Hillary Clinton

Hillary's postponed retreat from the Democratic race came as a surprise to many people in America who thought she would win fairly comfortably as the first genuine female candidate, but also one with "experience" and historic connections. Now that she's gone, some have started to ask where it all went horribly wrong, apart from the fact that Obama has orchestrated a grass roots revolution with his networking and oratorical rhetoric. Amy Sullivan argues in Time that Clinton divided feminists into two sections, optimist and pessimist feminists, that identified against one another, causing Obama to win the hearts of many women below the age of 30 and so on. Meghan O'Rourke states in Slate that Clinton "wasn't feminist enough" [emphasis mine], claiming that there's been a distinct change in Clinton: "the substance of her presidential run seems far more dismal than I would ever have imagined back in 1995". Both of these viewpoints are, however, from my perspective, wrong. The reason Clinton lost to Obama was because of her lies, untruths, questionability, etc. If, like me, you think of leeches, vampires, and Pinocchio, things of that sort, whenever you think of Hillary Clinton, you will know of her bullshit. Let's take a brief run through of the smarmy 'miss-speaks' of her campaign:

• She told the story of her girl's soccer team at high school where she made a quick-witted jibe at her counterpart. However, there was no girl's soccer team at her high school during the time she was there.
• She met Sir Edmund Hillary, famous for being the first man to climb Everest, at an airport and told him that her mother had chosen her name in homage to the great climber, and yet he did not surmount Everest until five years after she was born.
• She claimed that her daughter, Chelsea, was in danger on September 11th, but she was relaxing at home in front of the TV watching it unfold.
• She claimed she was instrumental in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. She wasn't.
• She claimed victories in the Florida and Michigan primaries as a slight ruse to rally her flailing supporters into blind delusion, even though these states were discounted from the Primary season.
• Last but certainly not least, her claim that she came under sniper fire upon arrival in Bosnia - also, that she was sent instead of her husband because of the immense danger of the trip (in other words, she reckons her life was more dispensable as First Lady). This like all others, has been categorically debunked in video montages repeatedly on the web.

Feminists should take offence at the claim that they are so narrow minded as to fore-go the wretchedness of Hillary Clinton merely to have a female candidate. To suggest that Hillary lost because she did not appeal to female voters is an insult to female voters.