There are clashing accounts of whether the move against Hillary and towards Barack is generational or reproduces traditional prejudice against women. Gloria Steinem talkes the latter view in the NYT in a much emailed Women are never the Front Runners. I have a different view in OurKingdom, picking up from Will Smith's I Am Legend.
In the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum argues with Europeans (not me) that a Black can be elected and adds, "Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton, she is running for election at a moment when the flaws of oligarchy and dynasty are on display as never before". This picks up an issue that Beverly Anderson, a Jamaican-American living in Neww York, takes up in a comment in the OK discussion, "I don’t see how it helps to have a woman candidate running on her husband’s record. I would have had more respect for her if she had run as Hillary Rodham and not pretended that her experience consisted of anything more than her Senate term".
