While I was watching the results of the primaries in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, the network news anchors repeated the same theme ad naseum: This competition, at least among the Democratic candidates, is historic because of the race and sex of the two leading candidates.
While it may be historic that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is part black and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is a woman and neither a black nor a woman has served as president of the United States, one can question how important sex and race should be to the election.
The answer is that they should have no relevance as to choice of candidate.
The role of the president of the United States is to govern the country in the best interests of all citizens to the best of one’s ability and within the limits of the Constitution and the rule of law. Yet the left-wing pundits, in their obsession with the “holy trinity” of race, class, and sex, seem convinced that what matters is one’s sex or skin color.
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