Posted on 08/15/2013 4:43:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Via RCP, I think shes kidding on the square, exaggerating a bit for effect but otherwise legitimately convinced of what shes saying. Read her column and youll see that it boils down to two points. One: A woman president is more likely to bring peace because women are less warlike or something. (Thus far, she says of Americas 44 male presidents, invasions, bunker-busting mega-bombs and killer drones seem not to be having the desired effect.) That smells more like lazy stereotyping than hard science, but lets grant that its true on average that women are less warlike. Is Hillary average in this regard? Her biggest liability on the left in 2008 was her vote for the Iraq war; she later enthusiastically backed Os intervention in Libya as Secretary of State. She strained repeatedly during the primaries five years ago to get to Obamas right on using military force, once vowing to obliterate Iran if they used nuclear weapons against Israel. Parker herself, for cripes sake, goes on to note that veterans of the famously hawkish Bush administration were pulling for Hillary over Obama because she was better prepared to handle international challenges.
If youre tired of invasions and mega-bombs, shes not the obvious choice. And the irony is, Hillarys positions on those issues were doubtless driven in part by her recognizing that a woman candidate for the presidency will be viewed more skeptically by some voters as a potential commander-in-chief than a man would, precisely because of the stereotype invoked by Parker here. Women leaders wont use guns and bombs when necessary, the stereotype goes; theyre too soft, too interested in dialogue rather than protecting Americas interests. Hillarys wisely sensitive to that and has tried to compensate accordingly. She might continue trying to compensate as president, in which case the women are less warlike rationale is, to borrow a word, obliterated.
Point two: Even in a column touting her as a potential savior of the world (which I guess is de rigueur for Democratic nominees now), Parker cant come up with a solid achievement of Hillarys to tout. Heres the best she can do by way of actual accomplishments:
Rewinding the tape to 1995 at the U.N.s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, then-first lady Hillary Clinton empowered women as never before with just a few words: Human rights are womens rights and womens rights are human rights, once and for all.
To millions, she is a role model and a warrior for womens right to self-determination. As secretary of state, she continued the work of predecessors Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright, who first insisted that womens rights be part of our foreign policy, and then pushed further. Under Hillarys watch, Obama made permanent the Office of Global Womens Issues and appointed longtime Hillary colleague Melanne Verveer as ambassador-at-large
Whether one likes or dislikes Hillary, few dispute that she has matured in her public role. Her résumé can be topped by few and the symbolic power of electing a woman president especially this woman cant be overestimated.
She changed the world for women as never before by uttering a bromide about womens rights at the UN, then continued the work of other secretaries of state in championing womens rights. And shes got a great resume. Thats the case for Hillary, world savior, such as it is. What youre seeing in columns like this, and in the sort of messianism that greeted O in 2008, is identity not only as a substitute for major career achievements but as something actually superior to them. We dont need someone with a track record of significant civic, business, or military accomplishments; we need someone who, by virtue of the historic nature of their candidacy and their own iconic persona, will somehow save the world purely by attaining power. It was unconvincing five years ago. Its less convincing now.
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She’s a doormat. Time to start a blue dress stain tour.
there are many many leftist women and just plain stupid middle of the road women who have been fed that nonsense that the world would be better with women running it. that somehow women would bring peace and happiness and love and we would ALL get along.
Hillary's Master thesis was on Saul Alinsky
and he personally(!!) wanted her to take over as he became sickly.
I knew you could!
Parker has it bad. No wonder she's revealing her girl crush on Hillary.
I do not know why this woman pretends to be conservative when she is obviously insane.
About Kathleen Parker’s Opinion a sh*t I do not give.
As far as i’m concerned, she’s just this side of Hanoi Jane. She deserves absolutely no respect. She is a screeching Harpy air head whom the media claims is a conservative and whom they happily trot out anytime they need a pet “conservative” to bash an actual conservative.
She should be denounced as a troll at every opportunity.
This whole Hillary! Worship is exactly what the low information voters (LIV) get.
How could any reasonable American want that woman as the first US female president is beyond me.
The Klintoons are the ORIGINAL SOURCE of the “Politics of Personal Destruction”.
They started it in ARK with the McDougal stuff and carried out the most effective blacklisting of people. Billy Dale and the Travel Office come to mind?
900 FBI files in the White House? Rose Law Firm records?
Severe memory trauma at the Court hearings...
Not a pretty picture at age 72 either...but that would be sexist and homophobic?.
Well , until she runs out of bodies , or.. bump ,.. bump , .. bump ..,bump .. runs out of Ambassadors !
But "At this point ,.. what difference does it make ?? "
Sarah Palin just might save the world
so run for President in 2016 Sarah Palin, you can beat hitlery
Hillary would just further the Obama agenda to turn the USA into a fully socialist state.
that’s not what I want nor what works.
i just want to live my life in freedom and
1. to have government be limited
2. and for gov to stay out of our lives
3.and for government to leave businesses and the economy alone
4. no welfare state , no gov schools, no IRS, no NSA, no FEC, no EPA etc.
5. deport illegals no amnesty
6. no income tax , no property tax
how do us who want all this , what do we do short of revolution? I know we need a constitutional convention and for the states to rebel and say enough is enough. but details are needed.
Nice to see she stopped trashing Palin and found her true love. What a joke!
Pray for America
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And the current resident is a brilliant orator.
You mean that Obama didn’t get saved... he was supposed to do that too...
Oh now it's time for a woman president, eh?
ROTFLMAOPIMP!
Yes, that logic really played out well for Hillary Benghazi!!
SAVE THE WORLD ????
NOW THAT IS JUST TOO FUNNY...
She didn’t even know how to handle her adulterous husband, who is also an accused rapist, and she is going to save the World..Ms. Parker needs to see her Physician and soon...
This has always been the biggest lie...
Up until the 1990s, very few women led any great nation. There were four that did--all involved in a war or numerous wars!
-Golda Mier, first Prime Minister of Israel. Several Arab-Israeli wars.
-Indira Gandhi - 1971 Bengali War with Pakistan
-Margaret Thatcher - 1982 Falkland Islands war with Argentina
Clearly, this dumb broad has forgotten her high school years. Women can be vicious.... not even for legit reasons but just to get even for some real or perceived slight.
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