Reply #5: I think both of these women miss a whole lot of the point [View All]

and that a lot of that they think is true just doesn't hold up.

I have been in the workforce since graduate school, but I can't relate to Hillary at all. I see her as having had way more privileges in life than I have had, from having been born to a wealthy family and having grown up with a father in the house to having married a man who went places politically, so I really can't see her struggles as a woman as having anything to do with mine.

I am forty-something, yet I simply cannot relate to her at all. And yes, I'll admit that on a personal level, I can relate better to a candidate who grew up raised by a single mother, who hardly ever saw his father, who had to get scholarships to afford college, than I can to a woman with two parents whose bills were always paid up and who married a man who eventually became President.

These women say "people never grasped or got excited about the historic nature of a woman president in the way that clearly they have about the possibility of a black president," and then they blame that fact on everyone but Hillary. They blame it on the media not being excited enough. They blame it on sexism. They blame it on younger women foolishly thinking that the war for women's rights has been won and not wanting to talk about it anymore. They blame it on sexism being too subtle, compared to racism. They blame it on men not seeing a female president as symbolic. They blame it on voters perceiving men as having better character and leadership ability.

In short, they blame it on everyTHING and everyONE but Hillary herself. It's like they're saying "She was such a great candidate. How come not enough people realized it?" when the question they should be asking is "She was such a great candidate to start with. What went wrong? Where did SHE go wrong?"