Democrats Should Be Proud To Have Nominated A Woman

I guess it’s because Hillary Clinton has been in the public consciousness for so long and the fact that she ran so well, but not well enough, in the primaries in 2008 that her clinching the Democratic party nomination for President of the United States seems almost ordinary as opposed to the historic event that it is.  She will be the first female major party candidate in the history of our country. And every Democrat should be proud of the fact that, of the two major parties, our party is the first to nominate a woman as Vice President, an African American man as President, and now a woman as President. It is a credit to all those who fought to enlarge our party – LBJ, Bobby Kennedy, Shirley Chisholm, Geraldine Ferraro, Carole Moseley Braun, Jesse Jackson, Howard Dean, and so many, many others who had a vision for our party and fought and sometimes died to make it happen. I certainly know that when I was a child, the idea that there would be an African American and a woman as the standard bearer of a major party in two consecutive elections was just a dream.  As Democrats, we should all be incredibly proud of the fact that we made these dreams come true.