Posted on 08/19/2011 12:17:39 PM PDT by ReformationFan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpzDdTrw5II
Ayn Rand's response when asked about the topic of a female president.
See Also:
Why Hillary Cannot be potus; the Arnold Amendment, etc.
http://www.jonchristianryter.com/2007/070914.html
PMS could not come close with what we have now.
Go Sarah!
We are at the mercy of incompetent men because of thinking like this.
Well if they asked ole Ayn if she would vote for a Muslim Brotherhood patron or a limited government conservative woman I think Ayn would say “I wood not voite for the majic Negro”.
She did say unless we hit a real low. Well, Ayn, we are in the dumpster at this point!
Go Palin and Bachman, give em’ hell!
I'm an admirer of Ayn Rand and have read much that she has written. I like her fiction ... I appreciate her non-fiction even more ... and her Objectivism philosophy, of which I am a student.
That having been said, I believe our best presidential candidates currently are the women.
It's my opinion that the "man" in the White House right now is totally incompetent.
Does anyone know what her reasons were?
Found it:
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I do not think that a rational woman can want to be president. Observe that I did not say she would be unable to do the job; I said that she could not want it. It is not a matter of her ability, but of her values.
...when it comes to the post of president, ...do not ask: “Could she do the job and would it be good for the country?” Conceivably, she could and it would - but what would it do to her?
The issue is primarily psychological. . .
...the higher [a woman’s] view of masculinity, the more severely demanding her standards. It means that she never loses the awareness of her own sexual identity and theirs. It means that a properly feminine woman does not treat men as if she were their pal, sister, mother - or leader.
Now consider the meaning of the presidency: in all his professional relationships, within the entire sphere of his work, the president is the highest authority; he is the “chief executive,” the “commander-in-chief.” ...In the performance of his duties, a president does not deal with equals, but only with inferiors (not inferiors as persons, but in respect to the hierarchy of their positions, their work, and their responsibilities).
This, for a rational woman, would be an unbearable situation. ... To act as the superior, the leader, virtually the ruler of all the men she deals with, would be an excruciating psychological torture. It would require a total depersonalization, an utter selflessness, and an incommunicable loneliness; she would have to suppress (or repress) every personal aspect of her own character and attitude; she could not be herself, i.e., a woman; she would have to function only as a mind, not as a person, i.e., as a thinker devoid of personal values - a dangerously artificial dichotomy which no one could sustain for long. By the nature of her duties and daily activities, she would beome the most unfeminine, sexless, metaphysically inappropriate, and rationally revolting figure of all: a matriarch.
For a woman to seek or desire the presidency is, in fact, so terrible a prospect of spiritual self-immolation that the woman who would seek it is psychologically unworthy of the job.
From “An Answer to Readers (About a Woman President),”
The Objectivist, Dec. 1968
What was that quote from Kurt Vonnegut? Something like, "the fatal flaw in our political system is that no one would ever run for President unless they were bat$hit crazy."
I wouldn’t want to do it. That *3AM* crap would cut into my beer drinking time. :oP
“She did say unless we hit a real low. Well, Ayn, we are in the dumpster at this point!”
I think we were already in the dumpster at the point John Edwards campaigned saying “he was more a woman than Hillary Clinton”. Probably the truest thing he ever said, actually.
Ayn Rand was in her 60s in the ‘60s. When she moved to the US women had only had the vote for 6 years. I think it is fair to call her a creature of her times.
Well, Ayn of course never got to meet Sarah Palin. Anyway, Rand had a lot of nutty ideas all rapped around her Objectivist philosophy. She had some damned good ideas also. She of course for whatever reason was an atheist. Oh, that WAS the reason, reason she said. Too bad Ayn went to her grave with those thoughts.
Exactly-She was a woman of her time in many ways, so any quotes by her on the subject have to be taken with a LARGE grain of salt. Rand also received Social Security payments in later life, something she SAID she was against, though if she paid into the system, she was “entitled” to receive something out of it.
First and foremost,thanks for your service to this great nation.I have two former Marines in my family so I am familiar with what it takes to serve in that branch,so you have my undying respect.Having said that I notice you’re a Paul supporter and mentioned Hildabeast by name and not Sarah Palin.I read with interest the link you supplied.
It will be interesting to see what happens when Gov.Palin throws her hat into the ring.I have to ask you though that when the race comes down to Sarah or the Islamic Commie currently stinking up our White House how you will vote?Or will you set out? With respect Gunny,just curious is all.
Appreciate the reply Gunny.
So excellent and so true. Thanks for posting.
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