Now that the dust has settled (sorta), from the 2008 presidential elections, and history has been made with the election of a candidate with a black father and a white mother, over half of the population has been over-looked again, and rather rudely, I might add.
I'm no big fan of the politics of Sen. Hilary Clinton. But she certainly had the qualifications to be president. Yet the news media turned on her with vengeance. She was called a liar, a fool, a racist, and a number of other things. And surprisingly enough, many of her detractors were other women! And when Gov. Sarah Palin was announced as Sen. John McCain's running mate, the news media immediately pounced on her. As with Clinton, some of the accusations were very low blows. She was not only unqualified, but was snickered at as being totally out of her league with the big boys of politics.
Isn't it a bit strange to call a woman governor unqualified to be president when we elected two inexperienced southern governors as president? Carter and Clinton. One, Bill Clinton, came from Arkansas, one of the poorest, most backward states in the nation.
I wonder when this country will be ready for a woman president. Even though Sen. Obama was only half black, black Americans supported him almost 100 percent. Women voters certainly had two choices from opposite spectrums of the political scene, but I guess, they, like most male voters, were looking for the "perfect" woman candidate. Good luck, through the history of this country we've had good presidents and bad ones (much of it based on opinion rather than performance), but none of them were perfect.
The bottom line is that for my daughters, my granddaughter and my nieces, the glass ceiling is still there for any woman seeking the highest office in the land.
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Tom R. Kovach
Nevis
