Are We Ready For a Woman President? Really?

Hell, I know that anyone who at this point still thinks Obama hasn’t been treated any worse than any other president is not going to be persuaded otherwise, but here’s a sampling of some of the foulest stuff anyway.

1. Leader of a foreign nation whose views are in conflict with the president is invited to speak at a joint session of Congress. The president is not even informed of this as a courtesy until the visit is already pending. Netanyahu said, “My speech is not intended to show any disrespect to President Obama or the esteemed office that he holds.” Really?

2. The leader of a foreign country would undoubtedly never be greeted at plane landing by an American official with a wagging finger in his face while news cameras watched. Republican Governor Jan Brewer did just that in January 2012 to the sitting President of the US for all the world to see. She said she did it because Obama made her feel “A little threatened.” Puh-lease.

3. No President has ever been refused a request to address congress – except one. President Obama asked John Boehner for a date to address Congress about jobs and the economy in September 2011 and was refused.

4. The whole birther fiasco and varying degrees of refusal by GOP leaders to disavow it was the most virulent between 2009-2011, but still rears its ugly head sometimes. What other president has had his very legitimacy as a citizen questioned this way?

5. Even in an age of general incivility, it’s astounding that a member of congress would have the lack of control to call the President – while he was addressing congress and the nation on worldwide television– a liar. Imagine if say, Maxine Waters had done this to George Bush. I know, I can’t even imagine it, either. That kind of open contempt has been reserved for this one president.

6. The signs and videos circulated by the GOP and Tea Party are too vile to share in polite company, but they were breathtaking in their sheer numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWbmEUIQOCQ

7. Maybe one of the most offensive shows of disrespect for this president was by Former NYCity Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a widely-publicized interview for Politico. It wasn’t an exception, it was how GOP officials regularly spoke of President Obama.
“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said, according to a story in Politico last month. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.” When Megyn Kelly of Fox News asked Giuliani whether he wanted to apologize, he said, “Not at all. I want to repeat it.” Giuliani would then tell the New York Times his remarks weren’t racist “since [Obama] was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools”

Show me how Clinton is facing anything comparable to what Obama faced as a candidate in 2008. There is no birther controversy. There are no people marching with offensive signs. There are no rants equivalent to the "inadequate black male" rant from a Hillary supporter.

There is no equivalency here.

There is this vague "no one should criticize Hillary" theme coming from Hillary supporters (which is quite unreasonable for someone running for national office).

I think there are plenty of people who think she's dishonest and they can't stand her. I'm a damn woman myself. I'd LOVE to see a strong, good woman in office, but I wouldn't vote for anything in a skirt to achieve it.

Did you really think everyone who didn't vote for Obama was a racist?

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There is this vague "no one should criticize Hillary" theme coming from Hillary supporters (which is quite unreasonable for someone running for national office).

I agree, they are acting as though she is somehow above being questioned.

Misogyny is not a disadvantage for Hillary Clinton. It is a marketing slogan.

Hillary is one of the most privileged people on Earth. She is White, wealthy and well connected with name recognition to match.. People pay her tens of thousands of dollars to hear her speak. She can call world leaders on the phone and they will answer. Same with Wall Street leaders, and fund raisers and business tycoons.

To try to portray her as disadvantaged by anything is ridiculous by any stretch. Being female is a disadvantage for woman who are trying to make it in the real world, especially the professional world.

But for Hillary it is so much of an advantage that she is using "Madame President" as her primary marketing message.

This narrative is so contrary to the fact, that it is frustrating.

Let's talk about the real issues-- like racial justice for example. I am still waiting to see Hillary's detailed plan to respond to the issues raise by the Black Lives Matters movement (which she helped make worse in the previous Clinton administration).

Every criticism is met with a certain attitude as though she above being criticized and if she is criticized then we are just part of the ones out to get her. It is like we democrats have put her on a pedestal or something.

I don't think being a woman has anything to do with any criticism of her, but just her as a person. I still think Elizabeth Warren would have been better received and I hope Biden and Elizabeth both get in the race.

Let me ask you this one last question Snood.

If Hillary loses again how will you know if misogyny played a part in it?

How will you distinguish this from Hillary losing a second time based on her record, her perceived lack of trustworthiness and the fact that many Americans don't like a candidate with such strong connections to the political and financial elites?

The last time she lost, many people claimed "misogyny" even though all the evidence (including polling) pointed to the fact that her perceived connection to the Iraq war was the biggest reason she lost.

Is there an honest way to answer this question? I understand the feeling that it is high time to put a woman in the White House. But, sometimes the best woman for the job is a man.