Shouldn't There Be More? Is Pelosi A Sign Of The Near Future?
Submitted by kevin22262 on January 5, 2007 - 1:25am.
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What are you feelings on this? This list does seem so... lacking. What do you believe the reasons for this are? Now I am not advocating Senator Clinton for President but if we can not get Clark would she or another qualified woman not be a viable candidate?
Seems there should be more to this list. Women in this country have come a long ways but with the help of the media, some of that has been taken away (just think about it).
WOMEN'S MILESTONES IN US POLITICS
1916
Jeanette Rankin, R-Mont., became the first woman elected to the House.1920
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.1922
Rebecca Latimer Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to serve in the Senate. She was appointed to fill temporarily a vacant seat and served for only two days.1925
Nellie Tayloe Ross, D-Wyo., became the first woman governor, after she was elected to replace her deceased husband.1925
Rep. Mae Ella Nolan, R-Calif., became the first woman to chair a congressional committee, when she headed the committee on expenditures in the Post Office Department.1931
Sen. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, D-Ark., was appointed to the Senate to succeed her deceased husband. She later became the first woman elected to the Senate.1933
Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in the Cabinet, when President Roosevelt appointed her secretary of labor.1981
Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman on the Supreme Court.1984
Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro, D-N.Y., became the first woman to run on a major party's national ticket, when she was selected by Democrat Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate.2007
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., becomes first female speaker of the House this week. She became the first woman to head her party in Congress when she was elected House minority leader in 2002.
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Shouldn't There Be More? Is Pelosi A Sign Of The Near Future?
Clinton is a very intelligent person. I believe she has the smarts and the will power to be president. Her weak point is that the rethugs have made her into a four letter word and she is doing anything she can to try and re-appeal to the moderates and the righties.
For me the only thing I do not like about her is the DLC aspect but Bill Clinton and Obama both have that. Maybe even our Wes Clark has a bit of that. sorry.
Kevin
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What has she done to deserve to Presidency? Over and above any other candidate? It seems like an affirmative action thing.
And it's a dynasty. Aristocracy. It sends the message: if you want to succeed, marry up. An awful moral. But I don't think she really cares about that. I really don't.
To get most places in power part of it is about connections... a big part.
I don't believe in voting in a woman just because but as the person at Washington Woman said:
Why have we, the most powerful "democracy" in the world, never had a woman president when we had and have many well qualified women that could be president?
Countries of lesser means and so called "third world" countries have had and do have women in the most powerful positions in those countries.
Why not the here in the USA?I believe the answer lies within the "good old boy" party structure and the degrading and belittling of women through the media.
Are these some of the reasons?
What "sane" voter could ever vote for a woman when so many women let themselves be "used" to titillate?
Worse yet, women who believe they have taken some sort of "power" back by doing these degrading things and using degrading and stereo typing words voluntarily.Or is it you and I? Are we so blind that we can not reject what the media feeds us? Can we not see the strong and well qualified women in and around our lives and realize that they or someone like them Can Be President?
Kevin
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Has a (former) First Lady ever been elected to the House or Senate?
Who was the first woman to become an ambassador? How about U.N. Ambassador?
First female Secretary of State?
Who was the first woman to be elected to the Senate without her husband first serving in the Senate?
Same question for governor.
Who was the first woman to reach flag rank in the military?
How about the first female university president? President of a national union?
The list could be much longer.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
BE THE CHANGE you wish to see in the world.
If not us, WHO? If not now, WHEN?
was the first woman to run for president.
Madeleine Albright was the first woman Secretary of State.
Jeane Kirkpatrick (I think) was the first woman UN Ambassador
First woman mayor?
First woman state Secretary of State?
First woman Majority/Minority Leader in a state?
First woman Lieutenant Governor?
First woman Cabinet Undersecretary?
Nancy Pelosi was also the first woman minority leader in the US Congress.
Did any women ever serve on the Joint Chiefs?
Of course, this year, the American Episcopal Church elected the Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori as the first woman Presiding Bishop of the church - this is equivalent of Archbishop elsewhere. She's the first-ever woman head of a liturgical church.
One advantage Mrs. Pelosi has is that we don't know Mr. Pelosi. We are getting to the point where we can accpet a woman with power, but I don't think we're at the point where we could accept someone's wife with power.
I work in the same field as my husband, who is further along in his career than I am, and I can definitely see where I'm percieved negatively because I'm the wife.
A lot of Bill's achievements are things that Hilary achieved with him, but it'll never be percieved that way. Being his wife got her a long way, but she's got another long way to go to prove that's she's not just the wife.
Hillary is a very impressive candidate, however there is not a snowball chance in hell that the right wingers will vote for her.
Trust in a person's willingness to act selflessly for the good of the State historically has found it's most reliable expression in bleeding on a battlefield. It motivates many still to this day. Conversely, children often go to the mother in custody battles, the younger the more likely.
The fact that a woman carries the child in her body and can feed the child from her own breasts is a historically reliable indicator of the mother's willingness to act selflessly for the child.
Today, science has enabled us to transcend these barriers. The strength and quickness of a woman can be amplified, the nurturing ability of a man can be enhanced with bottles, childcare, doctors, etc.
Science and technology is not the be all end all, but it helps to level the playing field on both sides of the continuum that I sketched here.
However, despite the fireworks of Pelosi and Clinton, Pelosi, because of her determination and Clinton, because, well, who she's married to and now I guess because of who she knows.
No, it's the Margaret Thatchers, Tammy Duckworths and Condoleeza Rices of this world who lead the way for a woman to be given the Oval Office. Women who can pull the trigger.
Fact of life.