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Are Obama & Clinton Above Criticism II?

In this recent post I discussed what some regard as the very real possibility that it is impossible to criticize Obama without being called a racist or Hillary (or is that Billary?) without being called a sexist.

The evidence mounts:

Women turn on ?traitor? Oprah Winfrey for backing Barack Obama.

Next, Joan Walsh, editor in chief of Salon, reports from Las Vegas that in San Francisco in 1984 she and a friend

cheered speeches by Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro together, so happy for the step forward both candidates provided to the party. There was little to cheer today. ?Have you ever seen anything like this?? he asked me, with some alarm. I had to tell him no. Maybe we have to pass through this state of bitterness and chaos to get to a multiracial promised land, but it?s not going to be a fun trip.

A typical exchange from the caucus she witnessed:

It was union member vs. union member, men against women, blacks against Latinos. An AFSCME worker (she wouldn?t give me her name) was riling up the Clinton crowd, and got into a shouting match with an Obama supporter. ?Hillary Clinton has never walked a picket line in her life,? shouted Ray Wadsworth, an African-American pantry worker at Bally?s casino who was just laid off. ?I?ve walked picket lines with Hillary Clinton,? the AFSCME woman shouted back. A Latina worker at Paris started yelling at Wadsworth: ?Show respect, she?s a woman!?

Our national politics has been characterized for a long time by an over-abundance of disagreement, disgruntlement, and distrust. It appears that if either Obama or Hillary is elected the ?change? will be adding charges of ?disrespect.?

Full post as published by Discriminations on January 20, 2008 (boomark / email).