You bring up the exact point I wanted to make, Strangelet. The physical appearance of candidates has been an issue, and played a role in campaign successes, ever since the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon race, when the first ever televised debate was aired. I won't deny that there is clearly some misogyny involved for some people regarding Hillary, just as there is undoubtedly racism playing a part in some dislike of Obama. But Where Elton John is concerned, I think he's way off base. If you look back,
he also railed on the US for being racist in 2004 because some black competitors on American Idol were kicked off the show. Nevermind that the winner that year, and the year before incidentally, were both black....Elton John basically just assumes the worst regardless of the facts surrounding the case at hand. Like the fact that Hillary is running a horrible, dirty, dishonest, disorganized, inconsistant, divisive campaign.