I Am Woman
Posted on 06 June 2008 by Lisa Pawlowski
Now that Hillary Clinton’s defeat is a foregone conclusion, the media has taken it upon themselves to ask, “Is America too sexist to vote for a woman for president?”
To her credit, Hillary hasn’t been the one to bring this up—yet. However, news organizations have “discovered” that there have been occasions during this campaign that when Hillary’s name is mentioned, it’s often paired with the word that rhymes with witch. The media is the major culprit in doing this, but yet they have the audacity to ponder whether Americans can handle the idea of a female president.
How many of you personally know someone who has said, “I won’t vote for her because she’s a woman?” Undoubtedly, there are a few dolts out there who say this, just as there are a few who say they won’t vote for Obama because he’s black or McCain because he’s too old. But probably the majority of the people you know, the ones you count as your intelligent friends, will vote for one person or the other because of the candidate’s stance on certain issues.
Compare this to the behavior of the talking heads you see on political TV talk shows. Chris Mathews has said on the air Obama “sends a thrill up my leg” and then criticizes Hillary’s hairstyles and outfits in the next segment. On MSNBC there was a promo for a show that promised to take a closer look into the Clinton campaign. It showed an unflattering image of Hillary with contrasted lighting and from a low angle, which emphasized her wattles and wrinkles. If one didn’t know better, one would think it was the work of those dastardly Republicans. Instead, it was done by the “impartial” media. America doesn’t have the problem, the media does.
It’s been my experience that any woman in a position of power has to possess certain qualities that would label her a bitch. A woman who is driven to succeed needs to accept that that is the way the world is going to see her. A female leader has to embrace her bitchiness and tell everyone else that if they have a problem with it, too bad. It’s a sad fact that nice girls don’t get anywhere in this world and a woman has to be a ballbuster to make it to the top.
No matter how you stand politically, you gotta give Hillary props for hanging in there by tips of her fingernails.
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June 6th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Personally I am glad to see the Clinton’s complain about media bias, in 1992 I felt like the media was unfair toward President Bush and was far too easy on Bill Clinton. It is possible that when Bush was looking at his watch during the debate that he had important Presidential business that he had to take care of. During the campaign we called CNN the Clinton News Network because of the love fest they had for Bill.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
If Hillary wasn’t such an outright Socialist she’d actually be very palatable in the sort of way ~M~ is in the James Bond movies these days. Character-wise I would give her kudos for hanging in there. Issue-wise I would FAR rather we have been voting for the genius author of ‘Healing Our World’. Click link (which may be my name on this site). Unfortunately we’ve been saddled with a suspicious ex-Republican, Bob Barr who (because of his past experience) has seniority in politics (that’s a good thing?) rather than experience as a true libertarian.