I haven't really got into the spirit of this year's American political contest. I never do usually anyway, although I showed a bit more interest when it came to George Bush I think. This year, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton are the main contenders for the Democratic candidacy, and one of them will probably face off against the Republican John McCain later this year, and I think whoever wins the Democratic vote is likely to be the next President.
Now I know very little about American politics, so when I analyse who I think would make a better leader between Clinton and Obama, I have very little to go on. I know neither of their policies, if they have any. I know very little about their previous performances. This is what I do know: Clinton is a senator but more famously husband of ex-President Bill Clinton. Now I hear some people say, "She shouldn't be in politics! She's just a housewife with no political experience. She's only senator now in a long-running attempt to re-gain the family presidency." Then I hear others say that actually she's had a long career in politics. I don't even know. I'm pretty certain that during Bill Clinton's 8 year presidency she was a full-time First Lady. Before that though she was a very successful lawyer, so obviously extremely competent. As for Obama, it appears he comes from a family dynasty, but not a hugely powerful one like the Bush family. It appears to me that before he even decided to run for the presidency he was probably the most successful member of his family and ancestry. So I would say he is new blood.
Then there are the most significant differences between the two. He is a black man and she is a white woman. They will both be the first of their kind to be President. Well one of them will be anyway. Most of their momentum seems to be based around these corresponding facts. But based on all the information I have, I think I much prefer that Obama becomes President. My main reason is that he doesn't base his image on being black. By that I'm not referring to the fact that his skin colour is relatively light, but that he acts like a white person. Socially he probably is more white than black anyway. When I look at Hilary, I just think "That's disgusting." Her image is highly feminine. Compare her to Margaret Thatcher. I don't think anybody really had a problem with her becoming Prime Minister because she didn't act very femininely. That's not to say she was ugly as this photo shows.
She was 54 when she became PM. Hilary is 64 and often looks like a tart in comparison with Thatcher. I don't want somebody in the White House who is running the country as a woman would. Obama isn't going to run the country as a black man would. Being black isn't such an integral aspect of his identity as being a woman is for Hilary. I feel like she will be more proud to be the first female President than Obama will be proud to be the first black President, and therefore I think her motivations for running are worse than his. Plus what is with her facial mannerisms?
I bet sometimes when she meets Obama he thinks "What the fuck is wrong with her?" She's too needy. She's one of those alpha females who likes to crush men's balls in her hands, ultra feminist and thinks all men are against her. Thatcher was nothing like that: she completely slipped through and made no issue of her femininity (except for occasional jokes). It doesn't bother me at all that Obama might be the first black President. There are a few black supremacists who would probably use that as some kind of justification for their beliefs, but what they spout is such nonsense that nobody even listens or gives a damn. If Hilary becomes President we'll have all these feminist academic-types blabbing non-stop about how great she and all women are. That is a state of affairs I really don't want. It's bad enough as it is.
So the conclusion is possibly that I am more misogynistic than racist. The truth is I'm not really misogynistic, I just hate that class of women that make an issue about their gender when it is entirely irrelevant, like when it comes to philosophy or politics. And then they make it their life's work to defeat as many men as possible (whilst simultaneously engaging in general bitchiness with female competitors). I don't hate you because you're a woman. I hate you because you think I hate you because you're a woman. I can see why the evidence tends to support both hypotheses, but the attitude of these women is the result of 1) an uncritical approach to the relation between theory and evidence, 2) the innate desire (which is partially genetic might I add) to want it to be the case that I and other men hate (or discriminate against generally) all women, and possibly 3) the desire to have been born male. Probably only the third of those is a reasonable desire to have, although acting upon it in the way these women do isn't rational.
