"She's good on women's and children's issues, BUT..."
Show of hands all of the DUers who have read and been offended by this particular attack on Clinton.
This line of reasoning presupposes that "women and children" are a fringe interest. That their concerns are somehow gravy on the meat and potatoes of working class wages and wealth.
Sorry, but women's and children's issues are working class wages and wealth. When women are kept down, when their children are kept down, wages for all are kept low. When children of single working women are raised in poverty, unable to get a decent education, capital assures itself another generation of poorly paid, overworked, compliant labor.
For the record, women hold up (over half) of the sky, we are responsible for the majority of child rearing AND we work outside the home. We make a fraction of what men make, even though we have to stretch that money to make it cover kids, too. We disproportionately care for the elderly. We disproportionately live in poverty. The life expectancy for women in some rural US counties is going down. Men can get Viagra, no questions asked on their insurance, but we have to fight like hyenas to get birth control covered. Too many people think of us as baby incubators, with no value in ourselves. We are sexualized---and tossed out onto the garbage heap when we are no longer "young and desirable." Our intellect is judged based upon our "beauty"---i.e. use of cosmetics, high heeled shoes, uncomfortable and impractical clothes. Our female politicians have their breast size and ankle thickness judged by the press. We are passed over for promotion, because "we'll probably just get married, have a baby and quit".
Here is something that should make any sane person cringe. The majority of rapes in this country are committed by men against women. Rape, we now know, is not a sexual act. It is an act of hatred and power. Meaning that women are still viewed with hatred and as objects by way too many people in this country. That has got to change.
Community organization comes from within. Women and children will rise from oppression through their own efforts, not by waiting for Santa Claus to bring equality. And when women attempt to rise from oppression, we will be labeled shrill, witches, unnatural, power hungry and a host of other terms too ugly to print. So be it. The ugliness will just make us more determined.
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that might affect multi-thousands of people and ensure the fill rate of the private prisons and ruin multiple people lives forever. Shame on him! 
Shame on anyone that perpetuates these straw-man arguments. I've got her number too but just threw it in the trash where it belongs.
Response to McCamy Taylor (Original post)
Even if these "attacks" exist (doubtful), why in the world do we have to ignore this
Fix the economic, social, religious and political lives of 51% of America and we have pretty much fixed this country as a whole.
Every issue you acknowledge above might not be overtly in her campaign speeches, but she and the 51% KNOW that they are the context of her words. She might swim with power sharks but she is not of them. She has a grandchild whose future can be shaped by her presidency. That's a powerful incentive to stay true to the 51% in spite of all political opposition.
Thanks for your OP. 
