Two posts in one day (yep, there’s another one I wrote this morning right below this one)! It’s a banner day at EvilJulie.com! But this was too good not to blog. In fact, it’s the kind of thing that was the main reason I started a blog.
Lori and I are talking about politics, about race and gender and how that plays into this Primary season for the Dems, about Gloria Steinem’s op-ed piece in the Times yesterday, and I said that I am seeing women of a certain age (Steinem’s generation, basically) who are basically saying “I’m voting for Hillary, I’m tired of men running this country!” (actually, those were my boss’s exact words about a half hour ago), and that propelled us into this:
Julie: I’m not tired of men running this country per se, I’m tired of stupid men running the country. At this point I wouldn’t care if a freakin’ cockroach ran the country as long as it was reasonably intelligent and cared about the American people and got us the hell out of the middle East.
Lori: Cockroaches are not good public speakers though.
Julie: This is true. And as many people are swayed by the candidate’s looks, that would be two strikes against the cockroach right there.
Lori: The little one doesn’t have a prayer.
Julie: Yeah, someone will bust out a can of Raid and assassinate our insect president.
plus whenever the lights came on, our president would scurry under the fridge. doesn’t look good if he has to address foreign leaders.
I’m going to have to vote “no” on the cockroach presidency.
I think I heart Lori.
ESC~You raise a valid point.
Aimee~Me too.
So what is the difference if the cockroach scurries under the fridge to let the VP run the country or if the Prez says stupid things and let’s Cheney run the country?
Couldn’t be any worse with the cockroach.
Vince–the president will eventually be replaced. A cockroach, however, would be impervious even to a nuclear attack. Therefore, we should NEVER allow a cockroach to be president. Or another Bush to be president, for that matter.
I do think it’s absolutely RIDICULOUS that we have somehow gotten to 2008 without ever having had a female president, but I don’t necessarily agree with your boss that we should vote for a woman just because one is running. I bet Paris Hilton (speaking of cockroaches–the skinny kind, with bad nose jobs) could run for president and make a pretty good showing on name recognition alone. Would your boss vote for HER?
I do feel the temptation of novelty, however: the “Hey, I might never get to vote for a viable woman candidate for president again, so maybe I should take advantage of it!” thing. Not because Hillary Clinton is the only viable woman candidate I can think of, but because if she doesn’t win, the Patriarchy might just seize their advantage, take away our shoes, and send us back to the kitchen.
Vintage Reader wrote the word “Patriarchy” and I read it as “Parcheesee”, which either means it’s very late at night and I’m tired, or that our government systems are, um…, some sort of ridiculous game.
I must vote “no” on the cockroach presidency, however, I am all for turning our current prez into a cockroach and giving him a free night at the Roach Motel.