nytimes.com— By the end of those 54 primaries and caucuses, Hillary Clinton had made a woman running for president seem normal.
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I totally agree that this election is a huge step for both women and African Americans. Together Hillary and Barack have proven for the first time that US presidency is not the exclusive domain of white men. In fact, both of them beat a group of big shot white male competitors like Richardson, Edwards, Biden, Dodd..., and that's huge! Just think about it! During the primaries I think every exit poll had a question: "Do you think America is ready for a woman/black president?" It's a stupid question, but the reality is that before this year no one would even take a woman or a black candidate seriously, i.e. people would not vote for them even if they thought they would make the best president, because they thought they simply have no chance to be elected. And now this prejudice is largely gone (except perhaps among republicans ;)) and that's a really big step towards equality.And this equality is a funny thing. People mostly thought that of course we were equal (we had equal rights, the constitution, etc. etc.), but so far every US president has been a white man. If a woman or a black ran for president, people went "w00t, is he/she normal?!" and no one would take them seriously (but people had no problem electing an idiot). And we didn't even mind! We thought THAT was normal... Funny, isn't it?
zlinkJun 7, 2008
You don't know what way poeple would of reacted to obama if he had lossed so your argument is not sound
jumpingjack79Jun 8, 2008
I totally agree that this election is a huge step for both women and African Americans. Together Hillary and Barack have proven for the first time that US presidency is not the exclusive domain of white men. In fact, both of them beat a group of big shot white male competitors like Richardson, Edwards, Biden, Dodd..., and that's huge! Just think about it! During the primaries I think every exit poll had a question: "Do you think America is ready for a woman/black president?" It's a stupid question, but the reality is that before this year no one would even take a woman or a black candidate seriously, i.e. people would not vote for them even if they thought they would make the best president, because they thought they simply have no chance to be elected. And now this prejudice is largely gone (except perhaps among republicans ;)) and that's a really big step towards equality.And this equality is a funny thing. People mostly thought that of course we were equal (we had equal rights, the constitution, etc. etc.), but so far every US president has been a white man. If a woman or a black ran for president, people went "w00t, is he/she normal?!" and no one would take them seriously (but people had no problem electing an idiot). And we didn't even mind! We thought THAT was normal... Funny, isn't it?