Welcome, folks - 'wherever you roam'...no, not to the admission that 'the waters around you have grown', but to the era of petty partisan politics personified...
And no, on this particular occasion I speak not of or about the presidential impeachment trial presently underway in the U S of A, but to a much more mundane matter altogether...
...i.e. the spat between Democratic senators Sanders and Warren...
So, no, I don't believe it's really such a big deal that the Democratic Party presidential hopeful, the idiosyncratic, iconoclastic, inimitable and irrepressible - &, yes, occasionally *irascible - independent Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, is alleged to have suggested at a private meeting with his Democratic Party rival, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, that 'a woman could not be elected American president'.
Even were he to have actually suggested, or frankly flatly stated, as much - and I'd defer to Sanders' innate sense of honesty and integrity over Warren's any day (quite literally, it oozes from his every pore) - what would such a statement even mean anyway?
Possibly nothing more than his sense - as a longtime and however idealistic, ultimately pragmatic political operator - of what's actually achievable in the realm of U.S. politics...or at least likely to occur anytime soon...
...much as a fellow - admittedly male - American varsity student assured me way back in 2005 (I believe) when I was back at the University of Otago as a mature student, i.e. that (the continually tentative presidential contender) Hillary Clinton 'had no chance of becoming American president'...
yes, simply - essentially - for being a woman, though carrying the Clinton monicker was likewise no great asset either... And why, pray tell me? Just that he didn't believe the American people were yet ready for a female leader.
However, post America's first black president, I doubt it'd now be such a high hurdle for Americans to get their heads around...and personally I suspect it was the perception of Hillary as somewhat of **a socialist - believe it or not - that was the real limiting factor, oddly not such a limiting factor for Bernie himself (according to much opinion polling at least back in 2015/2016)...
*Like the rest of us, surely...
**Yes, someone told me this upon a bus once (while sojourning in the U S of A back in the early nineties whilst Mrs Clinton's 'beloved' was himself ***swanning (or perhaps the more apt term is ***'swooning') around the White House, ***ogling interns in and around the Oval Office...
...she being perceived as the far more leftwing and hence dangerous quantity by many Americans ...though admittedly at the same time being respected as a person of principle therein unlike her chameleon-like spouse...-my, how things've changed (vis-a-vis Hillary Rodham Clinton anyhow!)
***I jest of course, the sort of stuff William Jefferson has long been accused of amounting to a heckuva lot more in both 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' terms than such cute phraseology would suggest, and for the reader's interest going so far beyond 'mere' adultery and fornication to embrace sexual assault, and moreover rape, and also - in cohoots with Hillary - the planned and systematic elimination (i.e. murder) of any number of individuals who threatened to spill the beans upon them.
For those seriously interested in pursuing this further - those, that is, who aren't so readily fooled by the Clinton-loving media and politically partisan commentariat and their Hollywood acolytes who regard the aforementioned (the first two well-established accusations, that is) as either a bit of a bad joke (it only being a pity he was found out) and/or all a big conspiracy by right-wing talkback hosts and the like, I suggest looking up what I regard as my equal seminal work...
...alongside a 22-page 'backgrounder', 'Pope Francis the First: Sheep in Wolf's Clothing, or 'surprise, surprise': Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? (written in the weeks following the unprecedented elevation of a card-carrying Jesuit to the Roman Catholic Church's top position) in the first half of 2013...
a 42-page 'opinion piece' (I've presently forgotten the long-winded, highfalutin' title to!) posted on August the 22nd, 2016 in the run-up to Presidential Election 2016, which article (& mini-tome) gives viewers/readers an insight into what this punter believes the unusual, even sensational and thriller-worthy tale of what really was behind the selection of Donald J Trump as Republican Party nominee for President, a tale (if true, which I still believe with every fibre of my being, nothing having transpired in the interim to repudiate that interpretation in any way) that, I kid you not, is not only a whole lot 'stranger than fiction', so to speak, but which if established in or by a court of law would cause such repercussions politically and every other way that the second civil war that the nation has appeared inevitably heading towards over recent years, especially since that fateful election, would almost be a fait accompli, way ahead of when it might otherwise have seemingly occurred...(though for various reasons I don't anticipate it ever coming quite to that particular pass, if only just).
Part Two: So What am I Really Trying to Say Here? (All will be revealed in the not too distant!)
Awhile On (Tuesday the 21st)
The major point I'm making, or at least seeking to, is that...
...isn't it so interesting how such an allegation, which would doubtless raise merry hell if it were attributed to the likes of Donald Trump et al - or have hell to pay (for it) - would, were it alternatively linked to another prospective Democratic presidential challenger, speedily lead to calls, yea demands - and those none too polite! - for that person's speedy exit from the presidential race altogether...
Sorry, will need to leave this again, for me 'ole mate Sir Barry Humphries is callin' once again...
And no, on this particular occasion I speak not of or about the presidential impeachment trial presently underway in the U S of A, but to a much more mundane matter altogether...
...i.e. the spat between Democratic senators Sanders and Warren...
So, no, I don't believe it's really such a big deal that the Democratic Party presidential hopeful, the idiosyncratic, iconoclastic, inimitable and irrepressible - &, yes, occasionally *irascible - independent Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, is alleged to have suggested at a private meeting with his Democratic Party rival, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, that 'a woman could not be elected American president'.
Even were he to have actually suggested, or frankly flatly stated, as much - and I'd defer to Sanders' innate sense of honesty and integrity over Warren's any day (quite literally, it oozes from his every pore) - what would such a statement even mean anyway?
Possibly nothing more than his sense - as a longtime and however idealistic, ultimately pragmatic political operator - of what's actually achievable in the realm of U.S. politics...or at least likely to occur anytime soon...
...much as a fellow - admittedly male - American varsity student assured me way back in 2005 (I believe) when I was back at the University of Otago as a mature student, i.e. that (the continually tentative presidential contender) Hillary Clinton 'had no chance of becoming American president'...
yes, simply - essentially - for being a woman, though carrying the Clinton monicker was likewise no great asset either... And why, pray tell me? Just that he didn't believe the American people were yet ready for a female leader.
However, post America's first black president, I doubt it'd now be such a high hurdle for Americans to get their heads around...and personally I suspect it was the perception of Hillary as somewhat of **a socialist - believe it or not - that was the real limiting factor, oddly not such a limiting factor for Bernie himself (according to much opinion polling at least back in 2015/2016)...
*Like the rest of us, surely...
**Yes, someone told me this upon a bus once (while sojourning in the U S of A back in the early nineties whilst Mrs Clinton's 'beloved' was himself ***swanning (or perhaps the more apt term is ***'swooning') around the White House, ***ogling interns in and around the Oval Office...
...she being perceived as the far more leftwing and hence dangerous quantity by many Americans ...though admittedly at the same time being respected as a person of principle therein unlike her chameleon-like spouse...-my, how things've changed (vis-a-vis Hillary Rodham Clinton anyhow!)
***I jest of course, the sort of stuff William Jefferson has long been accused of amounting to a heckuva lot more in both 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' terms than such cute phraseology would suggest, and for the reader's interest going so far beyond 'mere' adultery and fornication to embrace sexual assault, and moreover rape, and also - in cohoots with Hillary - the planned and systematic elimination (i.e. murder) of any number of individuals who threatened to spill the beans upon them.
For those seriously interested in pursuing this further - those, that is, who aren't so readily fooled by the Clinton-loving media and politically partisan commentariat and their Hollywood acolytes who regard the aforementioned (the first two well-established accusations, that is) as either a bit of a bad joke (it only being a pity he was found out) and/or all a big conspiracy by right-wing talkback hosts and the like, I suggest looking up what I regard as my equal seminal work...
...alongside a 22-page 'backgrounder', 'Pope Francis the First: Sheep in Wolf's Clothing, or 'surprise, surprise': Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? (written in the weeks following the unprecedented elevation of a card-carrying Jesuit to the Roman Catholic Church's top position) in the first half of 2013...
a 42-page 'opinion piece' (I've presently forgotten the long-winded, highfalutin' title to!) posted on August the 22nd, 2016 in the run-up to Presidential Election 2016, which article (& mini-tome) gives viewers/readers an insight into what this punter believes the unusual, even sensational and thriller-worthy tale of what really was behind the selection of Donald J Trump as Republican Party nominee for President, a tale (if true, which I still believe with every fibre of my being, nothing having transpired in the interim to repudiate that interpretation in any way) that, I kid you not, is not only a whole lot 'stranger than fiction', so to speak, but which if established in or by a court of law would cause such repercussions politically and every other way that the second civil war that the nation has appeared inevitably heading towards over recent years, especially since that fateful election, would almost be a fait accompli, way ahead of when it might otherwise have seemingly occurred...(though for various reasons I don't anticipate it ever coming quite to that particular pass, if only just).
Part Two: So What am I Really Trying to Say Here? (All will be revealed in the not too distant!)
Awhile On (Tuesday the 21st)
The major point I'm making, or at least seeking to, is that...
...isn't it so interesting how such an allegation, which would doubtless raise merry hell if it were attributed to the likes of Donald Trump et al - or have hell to pay (for it) - would, were it alternatively linked to another prospective Democratic presidential challenger, speedily lead to calls, yea demands - and those none too polite! - for that person's speedy exit from the presidential race altogether...
Sorry, will need to leave this again, for me 'ole mate Sir Barry Humphries is callin' once again...
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