Mostly it’s been on the left, but there have been a couple of cases on the right (Senator Elizabeth Dole).

Look, if you’re female and you want to be Senator, President, Governor or whatever, do what men have to do, build one yourself. You don’t get to ride somebody’s coattails just because you were married to them. That’s the ultimate in assumption and privilege. (It’s funny how many on the left applaud this style of politics and yet claim to stand for women’s rights. It is the debasement of the woman (and all women) to allow her to do this since along with it is the underlying statement that she could not have done it on her own.)

Also, there is the underlying double-standard that women can get away with this but that men cannot. I do not think that the media would allow a husband to get away with this, but they allow women to do it all of the time. Once again, belittling women’s abilities and equality (by setting a different standard for them than for men- a lower standard).

This is one of the reasons that I like Governor Palin. She made her own way with her own career and on her own merits. She did not ride her husbands coattails.

Maybe I’ll send THAT to POST SECRET.

Barney Frank has testicles?

argos on April 7, 2009 at 12:42 PM

She be big, too damn big by then.

GarandFan

Ogabe just sat up in bed and said “who slapped me?”.

In her own words ” I got into Princeton and Harvard due to being black, it helped”

Enough said.

After we run the Bambi AA/entitlement course – she won’t have a shot in hell. Though, the corrupt Chicago/Illinois landscape is “unique”…

Considering Eureka produced one of the most popular and successful President’s, I’ll take integrity and results over an Ivy pedigree.

And what if the moon is made of green cheese? “What if’s” need some sort of basis in reality. The so-called “stimulus” can’t work (neither could Bush’s bailout, as we’ve seen) because it violates all sound economic principles. The problem with the Left is they live in the hypotheticals, and refuse to see the reality of their policies. This is demonstrated time and again in their efforts at Utopian engineering, and is the only way Keynesian economics still exist as anything other than the punchline to a very bad joke.

DrMagnolias on April 7, 2009 at 6:01 AM

I’d love for leftists to point to one place where their policies work long-term. They continually cite Europe without recognizing that Europe will be broke and overrun by Muslims within two generations. That isn’t “working”, that’s slow-motion civilizational suicide. Socialism of the European type is like putting a seat cushion in the handbasket you’re riding to hell. Yeah, it’s a tad more comfortable, but you’re going to the same place the old Soviet Union went, which is the ash heap of history. Economics has come a long way since Keynes. Unfortunately, none of that way supports Keynesianism. Here’s my favorite short layman’s piece on why the stimulus won’t work.

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/93473/The_selfdefeating_stimulus

Pardon me, Proud Rino, but have you read her dissertation from Princeton?

“Dumbing down” is being kind.

gridlock2 on April 7, 2009 at 6:36 AM

I’m not a Princeton grad, but one of my best friends is. Suffice it to say, he was pretty embarrassed when the excerpts came out. There is some evidence that affirmative action has the effect of gaining its beneficiaries admittance to schools one tier above their actual abilities. In Michelle’s case, I think it was two, since she was AA and a legacy due to her brother’s attending Princeton, and in Barack’s it was at least one also. In fact, here’s a real scholar on the quality of Obama’s intellect:

http://easyopinions.blogspot.com/2009/04/richard-epstein-discusses-barack-obama.html

“I like Obama but I reject the suggestion that he is an intellectual. He is an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual.”

The fundamental mistake of his entire world view is that he treats contracts as devices for exploitation and not as devices for mutual gain, and he assumes that redistribution can take place without any negative impact upon production.

If you live in that kind of a fairy land, which I think he does, every one of his major social and economic initiatives are going to misfire. And, if they succeed, God forbid, in getting through, they are going to intensify the downturn that we have already experienced. He is the wrong guy for the job based on his intellectual format. The question is whether you can force him back.

My favorite little detail to come out of the entire marathon Presidential campaign was that when she left her job, they didn’t hire a replacement. Anyone who’s ever held a position of importance in an organization (which will automatically exclude our resident trolls from this knowledge) knows that only means your role in the organization’s success was non-existent or symbolic. The 35,000 people who answered this CNN poll “Yes” should be tracked down and barred from every voting again without undergoing some serious education.

If anyones kid here got into harvard or harvard law they would be absolutely thrilled. Please dont pretend the degree is “meaingless” whatever.

DeathToMediaHacks on April 6, 2009 at 11:30 PM

Both of their degrees are meaningless because they were unearned; using the racist affirmative action policies, they were handed out to them like a welfare check.

More qualified students who worked harder, sacrificed more, and had better entrance scores had THEIR dreams and THEIR parents dreams crushed (even though they worked hard and played by the rules) so these two system using, ungateful mooches could be propped up and make the grey ponytailed, self loathing, liberal professors feel all warm and tingly while they sip cognac and chit chat about this social engineering experiment at university cocktail parties.

Pathetic. Pinning an eagle globe and anchor on a pencil necked civilian pant wetter will not make him a Marine. Handing an underachiever a diploma will not make him or her smart. Sorry, some things in life need to be earned.

“The thing that I worry most about . . . is not what it says about me and Barack,” Michelle Obama said. “What does it say to our children? ~ Michelle Obama

Yes, sounds REAL intellegent. LOL

But Michelle is way too into this.

Terrye on April 7, 2009 at 7:00 AM

FRIGHTENINGLY well said.

+1

Oh…if it could only be….

Honestly… 2020? Hmmm, maybe I should run. Ok, so I wasn’t born in the US, so what? Shouldn’t be a problem.

I know that you ‘conservatives’ have a hard time looking to the future, unless that future is 1953, but what if the Obama Stimulus works??
capitulus on April 6, 2009 at 10:11 PM

It won’t. It can’t. You don’t have to be “conservative” to realize this. Hell, I’m not conservative and I consider massive spending during a recession (which, originally, wasn’t that bad, but thanks to the media and the politicians it got hyped and now everyone is scared) is pretty much the most stupid thing you can do.

Here’s a comparison. Let’s say you have a deficit of 5,000 Dollar on your bank account. You know you will lose your job next week. What will you do?

Option A) Spend money like crazy, so that you end up with 20,000 Dollar deficit on your bank account?

Option B) Cut down spending in order to save money because you don’t know how fast you’ll find a new job?

Everyone with a working common sense will chose option B.
Every leftist will chose option A.