"In the coming days, as Hillary Clinton moves to the sidelines and Barack Obama takes the stage alone, many people will suggest that America just wasn't ready for a female president."
--The XX Factor (Chad's favorite blog!)
"As devastating as their 29-17 Super Bowl XLI loss to the Colts was for the proud Chicago Bears, it was worse for their coach: Lovie Smith will forever be remembered as the first African-American coach to lose a Super Bowl."
--The Onion
It's not a perfect fit but you see why these two quotes belong together, right?
(We were guaranteed to "learn" at least two of these things from the 2008 Democratic presidential primary: Either America wasn't ready for a black president, it wasn't ready for a female president, or it wasn't ready for a blow-dried pretty-boy North Carolina trial lawyer to be president. At least two!)
Posted by Matt Bruce at June 4, 2008 05:35 PMIt looks like the writer of that piece is posting that line only to distance herself from it. "It may be true" is a way of patting the hypothetical people on the head for saying it and moving on to what the author intends to say, which is all about her own views of Clinton as a feminist candidate.
The real lesson of this year's campaign, as far as sexism goes, is to teach people who thought of Geraldine Ferraro as another trailblazer like Margaret Chase Smith or Sally Ride that she doesn't deserve the place in history she had up until now.
Posted by: M.S. at June 5, 2008 06:23 AM