Spain's New Defense Minister Is Pregnant

AP and AOL News ^ | 16 April 08 | DANIEL WOOLLS

[RightWhale]

The Gov of Alaska is expecting in a few weeks. Feminists do not seem to be part of the discussion.

[Night Hides Not]

Carme Chacón contrajo el 14 de diciembre de 2007 matrimonio con el periodista Miguel Barroso, ex secretario de Estado de Comunicación en la VIII Legislatura.

Doin' the math...headline should have read:

Defense Minister in Shotgun Wedding

[SkyPilot]

The "37 year old" part doesn't inspire a lot of confidence either...

Exactly. The long and short of it is that she is vastly under qualified to be Secretary of Defense for her nation.

[snugs]

The age does not worry me as in Europe and Britain we tend to have younger people in government than in the States but if she really does not have much experience that worries me.

Depends on what you call experience in some ways dependent upon how they run the department the only experience for a governmental official may be good organization and managing a budget they may leave the military bit to the military similar as to how we do in Britain. The defense minister overseas and implements the government policy but to a great extent how it is carried out is the job of the military chief of staffs etc.

[OeOeO]

This is Zapatero’s display of his contempt for the military.
I would like to see NATO disbanded. The Euros can then form their all girl, all gay army. Disgraceful.

[Tallguy]

The defense minister overseas and implements the government policy but to a great extent how it is carried out is the job of the military chief of staffs etc.

Hadn't considered that dimension. Thanks.

The problem is that, taken as a whole, she looks unqualified. Age, no prior military experience, an affirmative-action cabinet (9 Women vs. 8 Men) -- it all suggests that she is likely to be unqualified.

[Antoninus]

What's more amazing is that a Spanish woman is actually having a baby. Their fertility rate is at like 0.00003/children per woman or something, isn't it?

[Cheburashka]

Well, to pick nits, at the time of the wedding she was Minister of Housing, not Defense.

Of course now as Minister of Defense she has her pick of the shotguns, doesn’t she?

[Night Hides Not]

Well, to pick nits, at the time of the wedding she was Minister of Housing, not Defense.

Thanks for picking that nit! Maybe Zapatero didn't like what she was putting in her house.

Typical bureaucrat...screw up, move up.

[StormEye]

"So does anyone know why she got the job? Forget female, forget pregnant, why is she qualified?

Like all Marxists/Lefists regimes, the current Spanish government hates traditional Spain and seeks complete societal change and upheaval. Look at the Spanish government and you'll see what the Democrat Party has in store for America. By tearing society apart and mocking its traditions and mores they hope to solidify their power permanently by changing the usually conservative mindset of the populace. Of course this woman is probably totally unqualified for the post she occupies. That's the whole point of her appointment. To mock and insult the traditional male ethos of Spanish society and its military.

[johnnyd]

Calling Maury...Maury Povich...you call on the white courtesy phone.

[johnnyd]

Calling Maury...Maury Povich...you have a call on the white courtesy phone.

[Clock King]

Well put, it’s a symbolic emasculating of the military.

[J Aguilar]

It is a way to insult the Spanish army and show that the Socialist government can do whatever it wants.