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Posted at 1:57pm on Jun. 30, 2008 Barack Obama, Male Chauvinist Pig.
Do as he says, not as he does.
By Moe Lane
Hey, Senator: if the oink fits, squeal it.
On average, women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That's according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama's Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one -- Obama's administrative manager -- was a woman.
On average, women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That's according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama's Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one -- Obama's administrative manager -- was a woman.
The average pay for the 33 men on Obama's staff (who earned more than $23,000, the lowest annual salary paid for non-intern employees) was $59,207. The average pay for the 31 women on Obama's staff who earned more than $23,000 per year was $48,729.91. (The average pay for all 36 male employees on Obama's staff was $55,962; and the average pay for all 31 female employees was $48,729. The report indicated that Obama had only one paid intern during the period, who was a male.)
Read on.
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Posted at 11:00am on Apr. 7, 2008 Clinton Plays the Woman Card, Again
Now We Know Why She Can’t Come to the Phone
By Mark I
With her lead in Pennsylvania shrinking by the day, and her legitimate path to the nomination--there are other paths--becoming increasingly difficult, Sen. Hillary!™ Clinton has returned to a favorite campaign theme; one that has already proven its ability to generate sympathetic press coverage and win her votes. Hillary is trotting out the gender card.
While listing her credentials to be president, Clinton also said people vote for different reasons, including how a person looks or their hairstyle.
"And that is another difference, you know how long it takes me to get ready than my two opponents — I mean really just think about it," she joked. "I think I should get points for working as hard as I do plus the time it takes to get ready."
Recall that right before the New Hampshire primary, fresh on the heels of the inevitable candidate losing the first electoral contest of the campaign, Clinton went to the gender well in an answer to a voter’s question. Only that time she deployed perhaps the ultimate weapon in the arsenal of feminine wiles, tears.
If nothing else, this quip provides a plausible answer to the question of just what Hillary Clinton will be doing in the White House when the phone rings at 3 AM. Apparently, she’ll be doing her hair.
Hat tip: The Corner at NRO
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Posted at 10:11am on Mar. 3, 2008 Hanoi Gloria [UPDATE: And Wes Clark Too!]
By Mark I
Stumping for Hillary Clinton, aging, wrinkled, and lonley old feminist icon Gloria Steniem questioned whether Sen. John McCain's time as a prisoner of war serves as a qualification to be president.
"Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’
I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so."
Right, Gloria. Because there just ain't no torture like the torture of being a woman married to a serial philanderer. That's the right experience to be commander-in-chief. I guess when the next al-Qaeda attack comes, we can count on Hillary! Clinton to repel it single handedly by throwing a vase.
UPDATE: There may be a theme developing here. Former NATO commander and mad bomber Gen. Wes Clark also questioned McCain's military experience as a qualification for president in a conference call arranged by the Clinton campaign.
"He's a great man and an honorable man. But having served as a fighter pilot — and I know my experience as a company commander in Vietnam — that doesn’t prepare you to be commander-in-chief in terms of dealing with the national strategic issues that are involved. It may give you a feeling for what the troops are going through in the process, but it doesn't give you the experience first hand of the national strategic issues."
Too bad Sen. McCain never made the rank of Admiral. Maybe then he could've bombed a Chinese embassy and come close to starting a shooting war with the Russian Army like experienced ol' Wes did.
