A commenter's view.

[kstewart33]

I was reading Paul Krugman's column about Hillary this AM and thought I'd pass along a thoughtful comment by RJS:

Don't you know even yet that a woman with a law degree who spent her formative years after law school working on behalf of poor African American children to ensure they could attend predominantly white schools and who helped disenfranchised migrant voters in Texas to register to vote is not really that awesome. I mean everybody does that, right?

Don't you get it that a woman with a degree from Wellesley, a law degree from Yale, a former First Lady, a twice elected US senator from NY and a Secretary of State nominated to the position by the first black president and approved unanimously by both republicans and democrats is not as qualified to be president as a man with a bachelors degree, a former mayor of a small town and a career congressman of a small lily white state? And she certainly isn't as qualified as an orange haired real estate swindler who had the good fortune to be the son of a millionaire real estate developer named Fred Trump.

Don't you get it that a woman born into a solidly middle class family with no political connections who then married a poor man from the South that she helped to become president is not really qualified because she is part of a political dynasty?

The math adds up. Men don't lose power easily. Even progressive ones.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/opinion/feel-the-math.html?ref=opinion

[brush]

1. Whomp! There it is. Talk about getting clobbered upside the head with truth.

Hope you don't mind but I just have to borrow that for later use.

[JonLeibowitz]

2. I didn't realize that being from a 'lily white state' was a disqualifier.

I had thought it was about policies & platform, character, and record.

Apparently RJS disagrees. Some might consider that bigotry.