Clinton and crime: Wald endorses Obama

Speaking for the Older Women: On Obama and Clinton

by Patricia Wald

I have spent more than 40 years of my near-80 in public service as a federal judge, international judge, public interest lawyer and government official. A veteran of the woman’s movement since its infancy in the 1960s, an ardent Democrat and an equally ardent supporter of women’s right-to-choose, to work, to live as we see fit, and yes, one day to elect a woman president. I hail the advances in my lifetime that have resulted in Senator Clinton’s dynamic bid for the presidency.

But women my age fought for the opportunity to be judged on our skills, talents and abilities, not on our gender, and that is the standard by which Senator Clinton’s candidacy should be judged. Perhaps we were naïve, but legions of us believed that if we were allowed to enter the game alongside men, we would prove

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