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I thought it was Hillary who criticized someone for staying home and baking cookies...

 

Being a stay-at-home Mom is the most important job in the world. Except when it's not.

www.salon.com/2012/04/15/mitt_romneys_doubletalk_on_motherhood/

 

And, she was criticized for her bogus commodities trading -- which was really just a payoff -- and her explanation for how she was so successful. She claimed to have turned $1,000 into $100,000 based on the knowledge she gleaned from the Wall Street Journal.

 

Interesting how women always have to justify their choices and men never do.

"Mitt, why did you choose to work outside the home?"

"Bill, why did you choose to stay home with your children?"

 

There an echo in here?

 

The NY Post:

"Fear and loathing. The tabloid New York Post called Hillary Clinton "a buffoon, an insult to most women".

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/03261992.html

'Hillary Clinton in an apron is like Michael Dukakis in a tank." -- Roger Ailes

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1206

"With a professional career unequaled by any previous presidential candidate’s wife, Hillary was heavily scrutinized. Conservatives complained that she had her own agenda, because she had worked for some liberal causes. During one campaign stop, she defended herself from such criticism by asserting that she could have “stayed home and baked cookies.” This impromptu remark was picked up by the press and used by her critics as evidence of her lack of respect for women who are full-time homemakers."

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/121809/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton

"Hillary Clinton further polarized public opinion during the 1992 campaign when she remarked, "I've done the best I can to lead my life. I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas." Though Hillary's comments are reminiscent of Sarah Polk's 1845 assertion that she would "neither keep house, nor make butter," Americans seemed less tolerant of such statements than their countryfolk some 150 years earlier. Indeed, the press and Republicans accused her of belittling those women who had decided to stay home to bake cookies and have teas."

http://millercenter.org/president/clinton/essays/firstlady/hillary

 

Jerry Brown had called into question some of her dealings in the primary. She responded with the cookies comment. Republicans and the media jumped on her for it.

 

D'oh!

 

Your links don't back up your claim.

 

Here's another one:

When it was suggested that her being a lawyer would somehow conflict with being First Lady, Mrs. Clinton made her famous remark that "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas." Unfortunately, this was the only part of the comment that was reported by the media. But Hillary had gone on to say that "...what I decided to do is fulfill my profession. The work that I have done as a professional, a public advocate, has been aimed ... to assure that women can make the choices ... whether it's a full-time career, full-time motherhood, or some combination." Thus Mrs. Clinton learned a bitter lesson about "sound-bites."

http://www.midtod.com/highlights/hillary.phtml

I gave you five links. If you think it was liberals who were criticizing her in 1992 for the cookies quote, I've got a ballpark with ivy on the walls to sell you.

 

When it was suggested that her being a lawyer would somehow conflict with being First Lady

The issue was whether she should/could continue to work as a lawyer while also serving as First lady, not about her having a career in general.

Maybe a dumb issue, but very different than an argument of working mom vs. stay at home mom.

 

The "cookies" comment went nuclear precisely because it was understood as, or at least portrayed as, a working mom vs stay-at-home mom insult.