DesertFox
01-27-2008, 06:22 PM
Jessica Reaves
Chicago Tribune
27 Jan 08
A few months ago, a colleague posed this question: "Let's say the Democratic race comes down to Obama and Clinton. Who do you think could win?"
"Obama," I answered, without hesitating. "Definitely."
My co-worker, who happens to be a black man, looked at me as if I were crazy. And then he told me I was crazy. "You think this country would elect a black man before a white woman?"
After Obama's victory in Iowa, the same colleague came back.
"When I'm wrong," he said, shaking his head, "I'm wrong."
He was surprised, he told me, not by Barack Obama's ascendancy, but by the media's treatment of Hillary Clinton. I wasn't surprised at all, I told him. But I was royally ticked off.
From Day 1 of this seemingly endless election cycle, it has been clear that the media don't have any idea how to handle Clinton. She was first lady for eight years, so it's not as if we haven't seen her before. It's just that we've never seen her like this: a candidate on her own terms, the equal of any man, with a real shot at the presidency.
More (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-obama_thinkjan27,0,1870901.story)
Chicago Tribune
27 Jan 08
A few months ago, a colleague posed this question: "Let's say the Democratic race comes down to Obama and Clinton. Who do you think could win?"
"Obama," I answered, without hesitating. "Definitely."
My co-worker, who happens to be a black man, looked at me as if I were crazy. And then he told me I was crazy. "You think this country would elect a black man before a white woman?"
After Obama's victory in Iowa, the same colleague came back.
"When I'm wrong," he said, shaking his head, "I'm wrong."
He was surprised, he told me, not by Barack Obama's ascendancy, but by the media's treatment of Hillary Clinton. I wasn't surprised at all, I told him. But I was royally ticked off.
From Day 1 of this seemingly endless election cycle, it has been clear that the media don't have any idea how to handle Clinton. She was first lady for eight years, so it's not as if we haven't seen her before. It's just that we've never seen her like this: a candidate on her own terms, the equal of any man, with a real shot at the presidency.
More (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-obama_thinkjan27,0,1870901.story)