Clinton Retreats on Issue of Men vs. Woman

[ariesgem]

CONCORD, N.H., Nov. 2 — Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama tangled on Friday over whether women should be treated equally to men in the boxing ring of presidential politics. At the same time, Mrs. Clinton backed away from her “pile-on politics” strategy that portrayed her as the lone woman under assault from the six male candidates at the Democratic debate on Tuesday.

“I don’t think they’re picking on me because I’m a woman; I think they’re picking on me because I’m winning,” Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference at the Capitol after filing papers to run in the New Hampshire primary.

Then she added, in a reversal of a famous remark she once made about how she did not want to stay home and bake cookies: “I anticipate it’s going to get even hotter — and if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. And I’m very much at home in the kitchen.”

Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama and Rudolph W. Giuliani also got into a long-distance argument over comments Mr. Obama made in an interview in The New York Times on Friday about his plan to negotiate with Iran about its nuclear program without preconditions.

Mrs. Clinton, of New York, and Mr. Obama, of Illinois, are Democratic opponents; Mr. Giuliani, of New York, is a Republican.

Mrs. Clinton, who leads in most national polls, said she did not think “you promise, without preconditions, for the president to meet with the leaders of antagonistic states.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/us/politics/03campaign.html?ref=us

[dflprincess]

1. The focus group wasn't buying it?

n/t

[jmp]

6. Yep, it didn't poll well.

...

[illinoisprogressive]

2. she backed away right after obama's appearance on Today

he really got her on that one.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/

link to the interview.

[waiting for hope]

3. She didn't change a thing:

“I don’t think they’re picking on me because I’m a woman; I think they’re picking on me because I’m winning,” Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference at the Capitol after filing papers to run in the New Hampshire primary.

I have a 6 year old and a almost 3 year old, and that's what I hear from them.....Mommy! Alex's is picking on me!

Geez, can't she come out and just say it - 'I don’t think they’re (picking) challenging, questioning, confronting.... on me because I’m a woman;"

This isn't going to go away quietly.

[MissDeeds]

4. I agree with you

HRC made it clear she thinks she's being "picked on". Now who's whining?

[waiting for hope]

5. Welcome to DU!

:hi: and the hole just keeps getting bigger!

[The River]

7. Did The Wind Shift? nt

[MethuenProgressive]

8. Misleading OP subject line: That is NOT the NYT's headline.

"Clinton and Opponents Tangle Over Attacks on Her"

[ariesgem]

10. They (the NYT) must have changed the headline

When I posted this, I used the exact headline from the article.

[rodeodance]

9. only hollow so-called journalists would talk about it as a gender card----after all,

she was talking at a women's college. get real