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Right on, Anne. I totally agree with this article. Hillary did get screwed.

Rather than being congratulated as the most successful woman in American political history, she has been scarified for not leaving the race sooner. In previous contests, second placegetters Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson and Jerry Brown all stayed in the race until the very end, longer than Clinton, but were never subjected to a similar pelting. In fact, the pressure on Clinton to be a good girl and get out of Obama’s way started back in March and continued unabated despite her winning nine of the 16 contests since then.

She could not take a trick with a virtually unanimous media putting the most negative spin on her every utterance. She was accused of being manipulative for crying, of “pimping” her daughter by having her on the campaign, for denying her gender by wearing pants suits and of being racist for simply pointing out the fact that millions of white people had voted for her.

She had to endure one male television commentator calling her a “she-devil”, another stating she reminded him of “everyone’s first wife standing outside probate court”; one who found her “castrating, overbearing and scary” while another fine specimen of the American punditocracy said, “When she comes on television … I involuntarily cross my legs.”

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