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" The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. "

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" Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife. "

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" 'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism. "

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