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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I really hope not. I'm so over the boomers. Obama is just on the youngest edge of the group, or out of it entirely depending on the measure. We do not need to put a previous generation back in charge. I seriously believe it would harm equality, healthcare, and war policies in a way I'd really hate to see. Not that there's no baby boomers who wouldn't, but that both statistically the trend bears out and individualistic the candidates Suck.
This isn't really about anyone here, so I hope no one takes it that way, but I'm sure someone will.
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What, you want someone from the (current) internet generation to become president in 2012? Hate to burst your bubble but they wouldn't be able to meet that pesky 35 years of age requirement.
Back on topic-
Bachmann's past and general kookiness gives her adversaries more than enough ammo to take her on so to make an issue of her "woman problems" just comes across as just completely unnecessary (to me at least). I feel that when a male politician says something crazy it often goes relatively unnoticed but when a female says something off it becomes front page news and fodder for the pundits and comedians. Jimmy Carter and Reagan had both said during their presidential campaigns that they had seen UFO's as well as (more recently) Dennis Kucinich during the last democratic primaries. The only reason I know that fact about those three men is because I listen to Coast to Coast AM, I don't really recall the mainstream making much noise about it. Granted Reagan and Carter is pre-PiKA but Dennis K was just a few years ago. Could you imagine the lampooning Palin or Bachmann would receive if they said that the same?
Like I was telling one of my friends, I'm sure if we were to sit down and actually look into it we could probably find a sitting male politician who has said/done crazier things than any Bachmann, Palin, Sharon Angle, or Nancy Pelosi yet has never faced anything near the level of scrutiny that those ladies have.