Posted on 02/23/2007 5:17:34 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Elections: The rise of female candidates in upcoming elections around the world is being hyped as progress. But these are hardly Margaret Thatchers on the hustings. It's more like an Evita Peron revival.
The candidacies of three women — all of them in lead positions — are particularly visible. The media are touting them as political breakthroughs, which implies that some kind of conspiracy has kept women out of high office. Go tell that to Thatcher or Golda Meir or Michelle Bachelet.
That, however, hasn't stopped Hillary Clinton from comparing herself to Thatcher on one of her first campaign stops. The two other candidates, meanwhile, are calling themselves Hillarys — Cristina Fernandez, who leads the polls in Evita's own Argentina, and Segolene Royal, a major candidate in France.
Segolene Royal of France, Cristina Fernandez of Argentina, and Hillary Clinton of the United States. "It's the hour of women," said Royal, as she "cafe" klatsched in Paris with Fernandez, who then did her one better: "It's the century of women."
But unlike Thatcher's rise, their candidacies are just the recrudescence of a phenomenon last seen in the rise of Peron, "the best nightclub dancer ever to run Argentina," as P.J. O'Rourke put it.
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Evita ruined the lives of the middle class. Hillary will do the same.
Her parents actually named her after Maggie, before they named her after Sir Edmund. LOL....
Don't even begin to compare today's women political candidates to Eva Peron. No, I'm sorry to say, not even Hillary Clinton. Where was she at 33 years of age?
Evil control freak Eva Peron and her husband took Latin America's most prosperous economy and flushed it down the toilet of state socialism before expiring at the tender age of 33. Argentina hasn't recovered yet.
Anna Nicole Smith's body? Evita's corpse has temporary housing over half a century later due only to a 24/7 armed guard.
Viva la libertad!
And what a magnificent word to describe her, too:
recrudescence: "a renewal of active replication of a pathogenic organism after a period of inactivity."
That's Hill.
Well, all right then. I didn't even know she had died at 33. I thought she had been older. I remember watching a documentary about her and how Eva had actually expected a papal title to be granted to her by the Pope. Thankfully, back then the Pontiff wasn't expected to bow to the whims of evil first ladies. Supposedly it was because she had been a mistress and the audience she had with him was a cold one. Hearing that warmed my little heart.
Don't cry for me, America, I never loved you..
recrudescence: "a renewal of active replication of a pathogenic organism after a period of inactivity."
A couple problems with the analogy.
-- Eva Peron never ran for public office, and only held an appointive one (as head of Fundacíon Eva Peron.
-- Fernandez, Royal and Clinton have run for office, and have political experience in their own right.
-- It's a cheap shot to speak of Royal as a "common law wife". Common law has to do with the Anglo-Saxon legal system, not Napoleónic Code.
Don't cry for me, Arkansa-ans...
Hello, New York City!
Helen Clark ping...
The rise of female candidates in upcoming elections around the world is being hyped as progress. But these are hardly Margaret Thatchers on the hustings. It's more like an Evita Peron revival.The candidacies of three women -- all of them in lead positions -- are particularly visible. The media are touting them as political breakthroughs, which implies that some kind of conspiracy has kept women out of high office. Go tell that to Thatcher or Golda Meir or Michelle Bachelet.
That, however, hasn't stopped Hillary Clinton from comparing herself to Thatcher on one of her first campaign stops.
Here come the Evitas
IBD Editorials ^ | 23 Feb 2007 | Staff
REINVENTING HILLARY... AGAIN
(clinton machine dumps Geena Davis for Margaret Thatcher)
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR 2
HILLARY CLINTON DONS THATCHER GETUP (new proof!) BUT--oops!--EVOKES THE WRONG MARGARET
THE ACCIDENTAL APTNESS OF MISSUS CLINTON'S 'PRESIDENTIAL' MAKEOVER
HILLARY "Zelig" CLINTON: WHEN A CONGENITAL LIAR'S RUTHLESS AMBITION EXCEEDS HER ABILITY
THE 'MATERNALIZATION' OF HILLARY
(CLINTON MACHINE DUMPS THATCHER FOR 'MOTHER')
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR 5
,,, hour, century? No, eternity.
Maybe the comparisons work in Hollywood, where any reality is subject to dramatic license.
Evita was poised to take the presidency and could reasonably be said to be likely to have gotten it had not cancer intervened first. Only death prevented her from becoming president. Isabelita made president, for a time at least, and was appointed. Evita most certainly "ran" for office if you know anything about Argentine politics. The point is this: If there were no Juan, there'd be no Evita. If there were no Bill, there would be no Hillary. If there were no whatsisname, there would be no Sego, if there were no Nestor, there'd be no Cristina. All came prepackaged and a pretty one at that, courtesy of their husbands and their power and their political machines.
What's your problem with 'common law wife' - it describes something, doesn't it? Perhaps you prefer the franker 'shackup'? Or 'unwed mother'? That's what Sego is, for your information. No society can sustain itself on unwed motherhood that you seem to think is embedded in Napoleonic law. Guess what, it isn't.
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