Jan 20 2008
The Dems are Worried.
Paul Starr in The Washiington Post is worried that the Dems are going to blow it again. Some of what he says makes sense, for instance that it’s unfortunate for them to have the first woman and the first black with a chance of winning running at the same time, but much of it is pure hogwash. Take this about Hillary:
Throughout her career, she has stirred an irrational hatred that is not primarily of her own making. To much of the public, when she is tough, she seems unwomanly and therefore inhuman; when she is soft, she seems unfit to be commander in chief. It’s the old double bind that women have always faced in acquiring power, but wishing it weren’t so won’t make the dilemma vanish.
There is nothing irrational about the hatred she stirs, it’s what happens to greedy, unethical, inhuman people.As for what he calls the double bind a woman is in when seeking power, puhleese. The problem is it’s all a facade, she doesn’t have a genuine bone in her body, the Southern drawl she affected when addressing a Southern church audience is just another example of it. Maggie Thatcher, Golda Meir, Indira Ghandi to name just a few, didn’t have this problem. It’s called being grown up.
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Quite frankly, I would be hard pressed to vote for any woman, much less a bottom feeder like Hillary. I will never vote for a black American who hyphenates his nationality, much less a black separatist with far too many ties to Islam.
This is why I think the next Pres will be a Rep. When you think about it, the Dems haven’t come up with a decent candidate since at least LBJ. and that, amazingly enough, was over forty years ago. I mean you might not agree with what he did but at least he was a real politician with years of real experience. Actually, he and the Clintons have a lot in common, specially the crooked as a dog’s hind leg part.
PS. I’d vote for Maggie any time.
My dear Ligneus, ever the optimist. The sad thing is that none of the Repubs are conservatives. McCain is a poster child for the RINO crowd and Romney I’m not convinced has the balls to defeat the islamists. I tend to favor Gulianni but worry the damn evangelicals will weaken the GOP and his chances by focusing on their issues, which are important, but not more important than ending the Islamic threat. Huckabee isn’t worth more than spit and last I heard, Fred might bow out. Hunter was the only worthy contender but he’s gone too.
I would vote for Maggie too, but our world seems to have been depleted of leaders of her stature and abilities.