Prometheus 6

This woman is getting on my nerves.

Clinton cleared the hurdles often cited as holding American women back, yet she is unlikely to surmount the final barrier. So you have to wonder.

Is it something about Hillary, or something about us?

This is one of my rules of thumb to screen out nonsense: immediately discount anyone who uses "we" and "us" in a way that obviously does not include themselves.

Cosbyites should also take note of that.

A woman? Yes. But not that woman.

It is the platitude of the moment, an automatic rejoinder to any suggestion that Hillary Clinton has struggled so desperately -- and so far unsuccessfully -- to grasp the Democratic presidential nomination in some measure because she is female.