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If Hillary loses, it's Jack Bauer's fault!
Jim Geraghty, National ReviewOver in the Corner, Kathryn [Lopez] looked at poll numbers for the number of Americans who were okay with an African-American and woman president. The African-American numbers are up, but Americans aren't more sure that the country is ready for a woman president; among African-American women, the number actually dropped from 2006. Kathryn wonders about the pop culture effect (Geena Davis, etc.). Let me throw out another example: Since 2006, we saw a second African-American President rise to the occasion to deal with a crisis on 24. (Although in the world of 24, it appears pretty much guaranteed that each Palmer presidency will include at least one nuclear bomb going off on American soil, and at least one attempted coup by the Vice President. In the same day.) We were supposed to see a woman president played by Cherry Jones this year, but the episodes of this season that are completed are on hold until the writer's strike ends (the creators of 24 don't want to show only nine hours of a full day)... and may not be seen for a long, long time. A bad bit of luck for the Hillary campaign. Right about now, we were supposed to be watching Jack Bauer get instructions from a (presumably) tough, in-command woman in the Oval Office... Posted by: Mike 2008-01-22 |
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