Saturday, October 16, 2010
Jerry Brown/Meg Whitman "whore" comment
On Tuesday nights gubernatorial debate between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown, Brown seemed to finally apologize to Whitman about his staff member's comment about Whitman being a "whore". This apology was ill received by Whitman, and i feel like she was trying to make a bigger deal out of it than in was in an effort to gain sympathy for herself and villianize Jerry Brown. It wasn't Brown himself that made the comment, and whoever said it did so with the thought that the comment would remain private. Surely Whitman's staff has also said less than flattering things about Brown, but fortunately for her those comments remained behind closed doors. The comment was obviously wrong and demeaning, but Whitman by no means reprimanded her own campaign chairman, Pete Wilson, when he made a comment about Congress being "whores to public employee unions". People should be focusing more on the policies and plans of action of there political candidates than on stupid things their staff are saying.
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I agree with what you are saying, I think there has been way too much focus on this one comment instead of real issues.But I still believe that this name calling was inappropriate and demeaning to women. And that maybe the candidates should also be focusing on real issues more rather than namecalling, or maybe they shouldn't be running at all.
ReplyDeletei agreel, i dont think that we can reaaly hold them responsible for what they say or think about they former candidates.i mean, im sure whitman or her "people" ahve said similar things about brown, at one point.
ReplyDeleteI agree that too much attention has been given to this issue and that Meg Whitman made a bigger deal of it than it actually was. It has been blown out of proportion like a gossipy high school rumor. I think that Whitman might have gotten so publicly offended by this in attempt to cover up the nanny scandal. But anyways, why ultimately does it even matter? We should be focusing on more important issues like the economy and the environment.
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