Nope. This is why:
Posted on 08/31/2006 4:42:00 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has overtaken US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the world's most powerful woman, according to a Forbes Magazine list published today.
This time last year, Germany's first female chancellor was riding high in opinion polls as leader of the then-opposition conservative Christian Union but did not even feature in the ranks of Forbes's top 100 most powerful women.
And besides Chinese Vice President Wu Yi, who slid one place this year to number three, the rest of the top 10 are business executives, topped by the chief executive-designate of PepsiCo, Indian born and educated Indra Nooyi.
The magazine's third annual list sees talk show host Oprah Winfrey dropping to 14th place and New York Senator Hillary Clinton rising from 26 to 18 as her expected campaign for the US presidency in 2008 gathers pace.
The Italian born head of India's Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, came in at number 13, while Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, jumped to 16 in a year in which the organisation doubled in size.
Merkel aside, the list includes three other women who emerged within the past year to become the first women to hold such high political office in their countries: Chilean President Michelle Bachelet (17), Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (51) and South Korean Prime Minister Han Myung-sook (68).
Among women working in the entertainment industry, Disney co-chairman Anne Sweeney came in at 15 ahead of MTV's chief executive Judy McGrath (52), Amy Pascal, the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment (60), and CBS Paramount TV's president Nancy Tellem (75).
Katie Couric, a CBS television network anchor, is the highest placed journalist at 54, ahead of globe-trotting CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour (79).
Among other notables are US First Lady Laura Bush (43), Queen Elizabeth II (46), Burma's opposition leader democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (47), Playboy chairman Christie Hefner (80) and Jordan's Queen Rania (81).
BDS is how..
Is this Ms. Flip off the USA?!
Everyone knows the most powerful woman in the world is Hellary. Just ask Time magazine.
Yeppers.
Katie Couric, a CBS television network anchor, is the highest placed journalist at 54,
So let me get this straight, they employee (Couric) is more powerful than the one cutting the paycheck?! This article gets dumb and dumber.
Someone has jumped to the conclusion that Germany is second to that of the US. It just ain't so.
Nope. This is why:
Angela who?
In my humble opinion, Dr. Rice IS and WILL be for a long time, a very powerful woman. She has brains, personality, hospitality to be a most gracious lady nomatter where she is or what she is doing.
The competition is getting stiffer -- AND the precedents for a powerful woman being President of the US are getting better. Wu Yi as China's Vice President is number three.
Though Condi is only Secretary of State now, she may be Vice President next year and President in 2009.
This is dumb. Clearly Wonder Woman is the most powerful woman, she can lift over 100 tons.
or maybe she-hulk.
But can she lift Rosie O'Donnell?
When will the media tell us who is the world's smartest woman?
I stopped reading Forbes about three years ago. It's filled with hype, distortions, and nonsense. And, if you rip out all the advertising pages, there isn't much left of the rag.
Nothing too odd about it. The MSM and Leftists are in love with the EU and Merkel is a star in it.
Though Condi is only Secretary of State now, she may be Vice President next year and President in 2009.
She very well could be if she would consent to it but I don't think she will from her indications.
Katie Couric, a CBS television network anchor, is the highest placed journalist at 54,
Is that her age or her IQ?
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