http://www.alternet.org/story/38144/"I would be really disappointed if Hillary Clinton were the first woman president," said Medea Benjamin, a self-described feminist and founder of Code Pink, a women-initiated antiwar group based in Venice, Calif. (snip)
But many women are not giving Clinton the reflexive support that might be expected, saying they'd rather support a man who shares their ideological views than a woman who shares their biological makeup. Code Pink's Benjamin, for instance, likes Sen. Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who authored legislation calling for the withdrawal of nearly all U.S. troops from Iraq by July 2007.
Others have taken Clinton to task for declining to support universal health care, an issue that women's rights activists say would benefit women because they are often left without health insurance if they take time off work to care for family members.
"We're definitely disappointed," said Allison Guttu of the New York-based Women's Liberation Social Wage Committee. "It seems as if she's ignoring feminists and that she's ignoring feminist demands."