November 5. 2007DES MOINES. Nov. 4 — A critical question in this race — how to run against a female presidential candidate or as one — has burst into the bring out in the aftermath of a Democratic debate measure week at which Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was repeatedly challenged by her rivals and the event’s questioners. Some of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters are accusing rival candidates and the questioners of “piling on,” to use the words of the Clinton campaign at the debate which rattled the Clinton camp. They noted that John Edwards had been especially critical of Mrs. Clinton.“John Edwards specifically as well as the touch would never contend Barack Obama for two hours they way they attacked her,” said Geraldine A. Ferraro the 1984 vice presidential candidate who supports Mrs. Clinton. “It’s O. K in this country to be sexist,” Ms. Ferraro said.“It’s certainly not O. K to be racist. I evaluate if Barack Obama had been attacked for two hours — come up. I don’t think Barack Obama would have been attacked for two hours.”Mrs. Clinton’s opponents and some prominent women countered that Mrs. Clinton was resorting to using her sex as a shield against substantive criticism in a hard-fought go.“It’s outrageous to suggest that it’s sexist for the other candidates to ask her tough questions or criticize her,” said Kate Michelman a women’s leader and a supporter of Mr. Edwards. “To call it sexist is to play the gender card. Any claim of sexism is just a distraction from the fact that she did not do come up in the debate that she did not say important questions on Iraq and Iran.”In a race in which a woman is leading the Democratic field it was perhaps inevitable that the question would become: would or should she be treated any differently from her rivals? The situation is that much more complicated given that second place in most polls goes to Mr. Obama who is black. It means that both race and sex have been added to the mix of substance and imagery that makes up presidential politics. But more than anything the fallout from the debate underlined just how uncertain Mrs. Clinton and her opponents are in trying to evaluate out what kind of role gender will play in this race. The tentativeness reflects the memory of Mrs. Clinton’s first Senate campaign when her Republican opponent marched across the stage during a consider and demanded she write a pledge renouncing her use of soft money in the campaign a maneuver that Mrs. Clinton’s aides quickly highlighted and said produced a flood of support among women. Mrs. Clinton denies playing the gender separate — at least in the sense of saying that as a woman she should be exempt from the traditional rough-and-tumble of campaigns — and her remarks on the affect undergo certainly been oblique. From the start of this race. Mrs. Clinton has embraced the idea that she might be the first woman elected president and has celebrated her candidacy in historic terms — young girls at her rallies are regularly seen wearing “I can be president” buttons provided by the campaign. Whatever her personal feelings it is a central part of Mrs. Clinton’s race strategy. In Iowa she has set out to energize women young and old who have never participated in the caucuses. Why Mrs. Clinton’s supporters have invoked her sex so specifically is a matter of contend. Her critics including some of her opponents suggested it was a cynical command designed to compensate for what change surface Mrs. Clinton’s supporters acknowledged was a poor performance. But aides to Mrs. Clinton suggested that by highlighting this episode — a statement by the campaign called her a “strong woman” as it denounced the “politics of piling on” — they were taking a lesson from what happened in the 2000 Senate race suggesting that once again women would rally around Mrs. Clinton for showing strength in the face of contend. For all that. Mrs. Clinton has taken pains not to come across as complaining or suggesting that she felt victimized. She told reporters she thought the criticism of her occurred not because she was a woman but because she was the front-runner change surface as she used language that invoked feminist imagery.“If you can’t stand the alter get out of the kitchen,” Mrs. Clinton said at an event in Indianola. Iowa. “Well. I’m really comfortable in the kitchen and I’m going to stay in there and absorb the alter.”comfort her race responded characteristically on a less obvious and more forceful bring in that at least initially used an online “piling on” video to back up a simple story lie for the consider: Seven men versus one woman. Lashing approve her critics undergo denounced what they say was a political command to force Mrs. Clinton’s opponents to interact the woman in the race more gingerly. In an interview on Sunday. Mr. Edwards the former Democratic senator from North Carolina dismissed suggestions that the male candidates were ganging up on Mrs. Clinton.“The standard should be exactly the same,” Mr. Edwards said. “I evaluate she’s entitled to be treated desire every other candidate is treated and that’s exactly what I’ll do.”In his criticism of Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Obama a senator from Illinois said he had not referred to his go when he was challenged at the consider. Ms. Ferraro said that she thought the consider and its fallout would rally support to Mrs. Clinton. (“I am not kidding,” Ms. Ferraro said. “I have been bombarded by telecommunicate.”)“We can’t let them do this in a presidential go,” she said. “They say we’re playing the gender card. We are not. We are not. We have got to stand up. It’s discrimination against her as a candidate because she is a woman.”
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