Earlier today when I was horribly cranky (thanks to bad customer service, inadequate database systems and deadlines – you know the same ol’ thing) this excerpt from Maureen Dowd’s column today made me smile. Okay, honestly it was a smile and a very unladylike snort/laugh.
“With Obama saying the hour is upon us to elect a black man and Hillary saying the hour is upon us to elect a woman, the Democratic primary has become the ultimate nightmare of liberal identity politics. All the victimizations go tripping over each other and colliding, a competition of historical guilts… As Ali Gallagher, a white Hillary volunteer in Austin told The Washington Post’s Krissah Williams: “
A friend of mine, a black man, said to me, ‘My ancestors came to this country in chains; I’m voting for Barack.’ I told him, ‘Well, my sisters came here in chains and on their periods; I’m voting for Hillary.’ ”
If you want you can read the whole column -
here, but trust me that was the best part.
