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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
5. I've been calling for that for years now, and HRC supporters have objected
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:33 PM
Jun 2012

even though she'd have power for a longer period(and be able to be MORE progressive) than she'd have or be as president.

The only thing I can think of is that some of them want to see a female president order military invasions of more countries.

It's not like having MORE wars could ever be progressive or feminist(and attacking Iran certainly couldn't ever be either).

REAL feminists are antiwar.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
4. The only problem is, it implies that Obama is AGAINST appointing women to SCOTUS
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:31 PM
Jun 2012

Clearly, he's not, and whatever else you could say about him, his record on women's issues has been indistinguishable from what HRC's would have been as president(and, in fact, might be somewhat better, since HRC would have KILLED more Iraqi women by keeping the war there going like she wanted to).

Tigress DEM

(7,887 posts)
9. Nah.... it's banter about TWO good things
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 09:33 PM
Jun 2012

He's the Constitutional Lawyer by nature, so he gives that piece.
She's a woman who has fought to get into the big boy games in politics, so she's a good person to point out that part.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
11. But it makes it sound like she MADE him pick Sotomayor and Kagan.
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 09:45 PM
Jun 2012

Banter is one thing, but this implies a disagreement that everybody knows didn't exist.

Whatever you can say about Obama, you really can't argue that he's been any less pro-woman as president than HRC would have been. And you could, probably, argue that she might have been LESS pro-woman, given that her foreign policy would have kept us fighting on in Iraq indefinitely(and we might not even be getting out of Afghanistan in 2014)and since that would have led to MORE Afghan and Iraqi women being killed, there couldn't have been anything good for that gender in either of those things.

OneGrassRoot

(22,920 posts)
6. It's funny how we can all look at one thing and interpret it so many ways...
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 07:09 PM
Jun 2012

I definitely didn't view this as slamming Obama in any way, nor that he is against woman at all.

It was just a funny comment a woman made to a male friend; they just happen to be POTUS and SoS.

These "Hillary texting" graphics always crack me up though.



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