Letters to the Editor
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Ferraro returns!
Isn't this just a slightly more polite reworking of Geraldine Ferraro's statement that Barack Obama is "lucky" that he's running for president as a black man? You don't come out and say it, but the subtext of this piece is obvious: the reason that Obama is beating Hillary is because our society is more sexist than it is racist.
I understand that it must be extremely frustrating for educated, professional women who have fought all their lives for the respect afforded their male counterparts to see one of their own get so close to the brass ring, only to be trumped by a legitimate political phenomenon. I assume that many black Americans would feel the same way if Obama was the one who was fading and facing an increasingly impossible path to the nomination.
But here's the thing: I'm a straight, white American male of Protestant background, so the whole identity politics thing doesn't really light my fire. We've had a pretty good run of things as far as presidents go. I like and support Barack Obama because he seems to have a legitimately different way of doing business, and Hillary simply seems to be more of the same. I'm not against Hillary because she's a woman. I'm against Hillary because she's a transparent political hack who will say or do anything to get elected, and I think it's incredibly sad that so many of her supporters back her primarily because they share the same reproductive organs.