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Wives as Politician - How'd they do?
Well---Hillary has finally given us an answer!
She knows what happens after a phone gets answered at 3AM. Without security clearance? She sat in on exactly what meetings? These things are a matter of record are they not? Let's see the documentation!! And could someone tell me if she was right at Bill's side so much......how did she miss the lewinsky's being preformed in the oval office? Has Monica passed the CIC threshold too then? Wasn't she right there for some diplomatic calls? Hillary, in her approriately blood red suit and beads, raised a couple of other important questions. IS CHELSEA READY? Chelsea for some odd reason is said to be involved in the Clinton's fraud case! Just how far does her "involvement" go? Is that why her mom plays she-devil whenever Chelsea is discussed? Have these two paragons of virture hidden the smoking guns in their child's diddies?? Chelsea was close to her Dad--has she, too, met the CIC threshold? We don't have to speculate though! We have a myriad of examples of women who were awarded their husbands political seats out of a distorted sense of honor and committent to the man of the house. HOW DID THEY DO?? How did Sonny Bono's wife do? What about Jean Carnahan? Here is a little bit of feminist trivia to mull around: "For the first third of the twentieth century, political widows in the United States were more successful in finding a place for themselves in politics than most other political women in national politics. In the second third, women increased their presence in politics independently of their husbands, but it still helped to be a widow. In the last third, widowhood was no longer the stepping stone it had once been. But in the year 2000 we found that it doesn't hurt. Of the first fourteen women elected to Congress (between 1916 and 1932) six were widows of incumbents, and three were daughters of famous political men. Of the first ten women to serve as U.S. Senators, five were appointed to fill vacancies and seven served less than a year. While not all seven were Senatorial widows, all were elected or appointed solely to hold the seat open for the men who were expected to run for it. The three women who served a full Senate term all succeeded their husbands. Hattie Caraway (D. Ark.) initially filled her dead husband's term but was twice re-elected. Margaret Chase Smith (R. Me.) succeeded her husband in the House, then ran for the Senate on her own. Maurine Neuberger (D. Ore.) replaced her incumbent husband when he died two days before the deadline to file for reelection. It was 1978 before a woman was elected to a full term who was not a political widow; Nancy Landon Kassenbaum (R. KS) was a political daughter who had not held public office prior to her election to the Senate." Source So how did they do folks?? Come on Hillary people---SURELY you KNOW! School the rest of us! Last edited by RK77; 03-07-2008 at 06:00 AM. |
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