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If I could ask Obama One Question

March 28th, 2008 by stephanie

It would be “Are there any woman outside of your family that you look up to or admire?”

That would be my feminist litmus test. If  he names a teacher from high school or elementary school then he’s pretty much going for the safe answer. A college professor would be better, but a famous women who held some sort of leadership role would be my ideal answer for this question.

I’d like to see if he would defy the convention that says it’s okay to  admire men for being great leaders cause that’s what men are supposed to do but women should not be admired for such traits, and that having those traits would make her a bitch. If he could really walk the feminist walk, or if he felt he could just rise above such questions.

This primary season has focused a lot on gender and race. And if Obama comes out as the winner I think he might have a problem with some women being bitter at Hillary’s loss and opting out of voting on election day. If he’s truly the uniter he says he is I wonder what he would say to ease the sting of Hillary’s loss to those women or if he felt that he had to say anything at all and that they should just vote for him cause he’s the democratic nominee.

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