There are women out there qualified for high office. But being a woman is not a qualification in and of itself.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Lady Margaret Thatcher
May 20, 1965, address to National Union of Townswoman’s Guilds
After eight years of taxpayer funded coddling by a country she was not proud of until her husband achieved the presidency, Michelle Obama did what she (and millions of Americans) dreamed of. She and Barrack walked out of the White House. Now you would think someone of few accomplishments who was treated royally at taxpayer expense would be, if not grateful, at least not insulting to the people who paid for her years of indulgences. You would be wrong.
Last week Mrs. Obama complained “we ain’t ready.” From a book promotion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music:
As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready. That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not.
So don’t waste my time. We got a lot of growing up to do, and there are still, sadly, a lot of men who feel like they cannot be led by a woman, and we saw it. I think we still have growing to do in that regard.
Trust me, the words do not convey the arrogance of this woman. Hit the link and get the video. As far as her not running for president she is no less completely unqualified as Mrs. Bill Clinton and Mrs. Harris. But, in the immortal words of Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess, “Promise?”
Michelle often complained of not having a salary as First Lady. While her husband was paid 400K a year, they lived in a taxpayer funded mansion. Her family paid for nothing (food, health care, etc.). They went in government owned limousines and flew on Air Force 747s for multiple vacations a year. Michelle actually said “Having her own ‘glam team’ or ‘trifecta,’ dedicated (taxpayer paid) employees to do her hair, makeup, and style her outfits…’feels like a luxury, but it was a time necessity. There’s absolutely no way that I would be able to do my hair and makeup and have clothes ready that fit because rare is the woman who can live off the rack.’”
Tens of millions of women in this country disagree.
She ranted at the Brooklyn Academy on how white people were telling her and others blacks they must straighten their hair. I don’t recall this issue at the latest meeting of “White People Inc,” but I’ll check my minutes. I do recollect the usual suspects complaining this time last year how two women nominated for the presidency by the Democratic party lost to the same man. And how there must be an issue with the American people. No, the issue is not the American people, it’s the women nominated.
Looking at both candidates, they are very flawed. Mrs. Bill Clinton, a moniker given to her by the late Rush Limbaugh, strikes a nerve with many liberals. But it is point on. The former Hillary Diane Rotham is what, in the big picture, if she is not Bill Clinton’s wife? Nothing.
I don’t question with her legal pedigree and natural viciousness, left to her own devices, Mrs. Clinton would be a successful lawyer, law school professor or dean, etc. But that’s not what she did. She took two Ivy League degrees, married Bubba and followed him to Arkansas. Her legal career encompassed being a rainmaker for the Rose Law Firm. Mrs. Clinton was placed in charge of reforming Arkansas public schools and they moved from 48 to 49 nationwide (thank God for Mississippi).
After Bubba’s winning the presidency, likely unable to put on a Band-Aid, Mrs. Clinton was put in charge of nationalizing health care. It was a colossal failure and a major cause of the GOP taking the Congress in the 1994 elections. The party, in gratitude for her standing by her man during multiple scandals, gave Mrs. Clinton the party nomination for the NY senate seat held by the retiring Daniel Patrick Moynihan. After eight unremarkable years in the senate, she was denied her nomination by the party elders who selected Barrack Obama. In 2016, she was finally nominated for the presidency.
I can recommend a great book, Shattered, written by two CNN reporters embedded with the 2016 Clinton campaign. The hubris this woman showed was nothing short of astonishing. She never campaigned in or ran a poll in Wisconsin, a critical swing state. Ms. Clinton knew she “had it in the bag.”
The experts on her campaign staff suggested she focus on insuring she had the 270 Electoral College votes, then worry about expanding her outreach. Not needed, Mrs. Clinton knew she would lead America into the largest blue wave election since 1932. Thank God the American people (including the ¼ of the voters she insulted as “deplorables”) disagreed.
Not to be outdone, ex Vice President Kamila Harris. A woman who was only selected for the VP slot is because she is a black female. Don’t know if she was selected for the 2024 nomination in a smoke-filled room, but it was not an open campaign. Not a strong candidate seeing she dropped out of the 2020 nomination before the Iowa caucuses. Give the devil her due, she was death a very weak hand, but Mrs. Harris played it very poorly.
I ask, are these the best the Democrats have to offer? Granted, they bench has been poor, and 2028 is looking pretty weak (Gruesome Newsome, Pritzker, Harris 2.0, Crazy Bernie, AOC).
Back to Ms. Obama, is America ready for a woman as president. I would say definitely. But as one liberal white woman said in 2016 about the Democratic candidate, “I want a woman. Just not this woman.”
I’ve a conservative with some libertarian traits, so I have no issue with a woman as president. But she has to be right on the issues and has to be qualified. Strike Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Harris, both women were not. I would contrast these women to others who have shown themselves great leaders of nations.
Top of the list is without question Lady Margeret Thatcher. “She grew up the daughter of a store owner, then started her political career with the assistance of her husband (not because of him). After losing her first race for Parliament, she took some time to raise her children and worked as a tax attorney. Thatcher then won a seat in 1959, rising to Secretary of State for Education and Science. After Prime Minister Edward Heath lost two elections, she challenged him for party leadership (her and Rawhide had a lot in common). After winning the party leadership in 1975, in 1979 she became prime minister, a position she held for 11 years.” The Iron Lady revitalized Great Britain, let them through the Falklands War and was a major partner with Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and others in ending the Cold War.
Another strong woman in the center chair? Golda Meir. “Born in the Ukraine, her family moved to Milwaukee in 1906. Meir moved to Palestine in 1921, joining the Merẖavya kibbutz. Rising from one position to another in Israeli government, she was a signatory of Israel’s independence declaration and appointed minister to Moscow. Meir was elected to the Knesset in 1949, serving until 1974, the last five as Prime Minister. Meir is the is only woman to hold this position. She proved her mettle during her term, handing the Munich Olympics crisis and the Yom Kippur War.”
When asked of her accomplishments as Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton could only mention her traveling over a million miles. That is an accomplishment, for the pilots. She held the center chair in Foggy Bottoms during one foreign policy disaster after another (Egypt, Libya). As Vice President, in four years Ms. Harris oversaw an open invasion of the United States by approximately ten million illegal aliens. Nothing here looks good on a resume.
The point? It’s not women, but these women that America would not entrust with the presidency. They simply were not qualified and were completely wrong on the issues (both would have opened the southern border more and gotten another amnesty, done everything possible to keep our elections unsecure, completed the takeover of health care Obamacare started, etc.).
Both parties have women who can serve in leadership positions, but being a female is not a qualification. Being qualified means being qualified. Might I suggest you groom people who’ve actually accomplished things (college is NOT an accomplishment in the big picture). People who ran businesses successfully, fought and won battles in the political arena, who have worked for something other than their next elected position. America deserves better than these two women nominees, and a very ungrateful Mrs. Obama.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
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Mrs Obama is complaining about straightening her hair. Yeah, I can see how that would be a pain in the ass, but she was First Lady for eight years: if she wanted, she could have let her hair go ‘natural,’ and perhaps changed the beauty standards for black women, even though, despite the media trying to tell us differently, Mrs Obama was not a ravishing beauty or style icon. I do wonder if the “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans” campaign pulled her chain somewhat.
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