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Now that the Clinton campaign is all but done for, I'm hearing a lot of complaints that Hillary lost because of sexism. Check out this gal -- I can't access YT from my office, but as I recall from watching it yesterday, she charges that a black man would never have even run if it weren't for the fact that he'd be running against a white woman, or something to that effect, which I don't even follow:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KACQuZVAE3s[/YOUTUBE]
So let me see if I've got this straight -- the Clinton camp has made various thinly veiled (if veiled at all) race-based arguments for her to get the nomination:
1. Obama has trouble attracting "working class voters, uh, white working class voters"
2. Hispanics won't vote for him
3. People in Appalchia (read: racists) won't vote for him
As I understand the argument, whether it be explicit or implicit, it's not that the person making the argument is racist, it's that other people are racist, thereby allowing race to be a legitimate factor in the voting booth.
Has anyone heard anyone in the Obama campaign, at any point over the last 16 months, suggest that any group would not vote for Clinton because she's a woman? Although it is unquestionably true that there is a certain (hopefully small) group of misogynists out there that wouldn't vote for her on account of her sex, I've heard no mention of that by Obama or his surrogates, period.
We've gone through a long primary campaign with gender being largely a non-issue (apart from the recognition of the historic nature of the campaign, that a woman would be in a position to take the nomination), and now, as the campaign is in its death spiral, the victim card is played. Am really hoping we just have a couple more days of this.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KACQuZVAE3s[/YOUTUBE]
So let me see if I've got this straight -- the Clinton camp has made various thinly veiled (if veiled at all) race-based arguments for her to get the nomination:
1. Obama has trouble attracting "working class voters, uh, white working class voters"
2. Hispanics won't vote for him
3. People in Appalchia (read: racists) won't vote for him
As I understand the argument, whether it be explicit or implicit, it's not that the person making the argument is racist, it's that other people are racist, thereby allowing race to be a legitimate factor in the voting booth.
Has anyone heard anyone in the Obama campaign, at any point over the last 16 months, suggest that any group would not vote for Clinton because she's a woman? Although it is unquestionably true that there is a certain (hopefully small) group of misogynists out there that wouldn't vote for her on account of her sex, I've heard no mention of that by Obama or his surrogates, period.
We've gone through a long primary campaign with gender being largely a non-issue (apart from the recognition of the historic nature of the campaign, that a woman would be in a position to take the nomination), and now, as the campaign is in its death spiral, the victim card is played. Am really hoping we just have a couple more days of this.
