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Penn 06-30-2010 14:59

Obama: Our first female president
 
This an Actual article in today's WP; Unbelievable !!!

Obama: Our first female president

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...=nl_pmheadline

orion5 06-30-2010 15:19

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Originally Posted by Penn (Post 337315)
Unbelievable !!!

Let's see now...Kathleen Parker proposes that:

...Obama's a girlie president
...he isn't cowboy enough
...cultural expectations sludgier than oil
...Hilary talks like a man
...Clinton displays every trope of blackness
...Women form circles and talk it out
...President has no ability to plug the damn hole (not my words!!)

Wow...this is some hard-hitting journalism.

Well, we women don't claim a girlie POTUS either. I say let's create a third gender category and let the Team Sergeant come up with a name for it. This WP "opinion piece" was truly pathetic.

Peregrino 06-30-2010 18:36

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Originally Posted by orion5 (Post 337317)
This WP "opinion piece" was truly pathetic.

True - but I can still use it to infuriate his sycophants. :D

orion5 06-30-2010 19:01

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Originally Posted by Peregrino (Post 337335)
infuriate his sycophants. :D


P- no doubt...the funny thing is, I believe Ms Parker was trying to write a sympathetic piece. I'm sure Ms Pelosi was clapping her seal hands in delight as she read it. :rolleyes:

Richard 06-30-2010 19:08

I thought Edith Wilson was our first female President and Florence Harding our second. ;)

Richard's $.02 :munchin

PSM 06-30-2010 19:13

Regardless, he's our first Affirmative Action Precedent (sic). :(

Pfat

Richard 06-30-2010 19:16

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Originally Posted by PSM (Post 337341)
Regardless, he's our first Affirmative Action Precedent (sic).

Actually...I think that one goes to WG Harding. ;)

And so it goes...

Richard's $.02 :munchin

Sigaba 06-30-2010 19:30

MOO, the op ed piece is not only crap it is dangerous crap because it allows both supporters and opponents of the president to misread him further still. It is because of these misreadings that the guy (whom I despise) got the presidency in the first place.

IMO, this president is intentionally gaming America's collective unfamiliarity with African American culture and amnesia of African America history to his advantage. Ms. Parker's piece only helps him in those efforts.

If you are serious in your opposition to the president, I strongly urge you to disregard Ms. Parker's construction of "masculinity" and its impact on the president's personality and leadership style. Bluntly, she fails to realize that those features of the president she besmirches are situated in a range of experiences she apparently knows nothing about. Those features are the source of his political power, not his weakness.

(I'd say more but I might end up blowing a gasket. I really cannot stand that guy.)

PSM 06-30-2010 19:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard (Post 337342)
Actually...I think that one goes to WG Harding. ;)

And so it goes...

Richard's $.02 :munchin

I was referring to “by doctrine” not “by lineage”. ;)

Pat

JJ_BPK 07-02-2010 04:26

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Originally Posted by Richard (Post 337340)
I thought Edith Wilson was our first female President and Florence Harding our second. ;)

Richard's $.02 :munchin

Ah,, but Eleanor Roosevelt held the position the longest and did the most damage...

My $00.0002....

plato 07-02-2010 21:42

Carter
 
But Jimmy Carter left his nuts in Georgia to become POTUS ;)

Need I say more?

Edgerusher71 07-03-2010 00:36

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Originally Posted by Sigaba (Post 337343)
MOO, the op ed piece is not only crap it is dangerous crap because it allows both supporters and opponents of the president to misread him further still. It is because of these misreadings that the guy (whom I despise) got the presidency in the first place.

IMO, this president is intentionally gaming America's collective unfamiliarity with African American culture and amnesia of African America history to his advantage. Ms. Parker's piece only helps him in those efforts.

If you are serious in your opposition to the president, I strongly urge you to disregard Ms. Parker's construction of "masculinity" and its impact on the president's personality and leadership style. Bluntly, she fails to realize that those features of the president she besmirches are situated in a range of experiences she apparently knows nothing about. Those features are the source of his political power, not his weakness.

(I'd say more but I might end up blowing a gasket. I really cannot stand that guy.)

I'm not sure how the president is using my culture to his advantage granted the vast majority of newly registered voters used it to his advantage during that election but in retrospect maybe that's what he meant by "It's time for change".:rolleyes:

PS. This is not a dig on you but on him as I find myself losing more and more confidence in him by the day.


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