She’s No Ferrari, Not Even a Fiat 1
As a matter of policy, I refuse to address name-calling between candidates in this space.
I can do my own name-calling quite well, thank you.
I’m going to point you towards this post from Josh Marshall, which does address the current kerfuffle involving Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, because I think it’s worth reading as a thoughtful consideration of the situation.
Full disclosure: The first ballot I cast for a Presidential Candidate was a write-in for Shirley Chisholm.
Most of the same points could be made about the advantages and disadvantages Sen. Clinton is under because of her gender. In fact I think there’s a pretty striking symmetry. It’s clearly helping her with her big advantage among women voters, especially her generational peers. But we’d be foolish not to realize that some of Obama’s big margins among white men are not simply a reflection of support for Obama.
You might support Obama or not, think he’s qualified or an empty suit but suggesting he’s only where he is now because he’s black is something much worse than outrageous. It just seems obviously false.
March 11, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Does the Southern Poverty Law Center spend all their efforts unearthing fringe racist groups nobody ever heard of, or do they also devote some time to denouncing the much more open and damaging racism like we’ve seen from the people mentioned in your post?