But will Obama live up to the hype? That, I fear, may not happen: he is a deeply flawed candidate. Rampant sexism may have triumphed only to make way for racism to rear its gruesome head in America yet again. By election day on 4 November, I suspect, the US media and their would-be-macho commentators may have a lot of soul-searching to do.
Yes, according to the author, our only options are to be sexist pigs or racist pigs. Either outcome demonstrates that we are a deeply flawed nation. And that, afterall, is the real objective.