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melon said:
But Americans are long known to vote primarily on image and not on substance.
melon said:
But Americans are long known to vote primarily on image and not on substance.
Axver said:If a woman or member of a minority can't get elected as President, the US should be ashamed of itself.
Axver said:It just amazes me to read some comments in this thread, where even Americans supportive of a woman or a member of a minority being President write off the chances of it happening because the country evidently isn't "ready for it". What kind of a pathetic Stone Age is the US stuck in?!
melon said:
I think a lot of people will say this, but only because he has cultivated a very strong image. His substance is still conservative, despite his token resistance that usually ends with him voting the party line.
But Americans are long known to vote primarily on image and not on substance. McCain certainly has the advantage on that front.
Melon
vaz02 said:im not american but i want Hilary clinton in the running.
vaz02 said:im not american but i want Hilary clinton in the running.
80sU2isBest said:
Me too, because there's no way she will win.
Axver said:If a woman or member of a minority can't get elected as President, the US should be ashamed of itself.
anitram said:I think Warner is shit out of luck to be honest, unless he moves to the left a bit. Just a sense I get about how the Dem primaries will go, particularly if they end up winning big this November.
I love Feingold. After melon linked to his wiki page, I watched some of his old campaign ads - fabulous! I really like Wes Clark as a human being, not necessarily a presidential candidate. Plus I think he's kind of old-man hot, so sue me.
Axver said:
In comparison, in New Zealand, all of our highest offices are held by women: the reigning monarch,
maycocksean said:
It just occured to me that women have held positions of great political power for years from Hatshepsut in ancient Egypt to Catherine the Great of Russia to Elizabeth I in England (heck she even got an Era named after her). Yet in democracy, especially American democracy, women have been kept from the highest office in the land. If anything, history should be evidence enough that women are every bit as capable as men of leading the world's most powerful nation.
Why, because America is a cesspool of sexism?BonoVoxSupastar said:I'd like to be wrong, but no way in hell will a woman be elected in 2008.
yolland said:In addition to the obvious social prejudices, I think peculiarly(?) American notions of what sort of figure the President is supposed to be come into play here, too--there's a cultural tendency to crave a sort of dad/Patriarch persona for that office, I think, which can encompass a fairly wide array of personalities perhaps, but they still have to fall within a certain familiar archetypal range, or else they just won't be seen as having that "face of the nation" quality. Sounds laughable probably, I know...
A_Wanderer said:Giuliani / Romney
"I think we've lost our way," Hagel said. "And I think the Republicans are going to be in some jeopardy for that and will be held accountable."