Posted on 05/21/2007 8:35:38 PM PDT by neverdem
May 28, 2007 issue - It wasn't supposed to be like this. When we were parsing the possibility, dreaming the dream, cruising past President Barbie in her jaunty tricolor accent scarf in the aisles of Evolved Toys, we imagined the endgame: a woman at the podium and the distaff side of the aisle going nuts, seeing decades of slow, steady progress embodied in a single individual. Good morning, Ms. President.
The moment has arrived when a woman could well be the Democratic nominee: Hillary Rodham Clinton, smart, experienced, sure-handed. "Help make history!" her Web site says. So how come the response has been so guarded? Where are the cheers and the confetti?
The truth is that Senator Clinton has a woman problem, but it's not the one we all might have envisioned decades ago. Certainly there may be Americans who covertly balk at the notion of a female president, despite what they may tell pollsters. And every time Clinton is described as calculating or ambitious, you realize that such words are never used for male politicians because for them both traits are assumed—and accepted. Old habits die hard. In the first Republican presidential debate, moderator Chris Matthews asked the contenders how they would feel about having Bill Clinton back in the White House. In a single sentence he turned the Democratic front runner into the Little Woman, a mere adjunct to her husband.
And of course there is that immovable group who have long hated Hillary Clinton for reasons too psychologically complex to be deconstructed, the people who wouldn't vote for her if she were running against Osama bin Laden. But in some weird fashion, the woman thing, as we like to call it, is playing a larger role among her natural supporters than her opponents. When we imagined a...
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“Help make history!”
Hitler made history. John Wilkes Booth made history. Heck, even the incompetent Jimmy Carter made history.
I’d say making history is very overrated.
Sick article.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837524/posts
There is some history that Hillary cannot hide from. Her own sordid, evil history. Check it out. A good historical review.
Chancellor Serpentine?
psychologically complex reasons?
Let’s try the succint version.
I don’t hate Hilary, but I don’t want her as president for the following reasons.
1) She’s a liberal. That alone is enough.
2) She will say anything or do anything to get what she wants. This is a trait I despise whether it’s a man or a woman we’re talking about.
3) No criminal convictions, but that’s only because of who she is. Lots of shady deals in her past, and probably her future too.
4) Congenital liar and head-bobber
Hillary’s BIGGEST problem is that her last name is Clinton.
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HILLARY RODHAM & BILL CLINTON’s supporting of an invading terrorist Communist North Vietnam’s push to take over a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War =
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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. MoviePremieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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i have this horrible feeling that she’s our next president.
every thing bush does, promotes a democrap win in 2008.
That would fall under point #2. :)
The feminist chattering class (of whom Anna Quindlen is a prime example) is disappointed with Hillary. Too late!
the Chancellor!!! hey on another matter... the Senate vote of no-confidence on Gonzales is like Star Wars congress.
- Tagline headache!
Terrific graphic potlatch!
Lol, I have that one too!
Hillary’s biggest problem is that she is. Just ask Bill about that one.
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