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  • Posted By: mur39986 @ 02/29/2008 2:31:47 AM

    This article is merely another illustration of stereotyping in our society. Linsky places Clinton and Obama into categories of what are traditionally thought to be "feminine" and "masculine" qualities. If he were to discard that approach and instead focus on each candidate's actual experience and qualifications, this article might be useful in determining who would be a better president.

  • Posted By: Igloo @ 02/29/2008 1:54:26 AM

    All right! Hillary will wear the pants and Obama will wear a gown or kilt. Maybe Oprah can find a designer for it.

  • Posted By: herbiemax @ 02/27/2008 6:42:28 PM

    Any woman that doesn't find this article offensive has lost her feminity long ago. MR Obam is deceitful and manipulative and that is something true women have not done for almost a century.

    • Posted By: jaylove @ 02/27/2008 8:27:15 PM

      How do you know what "true women" do? Are you one?

      • Posted By: tiredofobama @ 02/27/2008 10:39:09 PM

        Amen Herbiemax!!! Obama and Oprah are running the biggest con game and the media is sucking it up like a Hoover Vacuum Cleaner. Let's prove these mindless talking heads (Katie Clueless, Terry Moron, and Tim "Maddog" Russert) wrong in Novemeber and now for that matter. DON"T VOTE FOR OBAMA!!! ANYBODY IS BETTER THAN OBAMA!!!!

        • Posted By: anthonylee @ 02/28/2008 2:46:43 PM

          tiredofobama - You don't have to vote for Obama, but rest assured Hillary won't ever sit in the Oval Office! If you think Nader or McCain would make a better President, by all means vote your "heart", because it certainly isn't your "head" that's motivating you.

          • Posted By: Chaya @ 02/29/2008 1:51:55 AM

            Let us start a new movement "Any one but Obama" That ought to turn the page!This to me is the fierce urgency of now.

  • Posted By: Chaya @ 02/29/2008 1:42:18 AM

    I agree with the person who advocated boycotting Democratic party.If Clinton is not on the ticket,I will look for a 3rd party.Democratic party needs to step up to the plate to stop this abuse of a woman candidate,on a daily basis.If Obama were treated like this ,I am sure the party would rebuke those as racist and would say that kind of behavior is not acceptable.If a woman is ill treated,it's obviously okay..boys will be boys.A party or a paper(or news magazine)that does not value a woman,has no value for me.

  • Posted By: Chaya @ 02/29/2008 1:31:54 AM

    Oh please,obviously it is not enough to treat Obama as the second coming of Christ,but you want to make him woman,so us women have no reason to vote for Hillary?Give us all a break ,enough already!

  • Posted By: char12 @ 02/28/2008 11:48:08 PM

    Read how terrible they talk about Hillary in this article. Totally unfair is the media!!!

    Re ???Begrudging His Bedazzling,??? by Maureen Dowd (column, Feb. 27):

    Ms. Dowd says Hillary Rodham Clinton is lame for accusing journalists of treating her campaign differently than they treat Barack Obama???s, and applauds the ???open-mindedness of the press??? in its treatment of Senator Clinton.

    Here are the words she uses in association with Senator Clinton: ???desperate,??? ???primal scream,??? ???clanging,??? ???churlish,??? ???discombobulated,??? ???gloomy,??? ???flipping,??? ???begrudging,??? ???whining,??? ???experience,??? ???pea green with envy,??? ???Sybil,??? ???cascading,??? ???dizzying,??? ???unsettling,??? ???struggling,??? ???tartly,??? ???peevishly,??? ???pointlessly,??? ???sarcasm.???

    And here are the words she uses for Senator Obama: ???golden child,??? ???sunny,??? ???consistency,??? ???bedazzling,??? ???confidence,??? ???excitement,??? ???exceptionally easy in his skin.???

    If Ms. Dowd wants to make the point that she doesn???t like Senator Clinton, then she???s made it. If she wants to make the point that the press treats Mrs. Clinton fairly, contrary to what the senator may believe, then this column, alas, has made Senator Clinton???s point.

    Donna Lawlor

  • Posted By: MKinAZ @ 02/28/2008 11:10:08 PM

    Wow! Newsweek is just as sexist as the rest of the media. You guys call this journalism? I do not think so. Anyone with half a brain will see this article for what it is-sexist.
    Does not surprise me. If you look at our country's history-blacks were allowed to vote before women.
    Unfortunately, sexism is still widespread and par for the course. With racism though, people get fired in their jobs and raked over the coals of even slight racial undertones. Newsweek=sexist pigs

  • Posted By: newindependant @ 02/28/2008 10:42:08 PM

    I advise all women Democrats to terminate their affilliation with the Democratic party in protest to show that we do not accept a party that allows the belittlement of a female candidate solely based on gender, and deems it normal what we experience on a daily basis in the workplace, that a woman has to be three times better than a male counterpart to be considered an equal.
    I don't know how we can expect change from a party that tolerates this kind of blatent sexism.

  • Posted By: ritz17 @ 02/26/2008 11:57:53 PM

    Comment: Barack Obama demonstrated in tonight's debate that he is capable and qualified to be our next Commander in Chief. He is the uniter that this country has been waiting for. OBAMA2008.

    • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/27/2008 12:07:34 AM

      What you say is: KAKA MAKA !... It's so stupid conclusion ! I suppose just your body is constituted by "antimatter" , in correlation with your "cosmic" spiritual stuff... !!

      • Posted By: ritz17 @ 02/27/2008 12:24:32 AM

        You're a very angry person. Get some anger management and while you're at it, open your eyes to the world we live in now. Things and times have changed things will get better for all, you have to let go of your hate and prejudice. Obama unites. Clintons are angry people and their sympathizers reflect this. There is such a fear of change for the better. Hang on to the old, the bad and the messed up, because it's "Comfortable." Well, there are many of us who are ready for improvements and willing to make it happen.

        • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/27/2008 12:49:02 AM

          Shut up !! No more baby stupidity !!

          • Posted By: ritz17 @ 02/27/2008 12:54:58 AM

            It's time to grow up and get yourself educated. Yes?

            • Posted By: any1butDem @ 02/28/2008 4:39:45 PM

              I don't think GTX sounded that angry ... logical yes, angry no. Then you tell him/her (sorry, GTX, not sure which) to get educated yet you are the one who anointed him as being qualified to be the next Commander-in-Chief ... pretty uneducated assessment all by itself. Like myself, most of us in the military don't want the guy anywhere near that title.

            • Posted By: jaylove @ 02/27/2008 7:59:59 PM

              KAKA MAKA and Shut up!!!
              More verbal elegance from Clinton supporters!
              And you all wonder why you all are characterized as angry!!!

  • Posted By: marty2858 @ 02/27/2008 10:16:41 AM

    You say that "McCain is the only candidate in the race who has consistently delivered messages that his constituents did not want to hear." But when the strongest winds of group think that this country has faced in a long time were blowing in the run up to the war, who caved but Hillary; and who faced the wind but Obama. The author has selectively picked his examples and ignored ones that don't support his argument.

    • Posted By: any1butDem @ 02/28/2008 4:29:35 PM

      Gosh, it so easy to "face" anything after the fact. No one outside of Trinity Church even cared what he thought until after 2006. All the armchair QBs of the world try to play smart now but when it was happening none of you had anything to say.

  • Posted By: dunnhaupt @ 02/27/2008 3:43:14 PM

    The primaries show that color is far less important to a surprising number of White voters than gender. It would appear that average White Americans are less racist but more sexist than most of us used to think. Of course the gender vote may have been distorted partly by Mrs. Clinton excessive emphasis on being the feminist candidate, whereas Obama always campaigns as the candidate of ALL Americans.

    • Posted By: anthonylee @ 02/28/2008 3:01:53 PM

      Take a number and stand in-line for the "most" oppressed demographic in the country! Last I checked, there are more "White" woman registered to vote than any other, so your premise that White Americans are more sexist than racist is absurd, "White" Women must be self-deprecating and hating themselves by not supporting Hillary, or maybe ??? just maybe they???re not practicing sexism, by not supporting Hillary solely because she???s a woman and not the best candidate?

  • Posted By: jojo-ohio @ 02/28/2008 1:55:09 PM

    Why are we as Americans so willing to support Obama? We know everything about Hillary and wether we agree with her methods or not we have to admit she has done quite a bit of good for our country. There is no doubt that she is in this with good intentions. Obama on the other hand has a past that we cannot be 100% sure of and though he makes it all sound good we really have no clue what this mans intention is and who his loyalty is with. As Americans are we really naive enough to turn our Country over to someone that we really and truly dont know? What if this is one of the many people in this world that was raised from birth to hate us. Why take the chance?

    • Posted By: anthonylee @ 02/28/2008 2:38:57 PM

      Your last two questions pretty much sum up your perspective. Who is the "us" you associate yourself with, the European-American "us", the Jewish-American "us", the blue-collar/working class "us"? Last I checked Sen. Obama was one of "us", born on native soil, pledging allegiance to our flag. As an American, protected under "our" Constitution, I know that the ???Executive??? is not a King and that we cannot turn our Country over to one supreme ruler. The Judiciary and Legislative provide the Checks & Balances that I need, to know that no individual can usurp my ???US??? of America.

    • Posted By: anthonylee @ 02/28/2008 2:26:22 PM

      Your last two questions pretty much sums up your perspective, you believe that Sen. Obama is not one of "us". Is that the European-American "us", the Republican-American "us", the Jewish-American "us"? Last I checked, he was an "US" Citizen, born on American soil, initially serving Illinois-Americans and now looking to serve all "US" Americans.

  • Posted By: ldecordre @ 02/27/2008 11:12:35 AM

    As a person of strong conviction of patiotism, and a naturalized citizen, it is no contest in my mind. Man or Woman...we must realize the importance of this office: If America does not like being American and the freedoms that lie herein....Obama is the choice. He has clearly self-professed his anti-American leanings and drastic underlying tones of anti-American sentiment. Frank Davis is his long time mentor! Where is his patriotism to qualify him for such an office ? I fear for this country and our freedoms under his concept of patriotism - ( not to mention having a first lady whose pride in country is based solely on having her husband a potential presidential candidate). Wake up America - he's not an Oscar nominee, he's running for the most important office of the county and very arguable the most critical position in the world. DO WE REALLY WANT A PRESIDENT THAT CANNOT EVEN PUT HIS HAND OVER HIS HEART DURING OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM? Come on!

    • Posted By: LiberalMama @ 02/28/2008 12:12:41 PM

      ldecordre Quit watching Fox News and think for yourself! There is ONE picture of him without his hand over his heart, he leads the pledge in the Senate, he has done a fantastic job representing the US when he's gone on trips overseas as a US Senator and sorry - but I agree with Michelle, there hasn't been much in the behavior of the US Government to be real proud of the past few decades, we've sat by during Rawanda's genocide, we've gone and invaded countries unprovoked, overthrown democratically elected leaders, and acting like real asses around the world. And all the while we've been arguing back and forth about gays and abortion and getting nothing done on the home front!!! This is the first chance we have to restore our image in the world and to actually unite to get things done!

      • Posted By: any1butDem @ 02/28/2008 2:06:41 PM

        Again, not a lot going on here that has any real merit. Name one, even one, TRUE democratically elected leader we have overthrown. ONE! And I don't mean the kind that when people show up at a ballot box, there is ONE name on the list to vote for. ONE! Not Saddam obviously, not Noriega, name ONE! I can tell you the last one and that was in Iran in the 70s (remember back that far) under a Democratic Administration. And which grand image are you referring to? Pre-Bush? The guy has made mistakes, yes, but are you really trying to say that before him we had some great image in the world. Reminder, 9/11 happened at the start of his Administration but was in the plans for years (hmmm ... Clinton days). And sure, I too would like to see something happen to help in places like Rawanda and Darfur but then we get situations like Somalia again where we put our troops in difficult situations and get accused of meddling again.

    • Posted By: jaylove @ 02/27/2008 7:27:48 PM

      If only we were so thoughtful about the issues that count vs the issues that don't! A hand over your heart doesn't put a grain of sense in your head. I am certain your convictions had you fall for the rhetoric of patriotism that inticed so many....well, what result do we have here. As for Oscar nominees, the last actor we had in the White House did a great job.

      Patriotism also means the intellignece to identify flaws within the political and social system and the courage to expose them and fix them. Or maybe, i should just place my hand firmly over my heart.

      • Posted By: any1butDem @ 02/28/2008 9:12:01 AM

        Yeah, you should probably just put your hand over your heart because the ideology that causes you to think that Patriotism is rhetoric is going to cause this country to find itself in some vicarious positions. You mentioned a situation from World War II earlier and that itself is hysterical as people in this country during that time would have had a field day with you for calling Patriotism "rhetoric" ... At this point, Otrauma keeps throwing the word "change" around so much that it is not just rhetoric anymore but it is cliche. Just remember this statement if he gets in office (I cringe at the very thought) ... NOT ALL CHANGE IS GOOD!

  • Posted By: frjiles1 @ 02/26/2008 12:17:10 PM

    Newsweek--your articles are becoming more and more transparent---give me a break! I guess yall just can't stand that a lot of people are FINALLY waking up huh?

    • Posted By: swdemocratforchange @ 02/26/2008 12:29:29 PM

      Waking up??? To what....do you not get the gist of this article...that Senator Obama displays many qualities that are typically associated with females and Senator Clinton has taken on more masculine qualities and since Obama is doing better in the polls nationwide.....what conclusion can you draw? So, give me a break!!!!

      • Posted By: frjiles1 @ 02/26/2008 12:53:32 PM

        I stated that people are waking up, I didn't say that all people have awaken and many probably won't. But if you can't see thru this article, you are proving my point and I rest my case.

        • Posted By: swdemocratforchange @ 02/26/2008 2:12:18 PM

          Maybe you should be less obtuse....and say what you mean!

          • Posted By: frjiles1 @ 02/26/2008 3:09:28 PM

            I initially thought you were being sarcastic but maybe you don't quite get what I am stating so let me break it down for you------Newsweek--along with MANY other magazine, columnist etc.... read blogs on a daily basis. You have people who are hired simply to review how the general public are responding to posted articles. ALOT of the companies who are reviewing their bloggers list for articles pertaining to Clinton and Obama are seeing that there is a decrease in people posting favorable comments about Obama AND/OR there is a decrease in the Obamamania Fever. The lack of favorable responses are now prompting them to write more favorable articles about Obama and continuing to write less favorable articles about Clinton in hopes of getting and keeping more pro Obama postings coming.

            This is what this article is about---trying to keep the pro Obama postings and feelings coming but I am noticing that less and less people are praising Obama. Hell, within the past month, people were acting like they wanted to fight you if someone posted something that was NOT pro Obama. As you can see, that entire tone has changed. I think the tone has changed because as more and more info is divulged about Obama, people are seeing who he really is. Isn't the internet wonderful!! And in all honesty, some people are hurt. My best friend was in the Obama cult until recently and now she act like she lost her best friend because she is finding out that he is not who he portray himself to be. I try not to laugh or be insensitive but at the same time, I can't for the life of me understand the hold that Obama HAD on a lot of people and STILL HAVE on many. I hope that you now understand what I am saying.

            And by the way, the Media's love for Obama is only going to last until/if he get the nomination. Once/if he gets the nomination--they along with the Republicans will beat him up way worse than they TRIED and still are TRYING to do Clinton. The Media created the Obama hype to take votes away from Clinton.

            • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 02/26/2008 3:53:21 PM

              Pretending that the "media" created Obama is the latest way to dismiss the genuine grass roots movement behind the amazing politician. I've supported Obama all along, long before the media noticed his rise in the polls.

              So is 'President Hillary' going to blame every failure in her new administration on the media? If so, how is this different than the seven years we've had of zero accountability in the White House? Hillary needs to stop whining and blame the real person behind her failures, herself.

              • Posted By: jojo-ohio @ 02/28/2008 1:54:13 PM

                Why are we as Americans so willing to support Obama? We know everything about Hillary and wether we agree with her methods or not we have to admit she has done quite a bit of good for our country. There is no doubt that she is in this with good intentions. Obama on the other hand has a past that we cannot be 100% sure of and though he makes it all sound good we really have no clue what this mans intention is and who his loyalty is with. As Americans are we really naive enough to turn our Country over to someone that we really and truly dont know? What if this is one of the many people in this world that was raised from birth to hate us. Why take the chance?

              • Posted By: frjiles1 @ 02/26/2008 8:44:43 PM

                If you can't see that the Media created Obama--then you simply don't want to see it. Just stay tuned--and you will see that there is al ot of validity with what I am saying!

                • Posted By: jojo-ohio @ 02/28/2008 1:52:06 PM

                  Why are we as Americans so willing to support Obama? We know everything about Hillary and wether we agree with her methods or not we have to admit she has done quite a bit of good for our country. There is no doubt that she is in this with good intentions. Obama on the other hand has a past that we cannot be 100% sure of and though he makes it all sound good we really have no clue what this mans intention is and who his loyalty is with. As Americans are we really naive enough to turn our Country over to someone that we really and truly dont know? What if this is one of the many people in this world that was raised from birth to hate us. Why take the chance?

              • Posted By: Dialogue @ 02/26/2008 5:09:54 PM

                To Johnsonium:
                You're great. Please keep it up for as long as you've the time. However, the problem is, that you've no serious/informed conversational. opponent. You're right again; don't suffer fools.

              • Posted By: Dialogue @ 02/26/2008 4:56:20 PM

                To Johnsonium:
                You're great. Keep it up for as long as you've the time. TYhe problem is that there's no intelligent blogging opponent to engage you. you're right; don't suffer fools.
                Horace Edwards

            • Posted By: swdemocratforchange @ 02/26/2008 6:06:36 PM

              I see what you're getting at, but I don't agree with you on it. I've done quite a bit of fact checking about Obama & Clinton and I don't think that he's really very different from what I had initially thought him to be. I do agree that there's a sort of ebb & flow to his distinct popularity, but I think that has more to do with people getting accustomed to him as commander & chief and his ideas & views "catching on". There are several other blogs that I go to regularly and they have many Pro-Clinton & Pro-Obama articles. I've got to say, that some Clinton supporters are just getting downright nasty with the Obama supporters and I don't understand that? I respect that Clinton supporters or McCain for that matter, have thoughtfully come to their respective opinions regarding who they are voting for or supporting & I expect the same from them, but alot of Obama supporters get ridiculed & accused of being sheep followed a messiah to slaughter and that just a ridiculous notion. It makes us seem as though we're just dim-witted and haven't thought this thru and we have, but have come to a different conclusion. That's the beauty of America.....and I usually think that it keeps us together, but maybe not this time. If I sounded a little flippant, I apologize, that was not my intent, but when you get attacked often enough, you get a sort of knee-jerk response to everything!

              • Posted By: frjiles1 @ 02/26/2008 8:53:28 PM

                I respect your opinion and your position. I must admit that I have used terms as Messiah and cult. I mean no disrespect and if I have offended you by stating these characterizations, sincerely apologize. Something NEVER sat well with me about Obama. I trust my gut feelings and in conducting my research, I see that my gut feeling was right on. But I am happy that we can agree to disagree and that we can be respectful about it. Have a good day!

            • Posted By: rrodrig82 @ 02/26/2008 4:11:10 PM

              I get it the conspiracy theory.

  • Posted By: Debunked @ 02/27/2008 1:26:04 PM

    What is wrong with Americans?? Do you all realize what is happening?
    I never thought I???d see the day when the Media is afraid to say a black person???s middle name.

    Obama belongs to a church in which the pastor praises Farrakhan and as I learned on Fox teaches the Black Value System and focuses on black people! Why are non blacks NOT outraged? Instead of outrage, Americans of all colors and ethnicities embraces him. What is wrong with you?! PEOPLE WAKE UP!! Why am I the only one outraged!!

    To my non black Americans and non racist black Americans, why aren???t you banning together to fight this and let it be known that the preferential treatment has to stop and that you are not going to support ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE that attends a church that focuses on one race for TWENTY years.

    If the other candidates attended a Pro Whites Only church, there would be hell to pay. There would be blacks protesting and screaming racism. Why isn???t this so for Obama?
    It is making me sick in my stomach to see what is happening and to see White America and other non blacks Americans just sit up here and take it!

    DO WE WANT A MAN WHO HAS BELONGED TO A BLACK SEPARIST CHURCH FOR 20 YEARS TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY?

    Please please stand up and let it be known that we will NOT be duped any longer! People please, take a stand!

    • Posted By: LiberalMama @ 02/28/2008 12:05:15 PM

      As soon as I read "and as I learned on Fox" nothing else you said had ANY validity to it!!! That should be called Faux news as they are SO biased and have been called out for telling SO many lies and pander to personalities such as Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly - two complete nut jobs!!!!!!!!

      • Posted By: any1butDem @ 02/28/2008 1:48:03 PM

        someone cracking on Fox news? Hold on let me see:
        ABC - Always Bringing you Crap
        NBC - Nothing But Crap
        CNN - Creating News Network
        MSNBC - More of the Same Nauseating Bull Crap
        CBS - Constant ... BS

        I am personally not a huge fan of any of them but Debunked is right! The news media has given this BHO a free ride through this as he hasn't fallen under the scrutiny that ANY Republican would go through if they had the same ties to the same freaks like Farrakhan (Bill O'Reilly a nut job? Compared to Louis "I think white people blew up the New Orleans levies to harm black people" Farrakhan? Talk about losing validity) and his buddy Tony Rezko (Syrian), they would be blasted by every liberal there is. Thanks for the double standard which has nothing to do with racism as I would take a Colin Powell, Condi Rice, even a Charles Rangle over this fraud of politician.

  • Posted By: JackieV @ 02/27/2008 3:52:01 PM

    This article illustrates, in a backhanded and extremely sexist way, how Hillary Clinton would make the best leader, McCain second best, and Obama worst. Bravo Newsweek. Your magazine, along with all the rest of the mainstream media, have successfully murdered the Clinton campaign. Now you've even taken away her status as the first woman to have a real shot at the Presidency and given it to Obama. Again, bravo!

    • Posted By: LiberalMama @ 02/28/2008 12:02:25 PM

      Hillary killed her own campaign by acting condescending, making statements that made it seem like the millions of people who support Obama are idiots (great way to get them to switch support!) and by being increasingly dirty/negative which is obviously NOT what this country is thirsty for right now!!!!!

  • Posted By: yoyo1198 @ 02/27/2008 3:55:25 PM

    Why was this article even written? Just more media hype flagrantly biased toward BHO. Is there another article favoring Clinton somewhere on "Page One" that I somehow missed? Seems that would be the fair way to treat her. I've quit watching the television coverage of 'Vote '08'. I've yet to find an internet MSM site that is giving her a fair shake. BHO has been handed the nomination by the media. I am sincerely asking here: Is there a nonbiased media site ANYWHERE? If so, will someone please post a link?

    • Posted By: LiberalMama @ 02/28/2008 11:59:32 AM

      Are you CRAZY? They completely ignored Obama until he won Iow and it was obvious that he had built a HUGE grassroots movement that they had hugely underestimated. They placed Hillary out there is the presumptive nominee from the very beginning before that! He's been "handed the nomination" by the over one million individuals who have donated to his campaign (pretty sure that's a record) and by the millions who have voted for him, all the people who have gotten involved volunteering, phone banking, canvassing, etc. Hillary can't compete against a movement of young people engaged, and the media couldn't keep ignoring that! Sorry, I know she thinks it was like her time and this bad boy just came and stole it from her, boo hoo - but she wasn't owed anything!

    • Posted By: Potion78 @ 02/27/2008 5:03:00 PM

      HillaryClinton.com

  • Posted By: ObamaforPres @ 02/27/2008 12:11:16 PM

    For Idecordre: Perhaps you haven't been in the country long enough to hear this, but patriotism, of the type you describe, is the last refuge of fools and scoundrels.

    • Posted By: any1butDem @ 02/27/2008 12:50:02 PM

      Actually, I think Idecordre has been in this country long enough to understand it's principles. You on the other hand, ObamaforPEZ, have a complete lack of appreciation and gratitude for the very Patriotism that this country's strength was built on. Patriotism comes in one flavor which is a red, white and blue love for the country. It's the very patriotism you criticize that carried this country through such events as Pearl Harbor and September 11th. Without this patriotism, this country would have fallen long ago to the Germans or even communism. A very weak willed approach such as yours will cost us our freedom someday just because you want to bash patriotism. Why do you bash it? Obviously because your favorite candidate hasn't figured out the importance of patriotism either. I am not claiming the current administration is perfect. Far from it actually but I will take them over the empty suit talking head of Obama.

      The beauty of this is that every time I put a U.S. Army uniform on, I get to think ... wow ... I get to be a defender of freedom for people like yourself to bash other Americans over PATRIOTISM ... something you have no idea about. Don't ever talk down to any naturalized citizen of this country again for they have a better understanding about patriotism and this country's greatness and how THE TWO GO HAND IN HAND than you ever will! Don't call these people fools and scoundrels over patriotism. How dare you! You don't have the right to criticize the very principle that gives you the right to spew this crap rhetoric.

      • Posted By: jaylove @ 02/27/2008 6:05:46 PM

        So, you are suggesting that the French, Russians, Poles and all the other peoples and countries were dessimated by Hitler because of lacking patriotism? Gimme, a break!!!!!

        • Posted By: any1butDem @ 02/28/2008 9:04:04 AM

          Are you comparing the heart of the people of this country to the French (could have stopped there and your comment would already be laughable), the Russians and the Polish? This is the greatest country on earth for a reason and obviously, that is something you don't believe enough in.

  • Posted By: collegevoter @ 02/28/2008 3:32:56 AM

    For the record the article was written a mere four days ago. So one (whoever that is) cannot say it is ancient history. I will not post repeatedly that she has a vagina (as one poster did with respect to Barack's penis).

  • Posted By: collegevoter @ 02/28/2008 3:29:31 AM

    Maureen Dowd wrote basically the same article in the New York Times.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/opinion/24dowd.html

    It talked about how Obama had more of an emotive, feeling, empathy-driven leadership style than Hillary. Since so many women are apparently appalled by this article I hope they will go to the link and express the same shock and condemnation at her (a female author) as they did at this article. If the objection is really on the substance of this article, with all due respect, please, I would hope that you would do so. Since the premise was first introduced by a woman not a man.

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