Thousands of women wrote angry letters to the Washington Post in response to the neocon paper's now infamous column discussing the fact that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton does indeed have breasts.
The Clinton campaign expressed its own outrage and then made use of the column in an "eyebrow-raising" fundraising email with the subject header, cleavage:
“Frankly, focusing on women’s bodies instead of their ideas is insulting,” Ann Lewis, a senior adviser to Clinton, wrote in the e-mail. “It’s insulting to every woman who has ever tried to be taken seriously in a business meeting. It’s insulting to our daughters — and our sons — who are constantly pressured by the media to grow up too fast.”
As the now famous phrase goes, "I'm no big fan of Hillary, but" . . . the more the attacks on her sound like attacks on all women, the more I find myself rallying to the side of would-be President Hillary Clinton.
Graphic via the Hillary Clinton campaign & Wonkette & Swampland
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