Posted by Jed Lewison on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 8:00 PM Pacific

Hypocrite: Hillary's elitist stereotype of stay-at-home moms

Those of us who have tried to have a career, tried to have an independent life, certainly somebody like myself...you know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
-- Hillary Clinton, 1992, dismissing stay-at-home moms

Carthage (a commenter here and at The Field) strikes again. She gets all the credit for finding this video -- video that every single Pennsylvanian should see by next Tuesday.

Seriously. This is *the* video.

Talk about hypocrisy.

When Clinton made her comments, the conservative media trashed her harshly. Here's a relatively mild criticism from William Safire (the conservative former NYT columnist):

The cookies-and-tea stereotype is elitism in action. Even the columnist Ellen Goodman, a grass-roots feminist, was moved to comment: "Ouch."

Clinton's comments were indeed dismissive, but my point isn't that I agree with William Safire. Rather, my point is that $109 million later, Hillary Clinton has become William Safire.

I was raised by a single mom (though I did spend time with my dad). Obviously, my mom worked for a living, and she raised me to be a feminist (I'm a guy who proudly accepts the label). And for ten years, I worked for a strong woman who is now a U.S. Senator. So I know where Hillary was coming from.

But that's not the issue. The issue is Hillary Clinton's utter hypocrisy -- and her complete embrace of the right-wing's way of doing politics.

Is there anything she will not say or do?

Hypocrite: Hillary's elitist stereotype of stay-at-home moms

Those of us who have tried to have a career, tried to have an independent life, certainly somebody like myself...you know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
-- Hillary Clinton, 1992, dismissing stay-at-home moms

Carthage (a commenter here and at The Field) strikes again. She gets all the credit for finding this video -- video that every single Pennsylvanian should see by next Tuesday.

Seriously. This is *the* video.

Talk about hypocrisy.

When Clinton made her comments, the conservative media trashed her harshly. Here's a relatively mild criticism from William Safire (the conservative former NYT columnist):

The cookies-and-tea stereotype is elitism in action. Even the columnist Ellen Goodman, a grass-roots feminist, was moved to comment: "Ouch."

Clinton's comments were indeed dismissive, but my point isn't that I agree with William Safire. Rather, my point is that $109 million later, Hillary Clinton has become William Safire.

I was raised by a single mom (though I did spend time with my dad). Obviously, my mom worked for a living, and she raised me to be a feminist (I'm a guy who proudly accepts the label). And for ten years, I worked for a strong woman who is now a U.S. Senator. So I know where Hillary was coming from.

But that's not the issue. The issue is Hillary Clinton's utter hypocrisy -- and her complete embrace of the right-wing's way of doing politics.

Is there anything she will not say or do?

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