It’s a dangerous line of thinking that Obama is pursuing there — inciting really — to suggest that, as NYTimes reporter Robin Toner puts it on today’s front page — “the best candidate for women may, in fact, be a man.” Of course John Edwards, a big ole feminist himself, sent his wife to make the same point this past summer.

The thinking is dangerous because, once you go there, of course, it is possible that the best male candidate for women is not the most feminist man, but, say, the most serious-about-national-security-man. Or, perhaps, the most low-tax man. (Women pay taxes too!…. a slogan there for the taking.)

This might be more complicated if there was a woman on the GOP ticket. Of course, traditionally feminists have had no trouble dismissing conservative women as “not real women.” So, Obama is a real woman? Is Hillary? What does “is” mean? Need more coffee….