Obama: Global gender quotas for legislators

brookings ^ | 8/12/10 | brookings

[NativeNewYorker]

President Obama is releasing a plan for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 ...MDG 3: “Eliminate gender disparity,” commits to closing the gender gap in all education levels and increasing female representation in the wage employment and national parliaments.

[NativeNewYorker]

Not lacking in ambition that Barry Soetero...

[massgopguy]

Of course there’ll be an exception for countries under Sharia Law.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Women already outnumber men in colleges.

But that's OK.

[BenLurkin]

Insanity.

The guy is a lunatic.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Of course there’ll be an exception for countries under Sharia Law.

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #3: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."

[Oratam]

What percentage do women make up of the American workforce right now. I would guess it’s 50 percent or better.

[Pessimist]

Just finished reading Rules For Radicals last night.

Interesting on several levels, really. And an easy read.

One thing he had right that most could agree with is what drives human beings (their own self interest). He even cited Adam Smith on that! :)

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Okay Mr. Skittles, lets start with the mid-east. I want a report from you on the achievement of gender legislators for Saudi Arabia and Iran by the State of the Union address. Maybe a couple of more bows will do it.

[edcoil]

So they will force women to run for office and for voters to vote for them and if not, simply assign representation to groups or states?

[Marty62]

Obama’s commitment to invest $2 billion in a Global Fund for Education to achieve universal primary education.

HUMMMM seems to be an afro Centic bunch. NO not American Blacks. Africa.

[FourPeas]

Another stupid idea brought to you by The Worst President in United States’ History.

[ully2]

Maybe he will start in the Middle East.

[tacticalogic]

I thought the sexually confused special interest lobby had declared “gender” an irrelevant societal construct?

[depressed in 06]

With or without burqa?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Interesting on several levels, really. And an easy read.

Just a degenerate version of Machiavelli's "The Prince."

[StonyMan451]

His latest move to garner support for making him President of the World?

[Clioman]

“With just five years left before the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the world is running out of time.”

How can anyone over the age of 15 write such stuff without giggling? The world isn’t running out of time—that’s the one thing that’s in ample supply. The world is running out of wealth, and the ability to create it.

[tanknetter]

The guy is a lunatic.

I've come to believe that things like this are deliberately intended to appeal to the far left and wealthy left to keep their partisan morale up and keep them turning out and, more importantly opening their wallets.

[lady lawyer]

Gender quotas for legislators eliminates the right of the voters to freely select whomever they want.

[KarlInOhio]

But my Sarah Palin/Michele Bachmann cloning laboratory is underfunded and behind schedule.