The Gender Card

Much has been made of playing "the race card" in this presidential primary season, but one has to wonder if in this video clip below, Zbigniew Brzezinksi, former National Security Adviser and father to MSNBC's Morning Joe program co-anchor Mika Brzezinksi, on which program he was appearing, isn't playing a card of his own, this time, "the gender card."

The comparisons to his travel agent and Mamie Eisenhower are grossly flawed at their base. Did his travel agent travel to countries as a representative of the United States, either as a resident of the White House or a member of the U.S. Senate? Did Mamie Eisenhower graduate from law school, practice at a prestigious law firm, go to work on behalf of children's interests, and serve in the Senate for seven years? One cannot even rightly compare the climate of 1960 and that election to one in 2008, and as much as one tries, one cannot make the shoe that once fit John F. Kennedy somehow squeeze onto the foot of Barack Obama.