It’s sad to see some people’s disappointment.
Carol Palmore, 59, former Kentucky labor secretary, said she’ll support Obama in the fall, overcoming aching disappointment she and many other women feel. “Never in our lifetime will we have another chance to have a woman president,” she said.
But it ain’t necessarily true. There is a very good chance that John McCain or Barack Obama, or both, will pick a woman as a running mate. And, allowing for factors such as age, a sitting vice-president is very likely to become a candidate for the presidency down the road. I think one of the problems for some grieving Clinton supporters is that they don’t recognize that this isn’t a once in a lifetime event. One thing that Clinton accomplished was she got people used to the idea of a woman as president.
Next time someone more akin to Barbara Boxer, less like Dianne Feinstein.
Good analogy. I want say what one I was thinking.
Why do I get the impression that electing a woman in the “lifetime” of Carol Palmore probably ought not to be one of our highest priorities?
Is it a guy-thing?
Ferraro and now Hillary have been groundbreakers, but they only have the beginnings of what the first woman president will have. Hill doesn’t own the first woman brand she just happens to be vying for the job. The right woman will come, but for now we just have to get the wrong woman to step aside.
I’ll put it this way… I’ll be very, very surprised if we aren’t cheering on a woman as the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2016. And 2016 is well within Ms. Palmore’s expected lifetime.
Hillary’s supporters should read Camille Paglia:
A woman president in the White House will be nothing like Hillary Clinton
Nobody should read Camille Paglia.
I know we’re all feeling a little hostile from the primary, but I think we need to take a step back and not wish the sort of harm that comes from reading a Camile Paglia column on one another.
As a side note, some of you may feel as though your brain has been damaged by Paglia. That’s lovely, but at least you probably didn’t have to take two full semesters of classes from her in college like I did.
I mean, Hillary got further than any woman running for President ever has.
It seems to me they’re being a bit dramatic on this one. I think it’s a guarantee we’ll see a female president.
I think for a woman to become president people have get past the fact that she is a woman. Hillary achieves this to some degree, but the fact than women clannishly cling to her because she is a woman shows we’re not there.
Obama, early in this campaign was accomplishing the same thing. He was not a black candidate, but he happened to be black. Bill’s comments in SC and then Rev Wright’s comments changed a lot of that, but for many they are totally color blind to Obama.
Maggie Thatcher becoming PM as a woman mattered not. Her conservative views are what got her elected and having the right message at the right time is what will get a woman elected president.
I have no problem with seeing a woman as president or even voting for one. I did not support Hillary’s candidacy because I feared the type of BS we have been seeing from her since day one.
A lot of us have been frustrated that more superdelegates haven’t come out for Obama, but it just dawned on me that since a fair number of superdelegates haven’t committed yet, the chance that they will now end up coming out for Obama is even greater. Hillary is making a mess of her campaign and saying really stupid and offensive things on a daily basis. The SD’s have given her plenty of rope, and she is doing a fine job of hanging herself. If the uncommitted SD’s had come out sooner, there is a chance that more of them would have been for HRC. But at this point in the game, who in the world is going to cast their vote for her? This has actually worked out quite well.
Except for made rage yesterday and chain smoking two packs of cigs. LOL
You might want to switch to smoking something else, for that rage. Perhaps it will even be legal, in my lifetime!
Ahem. The selfishness of voting only for a “first” in one’s own lifetime is beyond me. I do really really hope I see a woman president in my lifetime, but even when I’m 102, I’ll vote for the better candidate regardless of gender.