U.S. female head of state: Coming soon?

Seattle PI ^ | 1/27/06 | Marie Wilson

[TheBrotherhood]

margaret Thatcher = Margaret Thatcher.

I didn't mean to non-capitalize the name of one of my favorite leaders of all times.

[Antoninus]

Meanwhile, here in the United States, Geena Davis, the United States' first female president on television, won a Golden Globe for her role as President McKenzie Allen on ABC's "Commander in Chief."

Too bad no one's watching it...

[pissant]

A few freeperettes might qualify. ;o)

[MamaTexan]

U.S. female head of state: Coming soon?

Ooh! Ooh!

(waving hand in air)

PICK me! Pick ME!

ROFL!

[pissant]

And with American Idol on, it's shelf life is gonna be short

[pissant]

See Post 43. ;o)

Good to see ya MamaT!

[Red Badger]

We've had a single president before........

[spinestein]

[Only 11 of the 193 nations, including Liberia and Chile now, have a woman in the top position. The glaring omission from this list is the United States]




So 182 of 193 nations (95%) have men as head of state and it's "glaring" that the U.S. is among them?

This gem of illogic from "journalist" Marie Wilson only perpetuates the image of women as being incapable of the complex thought required of competent politicians.

I vote for candidates who I believe can competently enact policies I support. I've, so far, not seen a female candidate for President of the United States who fits that description.

[pissant]

My guess is she is a democrat to boot.

[BlessedBeGod]

I will never vote for a woman just because she's a woman. (And I'm a woman.) I vote for who's the best qualified, and that's that. Might as well title this article "Dumbing Down the Presidency."

[pissant]

Good call. I like your tagline, BTW.

[derllak]

I nominate Mama T! And Pissy can drive her around in his chick car as she waves to the masses of her adoring FReeper fans!
Yay, Mama!!!!! :)

[pissant]

So does that mean:

Dashing Dasher for Secretary of the Knitting Dept
Derllak for Secretary on Homebaked Cookies

[agere_contra]

The question is whether the United States will continue to lag behind, watching the rest of the world define 21st-century leadership, or we will finally live up to the true spirit and meaning of democracy.

What an offensive paragraph. And the rest of the world has defined 21st century leadership too well for any sane person to want to emulate them

[spinestein]

Of course this "story" is just one small but predictable part of the marketing scheme now underway to help Democrat Hillary Clinton get elected president if she is nominated.

American voters will see stories like this from time to time tut-tutting about how much of a shame it is that in a great democracy such as ours we still have the outdated sexist thinking that prevents qualified women from being elected to high office. This is supposed to prod us into righteous indignation so we say "I'm going to correct this injustice and vote for a woman for a change" on election day.

[SQUID]

Women have no monopoly on morals, leadership, peace, whatever. Everyone is human and subject to the same greed, power and money problems. Good character is in your heart not in your sex.

So, with that said, I don't care if the president is a woman, black or whatever; are they qualified, are they honorable and are they going to be effective?


By the way, women have had power rolls going back centuries so the idea that these are breakthroughs is hardly the case. Going back to Egypt with Cleopatra, Catherine the Great in Russia, Queen Elizabeth I in England, Theodora of the Byzantine Empire, Halima of Arabia, Queen Fredegundis of France, Empress Zhangsun of China, Princess Hiltrude of Bavaria, Queen Wanda of Poland, Cara Zon of Carcasson, on and on.

It's just that the US has had a 200 year trend of Generally WASP men so it looks to us like it's really a breakthrough.

[derllak]

Hey, I'll go for that! I'll even go the extra mile and bake some of my special tainted brownies. I know how much Pissy likes those tainted brownies!

[Dashing Dasher]

Knitting? Is that what those pointy sticks are for?

[GreenLanternCorps]

This is a lousy article. Thatcher, Ghandi, Bhutto and Merkel are/were never Heads of State. They are/were all Prime Ministers, Heads of Government, not Heads of State. The UK's Head of State is Her Majesty the Queen and has been since 1952. India's Head of State is it's President, the same with Pakistan and Germany.

The US President is both Head of State and Head of Government which is somewhat unique in the world.

[Delta Dawn]

It will be interesting to see which of the two is ether assassinated first or gets thrown out of office via a coup?