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• Thursday, November 20, 2008 01:03 PM

  AKA Smith

  Mostly, I agree with you that people need to chill out a little bit about the prospect of Hillary as Secretary of State, but, while I'll certainly concur that there was a lot of sexism in terms of the media coverage of the Clinton campaign (we disagree greatly on the degree to which the Clintons resorted to race-baiting on their end, but I dont think Hillary's a racist, either), I think that simply dismissing Hillary-loathing as sexist haterism (my own newly minted term) is accurate. There have been, after all, two recent female Secretaries of State. I dont think a lot of these same people are up in arms about the idea of Napolitano being appointed head of DHS, and a lot of us would be down with the idea of a President Sebelius in 2016. The Clintons sometimes get a bad rap, and I think a lot of their accomplishments are underappreciated, but there is wayyyy too much drama that comes with everything associated with them. Saying that one is tired of Hillary in particular is not equivalent to saying you're tired of all women. I have a lot of respect for her as a person, and think she'd be fine as S.O.S., but I'm about done with hearing about her and her 18 million voters myself. I believe our President just got 65 million.

  All in all, I have no major beef with Hillary, but I find that she, and her followers, tend to overstate the deference that is due to them. That's not sexism, that's fatigue.

  —FaulknerJr Read FaulknerJr's other letters
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