If the World's leaders were women...

like if the firehouse needed new hoses, they'd purchase new bedspreads.

 

MisLed wrote: like if the firehouse needed new hoses, they'd purchase new bedspreads.

Uncle Ferd says, "More like...

... if the firehouse needed new hoses...

... dey'd be buyin' new hosiery.

 

I'm looking forward to Aung San Suu Kyi instigating some real changes in Myanmar.


This woman has balls.

 

A refrreshing change from the misogyny of some of the other posts.

Yes you are correct - it was a crying shame she did not live long enough

Still, do not discount all Middle East Women - we will see more leaders emerge from there before this is all over and they will be strong, capable women

 

You are so right. . .and that is the reason why she was assassinated! Her ennemies saw her potential to make real changes and to empower all women.

But I also agree with Bowerbird that other women will rise to take up where Benazir Bhutto left off.

 

Yeah, the world really needs more women in power like Thatcher, Palin, Bachmann or here, Jenny Shipley.

Don't fool yourself. They can be just as ruthless as men.

 

We could do worse than to be ruled by leaders like Merkel or Thatcher.

 

I dedicated a thread to Mrs Clinton, some time ago.

In it, I did make the point that she strikes me as somewhat aggressive, and behaving in a manner not appropriate to one, in her responsible position.

I cited a public and totally uncalled for nuke threat she made to Iran, some time ago, and her reaction to the news that Gadaffi had been murdered by thugs, and sodomised.

I am an outsider looking in, but she gives me the impression of being a women that is bitter that for all her efforts, she has never got the top job.

Anyway, her aside, I stand by my assertion that for the nation like the US, with all the avaiable women that there are, it strikes me the talent pool is dissapointingly poor.

 

It is a very long item, and it is Fri night.

Can you quote something specific from it, and we can discuss that.

Thanks

 

Have you seen some of the female politicians, in Italy...?

http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=26772&page=1

 

"If the World's leaders were women..."
We'd all live in abject fear for at least one week out of every month.

 

Excellent call, and excellent conclusion.

When it comes to assasinations, it is often the bringer of peace who is the victim.

I am not a religous man, but you could take that all the way back to Jesus.

Man of peace? Lived in dangerous times, where aggressive men ruled? Went around preaching a message of peace, love, and sharing? Any coincidence that he apparently found himself out of favour with the aforementioned men of aggression, and murdered?

Even today, this would happen.

If someone managed to get past all the 'electric fences' that exist, to ensure that any President will tow both the corporate and the Zionist line, if somehow a man like that got past all those electric fences (which in itself, would be near impossible), and began really speaking up for people, rather than pretending to, while really selling us either corporate or Zionist interests, how long would you give it before he found himself the victim of an assasination?

There is just no way that corporate elites and Zionist elites would ALLOW American people to have a President that spoke up for the American people first, and corporate and Zionist elites second, if at all.

They would arrange for him to be killed, and the blame likely pinned on some patsy, who they would tell us had 'schizophrenia'.

Jack

 

So you admit you are sexist.

 

Number one - he is not 'my' President. I am not American. I said that he was of African origin. Kenya, I think. Last time I looked, Kenya was in Africa, so yes, he is of African origin.

But my point still stands.

Not so long ago, it would have been seen as entirely implausible among the American people, esp those of the south, that anyone other than a 'white' American would preside over them, and yet it has happened.

History is full of examples, like that.

Once upon a time, it never looked like the Berlin wall would come down - until it did.

It never looked like there would be a peace brokered with the IRA - until there was.

Others could likely cite a hundred other examples, but my point remains, that the one thing we cannot stop is time, and in time, change happens.

Sometimes it is slow to happen, but it does happen.

Jack

 

Do they?

Like what?

 

Read what I put.

How am I fooling myself, when I have already said that it would be a myth to think women are not as ruthless as men, then actually cited Thatcher as being a good example?

 

As long as she's hot and smart, great, but if she's ugly...please, I can't take crap from a stupid, ugly woman.

 

You'd have many more wars over much pettier things.

 

On what evidence do you base this on?

And if that is true, which I do not believe it to be, does it not then follow that systems be put in place to reduce the threat of more wars, by minimising the 'threat' of female leaders, in the first place?

 

I respectfully decline.

I already gave my opinion. You then replied they were all beholden to 'the system'. So I gave you two articles who contradict your claim.

You're welcome.

 

Imo, any Western female politician that wanted to rise to the top in modern politics, must play the 'rules' of the game, and the rules of the game, and the game itself, are very much owned by those who are not the electorate.

 

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