++Some of who support pro-democracy movements abroad routinely support women leaders for their country's highest political positions. But for cultural reasons, Americans have not seen it fit to support women for the American presidency.
++Molly Roberts writes in the New York Times: First Female Nominee? Yawn." A recent graduate from Harvard, Roberts explains how millenials view Hillary Clinton and why having Clinton be the first woman president somehow feels less urgent .
++Sanders supporters keep pretending the democratic nomination process was "rigged" because Hillary Clinton early on sewed up the super delegates.
++But Ezra Klein at VOX says convincingly that Hillary is a superb politician and makes a difference generationally. His point is that the way she cobbled together the nomination was an example of building webs of relationships that have to be built painstakingly. We may not see it but that work shows a very capable politician building coalitions.
++Klein said that Clinton built a political structure unique for a non-incumbent. He admits Clinton is not a great campaigner or an electrifying speaker. But as a greek himself, he appreciates the detail she has exhibited in constructing her campaign. She learned this time that she needed the super delegates as a fire wall in her fight against Sanders and she worked them early.
++Klein thinks we might have to reconsider the maleness of charisma and magnetism because these are not qualities you find in a successful woman politician who built her career through relationships. He points to Elizabeth Warren as someone who can deliver a barnburner of a speech but Warren lacks the other organizational abilities.
++Yes, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton mean something, whatever you feel are their policy weaknesses. Last night Clinton had a gender specific victory rally where woman of all ages got to see an historic moment. Yes, she was gracious enough to hark back to her mother and forward to her daughter and granddaughter before mentioning herself. But is is a Big Fucking Deal.
++Molly Roberts says that her generation find it easier to pillory Clinton for her mistakes than to praise her for her successes. But they fail to appreciate how striking her successes have been for a woman that was politically limited by her surroundings.
++But Hillary Clinton has made it clear that with her election we can never go back. After the Obama presidency and hers America would have navigated a time of distressing change and landed on the other shore.
++Perhaps, she has the luck of Barack Obama when she drew Trump as her opponent because the primary issue becomes who we are as a nation--what is our identity. Nativist,homophobic, misogynist,isolationist, racist or NOT.
++I liked how she got in a dig which would be used against a woman candidate. Trump doesn't have the temperament to be Commander-In-Chief.
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