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Gloria Steinem on Barack Obama

In an Op-Ed in the New York Times, she says he'd never make it as a woman.
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  • Tuesday, January 8, 2008 08:37 PM

    come on people

    I've heard men say shamelessly in public that they wouldn't vote for Hillary because she "reminds me of my first wife." (presumably the smart, capable one that put them through school and bore their children and who they left for some unchallenging bimbo).

    Imagine any kind of equivalent remark about Obama. Never happen.

    —phillycat Read phillycat's other letters

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