Considering the type of heat that Hillary Clinton has taken in the last 3 1/2 years, I shudder at the thought of a female president. The Tribune is right in its belief that Hillary has been the object of a campaign of outright hate (Editorial, June 26). That hate is unprecedented in our history. It is wrong, and it should be stopped.
When a woman is finally elected president, she will certainly be the object of even more of the same. I think the public should start condemn-ing the unfair and downright mean-spirited treatment of Mrs. Clinton by some members of the media. It is evident that they have crossed the line to some sort of vendetta against a professional and educated woman whom they, and others like them, greatly fear.
They fear Hillary more than any other figure in American history because she symbolizes the permanence of change– the idea that no matter what else happens, women will never be forced back into the home against their wishes. She symbolizes the fact that a woman’s body belongs to her alone and not to her husband or her minister. This change is no less profound than the main cause of the Civil War–the abolition of slavery.
The level of the fear is determining the level of the hate.
