Hill: It's Madame Prez time

New York Daily News ^ | April 12, 2005 | Rush & Molloy

[presidio9]

Sen. Hillary Clinton has been in politics long enough enough to know that polls can be misleading.

So she told us yesterday that, despite a recent survey that indicated only 68% of men would be willing to vote for a female president, she thinks the time is right.

"It depends on the woman," she said at the New York Women in Communications Matrix Awards luncheon yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria. Indeed, the New York legislator may very well be that woman on the 2008 Democratic ticket.

Cristiane Amanpour agreed.

"I feel Americans will be ready to empower a woman."

And CBS' Lesley Stahl added, "It's always distressed me that in macho places in Europe and Asia the parliamentary system can produce women prime ministers but somehow our system can't manage that."

Oprah Winfrey exclaimed: "That's about how women see other women. Do we see ourselves as capable and strong? I'm going to have to change this!"

And you know that she will.

[hershey]

Give Hill another taste of the White House and we're definitely toast.

[hershey]

Hill has got a stranglehold on the dem. nomination, and they all know it. Everybody else is jockeying for the V.P. slot.

[hershey]

Hill would rule by fiat or issue such a blizzard of executive orders that congress and the country would throw up its hands in defeat. Mandate, shamandate. Hill would claim anything she liked, and the MSM would parrot the lie to the rooftops.

[hershey]

Seeing yourself as capable and strong is all very well and good, but there must be something real to back it up. This isn't a national woman makeover therapy session with Hill as the star. It's the most powerful office in the world, and Hill is simply inadequate, incompetent, not to mention evil and without conscience or morals. If the country were stupid enough to elect her, we'd possess a national death wish.

[hershey]

Newt doesn't stand a chance at the nomination, but he clearly wants to be a player. Hence his visits to N.H..

[hershey]

What is going on? The Sandy Berger slide in particular...those pesky missing FBI files Hill has under her bed?

[hershey]

As far as Oprah, Leslie, etc. are concerned, Condi Rice is invisible.

[hershey]

When the Pope died, only did the MSM fail to mention Margaret Thatcher in discussions of how the Cold War ended, they never mentioned RR!

[Gipper08]

Sanford and Pence's name ID nation wide are both less than 3%.Sanford's name Id advantage is nominal.Pence has a new profile in a major paper every week,while Sanford and Allen have none.As I have been saying for a year Sanford will not run and is strongly supporting John McCain.Name ID is not a problem,that is why we have the primary.

[hershey]

Bill Clinton is a narcissistic sociopath, quick-witted, charming, conscienceless, and utterly unable to empathize with others. Everything is always about him. Events big and small, no matter, it's all Bill...all the time. We're lucky to have survived eight years of him.

[hershey]

We mustn't forget Martha Stewart, democratic party donor, soon to have her own tv talk show.

[sport]

hillary will be the Democrat nominee.

Whether she will be elected President or not depends on three things.

1. Who the Republicans nominate.
2. How the Republicans handle the illegal immigration issue.
3. How the Senate Republicans handle the juducial nomination issue.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Good call. Though, politics aside, she is my favorite Capitalist. How she justifies the two is beyond me, but these people can justify anything as they prove to do on a daily basis.

http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/Martha_Stewart.php

[finnigan2]

"fuhggetaboutit. hitlery is NOT going to be president."

- I believe you seriously underestimate the power of all those left leaning women and metro sexual men who have access to a newspaper column and/or television air time and who are salivating to get their left wing heroine back into the White House. The fact that Slick will be there with her is just icing on the cake for them as they see that as the perfect revenge against all those right wing Christian fanatics who oppose them.
If you think the MSM went out of it's way to tilt the playing field in favor of Kerry in the last election, you ain't seen nothing yet. If the Republican candidate in 2008 can't be smeared, he will be ignored. It will be all Hitlery, all the time.

[AVNevis]

"Sanford and Pence's name ID nation wide are both less than 3%.Sanford's name Id advantage is nominal.Pence has a new profile in a major paper every week,while Sanford and Allen have none.As I have been saying for a year Sanford will not run and is strongly supporting John McCain.Name ID is not a problem,that is why we have the primary."

True, but unknown governors usually can get more name ID than unknown house members.

[Gipper08]

I agree,USUALLY that is true.Pence is the exception.

[Gipper08]

BTW,you have a great blog.I did not know anything when I was your age.

[jetson]

So she told us yesterday that, despite a recent survey that indicated only 68% of men would be willing to vote for a female president, she thinks the time is right.

Ah...hardly.

[inquest]

True, but I think that most voters want a level of experience in their Commander in Chief beyond that of a State Senator.

GWB didn't have very much experience at being anything like a Commander in Chief prior to becoming Commander in Chief. Ditto for Reagan. Governor certainly doesn't prepare you for that job any more than state senator does. It's not like governors have to command armies for sustained conflicts, and deal with deaths under their command and things like that.

What's mostly needed for the job is level-headedness, the ability to handle pressure, and the ability to be effective in getting your ideas across in the political arena. Everything I've heard about McClintock suggests that he's got those qualifications. If he does, that'll come across to the voters.

[inquest]

Hill would rule by fiat or issue such a blizzard of executive orders that congress and the country would throw up its hands in defeat. Mandate, shamandate. Hill would claim anything she liked, and the MSM would parrot the lie to the rooftops.

If Congress rolls over for her when she doesn't have a mandate, then we'll know that there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans, and we should give up on them altogether. This is a good chance for Republicans to finally learn how to grow some backbone, because they sure as hell don't have any now. It needs to be sink-or-swim for them.