Reply #54: Sexism is a serious problem that many DUers now

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seem willing to ignore in their Obamania. A lot of things are being ignored in this wave of enthusiasm for a freshman senator who doesn't seem to commit to anything but hope. "Yes we can" is catchy, though it is really La Raza's slogan, but will he deliver anything if elected? I'm skeptical about him.

As an older baby boomer, Hillary Clinton has surely encountered sexism. She and I came of age before there was an EEOC to protect women's rights, while black's rights had been given a huge boost in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-Sixties. I think it likely that she has suffered more discrimination due to her sex than a younger baby boomer like Barack Obama could have experienced due to being biracial, especially since he lived as a child in multiracial Hawaii and Indonesia. But if we're going to base this election on who's suffered most, McCain will be a shoo-in for the five or six years he was a POW being tortured by the Viet Cong.

As much as I hate to admit it, since I have long resisted supporting Hillary Clinton, I think that in comparison to Obama and McCain, she would be the best president, and is the most progressive of the three options we have left. I truly fear that if Obama is our nominee, McCain will be our next president. I remember how enthusiastic we all were about George McGovern in 1972 and the only stae he carried was Massachusetts. Caveat emptor.