It is long past time for a woman to lead this country.

[Stinky The Clown]

It took the crazies 25 years of CONSTANT work and interference from a foreign power to defeat a woman who won the popular vote by 3 million.

For more reasons than we can count, women have demonstrated time and again their strength, resolve, intelligence, composure, command of facts, tenacity, and so many other admirable traits.

We watched HRC own the Benghazi committee. Today we watched Sally Yates own the Senate subcommittee.

But we watch less famous women - ordinary women, if you will - day in and day out demonstrate these same traits. A single mom doing what it takes to raise her kids. A woman bearing the burden of caring for aging parents or a failing husband. A woman doing more than the job requires to keep up with men doing the same job. Women working for three quarters of the wages men earn for the same job.

In so many, many ways, we watch women not just get by, but excel. Over and over. Time and again. Often against adversity.

I will be forever grateful to HRC, who I supported fully and enthusiastically, and whose loss I found devastating, for demonstrating so very clearly a woman CAN be president of the United States. While I wish it were her, it isn't. But we owe her much for showing the way.

At 70 years old, her time, sadly, has passed. Our country is the poorer for that. I am heartened, however, at the presence of the now uncarried mantle she left us as a legacy or HER life's work.

It is time for a woman to take up that mantle. It is time for a woman to build an organization. It is time for a woman to take the stage, to fill the spotlight, to LEAD US.

I am far from ready to make my own choice of who to support, but I can assure you it will be a woman. If pressed today, I'd have to say it is Amy Klobuchar. But it is too early to make that choice. There are other women, many of whom we know, but quite possibly some we have yet to meet. There is Tammy Baldwin and there is Tammy Duckworth. Can't forget Kristin Gilibrand. Kamala Harris. Maggie Hassan, Gina Raimondo, and Kate Brown (openly gay, by the way) come quickly to mind. How about Hilda Solis or Donna Edwards?

Who else? Who DON'T we know but should?

I suppose this could be considered identity politics. I actually think it is sound thinking. Women, generally, have traits that men lack or can get by without exercising. What we have been doing isn't working all that well anymore.

I'm ready for such a change.

[sheshe2]

1. Agree, it is time for a woman.

Amy Klobuchar and Sally Yates were magnificent today. All the women you mentioned are wonderful choices. Ya know...we woman birthed this nation. It is time for a makeover and a rebirth. We have been carrying this place on our backs for decades without out any credit or monetary reimbursement. It is time...we need to show the men how it is done. Wake up America.

[brer cat]

2. Nice OP, Stinky.

I agree. It is way past time, and thanks to Hillary we know it is possible. I do hope if a strong Democratic woman emerges from the pack that we will coalesce quickly and give her our unqualified support. The republicans will attempt to tear her to shreds; we can't afford to help them in that smear campaign.

I am ready for such a change, too!

[aikoaiko]

3. I'm ready for a Democratic woman to lead this nation. Preferably someone left of left of center.

Remember, Palin was almost a heartbeat away. I'm not prepared to say I want a woman to lead the nation without the qualification of being left.

[Cha]

4. How the Right Wing Weaponizes Identity Politics

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It is the right wing that frames Black Lives Matter as a threat to police officers and public safety. It is the right wing that frames immigrants as a threat to citizens. It is the right wing that frames women’s rights as a threat to men. And, as we are about to witness tomorrow, it is the right wing that frames the rights of LGBT as a threat to religious freedom. In other words, it is the right wing that frames these issues as simply “identity politics” that somehow pose a threat to white Christian heterosexual men.

It is high time that liberals and Democrats quit buying into those narratives and start reminding people of this country’s de facto motto: e pluribus unum.

More..
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/05/03/how-the-right-wing-weaponizes-identity-politics/

Mahalo for your post, STC.. We'll see what happens.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

5. Think About This, And Really Let It Sink In

PAKISTAN has elected a female leader, but the United States has not.

[tblue37]

6. Sally Yates looked awfully good today. Maybe the TOP will discover the were better off with

her in the DOJ rather than potentially running for office.

[BigmanPigman]

8. The Women's March wasn't really about women, but more like an anti-tRump march.

However, the ACA repeal and the all male Senate health committee is making women more angry. Hillary and others are finally talking more about how misogyny was such an important factor in her defeat. Some men and more women are now getting more angry about gender and I get the feeling that more aggressive measures from the Resistance will be coming out shortly.

[boston bean]

11. First sentence of your post is Wrong.

[BigmanPigman]

12. The march in San Diego had more anti-tRump signs so I assumed.

[boston bean]

13. There were mostly women at these marches and why do you think they were protesting trump?

[Warren DeMontague]

9. There is another obvious choice, of course, Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Also a slight correction; Gov. Kate Brown is openly bisexual, married to a man as a matter of fact. First openly bisexual (or, even, non-heterosexual) Governor in US History.

She's doing a great job, but I dont get the sense that she has national aspirations. I would support her if she did, of course. We need west coast voices desperately, people who understand technology industry issues and how to make cannabis legalization work, etc.

[Hekate]

10. Really nice OP, Stinky