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The "iron my shirts!" crack was a test, and she blew it.

Women seem to pride themselves on being above the male-centric tendencies toward name-calling and confrontation. When confronted with this, women simply whine that males should be more civilized and act more like women. Not gonna happen until testosterone is outlawed.

What would have earned Hillary the vote of the guy with the wrinkled shirts is if she had immediately come back at him full force - got right in his face with some remark like "Mow my lawn!". Not only would that have shown that she had a sense of humor but would have shown that she doesn't lay down and let others fight her battles for her.

And when you enlist your daughter in your campaign and set her up for breakfast dates with potential supporters, you shouldn't be surprised when the occasional "pimp" comment is heard. Somewhere, somehow, we seem to have come to the conclusion that we have the right never to be offended, but that is absolutely not true. Freedom of speech means I get to say stuff that you find offensive, and you have to eat it so long as I can back it up (like with a perfectly appropriate dictionary definition). If the media had any cojones whatsoever they would never, ever suspend employees for what they are being paid to say. If Hillary had heard that pimp remark and laughed and said that she pimped her husband out a lot more, I'd be standing on street corners handing out her campaign materials.

Don't give me overly sensitive wimps that lack a sense of humor.

Give me a politician that can live with the way real people talk on the street, laugh off the small stuff, and get right in my face when I imply they can't do the job.

If you have studied anything about the Clintons and the strategies they use in their campaigns, you would immediately realize that the "iron my shirts" guy was most likely planted by their campaign office.

This is what they do. (poor Hillary, she's a woman, she has to use her own 5 million dollars for her campaign, she cries for the camera, wah wah wah.) Unfortunately, the strategy works for them because human beings have a short memory and want to believe everything they see on TV or read on the internet. The Clinton political machine has been doing this for years.

I would love to see a woman president...but I will not blindly vote for any person based on gender or race or looks or some stupid remark a reporter made or ??? I vote for the person based on who they are and what they stand for. The best way to determine that is to look at the past. Clinton is no victim. I never once saw her shed a tear over soldiers in body bags, or her husband's humiliating infidelity. I see no genuine sorrow for the racist remarks uttered in her campaign. And I am sure she will rise above all of this to participate in the debate on NBC so she can come out looking like some martyr. Chelsea will be sitting in the audience and it will all be a kodak moment on the campaign trail. What I see is some shameless plays of her gender card (i.e. "Iron my shirts") to try to garner some sympathy. That's not something I respect in a person.

Mary, when the "rightwing hate machine says anything they want---true or not--about him, his wife, and (Obama's) daughters", he will likely have to ignore it, the way he ignored Clinton's going after his race, his alleged religion, and his inexperience in serving: on the Board of Walmart, for the Rose law firm and in the capacity of the First Lady. But then again, he has something more to run on than sympathy/pity. He has a hope that is based on people respecting his ability to win logical arguments, rather than a needing them to emotionalize EVERYTHING in this campaign.

No one said "shine my shoes" to Obama in S.C. And that wouldn't have been a reason to vote for him if they had. But a politician DID say that his appeal would be based on and limited to his race, like Jesse Jackson's was. Even though it wasn't. The politician in question? Oh, right. The one who's too busy being a victim to ever do anything wrong. The one who's too excited with a nepotistic candidacy whose only competitve appeal is largely based on her gender.

Hey, randomtexan were sleeping through the Clinton Years? Wake up! Been there, done that, don't want to do it again!

Amazing vitriol in these comments. Give the candidates credit - they're not sinsiter conspirators, just humans doing their best. You may not agree with their ideas and methods, but that's no reason to consider them the embodiment of evil.

Obama's time will come when the rightwing hate machine says anything they want---true or not--about him, his wife, and his daughters.

He and Michelle have NO IDEA what's ahead of them in the general election campaign.

Good for Hillary, good for Chelsea!!

Brave, classy ladies.

It is amazing to me to see so much denial of the potency of sexist comments and practices. Are there any women on earth who do not know about this???!!! Whether Hillary Clinton has earned the presidency is a legitimate question for debate. But ugly, smug, dismissals, the slimy, gratuitous hatred that is regularly spewed out whenever her name comes up???? Come on. Some nerve is being struck and it is hard to believe it doesn't have to do with the culture confronting a smart, powerful woman who refuses to give in and give up.

THE VOICE OF REASON! THANKS FOR SHARING! OH, AND I AGREE 100%

"The call for Hillary to "iron my shirt" from one of the people in the audience of one of her debates was so odd, that it was most likely a plant by her campaign to stir up controversy that she could "rise above".

by: ejj"

I never thought of myself as a feminist, because I feel equal and free towards men and societies. It's a daily practice of feeling I am worth something because I don't spare my efforts; I feel the same way Robin Morgan writes in her essay. It makes me laugh and feel hilarious. It just feels great. That's probably why I kind of understand Hillary Clinton, beyond the little details of her physicality. I guess it has to do with spirit and mind. Don't miss out on the opportunity of voting not for a woman president but for an exceptional woman president.A woman is everything a man cannot articulate when it comes to his deep needs and frustrations, but an exceptionnal woman is one who makes you articulate your own rejection of your own frustrations, so you feel more your own humanity. She is a lover, a sister, a mother, a buddy, a fighter and all that with dignity.Vote Hillary.

Reality check - there are many people who work on campaigns who don't talk to reporters.

And funny, just a couple of weeks ago, it seemed that reporters had no interest in talking to Hillary.

Uh, Maria? Monica was 22 years 4 months when her affair with Bill started, but thanks for repeating false Republican talking points.

Chris Matthews and His Closet Case Croonies all getting Randy Over Obama! It's Real Pathetic! Watch Him Drool over him... Man these guys have to get out of the CcLOSET!

Has anyone heard or seen Al Sharpton? We need him to have Schuster head on a silver plate for being a male.

The call for Hillary to "iron my shirt" from one of the people in the audience of one of her debates was so odd, that it was most likely a plant by her campaign to stir up controversy that she could "rise above".

Crass? yes. Rude? yes. Stupid? yes.

Appropriate for television? No.

A comment about the child? or A comment about the parents referencing the child?

Beautiful manipulation of language.

The clinton experience demonstrated again.

The comment while referencing the child, is in fact about the parents.

Yes, this was another version of ‘they will say or do anything to get elected’ in the crudest possible language.

They will use their child and clearly, they have taken full advantage of this opportunity to maximize that use to get what they want.

The multiplier effect here is phenomenal.

The experience the clintons have and use best.

It would appear that they even manipulated the idiot who made the comment into believing their version of it rather than it's actual face value meaning.

That is powerful voodoo.

Why do so many allow the clintons to tell them how to understand language, how to think?

When the clintons are manipulating language to create the illusion of victimhood?

The comment itself implies that the child too is being manipulated and used in a victim like way by the experienced parents. The magic of the clinton machine to create this sort of illusion is fascinating.

Is that the leadership you want?

Are you going to put a mother, who holds her child out in front of her as protection, into the highest public office in this country?

A position where she will be granted the authority to not only use her own child, but will also be given authority, by you, to use you or your child?

In addition to being 'outraged', the clintons went further with this particular illusion to re-direct your attention from the actual manipulation.

The clintons used this smoke screen:

'We see a disturbing pattern emerging here'

conveniently leaving out what the pattern is

to break the mirror which is pointing at the actual manipulation (work to influence super delegates).

The real pattern emerging is the one in which the media notice the actual manipulation and point it
out to the general public.

This is the worst possible thing that can happen for the clintons which is why they took the free media to first distort and then magnify an event that should have worked to benefit the american people into one that works to benefit the clintons.

Are you now thinking about what the child was
claimed to be doing?

Calling superdelegates? or

Are you completely focused on one word and the bad people who used that word as an attack on the poor clintons and their innocent child?

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay is an amazing chronicle of alchemy and other epidemics that have been foisted on societies over the past six hundred years. Very few people recognize these schemes while they are in play.

Are you a participant in the largest confidence game in the history of mankind?

You have a choice, either you wake up now and pay attention to what is happening around you for yourself or you accept the reality that the clintons create for you and wait to read about yourself five years from now. The books will be written.

MSNBC should boycott the Clintons. That would be a public service.

It is not too late to break the spell

was the iron my shirt thing a gag by WBCN in boston and didn't whourley, a clinton staffer, put them up to it? it would be worth looking into.

I don't think anything written by Robin Morgan really merits a response. But if Chelsea thinks it's so cool, I guess that just shows she has her mother's sense of subtlety and proportion.

Mom First, Candidate Second! What good mother in the world would not be outraged at someone making an ignorant statement about their daughter. I wish Bill would have said something similar when Pigboy called Chelsea a dog many years ago. You Go Girl!

Did I miss something...is Chelsea running for public office?

Who cares...who the heck cares what she thinks. She is 27 years old...unlike that 9 year old child she snubbed in Nevada.

I don't like this much drama in my life...I want someone who will just get the job done.

These Clintons are just a traveling
theater of the absurd.

If you think Hill and Bill will "clean
up this country" then,honey,you were
not paying attention the first time
around.