"Yet what is most troubling — and what has the most serious
implications for the feminist movement — is that the Clinton campaign
has used her rival’s race against him. In the name of demonstrating
her superior “electability,” she and her surrogates have invoked the
racist and sexist playbook of the right — in which swaggering macho
cowboys are entrusted to defend the country — seeking to define Obama
as too black, too foreign, too different to be President at a moment
of high anxiety about national security. This subtly but distinctly
racialized political strategy did not create the media feeding frenzy
around the Rev. Jeremiah Wright that is now weighing Obama down, but
it has positioned Clinton to take advantage of the opportunities the
controversy has presented. And the Clinton campaign’s use of this
strategy has many nonwhite and nonmainstream feminists crying foul."
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