tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post738973206151796663..comments2024-03-18T21:09:10.627-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/19/24: Nancy Pelosi: "This is what they had; their white-man-ness."Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-61574224625830246792016-10-13T18:02:22.040-05:002016-10-13T18:02:22.040-05:00Being a former first lady may count against her to...Being a former first lady may count against her to some people. Sure we want a female president, but not one who got there through marriage. J. Pabsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566801024154623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78076027347619672422016-10-10T15:15:55.889-05:002016-10-10T15:15:55.889-05:00Just as the Founding Fathers would have found inco...Just as the Founding Fathers would have found inconceivable a Black man occupying high political office, about women they would undoubtedly have subscribed to the views expressed by their contemporary, the 4th Earl Chesterfield in a letter to his son.<br /><br />"I will therefore let you into certain arcana that will be very useful for you to know, but which you must, with the utmost care, conceal and never seem to know. Women are only children of a larger growth. They have an entertaining tattle and sometimes wit, but for solid reasoning and good sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequently for four and twenty hours together. Some little passion or humor always breaks upon their best resolutions. Their beauty neglected or controverted, their age increased, or their supposed understandings depreciated, instantly kindles their little passions, and overturns any system of consequential conduct that in their most reasonable moments they might have been capable of forming. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them as he does with a sprightly, forward child, but he neither consults them with serious matters, though he often makes them believe that he does."<br /><br />Although women gained the vote in 1920 they only started making inroads into government and the workforce in the 1940's, when "our boys," (a characterization that has fallen by the wayside as a consequence) were away at war. Your many readers who weren't really around way back then might not fully appreciate how far the ladies have come in only a half century.<br /><br />Tom Evans<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-62635394126474036162016-10-10T12:18:27.643-05:002016-10-10T12:18:27.643-05:00For sure. Trump is already making excuses for los...For sure. Trump is already making excuses for losing.tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51112996487492536102016-10-10T12:06:39.502-05:002016-10-10T12:06:39.502-05:00And of course, we'll be endlessly hearing all ...And of course, we'll be endlessly hearing all about how Hillary rigged the election. Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08503985637250089886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-47629672996690685222016-10-10T12:06:29.599-05:002016-10-10T12:06:29.599-05:00And of course, we'll be endlessly hearing all ...And of course, we'll be endlessly hearing all about how Hillary rigged the election. Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08503985637250089886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-72591812152013068012016-10-10T09:55:13.102-05:002016-10-10T09:55:13.102-05:00I can't but think of what a hard time Jane Byr...I can't but think of what a hard time Jane Byrne had right off the bat as Mayor and the stupid comments from Trump about putting Hillary in jail lead me to believe that her election won't stop the efforts to delegitimize her. Will we have 8 years of incessant Benghazi hearings and goofs from the innards of the FBI howling about her "getting off" on the email fiasco? I shudder at the thought. But, of course, the alternative is far far worse.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-26534058599330449222016-10-10T08:23:55.555-05:002016-10-10T08:23:55.555-05:00And African males could vote (at least until Recon...And African males could vote (at least until Reconstruction ended) before any female could.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-38324421347115891592016-10-10T08:17:16.544-05:002016-10-10T08:17:16.544-05:00Something tells me when Hillary is elected preside...Something tells me when Hillary is elected president, it won't come close to the magic that was Grant Park on Nov. 4, 2008. Which reminds me, Leonard Pitts' novel <i>Grant Park</i> was a great read, I wouldn't mind reading a sequel.Berniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157600812959885192noreply@blogger.com