Hillary, You Didn’t Win. Now Don’t Whine

I'm glad somebody wrote this article. I have a question for all of the people out there who think that Hillary's demise is due to sexism: In your world, where subversion and conspiracy based on gender and race rule, is it conceivable that a woman candidate could bring about her own demise by making a strategic mistake? If it is not possible, if the only explanation you can possibly imagine is based upon the fact that Hillary is a woman, you need to take a long hard look at your beliefs. If you can't imagine that Hillary is human enough to be the primary cause in her unsuccessful run for president, then it is your EGO, not sexism, that's the problem.

She ran a lousy campaign. And, she conitnues to run a lousy campaign. Whether her attitude earlier in the primary race was charged by cockiness or entitlement......who knows?!?!?! But, what we do know is that she UNDERESTIMATED the Obama camp. She brushed off the caucus states. And, she let Bill loose, who holds the record for political gaffes between the 3 candidates.....AND HE"S NOT EVEN RUNNING!!

She ran an old Washington-style race, against a new age, modern candidate. BOO HOO!!!!

The media has not been sexist. They have spoken the truth about both candidates. The problem is in our country, you cannot say anything that can be construed as negative about a female, even if it is true and she is running for president. How quickly you forget the "debate" in PA where Clinton took such glee in taking shot after shot at Obama who refused to be brought down to her level. There is the "cajones" remark by
Carville.

If her gender were such a hinderance, then why did she go to the, "vote for me because I'm a woman " tactic? Doesn't that call more attention to said "drawback"? Obama could never say or imply that anyone
should vote for him because he is black. She signed an agreement stating that the MI & Fla votes would not count, but I guess that it's a (this) woman's perogotive to change her mind.

The willingness of some to accept/overlook her lies and that 60% of the american public find her untrustworthy makes her unelectable.

HRC's "victim" role WILL backfire!! For every 50+ woman burning her bra for Hillary's cause, there is another who is sickened / offended / insulted by her use of the "female victim" card. Obama has been gracious and supportive of her decision to stay in the race. Although he's had many chances to burn her w/ her gaffes/weaknesses, he has never capitalized on the opportunity to do so. Supporters of both candidates have been less than respectful throughout this campaign. But, noone can say Obama has displayed any SEXIST conduct or spewed any SEXIST rhetoric.

The DNC has every right to uphold the rules and pledges that both candidates signed, and to tell HRC to f*ck off. If anything is SEXIST here, pacifying her w/ a b*llsh*t compromise that will not affect the outcome of this race is SEXIST. "Let's allow her to save face", is the motto of the DNC this weekend.

WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!

I do not know why she thinks she be a good President that was her plan when she became a senetor and that her name is clinton I do not think she would make a good dog catcher she did not even run a good campain

I graduated law school in 1978 and attended annual meetings of the American Bar Association beginning in 1976 until today as it elected its first female and black ABA president. The willingness of the ABA House of Delegates to elect a woman and later a black president evolved out of the enornmous increase in the number of women entering the profession by choice in the late 1970s and the enourmous increase in the number of blacks doing so by affirmative action beginning in the early 1980s. The legal profession greatest contribution to society may be its barometer on social conditions as measured by the diversity of its membership which registered its first female president in 1995 and its first black president in 2002. As an influence on national social and political attitudes, the ABA's elections suggest that Hillary Clinton's loss this year is less sexism and more politics -- Democratic voters are leaning more heavily toward change than gender/race and that ought to be very painful for the Republican Party, which is leaning more toward more-of-the-same. That makes this Democratic primary all less important to November -- because they're going to nominate a candidate of a really big change regardless of their nominee. The long Democratic campaign is a plus because every day it goes on it so stretches out this point -- the Democrats are arguring over which of two very new and different candidates it will nominate while the Republicans long ago settled on a old, white Navy veteran from Arizona, who married money and glamour. I am not wanting to run that kind of candidate for the Republican Party against the boomers and X generation this fall.

I really agree with you. I'm so glad someone finally wrote an ariticle about this. This is not a case of sexism. Calling this sexism makes people less sensitive to valid cases of sexism. Based on the rules of the campaign, Hillary is losing. Talking about popular votes and criticizing caucuses are interesting discussions but have nothing to do with the the rules of this campaign. The race has not be stolen from her as I've heard others in the media say. She did well but not well enough to win (as it stands now). Trying to change the rules to suit her mid-campaign appears desparate and shows poor sportsmanship. This contest was hers to lose and she's lost it due to poor management and organization. If their was any sexism it was in her own organization with people like Mark Penn which she should have had control over.

Hillary started shaming women when she felt she had to "man-up" and do a shot of whisky. Now, she is making excuses. She has done a remarkable job. Unfortunately for her, there were two excellent candidates, both of whom will beat McCain.

I am a very competitive person as well. Playing sports competitively at the collegiate level, I saw a pattern. The team that lost graciously and came back to play another day, usually improved. The team that lost and blamed the umpire, continued its losing ways.

I idolized and voted for her in the VA primary. Now, I'm very disappointed in her.

Wake up and smell the coffee. She lost. Her whining and complaining is sickening. Moreover, her behavior feeds into all of the negative stereotypes about women, e.g. being irrational and acting on emotion rather than reason. Also see, nagging, complaining, trying to get her way when she clearly hasn't earned it.

Her unwillingness to move on also strongly suggests that she's not presidential material. If president, would she take us over a cliff, because of her stubborn streak. We won't go into her fiscal mismanagement.

I'm no Clinton hater. I was a strong supporter of the Clinton administration. But, the truth of the matter is that she didn't win. Eleanor is right. She should stop whining. She's demeaning herself.

HRC's claims of sexism is a disappointment to some female voters. HRC chose to play the game of politics. Now she must recognize in games we win some and we lose some but you live to play another day. When you lose a game you don't start making excuses. I don't want to sounds insensitive because she has accomplished a remarkable feat. But what would make some female voters more proud of her is if she showed some form of self respect and respect for all the females voting in this election and acknowledged that she has fought a great fight and while she would have loved to make history and be the first female president, she musst step back and support the party's nominee. I am confident that she can move on from this but the choice is hers.

I totally agree with this article. I am a 35 year old hispanic woman (not that that should matter) but this cry of sexism as the reason she lost is insane. This notion that woman should vote for her because she is a woman has made me sick to my stomach. There will be another woman to come up the ranks and be a much better candidate for POTUS. There is a huge gap between the older woman and the younger woman. I find that Hillary has not run a good campaign and therefore how can we trust her to be president. She is very polarizing and divisive. And I'm sorry I understand that we are suppose to support our husbands and be good wifes but I have NO respect for a woman that stays with her husband after what Bill did to her. Before you woman go off let me explain. You have got to first and formost have respect for yourself if you don't then no one is going to give it to you. Being with my husband for 12 years I understand that marriage is not easy sometimes but what Bill did to her not once (I could forgive once maybe) but more than once has to make you think her real motives of staying in this marriage. What kind of example is that teaching her daughther or any young lady for that matter. I know it's her business and we shouldn't judge her, but when you are trying to become president of the US it becomes evryone's business. Also, what kind of example she has been giving lately, when it seems that everytime you see her she is boosing it up. Please she stopped be a lady and try to be one the boys and that is where she went terribly wrong.