Time to Play WIARHSI: Hillary Says 'I Like Seeing Women in Charge'

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Without a lot of breaking news out there this morning, why not pass some of today's 23 hours with an exhilirating session of one of our favorite games, WIARHSI, which as regular readers know stands for "What if a Republican Had Said It?"

Check out this paragraph from a Newsday article that reports on a Hillary campaign event in Nashua, New Hampsire:
"The former first lady, referring to New Hampshire's roster of female Democratic officials, quipped, 'I don't know about you, but I like seeing women in charge.'"
For purposes of WIARHSI, let's imagine that a Republican had made the mirror-image comment: "I don't know about you, but I like seeing men in charge." Fair to say that the feminist howls of outrage would soon be echoing from sea to shining sea? But what are the odds that Hillary's blatant appeal to sexist solidarity will cause even the smallest ripple in the MSM?

Note how Newsday tries to cover for Hillary, casting her comment as a mere "quip." Real side-splitter!

It goes without saying that no candidate could survive saying that he likes to see "whites" in charge, but it's hard even to imagine Obama saying that he likes to see African-Americans in charge. Why does Hillary think this is a legitimate and appealing pitch?

An additional note: Obama is frequently compared to another young, charismatic Democrat -- JFK. At the same Nashua event where she got off her "women in charge" line, Hillary tried to cloak herself in JFK's mantle. She told the crowd:

"New Hampshire came together to offer their support to a presidential candidate who came from just south of here; he was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring, he was Catholic. A lot of people back then said, you know, America will never elect a Catholic as a president, but those who gathered here a half century ago knew better. Some people tell me . . . 'I don't think a woman can be elected president,' I say we'll never know unless we try."

Be on the lookout for clips of Hillary playing touch football on the lawn.

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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Nevermind Republican...what

Nevermind Republican...what if a MAN had said "I like to see men in charge"????

I am already so sick of hearing Hillary and Her Speakerness Pelosi talk about their sex all the time; they are an embarrassment to all women. If they want to be considered equals with men, they need to start talking about their capabilities, not their sex. But apparently they don't want equality any more, they think women are better at everything.

This is going to have a backlash.

A Merit-Based Society?

It is very interesting that while only a "quip", her comment is actually quite divisive and sexist, not to mention shallow. While many people purporting to represent "suppressed" groups call for a "color-blind" or "XXX-blind" society, they are usually the ones calling attention to whatever that characteristic is. If you want to argue to merit of an individual, by all means please do. If you're wanting to say that an individual is better for a position because of some external qualifier that has nothing to do with the position, then the debate is now out of the realm of suitability and now into the realm of preference. While an argument of preference is fine, at lease admit to it rather than trying to cloak it in terms of suitability and qualification.

On a side-note, her comment will be acceptable the day the comment "I like seeing white Christian men in power" is equally accepted or at the very least ignored as a quip.

Nevermind Republican...what

Nevermind Republican...what if a MAN had said "I like to see men in charge"????

Never mind that, even. What if a MAN had said, "I like to see women in charge"?

He'd probably be accused of pandering to the women's vote, and/or it would be misinterpreted as a sly reference to sexual activities.

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If Hillary is the answer, it must've been a stupid question...

The MSM is a roving pack of a

The MSM is a roving pack of antichrists, blatant hypocrisy is how they conduct business.

If a woman has the integrity

If a woman has the integrity of a Sarah, or a Deborah, or a Hannah, or a Tabitha ... or a Mary, THEN (in my book) she has the qualifications to compete for a leadership position.

Without that integrity she will just become fashioned as an antichrist. There is a god of this world who will continue to function until the return of Jesus Christ and he is ALWAYS looking for new recruits ... anyone with an incontinent resentment, a deep-seated hatred (of anything or anyone), or a talent that can be used to deceive the masses.

Empty

Why isn`t Hillery in New York doing to work she was elected to do?

Why is she in "Jawja" in "Black Face"?

I can say the same to "Obama",who`s doing the work he was elected to do,while the galavants around the nation?

Elect "Ron Paul".He is at his office doing the work the People elected him to do.

"Ron Paul" has nothing to hide and nobody to decieve;the truth will set our Nation Free,nothing else.

Jerry Alexander

Hillary

A woman is in charge of foriegn policy. How come she doesn't like that?

BULLSEYE, Gat. And what if a

BULLSEYE, Gat.

And what if a Republican had said this exact quote of the Dragon Lady's? For instance, in 2000 what if Elizabeth Dole had said she likes when women are in charge? Along with the Dragon Lady's other playing the gender card lines like, "The time has come for a woman President?" Well then suddenly the MSM would have been critical, saying she should be supported based on her character, ideas, experience, positions, and effectiveness, not just because she's a female. But unlike the Dragon Lady, Elizabeth ran on actual ideas and didn't shamelessly try to use her gender as the reason to vote for her.

The MSM doesn't care at all about seeing women or minorities in charge (if they did, they would be lauding the Bush administration). It's all about wanting Democrats to get elected. And in the Dragon Lady's case it's all about herself getting elected (like she really cares if other female Democrats win elections! [as opposed to male Democrats, I mean]), which is why this playing the gender card has directly coincided with her January "announcement" of running for Prez.

Isn't it also slightly peculiar that all of the Dragon Lady's strategists, scampaign workers, advisors, legal team, spokespeople, etc. seem to be males?  

Hillary can say anything she

Hillary can say anything she wants. The MSM will not highlight it, no matter how politically INcorrect or just plain wacko it is. I'm still stunned at her comment a few weeks back, when she said, "I want to take those profits"... WTH!! .

They are bloody bonkers!!! 

They are bloody bonkers!!!  I cannot believe the commentary I am hearing about Hillary and Billary today on Chris Matthews show.

What percentage of the voting electorate over our entire history do spouses of two term presidents amount to?  Is it one in a trillion yet?  Did the 80th Congress really not consider this small faction and their rights when writing the 22nd Amendment?  I still say their chosen language does recognize the first spouse as inherent party limited by their/our amendment.  It is the trillion others whose rights are protected by such interpretation and should be seen as supreme to legal loophole Clinton's hope for to put Billary back in effective control.  It may not say she cannot run but it may say effectively say that she cannot.  To allow that it may say she can run has it undermining other laws and vows in our system.  Constitutional intent?

Did she really naturally come to her so different look and profile.  Still so hard to believe.  I am just curious if such change is naturally possible.

Yes, Hillary, there is still time for a smart and unencumbered woman to enter the race.

What?

Real Men do not watch "No Balls W/Chris Matthews.

I have questoions to ask,that if ask by No Balls,would put him in whatever prison those that control the News,said thay would put Chris in,if he didn`t do as thay say.

Jerry Alexander

No, Newsday, it wasn't "

No, Newsday, it wasn't "a quip".  Hillary was being quite serious.  (Note to Newsday:  in case you hadn't heard, she hopes to be in charge of the country.  And she is a woman.  If she were a Lithuanian banjo player, she'd have said she likes to see Lithuanian banjo players in charge.)

P.S.  I love WIARHSI.

Of course she likes to see wo

Of course she likes to see women in charge. As long as they are LIBERAL women like herself and Her Speakerness Nancy the "Catholic" (and yes, the quotation marks are intentional) grandmother Pelosi.

This drives me crazy!! If women and men are supposed to be interchangeable, then why does she want a woman in charge? Shouldn't she want the best person for the job, whichever sex?

If these women start spouting off about how women are better at certain things, men might start to do the same. The ladies might not want to opent that particular can of worms.....

YES, IT SHOULD BE THE BEST PE

YES, IT SHOULD BE THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB, WHICHEVER SEX. 

This isn't Saudi Arabia or similar; we don't need to promote women to compensate for codified chauvinism.

  This is an attempt to make

  This is an attempt to make women behave as a voting block that will be one stop shopping for the 'I am Woman' candidate.  That is, you don't have to fight for each individual.  You just appeal to the 'group'.  Getting  women to think that the election is about their 'equality' and not about which candidate is best for the country and you have a voting block tailer made for her panderness. 

Well it's all Hillarious has

Well it's all Hillarious has left, but to pray on the sympathies of the feminists. Obama should get the majority of the black vote.

Once again Kentucky Fried Hillarious's latest comments prove she has missed the short bus on this issue . It's not that America doesn't want to elect it's first woman president, America just doesn't want to elect 'her' as it's first woman president.(fingers crossed).

But you best believe when, and if she loses, she will go on a tirade about how America is still in the stone age, and chauvanistic on this issue. No one has a bigger ego than she does except maybe her husband.

She reminds me of 'that girl' we all know from our youth, that will do anything to be prom queen, or class president. "Oooh Oooh!! Vote for me pleeeeeeaaaaassse, pretty pleeeeeeeaaaaasssse!!" She is so desperate, it's pathetic, and will stoop down to many new lows to get her votes, if you can believe there are new lows for her.

My wife, who by the way leans more toward being an independant, is even taken aback by her shameless pandering. One of the things she finds appalling is Shrillarious praying on the sensitivities of working mothers, and stay at home moms. Every one knows 'others' raised Chelsea, while the Hildabeast was out climbing the corporate, and social ladder, and for eight years the Secret Service raised her.

I thought last weeks shamefest on her behalf down in Selma, was a zenith for her, but it just keeps getting better, and better. This woman is starting more, and more to look like a satire, of a satire.Sooner or later she will have a "Howard Dean moment", and implode. Stay tuned for her iminent collapse, and breakdown, it should be very tasty stuff.

 "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.

I really think the decibel le

I really think the decibel level of her podium screech in Alabama reached (or surpassed) Dean's Iowa outburst.  It was toooo funny.  And her southern drawl was atrocious (and demeaning to the blacks in attendance)

Please count me as one woman who will never ever never vote for HRC!

"I don't know about you, but

"I don't know about you, but I like seeing men in charge."

You honestly don't see the difference between those two statements?

Sorry, no, I don't, Balboa. 

Sorry, no, I don't, Balboa.  In both cases, the speaker is citing an irrelevant trait (gender).  It's like saying, "I like seeing green-eyed people in charge".  Gee ... what about experience, integrity, insight, a commitment to public service ...?

Hillary agenda is all wrong

Being in charge of the United States of America is more serious than just being a "woman in charge".  Who gives a crap if you're a woman?  Do you have the intelligence, integrity and fortitude to run a superpower?  If not then shut up and get out of the way.  If you get elected by shallow people who want you in office just because you're a woman then our country will turn into another third world corrupt bunch of thugs.

Of course there is total hyp

Of course there is total hypocrisy with Hillary's statement, when isn't there out of her mouth most times?

I am sick and tired of the race, gender issue...if you are qualified, no matter who you are for any job in this country, you do that job well, then you will be just fine.

In Hillary's case...she is living in a fantasy world if she thinks for one minute she is going to be President...

Again.

Btw...I heard part of her speech in Nashua, she flip-flopped on her stance on the war and withdrawing troops, nice to know she stands by her word...strong woman with strong values she will stand by...I think not...but then again who doesn't know she blows with the wind, and bows to pressure from the looney left too, as if she isn't leftist enough to begin with.

Now I see Ms. Cattle Futures

Now I see Ms. Cattle Futures is comparing herself to JFK. From the New York Post (linked from Drudge):

"He was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring and he was Catholic. A lot of people back then [1960] said, 'America will never elect a Catholic as president,' " the White House hopeful told the New Hampshire Democrats' 100 Club fund-raiser here.

"But those who gathered here almost a half century ago knew better," she said. "They believed America was bigger than that and Americans would give Sen. John F. Kennedy a fair shake, and the rest, as they say, is history."

So more playing of the gender card, this time using Kennedy's catholicism as a comparison. Of course she won't ever compare Romney, a Mormon, with Kennedy since Mitt is a Republican. And with her words the implication seems to be that she is smart, dynamic, inspiring too! (but a woman instead of a Catholic).

And she says Kennedy's victory was people "giving him a fair shake". Again, the implication is that to vote for Hillary in '08 would be doing the "fair" thing.

The story added:

"Noting women are "the majority" of voters and are in the workforce in 'record numbers,' she added, 'So when people tell me 'a woman can never be president,' I say, we'll never know unless we try.'

It's just like when her "husband" said in 1992, "Just give me a chance." Now she's saying, "Let's just try this (me for President)." And don't you just love how the Clintons are constantly saying how "everywhere I go people tell me such and such". Yeah right I'm sure loads of people are telling Hillary that she'll never be President because she's a woman! With her way up in the lead in the polls, more money than anyone else, the huge name recognition, and a recent landslide victory in New York's Senate race, I'm sure people are saying that to her! These two are the biggest frauds and making up stories of people saying this and that to them in person is yet another one of their many phony ploys they dupe the country with.

What else would we expect from HiLIARy and Slick Willie. Allow me to use a great chorus from a Rush Limbaugh show parody from the early 90's:

Bill Clinton is a liar. Now we see his yearning to take all we're earning. Bill Clinton is a liar. If you've got money hide it cuz he's gonna find it.

("I want to take those profits!" - Hillary)

                                                             

beyond sil

anyting beyond sil re: following generates service report:

"Don't I look PRETTY?"

p.s. spooks make poor warriors at best

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