Hey, you got your Broadsheet in my War Room!

...Not that it must necessarily be Hillary, but I think I give her a bit more of a break because I truly think that it is imperative that we have a competent female president to break the glass ceiling for others. I probably allow Clinton more slack because, behind her (and - gag - Oprah and Condi), I can't think of a national female figure who could come close to winning.

What's Julia Roberts, chopped liver?

The ones that got elected to get something/anything done about the war have done absolutely dick. It makes no difference who we elect it seems, none of them seem to give a shit about doing the things they got elected to do.

No action at all, just bullshit...again...only thins time from a woman.

This post, stylistically at least, sounds more like James Taranto than like the Tim Grieve we've come to know and love--just a bit too quick and a bit too snide. The WSJ article actually makes some excellent points about future prospects for women candidates. Yes, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi at the pinnacles of power would be quite significant, but their success could very well mask the struggles of other women candidates at the lower levels of government.

Give me someone who is willing to recite the Presidential Oath of Office (my guess is that not one of them can) and then place it into context with how they will govern. How that oath coincides with the betterment of our collective well being and the direct relationship to their policies to that well being. That person gets my vote.

Then I'd force everyone of them running to give us real concrete examples of how they can possibly feel our "collective friggin pain" when faced with no, or low grade, heath insurance, number of family members serving the armed forces, stagnant annual salaries, minimum wage and how it is effected by inflation, loss of jobs due to outsourcing, loss of home via bankruptcy from first example, loss suffered from natural catastrophes, etc. I mean it. Line them up and have them give real examples of how they have or can possibly "feel our pain". What a crock of poo. No fly-overs accepted...

Other than evidence that Rupert Murdock has bought out the paper, this makes zero sense! We have a woman Speaker of the House, and the leading Democrat for President is a woman, but women's roles in public office is on the decline. Huh? WTF?

This is like after the 2006 midterms when pundits claimed that the voters were motivated by conservative values. Or like when we had to attack Iraq even though they had nothing to do with 9-11, had not threatened us, and posed no threat to us. Up is always down, black is always white, right is always wrong with these assholes.

That's a lovely post, Tim. LOL!

The main reason for the apparent slowdown: Women remain less likely to run for public office than men. They first need to be recruited and assured of their qualifications, research shows. "Women tend to run because they're concerned about an issue; they don't wake up thinking they want to be governor the way men do," says Jeanne Shaheen, a former three-term governor of New Hampshire who is now the director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics.

Oh, do shut up.

How is it a victory for the empowerment of women that the most powerful woman in America got that way through marrying a powerful man (and then staying beside him as he made a sham of their marriage)?

The article is talking about national politics. I don't what local politics is like around the coutry, but in my little pond there are quite a few women holding powerful elected positions.

This brings up a fear I have about the election of Hillary Clinton. She will not be the incredible, tough, brilliant President she's trying to convince us she will be, and she will be taken down for the lousy job she does, but unlike the current President, or other past lousy Presidents, her lousy job will not be attributed to her poor decisions, her backstabbing, her lawbreaking or her corporate connections. Nope, her lousy job will be completely attached to the fact that she is a woman, and the Old White Man Guard will trot out the "we told you wimmens couldn't be President" banners, and women's political success on a national level would quite likely stall out a bit. At the very least, I would expect it to take a while for either party to nominate a woman for President again.

So how 'bout let's find a really good woman for the job, before we get all fired up about "making history"? Not the kind of history I personally am interested in making.