Hillary Clinton

Bill O'Reilly is not a lovable man; he's strong views; he's a big mouth, some say. Nonetheless he may peddle bad breath, he does some things at times that make good sense. On a Jay Leno show he stated the obvious which bears repeating: Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have very similar views, and the meteoric rise of Obama and the declining fortunes of Hillary show the seesaw effect of a populartiy contest. And a popularity contest the race to the Democratic party's nod for the presidency, it has become. Yet, Hillary Clinton is riding a ebb of a bad mouthing. No one cuts her slack, it seems. On a listner sponsor radio station in New York on Saturday morning [22 February 2006], a programme host suggested, she withdraw from the race in Obama's favour. He put it terms that were condescending in the extreme, suggesting as a woman she has made her mark on history. She stands as a model for little girls and young women who may want to become an astronaut, a prison warden!, a politician, so on and on. Well this snotty little man who would bristle were the same said of a 'person of a duskier hue' as he would put it, is talking to the wind. Doesn't he know that there are women prison wardens, women astronaut [hasn't he heard of Sally Rudd?], women politicians? and the like? Well yes, let's give him the benefit of the doubt, but he harbours the typical male chauvinist view that a strong woman in any field should retire in favour of a man!
This host would deny it; he would read off a long laundry list of liberal causes he defends, but subjectively, he reflects what a legion of men and yes women too say when it comes to Hillary Clinton. They wear no velvet glove these high minded folk, they simply transmit the centuries old prejudice against ambitious women, and in Hillary Clinton's case they think they've the freedom to smear her or whack her where it hurts at every turn in the press, over the air waves, through rumour, and grafetti on walls. And they do it with a clear conscience of the righteous who have a place in a ring in Dante's Hell.