Thinking About Running for Office?
I am beyond ready to see a woman running that White House (as long as her name isn’t Sarah Palin). Could you, in fact, be that woman? I certainly don’t see why not.
I used to think that I would be in politics someday—in the House was where I wanted to be, that’s where all the action is!—and I had plenty of people ready to campaign for me while I was in college. But that was before I had my daughter, settled down a little bit (or stopped screaming about George W, the Boy King—long enough to breathe in between screaming, anyway), and focused on being a provider rather than much of a muckraker. That doesn’t mean that it will never happen; that just means it won’t happen just yet.
The White House Project, a movement dedicated to getting more women leaders involved in our political system, is holding a bunch of trainings this fall for women who want to start running this country. And the more women (non-moose hunting women, of course) running it, the better, says I.
Go Run is a training program that “will provide you and the women in your life with the inspiration, information and necessary tools to lead a political life.” The program will be in Colorado during July 24th and 25th, Florida from September 25th to 27th, New York for October 9th and 10th, and in Wisconsin during October 23rd and 24th.
In addition to the workshops, The White House Project has suggested reading the Forbes list of seven steps for running for office if you are ready to get started. I remember being armed with Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men and feeling ready for my role as soon as I was old enough! Now I can’t find that book anywhere; I think I let somebody borrow it and they never gave it back…
Boy do I miss being on the political scene; when all of the Obama excitement was going on, I was nursing some bitter layoff blues and didn’t do nearly as much as I did for Kerry—a man I didn’t support even half as much in my heart as I did for Obama. When my little girl’s a bit bigger, we’ll get back in the game—and you can bet if there’s a woman running for that seat (who is really a woman, and not a man dressed in a Barbie costume), we’ll be knocking on your door.
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Do you even read what you
Do you even read what you write? These are your words:
<i>you can bet if there’s a woman running for that seat (who is really a woman, and not a man dressed in a Barbie costume), we’ll be knocking on your door.</i>
How is that any different than calling Hilary Clinton a dyke?
God knows I think Palin is four cans short of six-pack, and insane, but you're attacking her because she's a fake woman?
This was definitely an attack
This was definitely an attack on Palin and not on Clinton, which I felt was obvious since A. Clinton is obviously a very smart, savvy woman and B. Palin was often called a fake woman during the election by many people--quite a few of them women--who felt she was advocating repression of women quite shockingly as a woman herself. It's sort of like "real men don't hit women;" "real women don't advocate turning the clock back on women's rights."