Take the cilantro, leave the zamboni

Okay, Senator Clinton, some of us have read Tim Wise and know how the Lincoln-Douglas debate format privileges a certain type of educational training, style of oration, and stylized, verbal aggression. While I do not make the full-blown argument that it reinforces all of those forms of privilege when you are a white female senator with an ivy league law degree and your opponent is a black male senator with an ivy league law degree, it WILL very neatly trap him in a no-win situation, where to "win" he has to be verbally aggressive toward you, and to fail to make his points in an aggressive manner will make him seem weak. In other words, while you'll look b*tchy when you're verbally aggressive you won't particularly upset any people any more than you already have, if he's' verbally aggressive it will play into racist fears of the "dangerous black man" stereotype which you seem to wish more people were doing to him already. This, after you've already griped about how badly you were treated in debates. Get real.

Sorry, ma'am, but you really _are_ running a lowest-common-denominator campaign. While I'm afraid of what might happen if we don't hold our noses and vote for you if you end up with the nomination, I can assure you I will have to take Dramamine in order to vote for you without puking, at this point.