Eric Alterman writes a column in today’s Guardian of London: Whither John Edwards? Things haven't been going his way lately. But running against a black man and a polarizing woman, he's still the most electable Democrat.
Seven paragraphs into his piece he writes:
“Edwards is running left in a country in which much of the left - much too much for my taste - defines its politics in terms of identity. On both scores, he loses to the two frontrunners.”
But virtually every other ‘graph is dedicated to an obsession with the very “identity politics” Alterman feigns to dislike.
To Alterman, Clinton must be viewed mainly in the context of her gender and Obama must be defined mainly by the color of his skin...
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