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Present a non-ethically bankrupt female, you say, is the answer? Right, like Bush 2 (1 was stellar too) or Nixon? Reagan with his progressive, second term senility (I know his alzheimer's was no doubt kicking in then, and that's too bad, but the fact was it was a danger to the country) Face it. We retards in the states are willing to put any number of fuckheaded men into power, but a woman apparently has to be FDR Jr.- otherwise we're just voting for her because she's a chick. Think about what you're saying. Think about how it feels to be a woman in this country watching other women lead so many other countries while here it just doesn't happen, again and again and again. Because, apparently, the likes of a dry drunk ex-baseball comissioner is just so much better for us!
Erica, thanks for understanding me. I was, I think 15 when Bhutto came into power? I wasn't aware of all her failings then, just knew she was a girl like me, leading a country. I felt similar pride when Corazon Aquino came into power in the Phillipines. It empowered me to think women could be leaders, an empowerment the U.S. has never, ever, given me.
