Letters to the Editor
-
Here's a better one:
Why I Left My Beta Husband
http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/couplesandmarriage/articlemc.aspx?cp-documentid=2134246
Recounts the story of a woman who was just not into her husband anymore, so she dumped in and took the kid. This is exactly what you'd get with a "Madam President" like Billary.
-
Your problem is not all Americans
Just your fellow democrats who will ALWAYS find a reason to slot some other oppressed subclass ahead of women for their turn at the Presidency. Hey I don't make the rules, I just listen to NPR.
-
Not to Drag REALITY into This Assessment of Ms. Clinton....
But come on-- would she have had even the eentsiest chance of running for ANYTHING and WINNING if she hadn't been married to King Triangulator, Slick Willie: Bill Clinton, ex-President?
A very, very small chance, sure-- but approaching zero.
Leaving aside her smarts and drive (which are indisputable), she took advantage of some very powerful connections to get where she is now. Her husband, and his last name, were huge advantages.
And her failure to secure the nomination that so many thought she was entitled to is due to ineptitude. Her team's, and hers. And maybe the nation's fatigue with Clinton drama. Sorry.
-
Hillary's revisionist history
The real problem here is that Hillary Clinton was never overwhelmingly popular in the democratic party. She's always had a very loyal group of supporters and much support, but there has also always been a large group of people, both in and out of the party, that don't like her.
Hillary's connection have always positioned her as the first viable female candidate, but that doesn't mean everyone was to fall in line and vote for her. What's truly unfair is to position every woman in the country, if not the world, as somehow harmed by Hillary's failure to win the nomination, when in the end, it only harms Hillary's chances of being president. If some Dems could open there eyes a little more, they will see there are plenty of other potential female candidates, and there will be more in the future.
-
@rw
"But come on-- would she have had even the eentsiest chance of running for ANYTHING and WINNING if she hadn't been married to King Triangulator, Slick Willie: Bill Clinton, ex-President?"
Probably not. Would Bush have had even the eentsiest chance of running for anything and winning if he hadn't been the son of George HW Bush? And HW was the son of a prominent man. Wasn't Al Gore's father a senator or something (I don't have time to google it right now.) How about Ted Kennedy? Nancy Pelosi comes from a political family. Andrew Cuomo. I'm sure there are many more examples.
So yeah, she has connections. What's the problem with that? When it's Bush, it's called name recognition. So she took advantage of it, just as all the other guys have. That is how the game is played.
Hillary is not going to be president, but by being the first woman to get as close as she has to getting the nomination, she is blazing the trail for the one who ultimately wins it. I hope that woman has the grace to remember it when she gets there.
-
Indeed
Shocking really. After hearing my generation of women written off by so many Clinton supporters as they mourn the end of her run, it's nice to see someone concede that there is and there will continue to be a future for women in politics.
-
A feminist will never be president...
... but that doesn't rule out a woman. ;-)
-
Predictions are worthless
Imagine if you could time-travel to mid-2002, and tell people that in 2008, the Democrats would nominate a man named Barack Hussein Obama, who (in 2002) was a relatively obscure Illinois state legislator with a Kenyan father, and that he would defeat Barack Obama. This would be considered too unbelievable to qualify even as fiction.
The conclusion is that eight or twelve years from now, it shouldn't be a shock if someone is nominated who we've never heard of, and if that person is from a background that we couldn't imagine. So the idea that a defeat for Hillary Clinton means no female president for generations is ludicrous.
We also need to get that individuals matter: Barack Obama is an amazing political talent, which is why he was able to come out of nowhere and narrowly defeat the Clintons. Somewhere out there we have any number of similarly talented women, currently holding local office. One of them may change the world, sooner than we think.
-
Re: predictions are worthless
Whoops! "He would defeat Hillary Clinton", of course I meant to say.
-
Those things aren't always advantages.
I would not vote for Hilary Clinton.
Not because she's a woman, I loved that. Not because of her politics, which I find acceptable even if I don't *always* agree with her; I'd call her personally a better option than McCain, anyhow.
I will not vote for her under any circumstances because I have an objection to dynasty politics that goes beyond those other things. The same reason that GWB could have been the best president in the history of the universe and I would not have voted for him. In this day and age, politics deserves to be about individuals, not family connections. I want a fresh face in that office, a fresh viewpoint, not a rehashing of a previous presidency no matter how good things were then.
I can't say that I'd automatically vote for any other woman over the alternatives, not knowing who the alternatives might be, but if Hilary Clinton hadn't been Bill's wife, there are definitely people out here who would have been *more* inclined to vote for her, not less. After eight years of Bush, is it really that unreasonable to want somebody really and genuinely new to the White House?
-
Calling it now...
Obama picks Kathleen Sebelius as his VP.
If Obama wins in November you'll see her run in 2016.
If not, you'll see Hillary again in 2012.Personally, I'd rather see the first woman president get there on her own merit, and not by virtue of having been the wife of a former president. Granted, Hillary is an extremely smart woman, but everything from her seat in New York to the run for president in '08 has far more to do with her being a Clinton than a Hillary.