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Hillary has been doing a lot of whining about how hard it is for a woman candidate.  But as the following points out, it isn't men, it's a man:

The other persistent gripe among some Clinton supporters is that a hard-working older woman has been unjustly usurped by a cool young guy intrinsically favored by a sexist culture...

... The single biggest factor in Hillary Clinton’s collapse is less sexism in general than one man in particular — the man who began the campaign as her biggest political asset. The moment Bill Clinton started trash-talking about Mr. Obama and raising the specter of a co-presidency, even to the point of giving his own televised speech ahead of his wife’s on the night she lost South Carolina, her candidacy started spiraling downward.

The Audacity of Hopelessness - New York Times

This entry was posted on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 00:47 and is filed under .

 

Elaine Sirkis, 77, an Obama supporter, confided that she just isn't sure she's ready for a woman president. Betty Conway, 83, a Hillary supporter, confided that she just isn't sure she's ready for a black president.

As Conway walked away, Sirkis smiled sheepishly. "I'm sorry," she told Berman sweetly about her friend. "She's a bigot."

Maureen Dowd

This entry was posted on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 14:58 and is filed under .

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