Cruel Reflections From The White House's Glass Ceiling

The Washington Post ^ | 1/13/10 | Kathleen Parker

[steve-b]

Ask yourself: Who is likely to be the first female president of the United States?

Anyone? Anyone?

Despite our assumption that a female president is inevitable, and likely soonish, it's surprisingly difficult to come up with a name.

Briefly, Hillary Clinton seemed the obvious answer. For a flicker, Sarah Palin was an entertaining notion -- and remains so among a certain contingent of stubborn optimists....

It is easy to argue that Clinton and Palin are so unique, each in her own way, that inferences about gender in politics can't be drawn. Clinton's role as former first lady and wife of Bill, and all the attendant baggage (not to mention the phenomenon of Barack Obama), inarguably played a bigger role than gender in her defeat. Palin, for all her charm and accomplishments, was not a competent candidate. With her winking and flirting, she made herself unserious to many who otherwise would have supported a woman for vice president....

[phrogphlyer]

I’ve been called a lot of things before, but “stubborn optimist” is a new one.

[ClearCase_guy]

Very few people like strident Leftist women. The first female president will be a Republican. And her name is Sarah.

[xsmommy]

This is rich coming from Kathleen Parker, who contributed mightily to the nastiness directed towards Palin.

[kabar]

Kathleen Parker is an idiot. We don’t need her crap posted here.

[noblejones]

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Kathleen Parker is an idiot. We don’t need her crap posted here.
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Seconded.

What’s next, approved trolls? That’s the sucky thing about Hot Air. They allow the DNC paid thread derailers to urinate on every thread over there.

[VRWCmember]

That’s the sucky thing about Hot Air. They allow the DNC paid thread derailers to urinate on every thread over there.

I pretty much ignore Hot Air. We don't need any paid thread derailers here. Of course, when someone posts a column by an idiot like Parker, it's sort of like putting a new urinal on the wall in the men's room: you know it'll get pissed on.

[Dawgreg]

Hey Kathleen.......bite me and be sure and curtsey when you meet President Palin.....that is if she’ll even entertain the notion to ever see you face-to-face (but I think she has more class than that).

[Carl LaFong]

“What’s next, approved trolls?”
That pretty much describes the poster of this article.

[NeoCaveman]

Palin poll to Freep at the Link.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s sort of silly for Kathleen Parker to now be resorting to feminist boilerplate. Her own fall from grace has nothing to do with any presumed “glass ceiling,” and everything to do with her own catty stereotyping of Sarah Palin, that laid bare an inbred cliquishness borne of a provincial, narrow mind.

[bboop]

KP — the strident leftists are on the wane. It’s not about gender, it is about competence. (At least to some of us).

PS — No thanks to you for your bitterness towards Sarah Palin. Jealousy is SO unbecoming.

[RegulatorCountry]

Would MurryMom by any other name still smell like the DUmp?

[tx_eggman]

Ah, steve-b, consistency is thy middle name.

F the haters

[wardaddy]

glass celings my frigging ass

Womyn dominate plenty of fields.

there is nothing better than being a pretty and intelligent woman with ambition in this country today...nothing

[wardaddy]

i don’t like strident women of any stripe

i don’t know how my brethren up north handle it.....conservative men are welcome to come down here and share in our bounty

*yes there a few chinny southern gals....lonely ones

seriously though....many women the more educated and brainwashed they get the more strident....it infects what passes for education today unless they know better

[Republic of Texas]

I would read this whole article, but it’s from the WaPo which makes it irrelevant.

[freekitty]

I agree.

[el_texicano]

Kathleen Parker??? All this sounds like the rantings of a bitter and resentful woman...

Sigh...so now I am a “stubborn opportunist”? Whatever...Kathleen - Talk to the hand...

[okie01]

...and everything to do with her own catty stereotyping of Sarah Palin, that laid bare an inbred cliquishness borne of a provincial, narrow mind.

Paradoxical isn't it, that "a highly educated cosmopolitan member of the Washington establishment" can be accused of possessing "a provincial, narrow mind"?

But it's pretty clear now that the most provincial minds in America are in Washington and New York.