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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/11/team-biden-wishes-it-had-known-something-was-slightly-wrong-with-every-woman-before-promising-female-vp/
What a mess! With the deadline to select a vice president approaching, the members of Team Biden wish someone had told them before this all started that every high-profile woman they would consider for the vice presidency would turn out on further inspection to be just slightly wrong too ambitious, or too self-effacing, or too prepared, or polarizing in some other, completely unexpected way. She might want to be president herself when this was over, which historically would be an anomaly for vice presidents, and probably ought to be disqualifying. Did these vying, sparring, lobbying women who were putting their names out there through such never-before-attempted means as meetings, statements and fundraising appearances not realize that they were in contention for the vice presidency, a sacred office not designed for grasping or distracting personalities?
What Team Biden needs is a vice president who can be a good team player, a supportive No. 2, in the mold of previous vice presidents! Perhaps someone like the historically self-effacing Theodore Roosevelt. It was said of him that he wanted to be the corpse at every funeral and the bride at every wedding because he was so notably demure. When I think of good team player who shares the limelight well, no name springs to mind faster than Teddy Roosevelt except, possibly, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, a simple, unproblematic farmer.
That is all that this team is trying to find: a Lady Vice President who can live up to the role created by John Adams centuries ago, and step into the shoes of that smooth, popular man who famously got along with everybody. We just need a woman who can say of herself, as Adams did, I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular" whoops, sorry, wrong quote! It is indeed something Adams said, but does not express the sentiment of what were looking for very well. The point is, we just need someone with that undefinable thingness that John Adams had but these ladies all lack.
Where is the Richard Nixon this nation deserves, someone popular and easygoing with no political baggage or ambitions of her own?
If only these women could take a page from the book of Aaron Burr! That is all we really need: a vice presidentess as refreshingly unambitious as Burr surely must have been before he literally murdered a guy and then, it looks like, tried to make himself emperor of Mexico? Where will we find a vice president like John C. Calhoun, about whom there is probably nothing bad to say, or Andrew Johnson, a man so superb that when he was president he helped start our fun, wholesome tradition of impeachment-but-not-removal!
Calm down, this is satire.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,271 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,080 posts)monmouth4
(9,664 posts)getagrip_already
(14,240 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)there's no chance of choosing Tulsi Gabbard either.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)If only there was a gal with a penis prominent in politics they could choose....
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You know what *that* means, of course.
wryter2000
(46,016 posts)...is...um...a woman.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)penis!
LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)The longest employed woman had been working there for decades and was a cashier. I asked once why, while she was a beloved and trusted employee, she was not a V.P. or at least an assistant V.P., she replied. I dont have enough knees!?
I asked Knees?
She : Yes. I have a right knee and a left knee. But I dont have a weinie.
Of course, she meant penis. Sexism is as ancient as racism.
Stallion
(6,473 posts)Senator I knew the Virgin Mary, the Virgin Mary was a Friend of mine, Senator you are no Virgin Mary
thucythucy
(7,985 posts)standards of Spiro Agnew. Not to mention Agnew's facility with alliteration.
Lonestarblue
(9,878 posts)But I sure am tired of all the battering of women in politics, and it will only get worse as Republicans try to destroy the reputation of whomever is chosen. Its sad that when a woman speaks up, she is viewed as overly ambitious (and a bitch), but when a man speaks up, he is viewed as a promising leader. I know that people here at DU do not believe that, but far too many people still do.
Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)he has obviously received the Stepford conditioning Repubs seem to require.
bluescribbler
(2,105 posts)usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)also....
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)but in this patriarchy, so goddamn true. I pray she is strong, outspoken and a leader
usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)Better than what we have now by a long long shot.
He has great options!
But I would still vote for them if the VP had a Ph.D. in political science. At least she would know how the government is SUPPOSE TO RUN. And not work to tear it down.
Vote BLUE NO Matter WHO.