The Binary Circumstance

Speaking of Hillary Rodham Clinton who appeared CBS’s Sunday Morning today insisting she could not see any possible circumstances where she would run for president in 2004:

It has become very popular in recent decades for feminists to attack the use of words like fireman, congressman, chairman or any other words that might imply that certain professions or attributes belong exclusively to men. Gender-neutral words have become the politically correct alternative and so we often hear words like firefigher, representative or chairperson.

It’s interesting that while attacking gender specificity in desirable professions, I’ve never heard the feminists call for similar substitutions for terms like “con man” or “hit man.” Our language leaves us at a loss for terms describing women who engage in conduct associated with fraud and organized crime; implying that women could not possibly engage in such activities, which is just like suggesting that they could not be a congressMAN, a chairMAN, or a fireMAN.

If you can think of any other negative terms that are exclusively associate with the term “man,” please leave a comment.

This site has a particularly vicious sense of humor. See the posting on Hillary Clinton’s possible run for the presidency and Helen Thomas, moonbat.

I get the impression from reading a few posts that the site is member of Bush’s team of blind cheerleaders. Well, good for them. Gotta help the handicapped; it’s the Christian thing to do. Bush has done so much to elevate the status of the blind, the mystical, and the delusional since he became president. They all owe him so much.

First there were pictures of of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton chatting and having turkey with troops on her trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. Then, later on Thanksgiving Day, we get pictures of George W. Bush’s amazing, “top-secret,” trip to Bagdad to share Thanksgiving with the troops. It was reported that even Laura Bush didn’t know.

Clinton recently hinted that she might run for president in 2008. Bush’s last minute trip to Iraq may have been a successful attempt to demonstrate that when it comes to using U.S. troops for personal aggrandizement, he is still king. After being upstaged by Bush, Clinton must be thinking of catchy campaign slogan: Why wait ’till 2008? Or maybe she was thinking that before she got the taxpayers to buy her a Thanksgiving “fact-finding” (pre-presidential campaign) trip to the Middle East.

The European Press was not kind in their assessment of Bush’s surprise visit:

“The turkey has landed,” ran the front-page headline in the London daily Independent.

“George Bush becomes the first US president to visit Iraq in order to provide the television pictures required by his re-election campaign,” it said, noting that Hillary Rodham Clinton, “his undeclared Democratic opponent,” was on her way to Baghdad from Afghanistan.

The fact that Clinton and Bush would both use Amercian troops who are in harm’s way to further their political ambitions is enough to make some of us barf up our Thanksgiving dinner. If these two turn out to be our choices in 2004, barfing ourselves to death might be the only option.

File this story under it helps to have brothers in high places:

Neil Bush, younger brother of President George W. Bush, detailed lucrative business deals and admitted to engaging in sex romps with women in Asia in a deposition taken in March as part of his divorce from now ex-wife Sharon Bush.

According to legal documents disclosed on Tuesday, Sharon Bush’s lawyers questioned Neil Bush closely about the deals, especially a contract with Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, that would pay him $2 million in stock over five years.