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SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON DELIVERS REMARKS

Article from: Political Transcript Wire Article date: November 14, 2008

SEN. CLINTON DELIVERS REMARKS

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

SPEAKER: SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, D-N.Y.

[*] CLINTON: Thank you very, very much. And I have to start by saying I'm very happy there is so much press attention and interest in transit.

(LAUGHTER) Especially guesses about my own. But in the off chance that you're not here for this important issue and are here for some other reason, let me just say that I'm not going to speculate or address anything about the president-elect's incoming administration. And I'm going to respect his process. And any ...

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Hillary, Like Suffrage, Is a Symbol of Frustration

Posted Aug 26, 08 11:13 AM CDT in Politics,  Opinion 

Hillary, Like Suffrage, Is a Symbol of Frustration
Source: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

(Newser) – Many have noted that Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight comes on the anniversary of women’s suffrage, but that’s not necessarily the uplifting coincidence it appears to be, writes feminist author Susan Faludi in the New York Times. Despite Clinton’s fantastic primary showing, her supporters remain disconsolate because feminist history is loaded with half-measures and failed successes—and suffrage was one of them. 

Like Clinton’s candidacy, suffrage was both a goal and a symbolic “color guard for a regiment of other ideas,” Faludi explains. But those other ideas sputtered and died after suffrage’s passing. Feminism fell out of fashion, dying, in one feminist’s words, “of partial victory and inanition.” Today, too, the cause of feminism is failing, and today, as then, it has lost its color guard.

Source: New York Times

More about:  Hillary Clinton • feminism • suffrage

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