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Obama's supporters have seemingly hung all kinds of expectations and inchoate longings on the man. With some Hilary supporters, I believe that the only similarity comes from those who have hopes and dreams of having a woman's perspective drive this country for a change--a much smaller group.
It's a different time and place now, but I recall my Jr. High and HS days when many people were really adopting an in-your-face activist stance for women's issues while other students were suddenly "Blacks" with "Fros" and new attitudes of Black Empowerment. Of course, now we are a much more multicultural country since the waves of immigration from around the world which has tended to drown out much of the previous discussions on women and our Black population.
During this campaign it seems like a lot of Unresolved Issues are once again rising to the surface because they've only been shoved under the rug. Neither women nor Blacks have progressed as much as they could have hoped. Ferraro and Wright's positions are just symptoms of the perception that there is a limited resource pie to slice up and each side wants to be first at the table. With the economy potentially going under, *that* is probably going to eventually trump all hope of reparations/focus on the "non-have" population or more emphasis on women's issues. Nothing is going to happen without MONEY flowing toward the issues we care about. If our jobs are going away and most of us see struggle ahead, I don't where this $ energy will come from. My main concern is getting the hell out of Iraq, for starters, to stop spending money there but neither candidate seems to want to move quickly.
THE Q: If your candidate can do is get elected, but can't do much about the domestic issues you care about, will that be enough for you? If all your candidate does is encourage a better feeling toward the US on the part of foreign countries, is that enough? If all your candidate does is oust a Republican, is that enough? What must your candidate accomplish/strive for as the minimum for you to be satisfied you voted for him/her?
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