Hillary, Barack: Sex vs. Color

The spin up to the 2008 presidential election has been a real eye-opener for me! To see a person of color and a women campaigning for the highest office in the country is fulfillment of a lot of dreams. But the campaigns have also underscored how prejudice and unfairness are still parts of our daily lives... they are just more subtle.

I am a Clinton supporter. It's not that I dislike Obama. It's just that I believe Clinton is more experienced and I like the idea of getting two Clinton's for the price of one. While I am supporting Clinton, I want the Democratic candidate to be someone who can beat the Republican candidate ... who at this point appears to be John McCain. McCain scares me on a lot of levels... he is too old, too much like Bush, and too much in the pocket of the raging right.

What really bothers me lately is how differently Clinton and Obama are treated by the press and the public. A recent USAToday poll asked "Who Should Play the Candidates." The results? Obama - Will Smith or Denzel Washington. McCain - Tommy Lee Jones. Clinton - Martha Stewart. Martha Stewart!!! First of all, she is not an actor and second of all she is a felon.

I guess I never realized that misogeny is such a pervasive part of our culture. There are bunches of people that don't want Clinton as president solely because she is a woman. Forget about qualifications, foreget about everything else... just because of her sex.

Sad...