Will Hillzilla Crush Obambi? : MAUREEN DOWD And More
by MAUREEN DOWD - The New York Times
Wednesday Dec 13th, 2006
DOWD: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama both straddle two
worlds, trying to profit from both.
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Will Hillzilla Crush Obambi?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: December 13, 2006
MANCHESTER, N.H.
So the question of the moment is: Which would be a greater handicap in a
presidential bid, gender or race?
The answer will depend, of course, on how manly the woman, and how white the
black.
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama both straddle two worlds,
trying to profit from both.
Despite her desire to seem far more experienced than her rival, Hillarys role
in high-level politics has been mostly that of a spouse a first lady who felt
that she got elected too. The Yale-trained lawyer had one pump in the The West
Wing and one in Desperate Housewives, one foot in the world of hotshot
alphas ruling the globe and one in the world of middle-age women humiliated by
their husbands dallying with office cupcakes.
She won her Senate seat only after becoming sympathetic as a victim. And she
still struggles with the balance between her Mars and Venus sides, sometimes
showing her political steel and other times fetching coffee for male
colleagues.
Senator Obama glides between the black and white political worlds. In New
Hampshire on Sunday, speaking to nearly all-white audiences, the
Harvard-educated lawyer looked utterly at home, dressing like a Wall Street
banker on casual Friday and sounding as white as Lou Dobbs.
He quoted Martin Luther King Jr. and Louis Brandeis with equal aplomb and wryly
noted that when he worked rebuilding a black community on Chicagos South Side,
people there couldnt pronounce his name and called him Yo Momma.
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