Good article about Hillary's qualifications

[radical noodle]

and a view of sexism. I realize there are many in DU who tend to dismiss charges of sexism as a big part of why Hillary has had to go through so much, but sexism is buried deep inside so many people that they don't realize it. My husband (a high school teacher at the time) was asked to be on a committee that trained teachers to be more aware of the silent sexism in schools. At the time he believed he treated the boys and girls in his classes the same, so he asked his classes if they thought he did things that showed preference to boys rather than girls. Several girls mentioned things that they noticed while the boys hadn't noticed any difference at all. In most cases it was small things but yes... it was there. And that's when he began changing himself as well as those he trained.

So much for the qualification above, here's the article worth the read:
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jun/26/misled-about-clintons-qualifications-to-run-our-na/

Compare, for example, the treatment Hillary is getting due to her private email “scandal” to that of Gen. David Petraeus. Hillary has been accused of hosting a personal email server that “might” have made classified documents less secure, even though the documents in question were not classified as secret at the time she received and/or sent them. For Clinton to have committed a criminal act, she would have had to knowingly and willfully mishandle material that was classified at the time she did so. After months of investigation, no one has accused her of doing that, and it doesn’t appear as if anyone will.

Petraeus, on the other hand, while he was director of the CIA, knowingly gave a journalist, who was also his mistress, a series of black books that according to the Justice Department contained “classified information regarding the identities of covert officers, war strategy, intelligence capabilities and mechanisms, diplomatic discussions quotes and deliberative discussions from high level National Security Council meetings and (Petraeus’) discussions with the president of the United States of America.” Petraeus followed that up by lying to numerous government officials, including FBI agents, about what he had done. And let’s not forget that according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, adultery is itself a court-martial offense. And I remind you that none of this is in dispute. Petraeus admitted to all of it.

[ismnotwasm]

1. K&R

[DemonGoddess]

2. K&R!

[mercuryblues]

3. this point

in spot on. Only H. Clinton's speaking fees have been used against her.



div class="excerpt"]4) Wall Street: First things first. No, the majority of the money Clinton has made from speaking fees did not come from Wall Street. In fact, it’s not even close. She has given nearly 100 paid speeches since leaving the State Department, and only eight were to “Wall Street” banks. Nearly all of her speeches were to organizations such as the American Camp Association, Ebay, Cisco, Xerox, the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, the United Fresh Produce Association, the International Dairy-Deli-Bake Association, the California Medical Association, A&E Networks, the Massachusetts Conference for Women, the U.S. Green Building Council, the National Association of Realtors, the American Society of Travel Agents, Gap, the National Association of Convenience Stores, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, etc. Hillary got booked fairly often because she is interesting and popular, and because there’s a great deal of status attached to having her speak at an event.

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Am I not supposed to notice that a media frenzy has been aimed at Hillary for accepting speaking fees of $225,000, while Trump has been paid $1.5 million on numerous occasions with hardly a word said about it? Am I supposed to not notice that we are in an election season in which Trump, a proud scam artist whose involvement in “Trump University” alone is being defined by the New York attorney general as “straight-up fraud,” is regularly calling Hillary “Crooked Hillary” and getting away with it?

[spooky3]

4. Excellent--written by a man who gets it--one disagreement

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At one point he describes the sexism as being a generational issue. But I think we have seen evidence in this cycle that there are plenty of younger as well as middle aged and older people, who are to some extent sexist.

[radical noodle]

5. Agree

I don't think it's generational at all.