Rose Siding
Rose Siding's JournalOur impossible expectations of Hillary Clinton and all women in authority
A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-dont dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other. Women running for office, as with all women in authority, are subject to these two demands: Be a good leader! Be a good woman! While the qualities expected of a good leader (be forceful, confident and, at times, angry) are similar to those we expect of a good man, they are the opposite of what we expect of a good woman (be gentle, self-deprecating and emotional, but not angry). Hence the double bind: If a candidate or manager talks or acts in ways expected of women, she risks being seen as underconfident or even incompetent. But if she talks or acts in ways expected of leaders, she is likely to be seen as too aggressive and will be subject to innumerable other negative judgments and epithets that apply only to women.
An example: Anyone who seeks public office, especially the highest one, must be ambitious, yet that word is rarely applied to male candidates because it goes without saying. And ambition is admirable in a man, but unacceptable in fact, downright scary in a woman. Google Bernie Sanders ambitious, and you get headlines about the candidates ambitious plans. Try it with Donald Trump, and you find references to his ambitious deportation plan and ambitious real estate developments. When the word is used to describe Trump himself, its positive, as in Trump is proud and ambitious, and he strives to excel.
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But pair the word with Hillary Clinton, and a search spews headlines accusing her of naked ambition, unbridled ambition, ruthless ambitions even of being pathologically ambitious. In a spoof, the satirical website the Onion exposed the injustice and absurdity of demonizing a candidate for this requisite quality through its own version of such headlines: Hillary Clinton Is Too Ambitious to Be the First Female President.Why arent more young women (or, more precisely, as Post reporter Janell Ross recently pointed out, young white women) flocking to support the first woman with a serious shot at the presidency? The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who havent yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight. They may well believe (as I did when I was young) that when the time comes, theyll be judged fairly, based on their qualifications. They probably have not yet experienced the truism that to get equal consideration, a woman has to be better than her male counterparts just as Clinton is, according to the New York Times editorial endorsing her last month, one of the most broadly and deeply qualified candidates in modern history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-impossible-expectations-of-hillary-clinton-and-all-women-in-authority/2016/02/19/35e416d0-d5ba-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html?postshare=3451456030471231&tid=ss_tw-bottom
Everybody say Aaawwwwww
This is after speaking in Houston. She gave a real barn burner! Here's a piece of it:
Dolores Huerta: On Immigration, Bernie Sanders is Not Who He Says He Is
Lets start with the letter he sent to President Obama. Bernie, candidate, decried the deportation raids which he should. But in 2006, Bernie, congressman, actually voted to create and fund two of the programs he criticizes in the letter.
Furthermore, in 2006, he voted for a bill pushed by James Sensenbrenner, one of the most anti-immigrant members of Congress, that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to be detained indefinitely pending deportation. This bill was widely viewed as a desperate attempt by Republicans to boost their reelection prospects that year by cracking down on immigrants, and the ACLU called it inhumane. Bernie voted for it anyway. (Youll note that he was running for Senate as an independent.)
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But my question for Bernie is, where the heck was he for the last 25 years? Where was he on immigration reform? On indefinite detentions? On vigilante justice against undocumented workers? He was nowhere. Thats where.....(W)hy is he pretending like Hillary Clinton hasnt been on the right side of this while he was on the wrong side? Shes got the track record to prove that she was in the fight with our community, Ted Kennedy, and President Obama. Bernie certainly doesnt...
https://medium.com/DoloresHuerta/on-immigration-bernie-sanders-is-not-who-he-says-he-is-b79980adff6a#.qpnyumqxs
If you are unfamiliar with this wonderful woman, or why her support for Hillary is so significant, read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Huerta
Will Ferrell endorsed Sanders right? Here he is with WJC saying "Caucus for Hillary-UPDATE!
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/701074843861544960Don't know if he's switched or not but that clip makes me happy
*UPDATE*:
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Ferrell has been removed from Sanders' celebrity endorsers list, per @tomlobianco. He was on less than an hour ago. https://berniesanders.com/artists Dan MericaVerified account
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Will Ferrell has donated to the Clinton campaign and is co-hosting a fundraiser for Clinton on Monday in LA, per the campaign.
9:48 AM - 20 Feb 2016
Another endorsement whoops! I know it takes 3 of something to make a collection, but how many makes a pattern?
Kevin Drum: This is insane
Kevin is reacting to the same charts and data in Sanders' plans that Krugman, THE NOBEL PRIZE GUY, found so alarming.
snip>I've generally tried to go easy on Bernie Sanders. I like his vision, and I like his general attitude toward Wall Street. But this is insane. If anything, it's worse than the endless magic asterisks that Republicans use to pretend that their tax plans will supercharge the economy and pay for themselves. It's not even remotely in the realm of reality. If it were, France and Germany and Denmark would all be Croesian paradises by now.
A group of stuffy establishment economists says "no credible economic research" supports Friedman's analysis, which "undermines our reputation as the party of responsible arithmetic." Or, in Austan Goolsbee's more colorful language, Sanders' plans have "evolved into magic flying puppies with winning Lotto tickets tied to their collars."
Enough is enough. Everyone needs to get back to reality. This ain't it.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/sanders-campaign-has-crossed-neverland
Krugman: What Has the Wonks Worried
In reference to Sanders' people's response to an open letter from 4 (four!) former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers for Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton(posted below), Krugman writes:
Sanders needs to disassociate himself from this kind of fantasy economics right now. If his campaign responds instead by lashing out well, a campaign that treats Alan Krueger, Christy Romer, and Laura Tyson as right-wing enemies is well on its way to making Donald Trump president.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/what-has-the-wonks-worried/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0
Now, that's the guy with the Nobel prize in his field of expertise talking. What I'm hearing there is the deep oo-ooo-ga of a warning siren. We're watching a bunch of kids and angry people being sold a nebulous CIVICS FREE, romanticized version of a revolution while the experts, the ones who have fostered all and whatever progressive achievements are possible in such a deeply divided pluralistic society, issue warning after warning. That's the establishment talking -our Democratic establishment- and we'd best listen.
Posted on February 17, 2016 by lettertosanders
Dear Senator Sanders and Professor Gerald Friedman,
We are former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers for Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. For many years, we have worked to make the Democratic Party the party of evidence-based economic policy. When Republicans have proposed large tax cuts for the wealthy and asserted that those tax cuts would pay for themselves, for example, we have shown that the economic facts do not support these fantastical claims. We have applied the same rigor to proposals by Democrats, and worked to ensure that forecasts of the effects of proposed economic policies, from investment in infrastructure, to education and training, to health care reforms, are grounded in economic evidence. Largely as a result of efforts like these, the Democratic party has rightfully earned a reputation for responsibly estimating the effects of economic policies.
We are concerned to see the Sanders campaign citing extreme claims by Gerald Friedman about the effect of Senator Sanderss economic planclaims that cannot be supported by the economic evidence. Friedman asserts that your plan will have huge beneficial impacts on growth rates, income and employment that exceed even the most grandiose predictions by Republicans about the impact of their tax cut proposals.
As much as we wish it were so, no credible economic research supports economic impacts of these magnitudes. Making such promises runs against our partys best traditions of evidence-based policy making and undermines our reputation as the party of responsible arithmetic. These claims undermine the credibility of the progressive economic agenda and make it that much more difficult to challenge the unrealistic claims made by Republican candidates.
Sincerely,
Alan Krueger, Princeton University
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2011-2013
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2010-2011
Christina Romer, University of California at Berkeley
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2009-2010
Laura DAndrea Tyson, University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, 1993-1995
https://lettertosanders.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/open-letter-to-senator-sanders-and-professor-gerald-friedman-from-past-cea-chairs/
Proof Hillary is the only one who will protect our rights
Jon Ralston
?@RalstonReports
Bernie says on #RalstonLive he would have only one litmus test for a SCOTUS nominee: Must oppose Citizens United.
https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/699772812500729857
Let that sink in for a minute
I know it's rough around here right now but
I know it's rough around here right now but is there any way you could see clear to drawing a line at an op calling Bill Clinton a rapist? It's being cheered in responses as though it is a valid point of discussion.
My alert was returned as having been cleared by a jury already, so you may have already determined that you won't act. I'll hope that isn't the case and give it a go here anyway-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511251731
thanks
Female Presidential Candidate Who Was US Senator, Secretary Of State Told To Be More Inspiring
http://www.theonion.com/article/female-presidential-candidate-who-was-united-state-52367
oh, The Onion, I love you
Paul Krugman has a unicorn problem
His conclusion:
just read-
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/my-unicorn-problem/?smid=tw-nytimeskrugman&smtyp=cur&_r=0
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