Clinton Avoids Media for a month

Originally posted by Surtur
I don't see it as belittling her. I never said all the votes she gets would be due to being female. But I can guarantee you some of them will be.

You are ignoring what a historic event this would be, and how people LOVE to be able to say they were a part of it. I know she is a huge political figure, that isn't in dispute. But that doesn't change the fact this is a historic election.

You've also admitted people do vote based on single item things. So I don't think it would be belittling her unless I said the only people who would consider voting for her would be people doing it because she is female. I know I said she has a better chance at winning due to being female, but that is because in addition to the people voting for her due to believing in what she stands for..you will also have that small chunk voting for her for all the wrong reasons.

It seemed like you were implying that and her "vagina" was what would net her the win, should she win.

If you weren't, then there's no contention. No worries.

Originally posted by Surtur
Though let us face facts, Hilary has a shot of winning purely by virtue of being a woman. It is sad, but it is true. You know some people will vote for her not because of her policies or what she plans to do...but because she will be the first president with a vagina..

Yeah, you are right, looking through past American presidents, being a woman has always helped. It's a sad fact, but true, due to ingrained sexism we are bound to have the 45th female president in a row. If I was a boy today, I couldn't fathom to look at such a long line of strong, predominantly white women leading my country, it just really sends a message of how my gender is valued or not valued as it seems.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Yeah, you are right, looking through past American presidents, being a woman has always helped. It's a sad fact, but true, due to ingrained sexism we are bound to have the 45th female president in a row. If I was a boy today, I couldn't fathom to look at such a long line of strong, predominantly white women leading my country, it just really sends a message of how my gender is valued or not valued as it seems.

Sexiest.

Originally posted by Robtard
Jokes aside and I've told you this before, imo, you should at least wait until Hillary secures the nomination before going full Clinton-Attack mode. Sure, if there's some actual juicy story (ie Clinton punched an infant, Clinton sold weapons to Iran etc), post it, but petty stuff like this no one cares about.

If she doesn't get it, you'll have spent a considerable amount of time hating on her and it will have been for nothing.

Good advice, especially as there's definite 'boy who cried wolf' syndrome.

If people work themselves up into a froth over every little non-story, then when others see them froth later on, they'll naturally assume it's yet another non-story.

Originally posted by Surtur
Remember when it was big news when she had a god damn burrito?

Though let us face facts, Hilary has a shot of winning purely by virtue of being a woman. It is sad, but it is true. You know some people will vote for her not because of her policies or what she plans to do...but because she will be the first president with a vagina.

Especially since, people like to be a part of change. We just had our first black president, and now we can possibly have our first female president.

Plus she's, y'know, a well-established politician with a long track record and views that are reasonably popular.

Republicans shoot themselves in the foot by saying 'Hilary's just being supported because she's a woman/Obama because he's black.' What it's really saying is 'I the speaker am discounting the rest of what this politician does and would rather blame it on this one superficial aspect that I'm choosing to focus on.' It's surprising how many people honestly argue that and don't realize just how bad it makes the speaker and the people who cheer along look, not the person they're attacking.

Sarah Palin would've been a historical first as female vice-president, but her ticket still did very poorly among voters, including women. Why? Because she was horrible at being a politician, many of her views were off-the-wall or flat-out ignorant.

The 'first' factor only counts for so much, and someone who acts like it's all-encompassing says more about themselves than anything else.

Nah,

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-no-democrat-wants-to-run-against-hillary-fear-of-retaliation/378914/

Clinton Foundation hit with racketeering lawsuit

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-foundation-hit-with-racketeering-lawsuit/article/2565069

Originally posted by Time Immemorial
Nah,

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-no-democrat-wants-to-run-against-hillary-fear-of-retaliation/378914/

Retaliation? How about the fact she's a former senator/secretary of state with high approval ratings, and she does have people running against her who aren't getting backlash for it? Note how the candidates who declined to run ... are ones who like her. Ooh, mysterious, why would someone decline to run against someone who agrees with a lot of their views and is well poised to win when the opposition is generally viewed as incredibly horrible for the country in comparison?

Have you considered that you may be very gullible?

Originally posted by Q99
Retaliation? How about the fact she's a former senator/secretary of state with high approval ratings, and she does have people running against her who aren't getting backlash for it? Note how the candidates who declined to run ... are ones who like her. Ooh, mysterious, why would someone decline to run against someone who agrees with a lot of their views and is well poised to win when the opposition is generally viewed as incredibly horrible for the country in comparison?

Have you considered that you may be very gullible?

No you are for voting for her in the 2016 election.

Sorry you cant hide the racketeering charges cause you like her.