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...recent column (“Glass Ceilings and Hypocrisy,” Nov. 21): “relentless gender politicking” has overshadowed Carol Moseley Braun’s presidential campaign. However, it is the media, Larson included, that has engaged in this unceasing emphasis on gender. Ambassador Braun has brought her innovative and exciting message for a better America through single-payer health care, sweeping civil rights advances, logical tax policy, and a global, cooperative foreign policy across the country. The media, however, has largely disregarded her candidacy and the issues she rightly raises, and instead focuses...
Carol Moseley Braun is not running for president because she is a woman. It is true, however, that Ambassador Braun has consistently spoken of her gender as it relates to the importance of broadening the range of participants and perspectives involved in American government. As Braun said during her Hardball interview, “If you can tap the talents of 100 percent of the people, you have a better chance of a better outcome than if you can just tap the talent of half of the people...
...women’s groups who are supporting her are often just as guilty of this double standard. “We look forward to President Carol Moseley Braun taking the ‘men only’ sign off the doors to the White House,” said NWPC President Roselyn O’Connell when the group endorsed her candidacy. “I love Joe Lieberman, but he’s not a woman,” explained C. DeLores Tucker, chair of the National Congress of Black Women, who is also behind Moseley Braun. These...
...Moseley Braun is certainly a qualified candidate—possessing more political experience than many of the other Democratic contenders. She’s spent the past 30 years in politics as an assistant U.S. attorney, a state representative, a county official, a United States senator and U.S. ambassador to New Zealand...
...Moseley Braun wants to be taken seriously as a candidate, she should spend more time discussing the real issues and less time using her campaign as a crusade for the political advancement of women. While female political equality is certainly a worthy cause—one I care about deeply myself—this should not be the central focus of her presidential platform. By ceaselessly distinguishing herself by her gender rather than her positions, she damages her own candidacy and undermines the legitimacy of other women who choose to run for president in the future...