Friday, May 23, 2008

This Woman Candidate in Particular

Hillary Clinton supporters are now whining that her failed candidacy can be attributable to rampant misogyny and sexism in the media and in the Obama campaign. Not surprising the feverishly incoherent Geraldine Ferraro is easily the most prominent spokeswoman of this particular point of view. In a recent FOX News interview, Ferraro's sundry complaints about how her candidate has been grievously wronged was on display for all to see. Hold up a minute. Hillary's failed efforts to secure the Democratic presidential nomination has far less to do with an anti-woman bias than it does a terribly flawed campaign and the baggage generated from the Clinton years in the White House. To be sure, there are some folks out there who will never support a woman but this campaign is not about women candidates in general but specifically about this woman candidate in particular.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sen. Clinton's campaign now reminds me of a scene at the end of the movie New Jack City. Wesley Snipes in the role of drug kingpin Nino Brown is convicted and before he is forcibly removed from the courtroom, he hollers out, "Oh it ain't over! If i'm going down, I'm taking a whole lot of mother(&*$@ with me!

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