OBAMA VERSUS HILLARY: SEX APPEAL TRUMPING AN APPEAL TO GENDER POLITICS

The NYTIMES has a few interesting stories on the Democrat contest:

First, HERE - in a story which IN THE PRINT VERSION HAS A DIFFERENT HEADLINE:

ON-LINE HEADLINE: On Center Stage, a Candidate Letting His Confidence Show

PRINT HEADLINE: "ON A ROLL ELECTORALLY, OBAMA INJECTS HIS MANNER WITH A BIT OF COCKINESS."

NOTE: "injects his manner" and "cockiness" are related terms, on two levels - both sexual.

(IMHO: the on-line headline was changed because they could; they were probably embarrassed by the overt male sexuality of the original headline, and so changed it.)

Second, a story about Hillary. Hillary gets VERY different treatment: "Texas Women Size Up the Democrats". AND THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT GENDER POLITICS:

As Texas prepares to deliver a giant and perhaps decisive verdict on March 4 on the two closely matched Democratic presidential contenders, women — who traditionally outnumber men at the polls in this state and around the nation — may well hold the key to victory.

And while many women champion Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the White House as the obvious next leap across the gender gap, others say her historic candidacy no longer carries the same urgency as it would have, say, for their mothers’ generation.

THE NYTIMES AND THE HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN BOTH SEEM TO ASSUME THAT IT'S ALMOST A GIVEN THAT WOMEN SHOULD VOTE FOR HILARY - JUST BECAUSE SHE HAS A VAGINA, JUST LIKE THEY DO!

Sheesh. But that is IDENTITY POLITICS after all - and that's what today's Democrat Party seems to based on. And hence the assumption that Hillary should be sweeping the female votes.

But she is not. WHY!?

Well... Obama might very well be a THROWBACK to earlier, more SEXIST TIMES:

Obama might very well be winning because Democrat women are voting - not with their gender ID, but with their genitals: Democrat women find him sexy - the way women in the 1960 race found JFK sexy - and perhaps they think it's better to have a sexy presidential candidate than one of their own gender.

SEXINESS TRUMPS GENDER-IDENTIFICATION.

The tingle is stronger than sisterhood.

Obama wins the nomination.

ASIDE: Oprah may illustrate this point: Oprah have decided RACE POLITICS trumped GENDER POLITICS when she endorsed Obama (because she sees herself as black before she sees herself as a woman - and she feels Obama is black enough to support) ... OR SHE MIGHT JUST FIND HIM SEXY.



Here are a few photos: YOU DECIDE:

LIKE OBAMA GIRL SAID: "IT'S THE SEX, STUPID!"