Help make history, or else!
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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Ya, some taglines are like that!
Thanks on the graphics!
LOL LOL !!
Kinda like Ahma and the two missiles!
Oh wow, do I have fun with 'spell check' now!
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or one who has 20 year old interns perform felatio on him while heads of state are kept waiting outside of the oral office.
How aboutr a little honest perspective here.
Did she not just call Berry Hussein Obama the 'Magical' Negro?
MY gawd, that is racist!!
Agreed. The companies that manufacture fertilizer should invest in MSNBC, which puts out more cr*p than anything else on this earth.
I noticed that, too. I think she's saying he's not as "magical" as he was, so apparently he's Berry Hussein Obama The Not-So-Magical Negro. Is that more or less racist than calling him the Magic Negro?
shhh.
You are making too much sense. Let's get outraged over her obviously racist remark and see if we can get her borked or Imus'd.
Thanks for the link.
Anna Quindlen is a dumb twat.
5) Inherently dislikeable.
6) Personality of a Komodo Dragon.
7) Entitlement syndrome.
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