Feminists desert Clinton

Democratic presidential contender, Hillary Clinton, received a potentially knockout blow yesterday when a large number of feminist groups turned their backs to her, after her comments about "cleaning the house".

"It is time for us to clean house, and one thing women know how to do - we know how to clean house", Clinton reportedly said addressing a massive crowd in Philadelphia, last month.

"It's a horribly horribly conservative remark", a statement by spokesperson of a leading feminist organization said. "What Clinton is implying is that it's for men like Bush to dirty the house and women need to come and clean it. That's such a patriarchal position to take. It's an insult to every women in the world"

Clinton said that "[my] remarks have been taken out of context. It's the Obama camp that has created a controversy out of this non-issue. I was tired after climbing up the steps of the podium and the words came out in a way I never intended them to be"

 

Obama's campaign spokeman Bill Burton has issued a strong statement condemning the remark: "It's unfortunate that a woman, and a Democrat at that, should make a Conservative remark like that. Such a remark has no place in this campaign"

"When it comes to cleaning the house" Obama said "we will show that anyone whose heart is clean, can do the job as good as anyone - woman or man, black or white, rich or poor. We must believe that we want a change — that we want a clean house, and we will all work to get there, each and every American

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