Yes:
As long as we're all worried about Hillary Clinton and the 'gender card' we do realize that about 75 percent of the 2004 race between John "I've killed people" Kerry and George "no you're a windsurfing frenchman" Bush was a series of efforts to play the gender card, right?It's actually stunning how much of the erstwhile foreign policy debate is primarily an argument about the size of the debaters' dicks.
Labels: 2008, Brian, foreign policy, politics
There is a legitimate worry that candidates lacking dicks may feel compelled, by electoral realities, to compensate for this fact by advocating even more miltant foreign policy.
Either that or Hillary Clinton just really is super right wing on foreign policy, or as Andrew Sullivan recently phrased it "Cheney in a pantsuit."
Hmmm. Certainly Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi all managed to win a war, even when the other side made the first move.....
I've never liked pantsuits, though.
Tom
Why does that not surprise me, Tom?
Does the added mobility (vs. dresses) bother you? ;)
Jon, for mobility, nothing on earth beats a mini-skirt or short pants.
It's a matter of personal taste, actually. To a certain extent, our desires remember what they were at eighteen. For me, that's patchouli-scented girls with tie-dyed long skirts worn with no bra or underwear. I must confess that even though I find her politics repugnant, I cannot look at Hillary's Wellesley photo without getting turned on.
You just had to be there, I guess.
Tom
Perhaps you're right about miniskirts, although that mobility also carries the risk of flashing your p**** to the rest of the world. No thanks, Hill.
Ah, I think I know the photo you're referring to from her days at Wellesley. There are a bunch in Living History. Too bad she wasn't a CEO, though--there's nothing problematic that I can think of about the character of many major business leaders...
I assume that was irony?
Tom