Let me just put it to you this way ,

Just like Obama and his supporters saw racist code words or racism when Obama was called inexperience , young , naive , there are also code words that are directed at woman .

And Obama has come dangerously close with what he said and the context in which he said it , because that is exactly the context in which these code words are used.

For O Donnel and Andrea Mitchell who are not Clinton supporters to point it out , you should know it is  resonating.

I am not going to accuse him with anything but you would be wise not to dismiss it out of hand.

Just like racism is still an issue in the society , so is sexism.

Obama should be a little more tactful

In fact, I'd like his campaign to feel that they are absolutely bulletproof.  The more ammunition he gives to opponents the happier I am.

Someone's head is up you-know-where.

"Imagine if Clinton could go to her big donors for funds. This would be a fair fight."

That's pretty much how all the Republicans feel. You know it's not fair to shut rich people and lobbyists out of the process. Why should they have to get the same lousy couple of bucks of representation as your average slob when they can afford so much more! Like Hillary said lobbyists represent people to. Now we have the rabble all donating there 20 or 30 dollars and they are eclipsing the voice of the big money fat cats. It's not fair!

Lets just have the super delegates, big money donors and corporations make the call you can't have all these inexperienced peons screwing up the process. Democracy is way over rated.

Well, I tend to agree with you that it's really more a**holish than sexist. Obama talks down to everybody when he's not speechifying. And yes, if everything is going to be "racist" then everything might as well be "sexist" too.

my, is this comment any different from the "Jesse Jackson in South Carolina" remark?  and if so, please, tell me how.

So I guess it's not the least bit possible that she is the better candidate but more women than men are able to overcome gender bias?

Oh, no.  It just must be that women are stampeding to support her like stupid cows only because she's a woman.

I see, Progressive Anerica.  I see just how progressive you are.

How about inexperience being a racist word .

or naive , or young , or fairy tale.

At some point , the same people making the case  that those were racist code words have to deal with the reality that supporters of other candidates can also make the case when the shoe is on the other foot.

I personally don't know what his intentions are but the remark could be interpreted to mean certain things especially with women.

We hear similar things like that , oh is that time of the month etc .

I am not willing to categorize what he said but I certainly know why some may feel a certain way.

Watch a tampon commercial.

You'll see almost exactly the same "vague" words.

Read this. Read it all. Every word.

http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/0201 08.html

No it is not.

These ladies on obama's network are certainly not going to do anything to the protected one unless they feel something has gone wrong.

I guarantee you if that video goes into the mainstream of american political life , a sizeable majority of people , especially women would not think it was a strech.

But I don't think he was trying to be sexist , it was just not a well thought of statement.

Very childish.

Come on, what?  How old are you people? Women are unlikely to forget the constant refrain of a just a couple decades ago that women are unfit to fill jobs like that of airline pilot, school bus driver, corporate CEO, physician, lawyer, etc., because their raging monthly hormones, or PERIODS, would interfere with their judgment.

I about fell off my chair when I heard Obama say that so blatantly. And the fact that he hesitated, every so slightly, before slyly using the word "periodically"  made it crystal clear that he was reviving that old sexist canard.  It was deliberate on his part, and he knew damn well that he was impugning HRC's capacity for judgment "periodically" and suggesting his audience should do the same.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism

Sexism is commonly considered to be discrimination and/or hatred towards people based on their sex rather than their individual merits, but can also refer to any and all systemic differentiations based on the sex of the individuals.

Sexism can refer to subtly different beliefs or attitudes:

The belief that one gender or sex is inferior to or more valuable than the other;
Female or male chauvinism
The attitude of misogyny (hatred of females) or misandry (hatred of males); as well as
The attitude of imposing a limited and/or false notion of masculinity on males and a limited and/or false notion of femininity on females, or vice versa.
A feeling of distrust towards the opposite or same sex, most frequently operating at an unconscious level.

In other words, your comment is blatently and absurdly sexist.

Gee but white Hillary supporters had no problem telling black people what was and wasn't racist. Funny.

It was a very odd idiom for him to use at that point.  Stupid?  Maybe.  But that would make him pretty stupid.  Which would make him a bad choice for president.

So Obama speaks lovingly of his mother and wishes that she could be her to share his success, and you choose to say he has a problem with women?  

I got a double major in Sociology ans Women's Studies back in the 80's, but I think you have really gone overboard here.  IMHO it is your own sexist stereotypes about women's emotionalism that cause you to interpret his very personal remarks about his mother as a "problem with women."  This is absurd.

Oh, by the way, I am a man.  The first man to graduate from the Women's Studies program at my University.

The word "feel" caught my attention, too.  

Feeling down = emotional (i.e., hostage to one's emotions) = unfit to be a leader.

Men don't feel down? Says who?

I'm sure that is the case. Obama doesn't strike me as the kind to make gratuitously sexist remarks. It seems like he has a very high opinion of the women in his life and that this would probably extend to women in general. But this should if nothing else remind him that the press is NEVER on anyone's side except their own.

If he meant "down polticially" then he should have said that. he chose to use the words the way he did.

Obama is not a stupid man and he is a man who understand words and their power to uplift or demean. He knew what he was doing.

THIS IS WHAT OBAMABOTS ARE, FOLKS.

Namecallers whose life blood it is to say disgusting, derisive, demeaning things about others.

You have no class and you know no shame. You are an Obamabot.

It's also the stuff that make people doubt she is strong enough to be President and Commander in Chief.  My God if the term "the claws come out", scares her and offends her so much that it is deemed sexist, it makes a lot of people wonder if she will claim sexism when our Arab allies dismiss and patronize her.  Yea...that bodes well for the future of our nation with Muslim countries.  

sorry for the double post, but I wanted to add this thought to mcgee's great comment above too.

And, I second the impression that this was not some slip of the tounge. Obama chose his words carefully and deliberately. This was a crafted message. Look again at the way he pauses and his expression when he says "periodically."

It's that "attitude" that they have coming out again.

what the hell are you even talking about?

You see, these are the perils of taking political correctness to the extreme and misinterpreting it to push an agenda.  By the time we finish this primary, half the words in the dictionary will have been recognized as sexist or racist in nature.

That's not what I said.  I didn't say that I don't think that some of the things said don't have any legitimacy to them, b/c I certainly do.  I just think that it's gotten to the point that people are overanalyzing, as in this case.  The "pimping out" comment is another story in itself.

I have read the Obama comment to fifteen different women today, carefully omitting who made the comment or who the comment was made about to help eliminate any political bias.

Every one felt it was an insensitive, sexist remark.

When I mentioned who made the comment, five of the women said they would have to re-think voting for Obama.

Only men seem to not understand the offensive nature of such comments... especially the ones that foolishly think women of 60 years old have "already sailed"!

As for who has played the victim card, wasn't it Obama's camp who falsely claimed that former Pres. Clinton was a racist because Clinton had said the Obama campaign itself was a fairy tail (when he was speaking of only the fact that there was no difference in Obama and Clinton's votes regarding funding Iraq...)?