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Obama Ready to Close the Deal

June 2, 2008 - 9:30 am - by Bill Bradley
Steve Jones
2008-06-02 22:00:25

Since Hillary Clinton first came to prominence in the public arena her actions have been like a thorn in the side of the struggle for a healthy society.

For a start she has ideas above her station in life. A spouse of a politician does not give them a right to act like someone elected any more than someone married to a surgeon allows them to operate on patients.

She continues to blow the issue of gender and sexism out of all proportions. She has played the gender card constantly and is much more the woman candidate rather than the candidate that happens to be a woman.

For a start the US Establishment has no difficulties with the idea of a woman president. If Margaret Thatcher was an American citizen an 20 years younger she would be snapped up by parties. She was a successful prime minister in the UK- a country similar to the US in many ways. She earned the respect of men and women alike. If someone similar to her in America ran for presidency she would probably pick up all the Republican votes plus the so called Regan Democrats. So this nails the falsehood that a woman in a high position would not be acceptable in America.

The scarce remains of a patriarchal society are hardly the uppermost problems of the West. While there was a case for examining the circumstances of women decades ago nowadays is this not more of an issue for third world countries where girls could be banned from school or where a woman might be stoned or have to walk 10 miles for water?

As a man I’m at pains to point out that I have nothing against women and they are obviously as valuable an asset in a country as men are. However some of the claims of feminists need to be challenged and some of their attempts at social engineering need to be exposed.

You never seem to hear the end of it from feminists when men happen to be paid a small bit more than women and yet there isn’t a peep out of them when it is revealed that women in their twenties now earn more than men in Westernized areas. Also you have a situation where males are lagging well behind females in the education system. Families are in a very vulnerable position nowadays. The odds seem to be stacked against any woman who wishes to make more of a commitment in the home. Even simply to makes ends meet there is pressure on both parents to be in work as much as possible. This leads to antisocial behaviour in people and difficulties in raising children properly. Also abortion seems to be used as a contraceptive in industrialized countries. The full relationship between men and women where the two sexes are equal but different complement each is not given a chance to flower. Generally speaking in Western countries the birth rates are very small which will not be sustainable in the long term as the populations will become more aged and there will be a greater burden on pension schemes and healthcare. In the US we have to thank groups robustly defending traditional values that American birth rates are not as low as in many European countries say.

Someone who has for years fought tooth and nail to give feminists a blank cheque from society at the expense of traditional values is hardly someone of presidential material who will unite all the American people. This is someone on the fringes of the political spectrum rather than someone fighting an election from the centre. Is this not akin to Michael Moore running for the presidency and making all the right noises in the Southern states about defending America from terrorists and upholding morals.