Letters to the Editor
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Plenty of Room for Women in the Oval Office!
In addition to genuine sexism, Senator Clinton faced other challenges:
-being the Establishment candidate who voted for the war when a strong surge of net-based politics was ushering in a new era of grassroots support for, yes, moving in a new and better direction (yes Dean did it, but this era was pretty new then)
-this also ties into generational tensions
-her kitchen sink strategy (and all the political wedges it contained) turned many people off; obvious discrepancies in her politicking stuck around the blogsphere rather than dissappearing into the ether once the mainstream media decided it was no longer news
There are tons of us who will happily support a woman candidate in the future so long as her platform and leadership style are in accord with the values of the voters. (Truthfully, I, too, have the secret prejudice of wanting to see a woman in office, but not just any woman for the sake of electing a women.)
How can we move forward now and work to build unity for ALL PEOPLE (even we don't march in lockstep)—to work toward our truly common interests in ending the war, making the government/media more accountable to the people, getting back our civil rights and having a less blindly warlike foreign policy?