WaPo: "Sorry, Hillary: You are the establishment"

[Mufaddal]

By Danielle Allen February 5 at 4:41 PM

Danielle Allen is a political theorist at Harvard University and a contributing columnist for The Post.

After Thursday night’s debate, I’ve got a piece of unsolicited advice for Hillary Clinton. Don’t use this line again: “Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment.”

The problem with the remark is obvious. Clinton does not merely exemplify the establishment. She and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, are the Democratic Party establishment. We’re in the realm of description, not characterization. That candidate Clinton could deliver her line with a straight face goes to the heart of her trustworthiness problem.

She really believes she can put a line like that over on us?

Bernie Sanders is right that Clinton’s long list of endorsements represents her muscle within the Democratic Party.

So ’fess up, Madame Secretary. You are the establishment. Playing the gender card can’t get you out of it. If anything, it only makes the disavowals weirder. My guess is that, despite this year’s anti-establishment waves, voters will ultimately tolerate your establishment status. It’s certainly more tolerable than a straight-faced claim that the pearls don’t fit.

Full column: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sorry-hillary-you-are-the-establishment/2016/02/05/0aa7cf80-cc27-11e5-a7b2-5a2f824b02c9_story.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. And apologize to Geraldine Ferrara for Usurping first woman to run for President, never accurate .

[sarge43]

4. Ferraro was Mondale's running mate.

The first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination was Cora Wilson Stewart in 1920. The first woman to make a significant run was Shirley Chisholm in 1972.

Margaret Chase Smith was the first Republican woman, 1952

Many women have made third party runs.

Yeah, Clinton should apologize to Stewart and Chisholm

[hopemountain]

17. thanks for this list

been trying to remember shirley chisholm's name and could not.

shame on hillary. she believe's she is all that and a bag of chips?

[sarge43]

18. You're welcome

Yeah, she's late to the party -- so to speak.

[orpupilofnature57]

21. Sorry, and Thanks .

[eridani]

20. No--first woman to run for president was Shirley Chisholm n/t

[cantbeserious]

2. Thank You For Sharing These Truths

eom

[retrowire]

3. "I can't be apart of the establishment! I'm a woman!"

*facepalm so hard my hand goes through my skull*

[orpupilofnature57]

5. + 1000000000000 !!!!!!!!!!!

[passiveporcupine]

11. And said with a straight face.

[Helen Borg]

6. Well, if the gender card does not work, there is always the 9/11 card.

[Got it]

9. Belly laugh, thanks. eom

[SoLeftIAmRight]

7. Margaret Thatcher...

not part of the establishment?

[thesquanderer]

8. It's not WaPo. It's a WaPo columnistt/op-ed. Editorially, WaPo is Hillary all the way.

It would be like taking a Krugman headline and attributing it to the NY Times.

[Mufaddal]

12. It was run on WaPo

I was just trying to attribute it correctly, not suggest that this is the view of their editorial board.

[Duval]

10. K&R nt

[ErikJ]

13. Carly Fiorina is a woman too Hillary.

So r a lot of other GOP extreme RW politicians.

[AlbertCat]

14. If she thinks Sanders is the only one who calls her "establishment"...

.... she's much further out of touch than anyone guesses!

This seems the same as thinking quoting her and mentioning her record is an "attack".


God, she's so fake!

[Live and Learn]

15. K&R nt

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Claire McCaskill is also claiming to be stunned to be called the establishment, she was opposed to

LGBT equality until about 20 minutes ago, she's worth about 20 million bucks, she's a US Senator and she can't figure out why she's seen as the establishment?

[avaistheone1]

19. My understanding is that McCaskil is one of the richest US senators.