Are You Ready For A Female President?

Me too.

 

Woman president... yes. Hillary Clinton... no.

 

I cannot vote for Hillery Clinton for several reasons, none of which involver her being a women. I fall on the Libertarian end of the scale, and therefore gay rights is one of the few liberal causes I support. So I have to say no based on here Democratic Ideology. I also think that both her an Jeb Bush are out because if either of them were elected then it is likely that 2 families will have been in the White house for all but 8 years of the span from 1980 to 2024. We need new blood in government, not rehash of the previous 36 years.

in 2008 I would have loved it if the Republicans had put Condoleezza Rice up to run. I know she was qualified based on education and experience and more closely fit my beliefs than Hillery Clinton, Barack Obama, or any of the rest of the field.

 

Well... My native country had a female president already quite some time ago. Twice. So yes, I am much more than ready.

 

I'm not opposed to a female president, but I hope that isn't the main criteria people use whilst voting.

 

I think more people vote for men on the basis of their masculinity than they do with women. It's logically unreasonable but statistically common to question the moral authenticity of an election unless the candidate meets a set of criteria often based on the reverse.

 

well i dont vote at all but i have no problem with a female president as long as shes a good match for the seat im happy.

 

I vote in the primaries for whoever is going to give the Democratic Party the best chance of winning. That said, if she does run, I'd have to take a look at the polls against individual candidates, and as of now, Hillary fits the bill.

Now some have squawked about why people who are all excited about Hillary being the first female President didn't vote for McCain in 08 because Sarah Palin was on the ticket. We'll for one, Palin is a bumbling idiot and a verbal disaster waiting to happen. You could then throw back at them that if they were so stoked about Palin in 2008, why didn't they vote for Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferarro in 1984?

But again, the gender doesn't matter in my opinion, electability is all that matters. I'm more concerned with winning than the gender of the candidate or ideology.

 

I seriously don't get how this question can even be asked. Of course I'm 'ready' for a female president, and as far as I'm concerned anyone who says differently is a despicable human being. No, it doesn't have to be Clinton, even as a liberal or a socialist, there are plenty of reasons not to vote for her in particular, but refusing to vote for a woman who you'd vote for if she were a man is nothing more than misogyny.

But hey, anyone who wants to argue against women in politics here, I dare you.

 

I'm not sure.

 

Yes, providing it's not someone in the mould of our first female Prime Minister. Of all the women we could have elected in the UK, we had to elect Thatcher and put up with 11 years of her destructive right wing crap.

It wouldn't be a good day for the US to end up with a woman like her (or worse).

---------- Post added 21st May 2014 at 01:48 PM ----------

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Ha - I was going to say - our only female Prime Minster was a complete disaster. What a shambles of a legacy she left for our country - with many areas still depressed and economically crippled due to the complete collapse of their primary industries. Hopefully our next female PM won't be quite as destructive and reckless.

As for the Windsors - I'm largely indifferent. They're figureheads and serve no real purpose.

 

I think we're ready for a female president...but not Hillary...and not just because the person's a female. We've already experienced the disaster of picking a president based on race and white guilt.

Contrary to many opinions, I have tremendous admiration for Thatcher. She took a depressed country crippled by unions and turned the country around. Painful, yes. Are there still areas in need of recovery, yes. She awakened the British Lion to the disaster the nanny-state had become.

Truly, we're ready for a female president, but not one who'll lead the country down a road that of proven calamity.

 

I'm not a huge fan of Hilary, but if she's elected, I'll be happy. I wish I could see the look on my right-wing, sexist father's face when/if a female president is elected in 2016. I'll be old enough to vote by then, too. HA~!

 

We'll have to agree to differ on that one

 

AMEN!!!!! Condi's alright, but she lacks charisma. She's also pro-choice...

 

If you look at the context of what Thatcher and Reagan did on the world stage diplomatically, they put so much pressure on the USSR during the end of the Cold War. The USSR was spread thin and crumbling already because of the "empire effect", but they made sure no bombs were fired from that sinking ship. Our world owes a lot to them in my opinion. Economically, they may not have been the greatest, but we in the US haven't had a wise spender since Eisenhower.

Condi is pretty middle of the road. She always seemed too guarded to take firm stands on anything except for the Iraq War. It's hard to gauge a person when you only know their stances on 2 issues.

 

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