Is Obama Using Sexist Language? (claws and menstrual cycles)

[Wretched Excess]

The BarackStar! speculates that hillary is on the attack because it's "that time of the month".

Is Obama Using Sexist Language?

Earlier this month, speaking at Tulane University, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said this about the attacks coming his way from Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY:

"You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out," Obama said.

The CLAWS come out? Really?

Then yesterday Obama told reporters who had asked about Clinton's latest attack ad, "I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal."

That prompted some female TV reporters to question the language he was using.

According to this unofficial transcript, over at MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell and Norah O'Donnell seemed to suggest Obama may have been -- if not playing the gender card, then using language women voters might find offensive.

Language such as "when she's feeling down" "periodically" she "launches attacks."

Nora O'Donnell: "He said, 'I understand when she's down, that she makes these kinds of attacks.' It's getting a little personal."

Andrea Mitchell: "It's getting a little personal and, very frankly, you know how deeply we interpreted every comment to look for some sort of racial motivation before South Carolina. A lot of people said it was there. But, you know, when you start describing a female candidate as being 'down' and 'striking back,'  I don't know, that's a little edgy, don't you think?"

Nora O'Donnell: "Yeah. And I think there's gonna be a lot more comments about that."*

Pro-Clinton blogger Taylor Marsh writes that words like this, in her view, indicate "a way of thinking about women. A way of demeaning women in power; even saying we're not up to the job. Seriously, Senator Hillary Clinton is a woman running for president. Not some emotional menopausal diva popping pills because she's depressed she broke a nail."

"Claws"…"feeling down"...I find it hard to envision Obama using the same language if he were facing, say, former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC.

But what do you think?

fascinating link

[DumbAss Tanker]

Went to the link.  Judging by the comments, I'd say the Dems' claws are out, period.

 

[Wretched Excess]

Went to the link.  Judging by the comments, I'd say the Dems' claws are out, period.

 

when you piss off andrea mitchell, you are in deep trouble.  and she seems like it's perpetually her time of the month.

[Lord Undies]

Hussein should have used 'talons' instead of 'claws'....and anyone who thinks the old dried-up Clinton broad still drops an egg every month doesn't know much about biology. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I doubt this theory would retain--HOLD!--I mean HOLD water.

[Wretched Excess]

Hussein should have used 'talons' instead of 'claws'....and anyone who thinks the old dried-up Clinton broad still drops an egg every month doesn't know much about biology. 

so, in addition to being incredibly tacky, it's also biologically inaccurate.