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April 07, 2005
A woman President?
By now you know that I listen to pretty much one radio station all the time. The djs are always asking questions to stir up phone calls and occasionally I can't stand it and have to add my 2 cents.
Well, the other day, somebody said something about Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice running against each other for President in 2008. They then asked the question what everyone thought about a woman being President. Someone made a comment about not wanting a woman President(it was a man, yes) and the phones lit up. Well, I couldn't stand it. I figured I had to set them straight. So, I called in and said that as long as there were able bodied men, we don't need a woman to be President. Sheesh! Talk about opening the floodgates. Right off the bat, this woman calls in and says, "Send that man back to the cave! Women make decisions everyday and can certainly do the job!" A few more calls like that followed until this one lady called in and said that she never wanted to see a woman as President. She stated that a woman is not set up emotionally to handle the sort of decisions the President has to make and then live with, but men are.
Wow. That was really a big statement. It got me to thinking. Can you imagine being the husband of the woman that was President of the United States? Seriously....that would really, really, be hard. Can you imagine how often she'd come "home" upset about a bad day at work? I mean look at what happens to the President everyday: Political cartoons, late night television jokes, so many people criticizing every decision you make, drop everything you're doing and fly around the world for a summit or funeral of a world leader, taking "vacations" to Camp David that always include armed guards and daily briefings on what is going on, having someone else always decide your schedule, having reporters shout questions at you that you'd rather not answer, having to send young men(and now young women) into harm's way knowing some of them will never return...and so on and so on. That would be just about the most unhappy man in the world, y'know?
Just my mind chasing rabbits....
Posted by james at April 7, 2005 11:16 PM
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When Geraldine Ferarro was chosen as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, the old Cajun widow who was living across the street from us at the time, a widowed mother of a dozen children, some of whom were still living at home, a woman who worked tirelessly to keep her home and garden and family, said in her thick Cajun accent, that she didn't think a woman could handle the job. I don't know how much harder it could be than what she had already been doing for years. I don't know that ability is as important as the appropriate roles of men and women in society. Women are the "weaker vessel."
We have a woman governor, and though I didn't vote for her, I have been very favorably impressed with her administration thus far. Her husband, however, is somewhat of a buffoon.
Posted by: GumboFilé at April 9, 2005 12:43 AM
She's done pretty well, I've been pleasantly surprised. A woman President though, not a good idea.
Posted by: SonofThunder at April 11, 2005 10:13 AM