Obama: Our first female president

[Penn]

This an Actual article in today's WP; Unbelievable !!!

Obama: Our first female president

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

[orion5]

Originally Posted by Penn

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]

Originally Posted by orion5

This WP "opinion piece" was truly pathetic.

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

[orion5]

Originally Posted by Peregrino

infuriate his sycophants.

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.

[Richard]

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

Richard's $.02

[PSM]

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

Pfat

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Richard

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

Richard's $.02

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

My $00.0002....

[Sigaba]

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.)

[Edgerusher71]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

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".

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.