Another sign that Hillary Clinton will not be on the ticket with Barack Obama: The Obama campaign recently hired Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to Obama’s yet-to-be-named vice presidential running mate.
Solis Doyle had been Clinton’s campaign manager – until she was fired.
And while we’re on the subject of Clinton, I never did see the vast sexism conspiracy at work. Of course, I saw the cheap-laugh lines about PMS and pant suits. What I didn’t hear, however, were references to her being a faux feminist, unless the definition of “feminist” now allows for those who enable their cheating husbands via a Faustian power deal. Better, arguably, the “fat ankles” comment than that.
“You never saw anything about what Obama was wearing,” recently noted “disappointed” and “angry” Sandy Freedman, the former mayor of Tampa.
Well, how about countless references to every time he wasn’t wearing his lapel pin? Only those weren’t sartorial jabs — but patriotism smears.
Or that name he wore? The obvious implication: Anyone deigning to run for president named Barack Hussein Obama might just be a Manchurian Muslim candidate.
Or that color he wore. Remember, he wasn’t “black enough” initially. But that changed as fast as you could say Rev. Wright rant, “hard-working whites” or fist-bump sista .
Hillary Clinton is not the Democratic Party’s nominee because of sexism. With a vote for the Iraq war, an aptitude for duplicity, an aura that embodied entitlement and lots of Washington seniority, she was never well suited for a quintessential, change-themed election.