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One More Reason To Back Obama

By The Daily Dish
Jan 8 2008, 9:04 AM ET

The self-pitying, victimology of an old leftist like Gloria Steinem. It's this kind of victim politics we have finally begun to move past: that anyone should vote for a candidate "because she is a woman" and "has no masculinity to prove". Clinton is comfortable aroound this kind of victimology. Obama transcends it.



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