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Why the wait for a female US president goes on
BBC "News" ^ | March 6, 2020 | by Katty Kay Presenter, BBC World News

Posted on 03/06/2020 1:58:25 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Tulsi Gabbard has many distinctive qualities. She's a Hawaiian Army National Guard Major, the first Hindu member of Congress and the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress but she is not going to be president of the United States.

She is not even going to be the Democratic Party's nominee for the presidency.

(Given that Gabbard met President Bashir al Assad of Syria in 2017, after his forces had bombed Aleppo to smithereens and failed to condemn him, it's pretty extraordinary that she is still in the Democratic race at all.)

No, she won't be America's first female president.

And, this time around, nor will any other woman.

As Elizabeth Warren said so poignantly, if American girls are looking for a role model in the Oval Office, they will have to wait another four years.

What happened to diversity?

The Democrats started this race, way back when Neanderthals still roamed the Earth it sometimes feels like, with a host of non-white, non-male candidates. One by one they dropped out.

If you want change in America in 2020, it seems, you are better off going with a white man in his 70s.

Warren referred to sexism in her farewell address. It's not the same sexism Hillary Clinton encountered when she first ran in 2008.

Back then souvenir shops sold nutcrackers in the model of the woman who'd both been a successful secretary of state and a US senator - if you're a successful woman, they implied, you must a ball-cracker too.

"Men beware" was the none-too-subtle message. Nor is it the sexism of the pointless, largely unflattering discussion of Clinton's trousers suits.

It is more subtle today, but Warren is right, there is still sexism.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; election2020; females; journalism; media; womanpresident; women
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1 posted on 03/06/2020 1:58:25 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hope these feminist gargoyles drink enough water on election night so they don’t get dehydrated shedding their tears


2 posted on 03/06/2020 2:00:09 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
CORRECTION TO STATISTICS…
TULSI GABBARD believes it is moral to murder 99.9% of the 1.6 million babies aborted in America each year.


3 posted on 03/06/2020 2:00:28 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘Cause the donkeys are SEXIST.


4 posted on 03/06/2020 2:00:41 PM PST by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The reason there will not be a woman President. Women voters.


5 posted on 03/06/2020 2:02:16 PM PST by sport
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So girls can only have female role models? Isn’t that sexist? Guess I better stop admiring Maggie Thatcher.


6 posted on 03/06/2020 2:02:21 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'd have no problem voting for a woman that shared my beliefs.

If someone thinks I'm voting for a rat-turd like Warren based on gender,
like folks voted for that rat-turd Obama based on race, they're nuts.

Incompetence is not nullified by good intentions.

No amount of lamentations and whining will change that.

And as for my feeling guilty, get over it. Ain't gonna happen!

7 posted on 03/06/2020 2:03:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Beware Hillary Clinton and the 25th Amendment.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 white guys in their 70’s end up with the possibility of being the rat nominee. A whole slew of blacks, women and a gay dude were voted off the island. By democrats. So STFU with your diversity and tolerance BS.


8 posted on 03/06/2020 2:03:22 PM PST by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And how many female PMs have there been in her country?

Two - but they were both from the Conservative Party, so they don’t really count, eh, Catty?


9 posted on 03/06/2020 2:03:56 PM PST by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because none of the female candidates have been worth a darn so far.


10 posted on 03/06/2020 2:03:59 PM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump should wear a dress and self identify as female for one day.


11 posted on 03/06/2020 2:04:10 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: sport
The reason there will not be a woman President. Women voters.

If you look around the world, the opposite has been true. Women have organized to get women in charge of their countries. I suspect it will be a matter of time before women in the US do this also. Quite possibly in 2024.

12 posted on 03/06/2020 2:05:05 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe because all (except Tulsi Gabbard) the female candidates came across as angry, bitchy members of the studio audience watching The View.

Their demeanor was like somebody pi$$ed them off for asking them to fry an egg for breakfast. Who wants to listen to that for the next four years, even if you are a woman????


13 posted on 03/06/2020 2:05:34 PM PST by RatRipper
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To: al_c

They are used to a world where corporations can be browbeaten and intimidated into giving them half of the seats on a corporate board. Just because.

Open competition is not really their thing.


14 posted on 03/06/2020 2:05:55 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“What happened to diversity?”

Maybe people grew a couple of brain cells and realized that having the best PERSON for the job instead of some token anything is a far better idea overall.


15 posted on 03/06/2020 2:06:06 PM PST by Pravious
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tell a feminist that you are not against a woman being president, it’s just that the country isn’t ready for it.

Then duck and cover!


16 posted on 03/06/2020 2:06:15 PM PST by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
TDS (Caution:Language)
17 posted on 03/06/2020 2:06:50 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey here’s an idea. Why doesn’t Biden just up and declare HE’S A WOMAN?

Yes, you cannot let your DNA or your genitals dictate your gender, right?

Isn’t that what we have been told over and over and if we don’t agree we are bigots?

Well, then the Lib Progressives should embraace and accept that Gender is a thing of personal choice not DNA.

Hypocrites.....

What’s the matter, suddenly they want to go back to the “Old” definition of a woman?


18 posted on 03/06/2020 2:07:58 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are plenty of conservative women I would vote for as president. It’s not that they are women, however. Only liberals vote for a candidate because of superficial appearances. It’s that they have the values I agree with.


19 posted on 03/06/2020 2:08:26 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Get Kristy Swanson some experience and then run her. She’s got the conservatism, and it would be truly great to have the first female president be a female conservative instead of a barking moonbat. Plus, it will be my first teenage crush to win the presidency! Make America Buffy Again.


20 posted on 03/06/2020 2:08:49 PM PST by Rastus
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