Though Virgil Sees Neither, Race & Gender Are Still in Political Play

Like Stephen Colbert, I do not see color. I don’t even see gender. The fact that I am currently supporting John Edwards who is, I am told, a white male is pure happenstance. With most of us race and gender are still issues. Erica Jong recently said "The flaying of Hillary Clinton shows us we can take nothing for granted. We need to break that tough, annealed, glass ceiling with the barbed wire over it. And we need to break it now. If this is the politics of gender, so be it. We need a politics of gender in this country. Obama is a good man who will only get better. Youth is on his side. Perhaps Hillary will appoint him to the Supreme Court where he can counter that embarrassing Clarence Thomas. Perhaps he will be President in 2016 or perhaps, even better, Michelle Obama will be. They have nothing but time. Hillary's time has come." Seeing Sexism by Erica Jong.
Erica may be right. I hope Hillary is coming into her own and becoming a relatively honest statesperson. Maybe she will now say and act upon what she believes without an inordinate amount of concern about the political winds. If so, I’d be for her. I would love to see Obama on the Supreme Court. He could counter the embarrassing Thomas, the embarrassing Scalia, the embarrassing Roberts, or the embarrassing Alito. (For those of you who see color, he, at least , could counter Thomas & Roberts. I don’t know whether he has any Italian in him or not) I doubt that Obama wants to be on the Supreme Court right now. He'll be President some day unless he falls hard. I'll support him this time if Edwards continues to fade and Hillary doesn't show some true character. Whoever is nominated could, blindfolded, appoint a better Supreme Court justice than the four mentioned above.