't have.

The Clintonistas will throw up her work for the Children's Defense Fund, but on Democracy Now:

AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the board of the Children’s Defense Fund, of the organization that you founded. But you were extremely critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare reform bill, you said, "His signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children." So what are your hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about Hillary Rodham Clinton?

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics. We have to build a constituency, and you don’t — and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to invest preventively in all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.

She brags about her time with the Children's Defense Fund, but she doesn't mention those years she spent on the Board of Directors of Walmart. That should be enough to disqualify her by itself.

[Vinca]

25. Poor, poor Hillary. Such a victimized, quivering waif. Is she still hiding under the bed?

That's the impression I get from her supporters every time they play the "sexism" card. It makes me feel embarrassed for Hillary.

[nichomachus]

35. Hearing Hillary spout her lies is like fingernails on a blackboard

I can't even watch that woman on tv.

[Broward]

28. Hillary implied Bernie's not qualified because he's Jewish.

[davidn3600]

32. You aren't going to gain any votes by playing the gender card

That's not going to work.

And qualifications for President is subjective. Ask 10 people what qualifies a person to be President and you'll get answers all over the map.

[nichomachus]

33. Pffft.

[noretreatnosurrender]

34. This whole charade

has nothing to do with sexism it's just a cynical fundraising effort by the Hillary campaign.

This is a ridiculous and irresponsible attack for someone to make — not just against the person who is almost certainly going to be the nominee of their party this November, but against someone who is one of the most qualified people to run for the presidency in the HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,” Clinton spokeswoman Christina Reynolds wrote in a fundraising email to supporters early Thursday.

Clinton planned to spend much of the rest of the day Thursday raising money. She is trying to fend off a strong challenge from Sanders in her adopted home state, as the formerly cordial Democratic race becomes increasingly nasty.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/07/sanders-clinton-continue-fierce-feud-over-qualifications/

[TheBlackAdder]

36. The problem with this gendered argument, as all--they all have negative effects on women only.

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While, in you little head, think you are coming to the defense of HRC, studies from the only university specializing in women in politics, the Rutgers-Eagleton Center for Women and Politics, has compiled research showing that any gendered attack, whether it's to highlight looks, family, begin a woman or man--only has negative effects on one candidate, the female candidate.



You can trash a man's looks, this manner of speech, anything about their physical being and there will be no negative impact at the polls, for a woman, it hurts them by 5 percentage points.



So, you might want to spend a week over at the following site and learn something. If would be better if you have an EDU account and can look at more peer-research as JSTOR and other sites:

http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/



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[2pooped2pop]

38. And Hillary winning means death to some of us

So sorry ur ears hurt.