Her run for president took off on schedule with a disturbing sense of inevitability. It was clear that she had internalized the arc of the women’s movement to the the degree that the nation owed her a turn in the White House, since this was the logical symbolic destination of the Boomer political ethos: absolute equality above all other considerations — Hillary gets to play, too! The American public seemed willing to go along with this national psychodrama. It satisfied a certain school days sense of morality. Then Barack Obama had to come along and spoil it all. The nerve of that… uppity Negro! Or so, apparently, Hillary would have us believe, now that her campaign has run off the rails. In awful desperation she has so much as said that the Democratic party has to nominate her because non-white people are unelectable — forgetting for a moment that Barack Obama is as much white as he is black. Jim Kunstler ☀
Monday 12 May 2008
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