Jane Sanders, the wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on Wednesday said she found former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s comments urging female voters to support Hillary Clinton “disturbing.”
Albright over the weekend told young women that it was important for them to support Clinton’s presidential bid as feminists, saying, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!”
“I found them unfortunate and disturbing,” Jane Sanders told HuffPost Live about Albright’s comments. “I think that women today are a little bit more intelligent to say — to not say, ‘Okay, all I care about is gender.’ By that case, then, if Bernie won the Democratic nomination and Carly Fiorina won the Republican nomination, we should be supporting Carly Fiorina.”
Jane Sanders also addressed comments made by Gloria Steinem, who told Bill Maher recently that young women support Bernie Sanders because “that’s where the boys are.” Steinem later apologized for the remark.
“She apologized. I know that young people were offended by it, but it was a mistake,” Jane Sanders said on Wednesday. “That’s what I don’t like about politics too much, that somebody makes a misstatement. We know her life has been about equity for women and feminism. She made a mistake, she said so. I absolutely still respect her very much.”
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I found Madeline Albright’s comments ridiculous and stupid. We should be selecting the best candidate to represent our party, not displaying mindless loyalty to our gender. It was an incredibly stupid and boneheaded move on the part of Albright and the Clinton campaign.
That said, I’m still voting for Clinton because I do think she’s the best candidate for the job. But I deeply resent being told I must vote for her out of loyalty to the sisterhood. That is the worst possible reason to cast a vote, and anybody irresponsible enough to do so should be disenfranchised.
You know what also is “unfortunate and disturbing”. Jane Sanders bank fraud.
This is yet another example of the double standard applied to the two candidates and their supporters.
Susan Sarandon, a Sanders supporter, called women Hillary supporters vagina voters, and it receives no scrutiny:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128094059
It’s no different than the lack of scrutiny of Sanders’ so called health care plan, that even liberal economists have said coud not work from a fiscal perspective.
I am a big Susan Sarandon fan, but I wonder: By voting for a male, does that make us men “penis voters?” I hope they stop this silliness – that is beneath them and for the Republicans to do.
one difference though, do you see Hillary putting up websites saying that type of thing and do you see her campaign backing and officially supporting that messaging.