Wait, walker??
by digby
Jesus H Christ. This has to be the dumbest Clinton brouhaha yet (and that's saying something.)
Hillary Clinton’s appearance on the cover of the People magazine raised some eyebrows Wednesday—and not for her comments on a potential run in 2016 or about Monica Lewinsky.
Instead, some Twitter commenters focused less on Mrs. Clinton’s words than on her hands. Due to the way the cover is cropped, the pose at first glance could resemble that of someone leaning on a walker.
“Psst, Hillary, when the photographer asks you to lean on something that might look like a walker or otherwise suggest infirmity, don’t do it,” wrote Rebecca Traister, an editor at the New Republic.
“It DOES look like she’s using a walker #ReadyforHillary #GrandmotherInChief,” wrote Harriet Baldwin, who describes herself on Twitter as a conservative commentator and activist.
But it was just a chair. Jess Cagle, the editorial director of People, said Clinton was photographed “standing next to a patio chair in the backyard at her home where the photo shoot took place.”
Here's the picture:
I'm going to guess that even the old GOP duffers who hate Hillary are going to see that that doesn't look like any walker that exists in this world. Walkers aren't like baby strollers, which is the only thing except a chair that could possibly be.
Here's what a walker looks like:
I guess it's fair enough that Hillary takes heat because of her age since most older candidates do. But honestly, this stuff is just dumb. And it's also unfair. A woman has to accumulate so much experience, and "wait her turn" so often, that it's inevitable that she'll be older than men when she's finally considered to be qualified for a big job. And then she's too old. So it goes.
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