but of course that's not even close to being the worst kind of thing that gets said about her.
Definitely not. This was just the thing that happened to push me over the edge. I think it might even have been the very fact that it wasn't so bad in comparison, because it allows people to think that it's not really *that* sexist.
Your point about Clinton having initially been the front runner is a good one. In a lot of the discussion about the calls for Clinton to quit, people have compared her to Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, Jerry Brown, and other second-place candidates who kept going until the bitter end, but none of them were ever the establishment favorites. They were more like the Obamas of their years: upstarts who did surprisingly well.
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Definitely not. This was just the thing that happened to push me over the edge. I think it might even have been the very fact that it wasn't so bad in comparison, because it allows people to think that it's not really *that* sexist.
Your point about Clinton having initially been the front runner is a good one. In a lot of the discussion about the calls for Clinton to quit, people have compared her to Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, Jerry Brown, and other second-place candidates who kept going until the bitter end, but none of them were ever the establishment favorites. They were more like the Obamas of their years: upstarts who did surprisingly well.