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Iron my shirt, Hillary!
08/01/2008 11:39 - (SA)
Salem, New Hampshire - A Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign stop was interrupted when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, "Iron my shirt!" during one the US senator's final appearances before New Hampshire voters cast first-in-the-US primary ballots on Tuesday.
Clinton, a former first lady running to become the country's first female president, laughed at the seemingly sexist protest that suggested a woman's place is doing laundry and not running the country.
"Ah, the remnants of sexism - alive and well," Clinton said to applause.
The two men were removed from the auditorium after raising a pair of signs that said, "Iron my shirt!" They also shouted the slogan.
"Can we turn the lights on? It's awfully dark," Clinton said, cueing police to come forward and take the men away.
The overflow crowd burst into applause, and some began shouting, "Iron my shirt!" as the two were taken outside.
"As I think has been abundantly demonstrated, I am also running to break through the highest and hardest glass ceiling," she said.
Clinton later joked about the incident as she invited questions.
"If there's anyone left in the auditorium who wants to learn how to iron a shirt, I'll talk about that," Clinton said with a smile.
Clinton placed a disappointing third place in Iowa's caucuses last week and now faces a tough challenge here from Barack Obama, who leads her with just one day remaining.
- AP
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