If a Woman Were President

Hillary is elected and takes office. A few months later, she orders an attack on Somalia, strafing cities in towns, killing many people and doing untold damage.

Somalia protests at the UN, saying that they were minding their own business, that the kids were busy playing soccer and the men working the fields.

“What did we do?”, asked the Ambassador.

“Oh, you know what you did”, said Hillary.

13 thoughts on “If a Woman Were President

  1. Two thumbs down. I call you out. That’s some sexist bullsh*t. It wouldn’t bother me if Clinton wasn’t already the brunt of so much misogyny. Imagine how your progressive women readers feel when you post this stuff…

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  2. I just think it’s an easy bad habit to get into, Mark T, that’s all. And, like I said, if there wasn’t already so much crap out there about Hillary, I wouldn’t have said a thing. But I do know women who have been really dismayed by watching their fellow progressives plunge madly into the misogyny surrounding so much of the talk about Sen. Clinton.

    Hell! Wulfgar! called me out on it months ago!

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  3. Habit meaning doing it more than once, though I can’t guarantee you I wouldn’t do it again. I thought it was funny – it was a joke that a caller told to Stephanie Miller on the morning show in LA. She laughed too.

    Lighten up.

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  4. Well, it bothers me. Granted, this wasn’t the worst Clinton joke I’ve heard — not by far — but I have to say I’m with Jay on this one. I’m sick of women (especially married women) being portrayed as irrational, unreasonable, emotional, vindictive harpies. This joke plays into all of those stereotypes. Enough, already.

    And if I hear one more joke about McCain’s supposed senility/impotence or Obama’s racial/religious background, I swear …

    It’s just not funny.

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  5. Last summer, the President and Mrs. Clinton were vacationing
    in their home state of Arkansas.

    On a venture one day, they stopped at a service station to fill up the car with gas. It seemed that the owner of the station was once Hillary’s high school love. Bill was quite amused at this, but didn’t mention anything at the time.

    They exchanged hellos and went on their way.

    As they were driving on to their destination, Bill put his arm around Hillary and said, “Well, honey, if you had stayed with him, you would be the wife of a service station owner today.”

    She smirked and replied, “No, if I had stayed with him, he would be President of the United States.”

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  6. Habit, as in intellectual shortcut, which is exactly what this kind of stuff is. I’m not claiming I don’t do similar things — especially with conservatives — but in this case it’s painful because so many people do it. And I wouldn’t chew you out if I thought you weren’t above it, already. If that makes sense.

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  7. I think, we as a culture are getting a bit too sensitive. Granted this wasn’t a classy joke – but… thicker skin might be required in these days.

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