Opening Argument - Perils of the Race and Gender Cards

by Stuart Taylor Jr

Sat. Jan. 26, 2008


Playing the race card is not really Barack Obama's style. Although happy to use his racial identity as an asset, he seeks to transcend it by getting beyond obsessing about racial grievances. This is not easy in a party that has long wallowed in the politics of group grievance. It is especially difficult when running against a woman who has so assiduously used the gender card while profiting from her own victimization at the hands of the same unfaithful husband who now joins her in tag-team distortions of Obama's record.

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