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An odd, but at times insightful column from the conservative English writer (ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph) Charles Moore.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/...4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/opinion/2008/01/12/do1202.xml
"Seeing a black man being rude to a white woman still touches a nerve" - Jeepers.
I think, on balance, he's wrong here, but US commentators are so sensitive about the issue of race that even the most right wing wouldn't dare to advance such a theory (even if they thought it were true).
Finishes with the surprising conclusion:-
(Incidentally, why is Lady Margaret Thatcher always 'Thatcher', but Hillary Rodham Clinton always 'Hillary'?)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/...4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/opinion/2008/01/12/do1202.xml
Less educated women, according to polls, have seen how she dealt with "abusive treatment" and, from their own experiences, sympathised. I can't help wondering, too, if there was not an element of race atavism in some of the working-class white vote for Hillary. Seeing a black man being rude to a white woman still touches a nerve.
"Seeing a black man being rude to a white woman still touches a nerve" - Jeepers.
I think, on balance, he's wrong here, but US commentators are so sensitive about the issue of race that even the most right wing wouldn't dare to advance such a theory (even if they thought it were true).
Finishes with the surprising conclusion:-
"In Britain today, there is still a popular musical (Billy Elliot) which features a song calling for Mrs Thatcher's death. If you look on the anti-Hillary websites in America, you see a venom that is pretty much unrelated to the facts. It certainly is enough to justify tears.
On the whole, Mrs Clinton is less good at dealing with these things than Mrs Thatcher. She sometime seems, as Henry Kissinger said of Nixon, to be "lost in a wilderness of his own resentments". She does not have the burning conviction that allows her to rise above the latest attack.
But both do share something which comes not only with the territory of politics, but with their sex - a tenacious courage that their blustering male opponents surprisingly often lack."
(Incidentally, why is Lady Margaret Thatcher always 'Thatcher', but Hillary Rodham Clinton always 'Hillary'?)
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