Barack Obama won because young voted for a young candidates and older people did not vote for an older candidate. Barack Obama won because those considering themselves outsiders voted their ethnicity. Insiders did not. Barack Obama won because women do not vote their gender.
If the last elections proved anything, it is the veracity of a recent study (sorry I have yet to find a link) that demonstrated that when racist attitudes are called to the attention of individuals they respond by changing them. The same cannot be said about sexist attitudes.
In other words, I was wrong when I argued that McCain should chose a women vice president. Voters could be convinced to elect an affirmative action president but balked again at electing an affirmative action vice president. This does not mean that a woman cannot be elected president only that she cannot take any short cuts.
So what? Future tickets will include at least one “outsider” but not necessarily a woman. For this has been a year when women proved that dissing a female candidate, be she Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin, carries no price.
Man: Why have you called to do these things?Woman: It’s a form of resistance. I think all Arabs are allowed to hurt them (the Israelis). It’s no shame…
Man: Why?
Woman: They (the Israelis) abuse the Arabs’ rights and steal their lands, and a land thief is no different than he who hurts one’s honor. I think it’s a new kind of struggle.
Man: Does the license to hurt them also include rape?
Woman: No, sexual harassment… I want to say that they (Israeli women) have no right to react. That’s my opinion. That’s my claim. They (the Arabs) won’t be the initiators, because those who bare the struggle have a high…
