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The Glass Ceiling

By TonyB410 - Jun 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pm EDT

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I salute Hillary Cinton for her campaign for president. She has opened the door for many women to persue higher offices in the future. The notion of a woman as commander in chief is more realistic now than ever before. In her speech she said the glass ceiling now has 18 million cracks which is a great line in what was overall a fantastic speech. It must have been hard for her to deliver such a speech knowing she was ending a great run for president.

However the same glass celing is in place for minorities. Barack Obama has severely cracked if not shattered it. His dream is still alive. For the Clinton supporters to consider John McCain as an alternative to Barack Obama is almost a double standard.

I would hope they would band together as Americans and understand our economy is in terrible shape, the Iraq war seems to have no end, foreclosures have families searching for new housing and fuel prices are crippling many families and businesses ability to be on the road and take care of business. Can we trust that John McCain will do something different than the status quo.

Hillary's mission and platform mesh with Obama's well. There are subtle differences between them but not miles of differences that exist with McCain's platform. Reports of defections to McCain by Clinton supporters is for lack of a better word "crazy". Can we afford another four years of what we have now...if the price at the pump is any indicator then the question is no!

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By Ugonna "and its easy to spell; J-O-B-S. Jobs" Wosu Jun 9th 2008 at 3:04 pm EDT

Blacks have been held back too, and to say you're going to vote for the "oppressor" of both of these groups-the white man-is complete hypocrisy. These women act like they have a patent on suffering, and its obnoxious. There was never any way both Barack and Hillary would win the nomination at the same time. Only one could be "the first something nominee" and the other would have had to wait a little longer. This didn't have to be an "oppression sweepstakes" competition. After all, they were competing as two candidates who thought they could be the best president, not looking for sympathy because they were black or female(I think Hillary did later on though).

Just like Reverend Wright needs to move on from the divisions of race, older white women in America need to stop assuming that everything they see not going their way is because of sexism. There are more women in the Dem party than men last I heard, and I don't think the media had to do much with how they voted. If the media's sexism had so much effect, Hillary wouldn't have had as many votes as she did. She did well with the Clinton name, and because some chose to believe she was so much more experienced than Barack. That's fine. But both these candidates did well, despite "what" they are, and believe it or not, they were BOTH treated badly the media. Maybe Barack had it easy at first, but you had to be blatantly ignorin your tv for the past 3 months not to notice how tarnished HIS name has been! They came close, and one of them had to lose. Its sad, and perhaps they shouldn't have run the same year, but they did.

Now, we can talk about which candidate lied about what, at least thats a claim I can understand(although not see it from Clintonites' pov). But it would get us nowhere.

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By TonyB410 Jun 9th 2008 at 4:04 pm EDT

I believe that blacks and "minority groups" have experienced institutional and other forms of discrimination over the years. Both Democrats and Republicans have had some form of discriminatory baggage they can claim.

Political entitlement is not a given to anyone no matter if their name is Clinton, Kennedy, Bush, Reagan or Washington. Eventually you must earn your victories just like everyone else.

It will be your character and personal achievement that will get you where you need to go.

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