{"id":249950,"date":"2016-06-15T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/supporting-hillary-clinton-could-mean-choosing-between-your-son-and-your-daughter\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T23:33:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T23:33:52","slug":"supporting-hillary-clinton-could-mean-choosing-between-your-son-and-your-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/supporting-hillary-clinton-could-mean-choosing-between-your-son-and-your-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Hillary Clinton Could Mean Choosing Between Your Son and Your Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"61.5\">\n<div id=\"attachment_30939\" style=\"width: 732px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"33\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30939\" src=\"http:\/\/fpif.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state-csis-722x480.jpg\" alt=\"hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state-csis\" width=\"722\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fpif.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state-csis-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fpif.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state-csis-722x480.jpg 722w, http:\/\/fpif.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state-csis-250x166.jpg 250w, http:\/\/fpif.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state-csis.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillary Clinton\u2019s disposition toward the use of armed force poses a threat to our children. (Photo: Flickr\/CSIS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I am roughly paraphrasing a conversation recounted to me by a middle-aged, middle-class white woman who supports Bernie Sanders and has had a grudge against Hillary Clinton ever since she disrespected Monica Lewinsky as a woman. Another middle-aged white woman, who supports Ms. Clinton\u2019s likely nomination, questioned the first woman\u2019s support for Sanders.<span id=\"more-31643\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinton supporter:<\/strong> But what about what it means for women?<\/p>\n<p>Referring to foreign wars, the <strong>Sanders supporter:<\/strong> So you would sacrifice your son for your daughter? Oh never mind, it wouldn\u2019t be your son anyway. [Ba-da-bing. \u2013 RW]<\/p>\n<p>This is speaking in general terms. For example, Ms. Clinton\u2019s paid family leave will benefit men as well as women, but less often, and, even less often, in a war woman soldiers are killed.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Clinton exemplifies the sharp disparity exhibited by Democratic presidents between progressive domestic policy and hawkish foreign policy. Let\u2019s hope that, if elected, she doesn\u2019t wind up like Lyndon Johnson with any success she attains enacting social programs spoiled by the bombing and invasions she has countenanced in the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This piece was reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/fpif.org\/supporting-hillary-clinton-mean-choosing-son-daughter\/\">Foreign Policy In Focus<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s disposition toward the use of armed force poses a threat to our children. (Photo: Flickr\/CSIS) I am roughly paraphrasing a conversation recounted to me by a middle-aged, middle-class white woman who supports Bernie Sanders and has had a grudge against Hillary Clinton ever since she disrespected Monica Lewinsky as a woman. Another middle-aged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}