What I do see here is a lot of pretentious idiots pursing their lips and attempting to analyze something beyond their wit. So let me ask a question - did the Post do the "manly" thing and publish the Danish cartoons or did it...well, we all know what it did. Hope the editorial board doesn't suffer too much from menstrual cramps.
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The administration's manliness doesn't stop at the water's edge. Pushing another round of tax cuts in 2003, Vice President Cheney sounded like a warrior claiming tribute after victory in battle: "We won the midterms. This is our due," Cheney reportedly said.
After the 2004 election, Bush exuded the blustering self-assurance of a president who had political capital to spend -- or thought he did -- and wasn't going to think twice before plunking down the whole pile on Social Security.
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And the administration's claim of almost unfettered executive power is the ultimate in manliness: how manly to conclude that Congress gave the go-ahead to ignore a law without it ever saying so; how even manlier to argue that your inherent authority as commander in chief would permit you to brush aside those bothersome congressional gnats if they tried to stop eavesdropping without a warrant.
Mansfield writes that he wants to "convince skeptical readers -- above all, educated women" -- that "irrational manliness deserves to be endorsed by reason." Sorry, professor: You lose. What this country could use is a little less manliness -- and a little more of what you would describe as womanly qualities: restraint, introspection, a desire for consensus, maybe even a touch of self-doubt. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This miserable woman and her opinion are 100 times more unappetizing than Mansfield's .. probably a bud of Naomi's.