Well, apparently she’s trying to portray herself as motherly and traditional again. Shouting, “I’m your girl!”, being pregnant at her law firm, talking about raising Chelsea (reality check: wasn’t Hillary bragging about being VP back then?), and playing up the male/female differences.
Ugh. Almost as bad as Hillary showing her cleavage this summer!
“It is about being seen as the real person she is, which like a lot of us is a lot more than any single stereotype,” said Ann Lewis, Clinton’s senior adviser on women’s issues.
But analysts also see a political calculation: She is less popular among older, married women who are more likely to prefer a more traditional role for women. Clinton’s focus on women this week was a bid to consolidate her support among female voters, who account for much of her lead in many polls.
With her latest tack, there is some danger that she will alienate one of her natural constituencies, professional women, if they think that she is buttressing outdated stereotypes about women.
Pam Walker, 42, a New Hampshire social worker with four daughters, saw coaching in Clinton’s more womanly image.
“I think the more career-focused side is the more authentic,” said Walker, a Clinton supporter. “Honestly, she wouldn’t be running for president if she were baking cookies all the time.”
I’m not really ‘worried’ about Hillary. It’s Barack Obama that scares the living daylights out of me. Talk about a socialist… And I think he has a stronger women’s vote.
“As the son of a single mother whose grandmother was the family’s primary breadwinner, Barack lived through the struggles that everyday women face,” Betsy Myers, who worked in the Clinton administration but is now head of Women for Obama, wrote in a memo issued yesterday. “This experience moved him to develop a lifelong history of standing up for women.”
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