What #Obama did with skin color, #Hillary didnt with gender. It looks like she has learned from the mistake. You use what you have. Clinton failed because she decided against the positioning that had the most potential. The woman lost because she disrobed her woman-ness. Her advertising campaign promoted her like any other candidate, in the trenches, in talking-head commercials, throwing dirt and answering accusations ad after ad, appealing to reason rather than to the heart. The first woman presidential candidate chose to be considered as the candidate with experience, tough, voluble and equipped with facts and figures and know-how and very like a man, at times with gritted teeth and staring outward. She could have been presented as the efficient lets-get-the-job-done woman we all know, or the strong and wise mother for a hurting nation. Obama was, from start to finish, bright and young, charismatic and rhetorical -- and black. Never mind that he wasnt, in Jessie Jacksons words, black enough in priorities, principles and genes. In short, he was change in the flesh, Change You Can Believe In. .
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:28:12 +0000
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