WASHINGTON – The race is on to become the first woman president.
And just who is contending with Hillary Rodham Clinton?
According to Elizabeth Edwards, Kate Michelman, Rush Limbaugh and, now, what some see as a subliminal message in the cover of the latest issue of Esquire magazine, John Edwards may have the edge.
Last week, Mrs. Edwards was questioning Mrs. Clinton's femininity, as well as her willingness to champion "women's issues."
Mrs. Edwards suggested Mrs. Clinton might be behaving "like a man" because she is trying to assure voters she is "as good as a man."
The question of whether John Edwards could become the first woman president was first raised in a March 8 New York Sun article. The article was cited by Limbaugh, who has referred to Edwards as "the Breck girl," because of his famous, well-coifed mane.
"Toni Morrison famously dubbed President Clinton America's 'first black president,' the article said. "With that barrier broken, the comments of a prominent feminist are provoking debate about who may lay a similar claim to the title of America's first woman president."
It continued: "The candidate being touted as a torchbearer for women is not Senator Clinton, but one of her former colleagues, John Edwards. At a rally near the University of California, Berkeley, campus this week, a veteran of the abortion-rights movement, Kate Michelman, asked and answered the question she gets most frequently about her decision to back the male former senator from North Carolina."
"Why John Edwards, given the historic nature of our extraordinary campaign for the presidency this year with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and all the others?" Michelman asked as she warmed up the crowd for Edwards. "I've gotten to know a lot of political leaders over the years that I've been an advocate for women's rights. I know the difference between those who advocate as a political position and those who understand the reality of women's lives."
But the pièce de résistance for some on the issue of which candidate is the most feminine comes with the August cover story on Edwards. Purposely or inadvertently, above Edwards cover photo appear the words: "The Sexiest Woman Alive." The headline promotes another story in the magazine, but the juxtopositioning amid the controversy between Clinton and Edwards struck some as astonishing.
"I can't wait to see if Ann Coulter brings this up in one of her columns," wrote one poster to a popular weblog.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on July 23, 2007 06:37:55 PM new
Once again Bear is showing how stupid he really is. He doesn't know the difference between a male and a female. But it doesn't surprise me coming from the one that believe the people in Canada speak Canadian.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on July 23, 2007 10:57:04 PM new
He doesn't know the difference between a male and a female.
You see thats the thing, I do know the difference, but apparently you have forgotten that YOU are the one that is confused about its sexuality, since YOU are the one taking up the azz on a regular basis.
And since you seem to feel that I created the Esquire cover, check this out chump.
posted on July 24, 2007 08:16:59 AM newbut apparently you have forgotten that YOU are the one that is confused about its sexuality
I am not confused about anything Bear. I am comfortable with my sexuality. It is you and some of your other Republican posters that seem to have problems with their identity.
Besides don't you know about biology. One's sexuality doesn't determine their gender. I thought you would have learned this in school but it is obvious you didn't. Just like you didn't learn the predominant language in Canada. Did you drop out of high school? I know you are really confused on gender issues if you think Edwards spending tons of money on his hair makes him more "female" but Giuliani walking around in drag doesn't. That is a nice look for the Republican candidate for president. Will Giuliani wear the dress at the presidential inauguration?
So how is your hetro pride parade coming along? It has been about four years since you first mentioned it. Are you going to be like Bush all talk and no action? What's the matter can't get enough people to march with you?
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on July 24, 2007 09:45:33 AM new
I am not confused about anything Bear
Apparently you are. Anyone born male, then turns tail up is definitely confused. If you are now so proud to act as a woman in a sexual role, why not complete the process and stop masquerading as a male.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on July 24, 2007 12:32:43 PM new
etex - It's an old arguement that logansdad lost months/years ago. But as with everything from the long ago past, he NEEDS to continue bringing it up. He was embarassed when he was proven wrong, once again.
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Then ld says: "I am not confused about anything Bear."
posted on July 24, 2007 12:38:05 PM new
And while we're on the subject of 'pretty boy, edwards'.....
ever notice how his wife is supposedly campaigning FOR him? But please also note how many times she states positions that AREN'T HIS positions. So what's that nonsense if they don't agree on the positions? Is SHE the one running for the job? Do we really care what HER political positions are, especially when they're in disagreement with HIS? Or if HE wins, will SHE be our president?
ROFLOL
Maybe they falsely believe that HE will win if each takes the opposing position on the issues and Americans will be too STUPID to even notice. But I guess there's no worry about him winning the nomination anyway.....the people ARE already seeing through his 'pretty boy' charade and his 'two Americas'. LOL LOL
posted on July 24, 2007 12:45:04 PM newHe was embarassed when he was proven wrong, once again.
I will set the record straight, Logansdad was not embarrassed as he was correct all along and proof was shown time and again.
The official languages of Canada are English and French. There is no such language called 'Canadian', though certain colloquialisms, lingo or slang terms are used for certain words in Canada just as in other countries.
posted on July 25, 2007 08:04:04 AM newetex - It's an old arguement that logansdad lost months/years ago. But as with everything from the long ago past, he NEEDS to continue bringing it up. He was embarassed when he was proven wrong, once again.
I see Linda still belives she is right in insisting there is a language called Canadian. The facts speak for themselves even when she was presented with the languages of the world. In that list, there is no Canadian language lilsted.
Now after being made a fool for the tenth time, Linda still wants to believe there is a language called Canadian. What a joke. How many more times does she have to be told it does not exist. She will never learn her lesson.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on July 25, 2007 08:06:43 AM newI will set the record straight, Logansdad was not embarrassed as he was correct all along and proof was shown time and again.
The official languages of Canada are English and French. There is no such language called 'Canadian', though certain colloquialisms, lingo or slang terms are used for certain words in Canada just as in other countries.
Thanks Kiara, but no matter what Linda is told, she will still believe her own lies even when presented with the truth.
I suppose now etexbill will follow the thinking of Bear and Linda with this same logic and believe there is a language called Canadian.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on July 25, 2007 08:16:55 AM newSure you are ld, your GENDER confused
Linda you are really dense and stupid. Do you and Bear share the same brain? You must because you keep parroting the same stupid lines he does.
First you come to Bear's defense for thinking there is a Canadian language and now you said the same thing as Bear in regards to gender.
As I already told Bear gender does not equal sexuality.
Gender is male or female. Did you not learn in biology class what makes a person male or female?
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on July 25, 2007 08:27:07 AM new
Logansdad, it was Linda_K who was embarrassed when she discovered she was so wrong about Canadian being an official language so she projected her feelings of shame on you, trying to cover it up and hoping everyone else here will believe her if she keeps saying it often enough for months on end.
posted on July 25, 2007 09:45:48 PM newROFLMHP..........
Translated: Rolling on the floor looped on my 'hyena' pills ........
Kiara's hallucinating again.....maybe she's off her meds. I never said any such thing.
Of course you did, Lindak, you just said it here yesterday and you forgot already? Unlike you, I don't take meds and still have a memory.
Linda_K posted on July 24, 2007 12:32:43 PM etex - It's an old arguement that logansdad lost months/years ago. But as with everything from the long ago past, he NEEDS to continue bringing it up. He was embarassed when he was proven wrong, once again.
posted on July 25, 2007 09:57:47 PM new
It's not a lie. You posted it and it's still on this page half-way down. Maybe you aren't sober enough to see it?
posted on July 25, 2007 10:13:28 PM newComing from YOU it's ALWAYS either a LIE or a total distortion of what what actually said.
I copied and pasted your words and never changed any of them, Linda_K. Maybe tomorrow you will find it on your own - hope you don't get embarrassed when you do!
Besides, I wasn't even talking to you on this topic and you said you weren't interested in anything I said here and you didn't care about any of it, so why are you going on and on about it? Did you forget or do you care again already?
posted on July 25, 2007 10:14:46 PM new
"Maybe you aren't sober enough to see it?"
See how badly your MEMORY SUCKS?
Again, after time and time being told I dont' drink....you lower yourself again, BY LYING again.
tsk tsk tsk
But it's SO you. Implying all sorts of falsehoods and then when confronted about your lies....you take the 'I never said that' lying road. No, you only continue to IMPLY it over and over again.
It only reflects on your own lack of characer, kiara. And yours is lacking BIG time.
This pathetic behavior is all you have to offer any more.
posted on July 25, 2007 10:30:16 PM new
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"Maybe you aren't sober enough to see it?"
See how badly your MEMORY SUCKS?
Again, after time and time being told I dont' drink....you lower yourself again, BY LYING again.
tsk tsk tsk
But it's SO you. Implying all sorts of falsehoods and then when confronted about your lies....you take the 'I never said that' lying road. No, you only continue to IMPLY it over and over again.
It only reflects on your own lack of characer, kiara. And yours is lacking BIG time.
This pathetic behavior is all you have to offer any more.
posted on July 25, 2007 10:31:25 PM newAnd on ANY canadian language site.....they DO state the other canadian languages that MILLIONS of canadians speak.
posted on July 27, 2007 06:41:39 PM new
Never as low as those YOU totally support helen.
And it's NOT hatefilled like the daily koz is....it's the normal fashion news that is always present with ANY and all candidates running for the WH.
Wake up...get with it. They've been talking about pretty boy edwards for quite a while now....and as hillary trys all the ways she can to get more votes....it appears SHE NEEDS to expose some of her clevage...that's pretty desperate. LOL
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And I'm SURE helen has some proof that hillary stated it was a: That's clearly a photoshop smear and NOT her on the SENATE floor. lol
"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has sent out a fundraising letter calling a Washington Post fashion writer's column on Clinton's cleavage "grossly inappropriate" and asking donors "to take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture."
"One week after the piece, by fashion writer Robin Givhan, took note of the Democratic candidate's low neckline during a speech on the Senate floor, senior Clinton adviser Ann Lewis urged donors to help fight treatment she termed "insulting."
Givhan, who won a Pulitzer Prize last year, said she disagreed "that there was anything in the column that was coarse, insulting or belittling. It was a piece about a public person's appearance on the Senate floor that was surprising because of the location and because of the person. It's disingenuous to think that revealing cleavage, any amount of it, in that kind of situation is a non-issue."
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SHAME on the WASHINGTON POST.....lol lol lol Shame on the Pulitzer Prize winner....who IF it had been someone from the daily koz, she would have used THAT to PROVE how great they are....lol
And maybe hillary will do like the edwards always do ask for campaign donations because their feelings got hurt wa wa wa
LOL
[ edited by Linda_K on Jul 27, 2007 06:52 PM ]
What did I say? That hillary might call upon her supports to SEND MONEY because of a report about her change in the way she has always dressed....and possibly doing it for MORE attention or to prove she's really a woman because now was showing her cleavage. ROFLOL
And that's JUST what they're doing. LOL LOL LOL Copy catting pretty boy edwards. 'SEND MONEY they hurt my feelings.' LOL
NOW, maybe she will get that 'lift' they desperately need.
Clinton hot and bothered over cleavage report
BY KENNETH BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Saturday, July 28th 2007, 4:00 AM
Senator Hillary Clinton showed a touch of cleavage as she addressed the Senate July 18, and The Washington Post ran an expose.
The First Lady was prim and proper during an appearance at West Virginia State University yesterday.
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton's handlers are so outraged - outraged! - at a newspaper story musing over her showing a little cleavage that they're urging equally miffed supporters to fight back by stuffing cash into her coffers.
