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    Rejecting Rejection

    Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 12:56 PM | By Emily Yoffe
    The Washington Post's excellent Anne Kornblut is writing a book about the campaign titled (for now at least) Rejection: Why America Isn't Ready for a Woman President. If her thesis truly is that Hillary Clinton lost the nomination because the country was ready for a black man but not a woman, I reject it. Tuesday night I was trying to imagine whether if the victory speech was being given by Clinton would there have been as many tears and spontaneous demonstrations of joy. Certainly there would be some—for the end of the Bush era, for the first woman president—but I think it would have been tempered because of that nagging, dragging sense of "We're BAACCKKK!" Yes, Hillary's gender would have been a break with the past, but everything else would have felt like back to the future. The country was ready to elect a black man because of the black man who put himself forward to be elected. I have no doubt the same thing will happen when the right woman runs.
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