The End of Swagger

umm hes got a point. Women have every right that men do, what you lack is the ability to act on that. Its your fault that there are not as many women in congress. Any girl can, you can do what you want. But blaming men because you are not smart enough at act on your own laws is just cowardice. So look at it the right way. You have everything you need, all you need to do is do something about it. And when Anna says that there is not a country on earth that does not know of her greatness, she is full of ***. AS i recall hilary's health plan. Give 5,000 to every child born in the united states. OK it will take about 3 weeks to significantly lower the dow jones industrial average. This woman has no damn clue how an economy works. And hilary has no greatness, and if she did, she would be president.

His response speaks for itself, I needn't say more. I bet he's got pin-ups of that ignoramus Sarah Palin all over his parents' basement.

Floridave is a moron. If you think most women actually want to work in strip clubs--forget for a second any possible history of emotional, physical, mental or sexual abuse that got them there--you are obviously telling yourself this so you can feel good about frequenting those establishments. Your ignorant and uneducated comment is exactly the mentality that creates dangerous environments for often uneducated, poor or abused women. Not all women, but most. Talk to me when you've actually interviewed the strippers about their family histories and upbringings, rather than watching them with your tongue hanging out.

Floridave is a moron. If you think most women actually want to work in strip clubs--forget for a second any possible history of emotional, physical, mental or sexual abuse that got them there--you are obviously telling yourself this so you can feel good about frequenting those establishments. Your ignorant and uneducated comment is exactly the mentality that creates dangerous environments for often uneducated, poor or abused women. Not all women, but most. Talk to me when you've actually interviewed the strippers about their family histories and upbringings, rather than watching them with your tongue hanging out.

Dave, maybe you just have selective hearing. Every outfit put on the Obamas, including their children, has been detailed down to the socks where or who made it and how much it cost. The JCrew website was literally crashed when people heard the dresses the girls had on at the inauguration were from there. Maybe its just that a dress that costs $148.00 isn't quite as sensational as a 150K shopping spree by a "hockey mom".

I meant to say"...a wonderful oxymoron--palin/accomplishments--so good it should be on billboards that advocate education in America."

ant to say "

This blogger below(something dave?) juxtaposes 2 words--Palin and accomplishments! ! Really, he di!d! What a hoot! So, Dave, do you mean her ability to rip off a $200,000 wardrobe from theRNC and her ability to winki as she displays appalling ignorance on primetime tv? or do you mean her flashy pair of legs that American he-men go gaga over? These may be "accomplishments",,but I'd prefer for my daughter a "role-model" who can speak grammatical ly correct sentences in her native tongue and can demonstrate her ability to read (as in the ability to name a newspaper?).

But thank you for giving us a wonderful oxymoron--palin/accomplishments-- so good it should be on billboards:)

Wow, look at what happens when you mention the name of HRC. So she's controversial. I personally think that she is now in the best position to manifest her experience, power and wisdom. For awhile there after she lost the party's nomination, she seemed to be flailing a bit. But the appointment as SOS is a good one, and I think it was very smart on the president's part. Everyone should flourish now. I'll say it again, even if I've said it several hundred times already: People, can we just sit back and shut up for a few minutes, and give everyone who is part of the new administration a chance to prove themselves? If you have the courage to go back a read your posts (and find that you're making such dolts of yourselves) then you deserve to feel some shame and embarassment. Why do you think that Clinton and Obama are where they are, and you're not? Hmmmm?

A real feel good article. Don't believe a word of it but it did make me feel better.

Excellent! Someone finally had the courage to say it bigtime--Thank you Anna:) I too saw "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" and had the exact same response to it you have, and told all my friends. If Clinton/Obama/Holbrook employ this philosophy in Afghanistan & Pakistan, we'll accomplish so much more than by sending in more troops. I mean address the economic issues & the corrupt Karzai government issues, the opium issue, etc. by meeting with women, listening to women, and getting women involved in solutions such as small business enterprises, and of course educating women...Thank you...

Anna,
If you read this, I hope you'll re-visit an article you wrote in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 DNC ... how your cheeks became wet with tears of joy as you listened alone in your home to Obama's address, speaking against the simple divisions that (Republican) politicians would use to divide people from people. And yet, your articles (unintentionally, perhaps) have begun to reflect that psychology. I wish you'd re-discover that better angel of your nature ... somehow, you must be conditioned against Her. The advancement of a group (even if -- or especially if -- that group is 1/2 the populace) as the way to advance People is the exact backwards message of Obama. Stop this day and take pause from your love of Hillary Clinton. You are a writer ... you've not been as good since you became too-wedded to your need to see a female POTUS. You've practically treated Obama -- who espouses many of your values -- as Voldemort (He-whose-name-we-dare-not-say) for the last 2 years. This article is the most I've seen him acknowledged by you, and it seems that you could do so because you were speaking of he and Hillary as a team.
Try this logic exercise to exorcize the disappointment of Ms. Clinton's loss in the primaries: 1) Those who wanted HRC to win wanted to see her WIN it -- i.e., not have it be handed to her. Even in the time when she seemed pre-ordained, no supporter wanted to see that coronation happen any other way than through the route of her winning primaries -- and the satisfaction of seeing her win it amongst a talented field. 2) A talented field did gather. 3) Worse than losing the primary contest would be the unshakable stain of selection through channels other than really winning -- a terrible footnote for the 1st female top-of-the-ticket or future POTUS. 4) Though the contest was close, numbers are stubborn things. 5) Let it go, and just try indulging in the feeling you felt seeing a bright future back in 2004, when times were dimmed by Bush/Cheney/Rove. And let go the attitude of the congratulations of a mom to a precocious child. It took more than a child to kick political ass the way Obama did. It took a Man (I don' mean it took that gender, I mean stop treating him like a boy).

Anna,
If you read this, I hope you'll re-visit an article you wrote in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 DNC ... how your cheeks became wet with tears of joy as you listened alone in your home to Obama's address, speaking against the simple divisions that (Republican) politicians would use to divide people from people. And yet, your articles (unintentionally, perhaps) have begun to reflect that psychology. I wish you'd re-discover that better angel of your nature ... somehow, you must be conditioned against Her. The advancement of a group (even if -- or especially if -- that group is 1/2 the populace) as the way to advance People is the exact backwards message of Obama. Stop this day and take pause from your love of Hillary Clinton. You are a writer ... you've not been as good since you became too-wedded to your need to see a female POTUS. You've practically treated Obama -- who espouses many of your values -- as Voldemort (He-whose-name-we-dare-not-say) for the last 2 years. This article is the most I've seen him acknowledged by you, and it seems that you could do so because you were speaking of he and Hillary as a team.
Try this logic exercise to exorcize the disappointment of Ms. Clinton's loss in the primaries: 1) Those who wanted HRC to win wanted to see her WIN it -- i.e., not have it be handed to her. Even in the time when she seemed pre-ordained, no supporter wanted to see that coronation happen any other way than through the route of her winning primaries -- and the satisfaction of seeing her win it amongst a talented field. 2) A talented field did gather. 3) Worse than losing the primary contest would be the unshakable stain of selection through channels other than really winning -- a terrible footnote for the 1st female top-of-the-ticket or future POTUS. 4) Though the contest was close, numbers are stubborn things. 5) Let it go, and just try indulging in the feeling you felt seeing a bright future back in 2004, when times were dimmed by Bush/Cheney/Rove. And let go the attitude of the congratulations of a mom to a precocious child. It took more than a child to kick political ass the way Obama did. It took a Man (I don' mean it took that gender, I mean stop treating him like a boy).

The test for Hillary's foreign policy "for women," since she's been AIPAC's favorite Democrat for the last few years, is whether she'll be able to protect innocent Palestinian women and children--as well as innocent Iranian women and children--from being killed by Israel. Working for women's "freedom" is easy enough compared to standing up to Israel for the sake of saving women and children's lives.

Talk about your oversimplifications: treat the women well, and the rest will follow. I'm sorry to inform Ms. Quindlen that there are other issues that affect world politics besides gender. There are probably at least 87 other issues that are more critical to foreign policy besides this one. I'm not saying that I don't favor it - I do - but perhaps terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian might need to be a little bit more of the focus (to name two)?