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RUSH: If you weren\u2019t here yesterday, Josh Gerstein in the New York Sun wrote a story about the Breck Girl, John Edwards and Kate Michelman, who used to run NARAL, the big abortion group. She said of all the guys out there, he\u2019s closest to understanding women. The headline of the story: ‘Edwards: Could He Be the First Female President?\u2019 So we decided we\u2019re going to need a John Edwards update on this, and we commissioned Paul Shanklin to go out and do a takeoff of Helen Reddy\u2019s ‘I am Woman\u2019 sung by John Edwards, as portrayed vocally by Paul Shanklin. We just got it. I\u2019ve not heard it yet. I want to see here if it\u2019s any good, if it\u2019ll go in the rotation. So we\u2019re listening together on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

(Playing of ‘I am Woman\u2019 parody.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.) Paul Shanklin as John Edwards, the Breck Girl, and ‘I am Woman.\u2019 Okay, that\u2019s a keeper. That shows up in the rotation for our upcoming John Edwards updates. There\u2019s more to this New York Sun story: “The leader of a group that endorses and funds female candidates supportive of abortion rights, Ellen Malcolm of Emily\u2019s List, said Mr. Edwards\u2019s sensitivity can only go so far. ‘Every once in a while we get in a primary race where a man says he\u2019s the best woman in the race. I\u2019ve never seen a candidate win with that argument yet. It\u2019s just ridiculous,\u2019 she said. ‘Hillary Clinton has spent her entire adult life working on behalf of women and children. She has a unique experience as a woman who has faced the obstacles in the way of women,\u2019 Ms. Malcolm, whose organization has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, said. ‘No white man can understand the experience a woman has to go through to move ahead.'”<\/p>\n

I think every man understands it. We have the tire treads on his back to prove it. (Only kidding, ladies.) Jim Taranto at OpinionJournal.com says, ”No white man\u2019? Someone will have to explain that racist non sequitur to us. While you\u2019re at it, try to make sense of Malcolm\u2019s claim that Mrs. Clinton is ‘unique\u2019 for having ‘faced the obstacles in the way of women.\u2019 Apparently she is the only woman ever to face the obstacles that are in the way of them all. In any case, there\u2019s something odd and pathetic about this whole exercise. Did Margaret Thatcher campaign on the claim that as a woman she had a unique understanding of ‘the reality of women\u2019s lives\u2019? Did Golda Meir or Indira Gandhi? Doubtless America will one day have a female president. But our guess is it\u2019ll be someone whose appeal transcends sex–who tries to win votes not from women qua women but from men and women qua citizens. So far that would seem to exclude both Mrs. Clinton and John Edwards.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just more Balkanization of our society. No white man. Can black men understand it? That\u2019s what it says here: ‘No white man can understand the experience a woman has to go through to move ahead.\u2019 What an appropriate time to have to do this, too. It\u2019s an absurd statement. I don\u2019t even really know what it means, except this woman obviously is out there thinking that she is a huge victim and that all women are victims and men can\u2019t understand victimization. Sorry, white men. White men. That\u2019s right. White men can\u2019t understand victimization. That has to be what it is.<\/p>\n

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