We now know there's a broad range of sexuality

Gender identification and personal expression

suggest that there's nothing absolute about gender

The traditional models of what is 'masculine'

or 'feminine' are less static then previously believed

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Keywords: transsexual, sex, gender

Clinton's support among the working class

provides her with the electability argument

- that Obama is a modern-day George McGovern,

the pet of the party's privileged liberals

"How can we have a nominee who can't

win the votes of working-class people?"

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Keywords: distribution, wealth, 2008, capitalism, president, class

"If Obama started talking like John Edwards and tapped into working-class, blue-collar proletarian rage, suddenly all of those white voters who are viewing him within the lens of transcendence would start seeing him differently," says Charles Ellison of the University of Denver's Center for African American Policy.

That's because once Obama parroted Edwards' attacks on greed and inequality, he would "be stigmatized as a candidate mobilizing race," says Manning Marable, a Columbia University history professor.

That is, the media would immediately portray him as another Jesse Jackson -- a figure whose progressivism has been (unfairly) depicted as racial politics anathema to white swing voters.

Remember, this is always how power-challenging African- Americans are marginalized.   more »

America has always been united-in-captivity; a nation kept docile and truth- suppressed, as if the clear divide did not exist.

So the elite needs to put the lid on the simmering, at times boiling, pot and hypocritically give the salute: "God bless America."

So there is a chasm between whites and blacks, Hispanics and non-Hispanics, women and men, young and old; but we don't like to spread the "horrible" truth of un-American disunity.

Give me a break! Ours is a "United States" not a "United People"… and just as some have experienced that "American dream," many others have had to endure that well-hidden "American nightmare."   more »

I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody.

I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again.

What’s particularly saddening is the way many Obama supporters seem happy with the application of “Clinton rules” — the term a number of observers use for the way pundits and some news organizations treat any action or statement by the Clintons, no matter how innocuous, as proof of evil intent.   more »