Feminists in America have got their big chance to elect the first female president. Yet they seem reluctant to do so.
The British, despite their tendency to cling to traditions, cast all fate to the wind years ago and opted for their first female prime minister in the shape of Margaret Thatcher. And, love her or hate her, no one can doubt that she made a very impressive prime minister, and she cut a very impressive figure on the world stage. Indeed, she was one of the greats in British history.
Feminists have worked hard to get places in a largely male-dominated America; yet now that they have a real chance to make a difference, now that they have a real chance to vote for change and place a woman at the top, they don’t appear to be taking it. They are running scared. But perhaps we shouldn't be very surprised, since feminists have not been very forthright in condemning the atrocities committed against women in Muslim countries, either.
Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a force to be reckoned with as a president: She has political experience aplenty, she’s got a damn good intellect, and she’s no longer the dowdy person she once was. In fact, she often looks quite stylish these days. Yet the women voters seem not to be biting, they seem not to be supporting her in great enough numbers. As a result, her campaign seems to be withering on the vine.
Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign, by contrast, seems to be going from strength to strength. Indeed, some people say that Hussein has become an unstoppable force. Personally, I don’t believe that to be the case. Not yet anyway. This is all media hype as far as I am concerned. It has to be said that Hussein has become the darling of the MSM. The MSM do have a habit of picking their favourites, and then promoting and promoting and promoting those favourites. They expose their favourites from each and every flattering angle, and then they damn the rest of the contenders. They certainly rarely stop and ask their darlings any difficult questions.
In the case of Hussein, I should like to ask him some questions of my own. As a Briton concerned about the future of Europe, and especially concerned about the growth of Islam in Europe and in the West as a whole, the following two questions would be where I would start my interrogation: 1.) Mr Obama, where do you stand on the possible accession of Turkey into the EU? 2.) What are you going to do about the growth of Islam in America? In fact, I have already emailed Mr Obama at his office for answers on these matters. Needless to say, I have yet to receive a reply.
It would appear from the results of the primaries in the States that people are more concerned with hope over substance, more concerned with youth over specifics. Hussein Obama is offering vague talk of hope and a desire to do things differently; Hillary Rodham is offering something more specific. She certainly offers experience in politics, which Obama certainly does not. It would be churlish of anyone to deny this fact. Hillary is also more transparent in her religious affiliations than Hussein Obama is.
The West is in a very difficult phase. We have a competing civilization doing its damnedest to bring our civilization down, and we have untold economic problems, too. In fact, many of our economic woes stem right from our troubles with Islam. Solve the problem with Islam and you automatically solve many of our economic problems at a stroke.
Hillary Rodham Clinton should not be ruled out of the race for the White House yet. She might yet make a good showing in Texas. We must hope that she will for the sake of America and for the sake of American voters; otherwise they might find themselves with a greenhorn as president; and this at a most difficult juncture in the history of America and the West.
By the way, I write neither as a Democrat nor as a Republican. As a Briton, I can safely say I am neither. But if it has to be a Democratic president, then let the citizens of the world be able to take comfort in the knowledge that the free world is to be led by a president of substance, by a person who knows something about politics.
©Mark Alexander
