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Race in the primary campaign
To my mind, the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand moment that started the whole conflict was Gloria Steinem's regrettable piece in the New York Times. It was a case of special pleading that electing a woman president was more important than electing an african-american. (Of course she caveated that argument by saying she did mean to make it). I hate the whole group identification embodied in that. The first time I saw Obama speak in person (before he was nationally famous), I said to myself that this guy should be President. The symbolic achievement of electing an african-american never occurred to me. To often I fear that Hillary supporters have as an end in and of itself, the objective of breaking the glass ceiling.