Woo hoo! She’ll be an infinitely better president than worse-than-Voldemort Trump. I’m glad to see her nominated, glad to see a woman finally making substantive progress toward the highest office in the land, and looking forward to working hard for her until victory in November.
This Democratic Convention is much more exciting than any one I can remember since, perhaps, Bill Clinton was nominated to defeat George Bush senior and his tired old ideas, and did, or Barack Obama was nominated to defeat John McCain and his tired old ideas, and did . Bernie Sanders has brought that to Philadelphia, and enormously strengthened the Democratic Party as a whole, and especially the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. His vote to put her over the top with Vermont was an act of political courage. Presumably, Clinton has offered him something worthwhile for his efforts, which is right and proper. He promises to keep bringing it until November. Bravo!
Go Hillary!
But that last graphic, going through the dozens of men shattering to reveal a woman nominated to run for president, hit me HARD. About bloody time. It dawned on me today that there may well be future Americans getting their driver’s license never having had a white male president.
…has already gone through a 16-year stretch without a white man in that position: Albright, Powell, Rice, Clinton
How is that not ageism? Why is it still okay to characterize people as incompetent or irrelevant based solely on their age?
And why is ageism okay particularly with regard to men? What if you had said that in 2008, Obama had defeated a “tired old woman” in the Democratic primary? Wouldn’t you be rightly called out on that?
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George H.W. Bush was 68, the same age as Clinton is now. McCain was 72. Trump is 70. They are all about the same age in years. But in ideas, Clinton is indeed in the prime of life and the others are indeed well past their sell-by dates: tired, stale and unappealing. That’s not ageism, it’s pragmatism. I updated the post to make my meaning more explicit: political candidates should be judged by the strength of their ideas and their ability to lead, not the number of their years. đŸ™‚
McCain’s and Bush’s ideas were described as old and tired, not the candidates.
See the clarification from the author.
The modifier was there clear as day. Some people see what they want to see.