people are dissing Hillary just because she's OLD?
@RowenaTheWitch (947)
Italy
December 20, 2007 4:54pm CST
I read on the newspaper this moring that in the USA they have published a photo of Hillary without make up on, and used it to demonstrate she's old, a hag, a witch etc and that you shouldn't vote for her because she won't give USA a good image.
I say: why don't you just admit you don't want a *woman* as a president? Because those are just silly excuses, and old men are always portrayed as "wise" instead of "ugly"
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@Withoutwings (6992)
• United States
11 Jan 08
Too old? Give me a break. We have had presidents older than her. It will be interesting to see how this election ends. We could have our first woman or first black president. Sadly I don't think that America is ready for either. PErsonally I think that Hillary is the best candidate at present.
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@RowenaTheWitch (947)
• Italy
12 Jan 08
I hope Hillary will win as well, I don't know if she's the best (Obama and Hillary both seems good to me) but it's time to have a woman president.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
20 Dec 07
*rolls her eyes* Personally I don't care what the President looks like, or how old they are, as long as they do their job. For that matter, I don't care what gender they are. Even though I'm female, I vote for whichever candidate seems more competent and has views I can agree with, so I wouldn't automatically vote for a woman who was running. However, right now Hillary is starting to look kind of good in terms of her political ideas themselves, compared to a lot of the others.
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@RowenaTheWitch (947)
• Italy
20 Dec 07
Oh, I agree with you. As long as a democrat wins I'm ok, but I would love for Hillary to win ;)
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
20 Dec 07
I don't consider myself a democrat, because I'm not all into the party thing, but I'll admit that I almost always wind up voting for one. There are way too many things about my own life and beliefs that make most republicans and I just clash. People who outright call me evil for one reason or another obviously aren't getting my vote.
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@TheRepublicMenu (290)
• United States
21 Dec 07
Well, democrats do a great deal of name calling themselves. And they are not even pro American. At least Americans who are republicans value American traditions, values and morals. Democrats do no such thing. These democrats wanted to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Why not do that for Americans? I am glad republicans were there to stop ther madness.
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@TheRepublicMenu (290)
• United States
21 Dec 07
I diss her because she has accomplished nothing other than riding the coat tails of her husband. She knows nothing about healthcare, she knows nothing about running a country. She would destroy the military and turn America from a first world nation into a third world nation in less than a year with her insane politics.
@4ftfingers (1310)
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24 Dec 07
Riding coat tails? Knows nothing about running a country?
Sounds to me like shes got a pretty good shot then if little Bush was anything to go by.
@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
22 Dec 07
For plenty of people its already a third world nation in some states. Its also a megapolice/semi-totalitarian state in some respects (suppression of free speech, many people are one strike or one "frame-up/setup" away from prison, gross manipulation of rights and power, and much more). I think she would accelerate this, and I also think no other politician would do anything to bring real change (as seen with a couple of decades of nonsense from both "parties").
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@andrechan (97)
• Italy
22 Dec 07
Well, I've signed today from your advice, sister, so I don't know how it works here yet.
Hoping it's interesting
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@RowenaTheWitch (947)
• Italy
22 Dec 07
you really don't know how it works since you answered the wrong question :D
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
12 Jan 08
Really a mean thing to be happening in the American media-ho old is Hillary any way? What has age to do with this-I thought you put it rightly, how silly an excuse could this be?I guess to wise Americans, this should be vote pullers for Clinton
@AnoChaudhary (1719)
• India
21 Dec 07
O are they saying that now?...LOL sometime back i read another article where they hinted she was a lesbian! and she was having an affair with her close aide. How does it matter what she looks like? People should be looking if she can handle the high post. And from what i seen i think she will do really well.....but yes women become 'hags' as they grow older and men become 'wise' Well we are not living in a perfect world and i personally feel men turn totally 'gaga' as they grow older LOL
@BethTN81 (564)
• United States
21 Dec 07
Her looks means nothing. That is stupid I agree.
What I am most concerned about is the fact that we are at war with a country that has no respect for women. We are second class citizens and looked down upon.
How can a woman sit in the oval office and be respected by other leaders that feel this way?
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@RowenaTheWitch (947)
• Italy
21 Dec 07
We shouldn't be influenced by what those chauvinist countries think. USA has already a female foreign affairs minister (Condoleeza) and nothing bad has happened.
On the contrary, I think it will be great to have a woman be in charge of all this. Maybe those countries will finally be forced to admit, with the good or the bad , that women are important.
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
22 Dec 07
I disagree with her politics, what she has said, what she has done, and what she intends to do (privatization off the table..., about $1 trillion more in government programs... course no one cares about any of that or the implications). I'd rather vote for someone on their politics and stance (too bad no one's running on that). I've had problems with both "parties" and this two party charade which is really a one-party setup (question is how fast do you want to go to oblivion). One can look at national approaches, world approaches and plenty of state and local agendas that really depict a macabre setting (man-into-check divorce, horrifically failing education system, bad transportation, all around corruption, broken immigration, more equal than others "rights", selfish power grabs & expansion, and more).
I also disagree with another point you have "Old men are always portrayed as 'wise'". Completely incorrect. There are plenty of times they are shown/described as mean, grouchy, backwards/throwback, stupid, worthless. The key positive words are only used when a certain person/affiliation is in line with the media. If one is not in line, opposite and disgusting words are used (along with shaming tactics, cheapshots, etc).
As for the photo, no one cares how she looks. There are plenty of Evil Bush photos(some doctored/vandalized), a few Evil Clinton photos, many Evil Reagan photos(again, some doctored/vandalized). Its only played this way because deep down plenty of people respond to photos and not words, especially in a subject as dry as politics.
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@RowenaTheWitch (947)
• Italy
22 Dec 07
I agree that the two party system in america is not the best (here in Italy we have more parties and you have much more choice)
I respect the fact that you don't like her politics. I just don't like the way people were dissing her just because of her looks.
Old men may be portrayed negatively...but when they are 70, 80 years old. She's not that old, and women usually are portrayed as old hags when they are 40 or 50. That's not just.
@mcjustin (82)
• United States
21 Dec 07
Don't believe everything you read. Newspapers and magazines have political agendas just like polititians. I think you'll find that the majority of americans aren't judging our candidates based on gender or race. Hillary and Obama are leading in most of the polls.
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