Posted on 03/08/2007 2:04:14 PM PST by MovementConservative
BERKELEY, Calif. — Toni Morrison famously dubbed President Clinton America's "first black president." With that barrier broken, the comments of a prominent feminist are provoking debate about who may lay a similar claim to the title of America's first woman president.
The candidate being touted as a torchbearer for women is not Senator Clinton, but one of her former colleagues, John Edwards. At a rally near the University of California, Berkeley campus this week, a veteran of the abortion-rights movement, Kate Michelman, asked and answered the question she gets most frequently about her decision to back the male former senator from North Carolina.
"Why John Edwards, given the historic nature of our extraordinary campaign for the presidency this year with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and all the others?" Ms. Michelman asked as she warmed up the crowd for Mr. Edwards. "I've gotten to know a lot of political leaders over the years that I've been an advocate for women's rights. I know the difference between those who advocate as a political position and those who understand the reality of women's lives.
"Compared to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Edwards is short an ‘X' chromosome, but listening to Ms. Michelman, that is easy to forget. "As a lawyer, as a senator, as a husband, as a father of two daughters, he understands the reality of women's lives. He understands the centrality of women's lives and experience to the health and well-being of society as a whole. … He understands that on an extremely personal level," she said.
Her comments drew some quizzical looks, though if she had extended her argument to suggest that Mr. Edwards understood the plight of African Americans as well or better than Mr. Obama, some audible dissension would surely have arisen.
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LOL
Someone should ask Edwards, on the record, if he would consider it an honor to be considered the "first woman President" like Clinton was the first black.
He'll hem and haw and finally say "of couse!"
This is the great thing about liberal white men. If you elect a woman, you only get a woman. If you elect a person of color, you only get a person of that particular color. But elect a liberal white man and you get a Zelig, he can be black, he can be white, he can be a guy, he can be a gal. Edwards could be the first woman president and the first gay president! He could be the first Ken doll president too.
Very, very robust.
Well, he definitely dressses better than Hilldebeast.
Not a whole bundle anyway.
Me too. It was a joke, BTW...
Where's the video of his COMPACT MIRROR????
Transcript from yesterday's rant on the "patron saint of hair spray" is still up. Today's show will be posted around 6 p.m.; you can read the segment then.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040816-011234-1949r.htm
Oh, yeah. The ambulance chasing/girly-man/Breck Girl "understands" women, alright.
Dennis Miller said she should have just called him a "MAGGOT"...she would have have 5/6 of the word with ZERO headache!!!
Apt product name.
I knew that Ann Coulter's comments about John Edwards nuked his chances for the nomination. Good night! I'm going to get stuffed on all that popcorn!
Hmmm...
The way some here were wailing about the Ann Coulter flap energizing his campaign?
Anything is possible.
I was hoping this was the latest Coulter Column.
See Ann was right.
All democrat "men" are women. Actually, girls. Little girls.
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