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Some thoughts from a Democrat

Nora Ephron comments on the contest between Senators Clinton and Obama in Pennsylvania:

it’s suddenly horribly absolutely crystal-clear that this is an election about gender and race. This may have always been true, but weeks ago it wasn’t so obvious — once upon a time there were eight candidates, and although six of them withered away, their presence in the campaign managed to obscure things. Even around the time of Ohio, when there were primarily three candidates, the outlines were murky, because Edwards was still in there, picking up votes from all sectors. But now there are two and we’re facing Pennsylvania and whom are we kidding? This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women.

Ms. Ephron also has some deep thoughts on presumptive Republican nominee Senator McCain and something she refers to as the “Torture Thing”. Charming.

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5 Responses to “Some thoughts from a Democrat”

  1. OriginalFrank Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    “This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women.”

    Ah, so we now have official recognition from a leading liberal light that the Democratic Party is a party of haters and race/gender-baiters.

    Sure, we knew it was true before, but nice to see it presented so clearly.

  2. gs Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    Jack ends his quote right before the sentence:

    And when I say people, I don’t mean people, I mean white men.

    Ephron was born in 1941 and has Jewish ethnicity (and an Italian-American husband who was born in 1933). She surely has heard phrases like ’100 per cent Americans’, ‘No Negroes, Catholics, or Jews’, ‘No Irish Need Apply’, etc. Yet she says there is a

    …vast chunk of the population that has never in its history had to vote for anyone but a candidate who could have been their father or their brother or their son, and who has never had to think of the president of the United States as anyone other than someone they might have been had circumstances been just slightly different.

    Ephron has counterparts on the right. How can there be serious political discussion when people insist on talking like this? How can the country set a rational course for itself?

  3. Gasman Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    I’ve been a self-hating registered democrat my whole life because this party and it’s “lights” are simply a disgusting embarrassment of illogic caused by partisan induced blindness. If I vote Obama I hate women, but if I vote Hillary I hate blacks. Great thinking. And Ms. Ephron had to think about it before writing it didn’t she? I wish Condoleezza was running so I could prove my love of all people. I guess I’m free to vote for John McCain to prove I hate blacks, women, the young, non veterans, and everybody outside of Arizona. I hate them all, because I was just raised that way.

  4. MarkD Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Why would anyone give this delusional crank any attention? People who make stupid statements shoud be accorded the credibility they have earned.

  5. feeblemind Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 am

    Ephron owes her position to the hated white men. What would her status be in a country that is not ruled by white men?

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