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The Race Goes On
Mar. 5th, 2008 08:04 am♠
With Obama saying the hour is upon us to elect a black man and Hillary saying the hour is upon us to elect a woman, the Democratic primary has become the ultimate nightmare of liberal identity politics. All the victimizations go tripping over each other and colliding, a competition of historical guilts.
... And meanwhile, the conventional white man sits on the Republican side and enjoys the spectacle of the Democrats’ identity pileup and victim lock.
-- Maureen Dowd for The New York Times
Hillary actually won Ohio and Texas. Is the Barack "yes, we can" sing-song starting to wear thin? He's still the front-runner, but it now feels silly to speak of inevitability, since inevitability in this race has proven to be anything but inevitable.
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With Obama saying the hour is upon us to elect a black man and Hillary saying the hour is upon us to elect a woman, the Democratic primary has become the ultimate nightmare of liberal identity politics. All the victimizations go tripping over each other and colliding, a competition of historical guilts.
... And meanwhile, the conventional white man sits on the Republican side and enjoys the spectacle of the Democrats’ identity pileup and victim lock.
-- Maureen Dowd for The New York Times
Hillary actually won Ohio and Texas. Is the Barack "yes, we can" sing-song starting to wear thin? He's still the front-runner, but it now feels silly to speak of inevitability, since inevitability in this race has proven to be anything but inevitable.
