I Was Just Trying to Hear My Song
"Both Clinton and Obama have eagerly donned the mantle of identity politics. A Clinton victory wouldn’t just be a victory for one woman, it would be a victory for little girls everywhere. An Obama victory would be about completing the dream, keeping the dream alive, and so on.
Fair enough. The problem is that both the feminist movement Clinton rides and the civil rights rhetoric Obama uses were constructed at a time when the enemy was the reactionary white male establishment. Today, they are not facing the white male establishment. They are facing each other."
Read more of today's column, "The Identity Trap", by David Brooks here.
Labels: 2008 Presidential Election
posted by Justin @ 1/15/2008 08:30:00 AM
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“You have a woman running to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling. I don’t think either of us wants to inject race or gender in this campaign. We’re running as individuals.”
--my favorite quote
Sammie,
I believe that is the phrase you might find in the dictionary for the entry: "internal contradiction".
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