Reply #27: did you happen to see Maureen Dowd's column yesterday

[ginnyinWI]

Titled, "Sexism vs. Racism Skirmish Continues".I don't usually read her, but this one caught my eye (in my local paper, sorry I don't have a link for you). It deals with feminism and how the older women have a particular brand of it--"shoulder pad feminism"--the "us against them we girls gotta stick together all men are pigs" kind. She says women under 50 are not so militant about it and less apt to vote for a woman just because she's a woman. I'm over 50 but I guess I think young! :)

HRC plays the gender card over and over; a man could never get away with the stuff she's gotten away with! Reverse sexism I guess--and she's a big name, too--something the media is always impressed with.

Obama understands this. He knows that she's the establishment candidate, and as such it's hers to lose and he's the insurgent who must prove himself over and over. It's really a touchy situation for him too--he can't be seen to be "picking" on "poor little Hillary" and he can't be seen to be the "angry young black man". In other words he has to be damn near perfect, while she can be a b--ch and get away with it in the media. She can trumpet that "it's time to elect a woman", but woe to Obama if he would utter the words, "it's time to elect a black man".