Hillary needed this recent win in West Virginia although it is symbolic more than significant.
Fresh from drawing criticism for identifying an AP article which said that she has been tying up white voters, Hilary gave Obama a sound pummeling in West Virginia. As usual, upon winning Hillary cites the victory as her duty to the America people to "finish the elections that are still to come."
In her moment of triumph, Senator John Edwards decides to endorse Obama, raining on Hillary's much needed parade. Gender and race are heavily wrapped up in this campaign. Much has been made lately of the Clinton's race baiting but gender is still a dynamic. Some see Obama's and Edward's relationship as a political boy's club that decided to close ranks as soon as a woman looked like she had a chance. I'm not saying that this is the reality, but this theory is just as crazy as those who want the Clinton's to come off as race-baiters. The media machine is a giant echo chamber that augments a whisper into controversial thunder.
For what it is worth, I feel sorry for Hilary. Everyone who has ever gone to Elementary school knows what it is like for people to want to boot you out of a game, saying the teams full or that someone more qualified is going to take your spot. That is what they are doing to her by trying to hustle her out. To many of Hillary's supporters, the message could not be more clear.
There is no room for a woman.
1 comment:
Very true and very well written. Yeah, it seems like the media points the finger at Obama's race as a cause for Clinton's wins but rarely is it covered when it's Obama on Clinton.
This is going to be one ugly fight - the next couple of weeks will be pivital. Will she drop out or not?
I say not, until June...maybe.
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