Identity Politics and the Dems

One blogger on Clinton's appeal:

It's absolutely legitimate for Hillary's sex to be one's deciding factor, and no less legitimate than citing John Edwards being a millworker's son who knows what it's like to be working class as one's deciding factor.

Another on Obama's:

Regardless of whom we decide on, by making the identity politics of our candidate a factor in our decision, we are implicitly establishing a 'separate and unequal' relationship between race and gender barriers that only fuels the continued clash between race activists and feminists.

So, I'm supporting Senator Barack Obama because he'll be a great president. And, not because he's Black.