I've seen many of these feminist women on TV expressing their frustration and almost demanding Hillary be elected.
They spend the vast majrity of their "on air" time inisting that Hillary be elected because she's a mowan. This is best chance we've ever had for electing a women. It will be a long time before we get this chance again (which I don't believe btw) Etc ETc.
It's almost all just because she's a woman, occasionally they will bring "experience" somewhere.
It sounds so blantantly sexist to me. I've not heard one make a case that she's a better candidate.
I think for those who believe you should choose on the basis of who's going to be a better President, that's kind of a "turn-off".
Also strikes as making a simultanious, yet unspoken, argument for Obama along teh very same lines. Sureky this best chance a black person has had every had at being President too.
Personaly, it's hard for to feel that women are so oppressed. I'm older than here, yet throughout my adult professional life I've seen so many women in positions of authority. When working at the big Int;l CPA firms we had plenty of women partners. Half of my direct superiors have been women.
I see women:
1. State Governors, there are quite a few of them. This is why I disagree with the notion that there will be no more women pres candidates for a long time. Governors are where our pres cadidates typically come from.
2. Leader of the US House, Nancy Pelosi
3. The US senator from here is a woman (E. Dole).
4. The state senator here is a woman (Trudi Walend)
5. US Secretary of State (Albright & Rice)
6. Women as the CEO/Pres of Fortune 500 comapnys (Carli Fiorna SP?)
7. Women as Generals in the US military (General at Abu Graihb)
8. Woman serial killer (Ailleen Wournos sp?)
9. Women astronauts. So common no one cares anymore.
I don't think Hillary's problem is that she's a woman. It's that's she is a Clinton, and for who she is.
She's also gotta play the hand she was delt. She's not the "change candidate" (I find it highly questionable that she's even the "experience" candidate - see Biden & Dodd). But the electoriate now wants a change candidate. Timing is everything. Doesn't look to be her "time".
For all the talk about "change", "experience", "style" or policy etc, I think it fair to arrive at the objective conclusion Obama would make a better President based on how each have run their campaigns. Could we expect the same strategic, budgetary, organizational and constantly changing course type problems if Hillatry were to be President? I think it's a fair question and one that does not inspire confidence in her ability.
One day somebody is gonna write a great paper on how this whole "Black v Woman" thing exposes insight into the Dem party of this day & age.
Same above about the Dems primary contest method of alocating votes in a proportional way. If it were winner-take-all I suspect that there would be a clear-cut nominee already. McCain's vote total wasn't all that far ahead of Romney, yet he got all the delgates. Looked like more of a landslide than it was.
Edit: Forgot to say I find it more than a little telling that women can be feel comfortable saying that we need to vote for Hillary because she IS a woman. Yet black persons don't feel equally comfortable saying the same about Obama (vote for him because he is Black).
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