American perspective of having a woman president. Please contribute.

Let Us give women a chance. they could do what men could not do.

I think a woman should be President. Not Hilary Clinton, though. A woman President of the US would be great. I would make a great female president. Whenever I got PMS, I would say "Forget this mess with the UN, I'm bombing the snot out of such-and-such place!" And nothing would be left but a crater. Then the world would realize that you don't mess around with us because we're really not a bunch of puss!es after all. Seriously, though, I don't think it matters much who the president is, or the gender of the president, so long as he/she ends the "war" in Iraq and brings our gasoline prices back down from $4.05 a gallon to, oh say, well under $2. Which was the price it was before Bush the Oil Baron took office. And about Bin Laden, screw him. Women are not 2nd class, and everyone except the Muslims realize it. All of them need to catch a clue and stop living in the Middle Ages, not just Bin Laden. He and Bush are just playing games that are costing soldiers lives, taxpayers money, a lot of time and energy, and driving up the oil prices. Who's making the money from it? Not the U.S. as a whole. Not Iraq or Saudi Arabia as a whole. Just the ones who already have money. Pockets lined with gold, made off the backs of the working classes and the lives of great men and women.

Wouldnt mind a women prez but Hilary is the wrong one she back paddles on a couple of issues that didnt stem will with me. Now Ben Laden might think he could get away with more but women are mothers and have you seen a bad child really get away with much if the mom pays attention?

I do not think she is an ideal leader - not solely based on her being female. I am more traditional in my view points than a lot of americans, however. I wonder - if she were to become madame president would bill be first man? actually he would probably be known as mr president as being a former president. so they would be madame and mr president, I suppose - her title coming before his because hers would be an active "reign"

it really doesn't matter to me whether the president is male,female,whatever. i only care that they're a good president. if they stick to their promises,and don't tax us out of existance. as far as bin laden goes..i think he'd hate us no matter who was sitting in that seat.

I don't think that you should use Hillary at all in your paper. She is not a great example of a candidate for President being a woman. We need a stronger, better spoken, and more powerful woman in office. She is too emotional and not ready for the job. Americans have a problem with her unclear views and bad health care ideas. She has no shot at ever winning the candidacy let alone the election. The USA has never had a female president anyway. If a woman got elected, I think the main people who would benefit from the right female candidate are women and children. I wish I could say everyone would benefit but that is simply not the case in American politics. I would base your paper on your president in your country.

dear friend, please don't be offense by my opinion bellow. what i am gonna saying in here that in my point view moslem not view woman as second class. and i become interested what the exactly meaning of second class in here? we ever woman president in here but due to her leadership is not good enough, she leaved her position to another who more capable. as like you know that my country, indonesia, has about 80% moslem citizen and as long as we know, we never make woman as second class and actually i also don't understand about correlation between woman president and osama bin laden. why he should be more agrresive about terorism if there is woman president?

With the system we have in place,where no branch of government can be stronger than the other two, it shouldn't matter if there is a woman president or not.Me personally I don't think it matters. To me to be president you have to wheel and deal and sometimes lie to get the job and why can't women do it?

The men of the present administration have made such a mess of it everyone knows it takes a woman to clean up after a man another man could not do it!

I think we are in the same country. I don't like our president because she is fake. Well I am not really sure if i can help you on this but as far as our president's performance i don't like a lady president. They can easily influence by their subordinates. I don't trust our president so i don't have any idea much larger than this.

I personally wouldn't have a problem with it. How much worse could a woman do than the men that have been in office. Its just that Americans as a whole are too conservative and traditional. The President has always been a man, it should continue to be a man, they believe. I wouldn't mind having a woman president, but I do not want Clinton in office. In the beginning of the polling, I was torn between her and Obama, but Obama has definitely pulled ahead in my favor since the Ohio Debate. Clinton wants to instate a law that will make it mandatory for everyone to have health insurance, but no plan to make it affordable for those who are just above the income range to get government assistance. Also, she has flip-flopped back and forth for and against the Iraq war. Its not the fact that she's a woman that makes me not want her in office. Its her platform, and past record.

Clinton is a strong, tough women. She also comes with a past president at her side so I think world leaders will see him in the White House as well. A suggestion, compare her to Margaret Thatcher in your paper.

I have a strange perspective on this as I am a Brit who lived under Margaret Thatcher in England and who has now married an American and have lived in America for the past four years. The one thing that I have learned is that you cannot come to another country and view it with the same mind set/perspectives that applied to you in your home country. That has been the hardest lesson to learn. In answer to your question it isn't really a case of whether America is "ready" for a female President. The answer under normal circumstances would have been no, this is I have discovered a very sexist country and I believe she wouldn't stand a chance but for the fact that she is standing against a black man. I mean absolutely no offence to anyone but it really has become a case of which offends you least a white woman or a black man running as President. I cannot imagine such a thought process in England but here that is basically what it boils down to and I fear that the answer may be a white woman. Apart from rare exceptions Condi Rice, Nancy Pelosi a woman reaching high office isn't the norm (these were both appointed roles rather than elected by the masses). It is a shock to someone coming from a country where neither sexism, racism , homophobia, abortion, and religion, feature in political debate whereas they predominate here over "The issues" add to that personal attacks and politically biased media and it amazes me that any candidate would even want to run for office

It may be good to have a woman for president some day just not hillary.We cant be worse off then having a woman.I am not sure on hillary with all the stores and videos about her.Plus i am not for her myself.

I am Australian, not American, so I can't contribute positively on your discussion. But I was intrigued enough to want to respond. Australia not had a women president. I would dearly love that to happen here. I dont know what Muslims & Obama Bin Laden would think, & I dont care. It would be example to the rest of the World if a woman was p[resident of the US or our country.

I believe America is ready for a female president, but I'm not sure they are ready for Sen. Clinton. She brings a lot of baggage with her from her husband's presidency and scandal. I am strongly in favor of a female president, however. So I'm in a quandary about whether to vote for her. I voted for her in the primary because I want a woman on the ticket. And I probably would vote for her if she gets the nomination. I believe, however, that she will not be nominated. I'll probably get criticism for my observations about this, but I'm going to jump in anyway. Historically blacks have been moved forward before women. Black men got the vote before any women did in the U.S. The African American movement is better organized and more supported than the women's rights movement. The Christian Right in the U.S. is more likely to support a male candidate than a female candidate. And women's organizations have historically fought hard for the rights of African Americans. So I expect Barak to get the nomination. I wonder, though, how he would fare against a different female, perhaps a minority female. Only time will tell. Eventually the U.S. may catch up with the rest of the world. But I don't think we've made it just yet.

I live in Italy and so I don't know well U.S. politics, but I'd be happy if a woman became president of a state, above all of a state important like the U.S. The only problem is that I like Obama too, and so it isn't easy to choose who's better. Obama or Hillary, I think (and I hope) that the next U.S. president will be special....

lots of countrys that are foriegn to the US have had or do have women Presidents.I would love to see a woman President here.I'd say its time.This is very exciting for a lot of people who are for Hillary Clinton.We have never had a woman President because no woman ever ran for President here.I guess the right woman just hasn't came along untill now. So we now have a woman that a lot of people think is right for the job.She is qualified,experienced,smart and able to tackle tough decisions day one in the white House.If something bad happens in the US Hillary will wake up from her sleep and answer her phone at 3 am.and make decisions.

I think time is long overdue and Americans are finally ready to have a woman as president and many other countries have accepted woman as president. I never thought about how terrorist might view a woman as president and agree with what you say what the thing I like about Hillary is that she already has been to the White House and knows how things are done and has plenty of people to back her up and i love how she is persistent. I am much more comfortable with Hillary Clinton because of her experience among the common man and upper class and just dont see the efficiency in Obama.

I really do think that Hillary Clinton is very intelligent and would do wonders for our country, compared to the one running it now. However, it is also my own (humble) opinion that in a perfect world, a woman president would be great! But since we live in a (rather UNPERFECT) world, I fear that any mistakes would be blame on her because then everyone could say, "A woman did it," or "a woman caused this!" Even if the same mistakes had been made before by a male president.