Democrat Hillary Clinton is credited with putting 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling of the U.S. presidency, but she isn’t ready to credit Republican Sarah Palin for finishing the job. “Really, no one will shatter that ceiling until we have a woman serving as president or vice president,” Clinton told CNN. And though it’s exciting to see a woman on the GOP ticket, she said, “I would like to see the very first woman in the White House who I agree with and who I think has policies that would really fulfill the goals that I have for our country.”
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Hillary who?
Hillary will not approve of any woman outside of herself to be the first. So what’s the story here Rhonda?
Well at least Hillary is honest about her ambitions. Something we don’t see often in politicians. Still don’t agree with her politics though.
Sad that the only woman the Repubs want to be VP is someone who believes Putin regularly invades our airspace and suggested military action against Russia, lies blatantly about her actions (”I said “THANKS, BUT NO THANKS” to the bridge to nowhere), and thinks her foreign policy experience is adequate because her state borders Canada and Russia.
With all the competant women politicians, surely we can do better than her.
“I would like to see the very first woman in the White House who I agree with and who I think has policies that would really fulfill the goals that I have for our country.”
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Well there’s ‘her thighness’s’ problem – she wants her goals, not the goals of the American people.
How do you know her goals aren’t the same as the American people’s, Reg? Have you even tried to investigate what her goals are?
“I would like to see the very first woman in the White House who I agree with and who I think has policies that would really fulfill the goals that I have for our country.”
I think that statement can be made by anyone Republican/Democrat replacing “the very first woman” with “a President”.
Obviously that’s the problem. Republicans and Democrats have vastly different goals. The battle over ideology will not be over until Obama and the Democrats win all three branches of government. Even then its only a temporary win as witnessed by the soon to be over 12 years of Republican rule.
I don’t know that Republicans and Democrates have “vastly differnt” goals…I think most people just want decent jobs to support their families, access to quality and affordable heatlhcare and education, world peace, personal freedom to live as we want, and a safe and efficent infrastructure. Maybe we differ on how to achieve these gaols…but we basically all want the same thing.
Well, I’m off for a weekend trip..keep the good thoughts!
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Mary_Caruso
Posted October 18, 2008 at 7:49 am | Permalink
How do you know her goals aren’t the same as the American people’s, Reg? Have you even tried to investigate what her goals are?
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Yes, I have and most of her plans involve new taxes, which the government and its people cannot afford.
Sarah Palin the most popular governor in the country. Of course Hillary Clinton is envious. If Sexist Bill had stayed home she might have had the Messiah by the throat.
“The battle over ideology will not be over until Obama and the Democrats win all three branches of government.”
Burn ‘em down and salt the earth where they once stood so they dont grow again….
Then we can start on the democrats
A woman incapable of representing herself will never be my role model. Palin has done nothing more than actresses do daily — read lines. When she doesn’t have well-practiced talking points or lines to read she is a total airhead.
Palin may be a star someday, but she has some work to do.
Those who say she is ready, qualified, prepared today to fill the position she is (NOT) interviewing for expect little evidently — and that is what they’ll get from Palin. We don’t need to look further than dubya bush to see what it takes to please the 24 percenters.
Get real!
Hillary would love it if McCain wins.
Hillary just can not afford to have all the Obama folks blame HER for Obama’s failure.
Did you see the Al Smith dinner out-takes?
Hillary sure laughed harder, and smiled more, when McCain was talking.
Hillary looked rather cold and distant, when Obama spoke.
Regular
Posted October 18, 2008 at 8:01 am | Permalink
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Mary_Caruso
Posted October 18, 2008 at 7:49 am | Permalink
How do you know her goals aren’t the same as the American people’s, Reg? Have you even tried to investigate what her goals are?
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Yes, I have and most of her plans involve new taxes, which the government and its people cannot afford
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But we can continue to afford to pay for the rich to get even richer? With all the Bush tax cuts to the top 5% wealthy supposedly going to create jobs – where are all these jobs? Seems to me the top 5% that got tax cuts just kept the money and took it offshore to their private accounts?
Maybe they took them to Ireland for their low business taxes that McCain keeps ranting about.
And now Franklin is a mind reader and knows Hillary’s most innermost thoughts. This should get you a bonus on your 30 pieces of silver today.
Palin is more qualified than Obama, by a long shot!
Obama has NO executive experience other than running a left wing foundation that gave money to ACORN and other leftist groups, while Chicago schools continued to fail.
Obama has been supported by radicals and terrorists and criminals his entire career.
Obama’s only experience has been very, very bad experience with very bad people.
mom
The bottom 50% pay hardly ANYTHING in taxes, today.
How much can you squeeze out of the productive members of society, before they decide to quit producing?
The top 5% in income, today, pay a higher percentage of the total tax revenue than they did under Clinton.
Do you wish to raise revenue, or do you wish to punish success?
Those goals are mutually exclusive.
Sarah Palin on Barack Obama:
“I know Obama loves America. I’m sure that is why he’s running for president. It’s because he wants to do what he believes is in the best interest of this great nation.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/17/palin-speaks-to-reporters-about-ayers-wright-state-of-the-race/
Mom
The opening thread is ABOUT what Clinton wants.
I think that I was completely on topic.
Hillary wants McCain to win, she just can not say so, publicly.
Senator Jim Webb, warming up a crowd at an Obama rally in the blue ridge area of Virginia, spoke about the first presidential decision of a candidate — choosing a running mate.
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“Do you really think that Sarah Palin is the most qualified person in the Republican party?”
Webb made a reference to the lyrics of a country music song by Dierks Bentley that includes the refrain, “I know what I was feeling but what was I thinking?”
But the Virginia senator’s quotation of the lyrics was slightly off. “I know what I was doing, but what was I thinking?” he said.
Webb said that “John McCain is probably singing that song right now.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/17/obama-backer-takes-musical-aim-at-palin-as-vp-pick/
Regular
Posted October 18, 2008 at 8:01 am
Yes, I have and most of her plans involve new taxes, which the government and its people cannot afford.
That was the most revealing thing “Regular” has ever said, and pretty much sums up his years of posting here. James, here’s a clue: we do NOT belong to the government.
Fascist much?
Hey Tom,
If that is really you,glad to see you on here. Seems like it’s been quite awwhile.
Hiya LJ!
Yeah, it’s me. It’s election season, and my day job has kept me more than a little busy. Fortunately, it’s almost over, and it’ll be time for a well-earned vacation. I had a few minutes to scan over the blogs, saw the “we belong to our government” meme, and _had_ to respond.
Hope you’re doing well,
Tom
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thomaswitt
Posted October 18, 2008 at 11:19 am | Permalink
Regular
Posted October 18, 2008 at 8:01 am
Yes, I have and most of her plans involve new taxes, which the government and its people cannot afford.
That was the most revealing thing “Regular” has ever said, and pretty much sums up his years of posting here. James, here’s a clue: we do NOT belong to the government.
Fascist much?
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No doubt your reading comprehension skills have declined in recent years.
Point out where I said anything belonged to the government.
I’ll wait.
Palin is like most ‘publicans in that she believes competence is measured in cup sizes, and since she has two cups, she’s twice as qualified.
Mary,
I am surprised. Didn’t you know that the “right woman” is code for supporting abortion?
It is just like being a black Conservative. You are only really black if you support the liberals.
In this case you are only a woman if you support abortion.
Nathaniel speaking in gibberish.
Ye the mighty warriors speaketh in gibberish before the first born to the hated heathens and mud slimed dim pigs.
1st Book of Boxlock Ch.2. V.13
Franklin
Posted October 18, 2008 at 10:20 am | Permalink
mom
The bottom 50% pay hardly ANYTHING in taxes, today.
How much can you squeeze out of the productive members of society, before they decide to quit producing?
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And what are they producing??? Certainly not jobs or our economy would be in better shape than it is.
How do you expect the middle class to keep paying for the rich to get richer and the poor to continue being poor? If the middle class do not have good paying jobs – they cannot buy anything – we are all connected – whether you believe that or not…
Franklin
Posted October 18, 2008 at 10:22 am | Permalink
Mom
The opening thread is ABOUT what Clinton wants.
I think that I was completely on topic.
Hillary wants McCain to win, she just can not say so, publicly.
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actually Paul – the topic is about Clinton wanting the right woman to win but let’s not get you all confused with the facts, okay?
Last time I checked, John McCain is not a woman – unless you are privy to some facts the rest of us don’t know????
Good point, “mom” –
Hey “Franklin,” you ought to go with that one.
“Due to horrific torture, the North Vietnamese subjected McCain to sex-change surgery and today he’s actually a woman!
As he says, “I have the scars to prove it.”
Although I have it good authority McCain is only 44% woman.
Someone commented that Hillary Clinton had cracked the glass ceiling, and now Palin was replacing the cracked glass panels with new, unbroken glass.
Hill knows if an incompetent woman is the one to ascend, then it will put women back another 50 yrs.
You are not a woman unless you support killing unborn children at any stage of unborn-ness, up to and including 2 hours after birth.
At least according to the Leadership of the Democrat party.
Put the blame for THIS on John McCain.
He didn’t have to choose such a miserable JOKE of an excuse for a woman as his running mate.
It would dishonor Senator Clinton and ALL women for Sarah Palin to stand at the summit of all women have fought for.
Shrink wrap Sarah and warp her back to 1955 where she belongs.
mom
WHO pays the taxes in this country?
The “rich” actually pay more of the total tax bill, today, than ever before in history!
The bottom 30% pay NO Federal Income Tax, at ALL! In fact, many people get a WELFARE benefit, out of the IRS, called the “Earned Income Tax Credit”.
Obama wants to increase IRS Welfare Refunds.
OK libs
Name a “competent” woman, in your mind, that is prolife?
Can you?
I am waiting —
— or, perhaps I should let you off the hook by telling you that we all KHOW what you really mean: If you are prolife, liberals will say that you are stupid!
Is this the “bargaining” stage for ya Franklin?
Heh
I think I figured it out, just like Repubs like to appoint people that are against the mission of a govt. agency, sot they can make it fail, the appoint a woman that they know isn’t Executive Office caliber, so when she miserably fails, they can say ‘that’s what we’ve been trying to tell you all along’.
Palin is far more qualified than Obama.
Palin has actually accomplished some things, in her life.
Obama has done nothing good, ever.
Chicago schools are a failure, even after Obama was put in charge of a leftist foundation that handed out millions of dollars in “education” funding.
Chicago schools have a high drop out rate.
Chicago teachers spend less time, in the classroom, than teachers anywhere else in the country.
25% of Chicago teachers make over $100,000 a year, which explains why most CHILDREN born to Chicago teachers, go to PRIVATE schools.
Chicago High School kids have the highest homicide rates, in the country.
By the way, most of the low income housing projects that Obama and convicted slum lord Rezco promoted, in Chicago, are either closed and boarded up, or are crime infested hell holes.
Palin, on the other hand, defeated a corrupt Republican governor, and then pushed the oil companies to negotiate a better deal for Alaska.
Palin also negotiated one of the largest public works projects in history, a new natural gas pipeline that will go through Canada to the “lower 48″.
Obama can not hold a candle to Palin.
Palin is FAR more qualified than Obama.
11 Rezco buildings, all in Obama’s former State Senate district, are boarded up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R-RBNxr73s
Obama helped Rezco secure funding for these slums!
Palin has actually accomplished some things, in her life.
Palin, on the other hand, defeated a corrupt Republican governor, and then pushed the oil companies to negotiate a better deal for Alaska.
Palin also negotiated one of the largest public works projects in history, a new natural gas pipeline that will go through Canada to the “lower 48?.
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The third “accomplishment” is only a dream. No start date, no funding, just a “please Uncle Sam gimme gimme gimme”.
How about some more “accomplishments”? (Having babies is wonderful but it won’t count ).
Palin is FAR more qualified than Obama.
Qualified at what? Putting the city where she was mayor into debt?
Oh she is more con qualified.
Sarah Pain I mean.
She has threatened librarians and asked to be personal censor for reading material.
She has used her office for personal vendetta.
McCain’s choice of Palin, and Palin herself demonstrate a profound example of how far out of time Republicans are as to women’s and other issues.
BJ you are lying again.
Palin never censored any books.
On the other hand?
Obama has tried to shut down radio stations that ran programs that Obama did not like.
Also, Palin has not broken any laws, even the Alaska legislative investigation admitted that Palin had the authority to do what she did, when she fired a supervisor who had gone over budget, and had traveled out of state, on taxpayer funds, without permission.
Also? That same supervisor refused to fire a trooper who tasered Palin’s nephew, threated Palin’s father’s life, got drunk in a squad car and had been written up several times for other forms of misconduct!