Iowa: the aftermath
Wayne Hayes, professor of American Studies at Dundee University, said: “I think America is ready to vote for a woman, they’re just not ready to vote for an absolutely ghastly woman.”
Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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Well, it’s all opinions isn’t it? I disagree…
http://tinyurl.com/2vte4j
Hang on, what I meant was, maybe they’d vote for Oprah…
Hee hee
There’s a University in Dundee? Blimey O’Reilly.
Well, a big “fuck you” to Wayne Hayes quite frankly. Voting for an absolutely ghastly man seems to have been more the norm than the exception recently, but a woman? Clearly her ghastly vagina must be kept away from a power.
Clearly Mrs Clinton should be, though.
Er, satire?
Oh all right then. Serves me right for not reading the source of the quote. Still, it’s sadly not that far from what some of the US wingnuts are openly saying.
To be honest, Katherine, I don’t fancy Hillary as president either, and it has absolutely nothing to do with her having a vagina.
While hubby Bill was around, I was only ever vaguely aware of Hilary floating about in the background, but just the other day I saw her glad hand a few people and make a speech and she was nothing short of scary. They say that behind every successful man there’s a good woman, but it turns out that behind Bill Clinton was a nakedly power hungry women, and it ain’t pretty!
Having watched web-bites of the dem debate last night, I confidently predict Obama/Edwards ticket to win nominations for pres/vp. Nothing to do with a vagina. Did Margaret Thatcher have one BTW?
It doesn’t have anything to do with Hillary’s vagina but it does have a lot to do with how she looks, superficially. Look at her face shape, look at the way she smiles (or grimaces, and ends up in a nervous rictus) compare how this projects on a screen to the more easy smilers, Edwards and Obama. Silly observations, perhaps, but it matters and she’s never been good at projecting charm over the mass media. Perhaps her best performance (in terms of political theatre) was in fronting up the Gennifer Flowers allegations against Bill Clinton back in ‘92. She was cross about the allegations, it showed, and she saved his skin and his, eventually successful, run for the Democratic nomination. I haven’t been able to find a talkie of it, but here are a few stills…
http://tinyurl.com/ytfwqs