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  Conservative paper predicts ‘first woman president’ — no, not that one
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Last EditedArmyDem  Jan 08, 2008 09:53am
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News DateTuesday, January 8, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionPosted January 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am
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One gets the sense, listening to the far-right lately, that they’re gearing up to attack Barack Obama with gusto, but they haven’t quite figured out what the message is. I don’t doubt they’ll settle on something ugly, but at this point, while the race on both sides is still in flux, we seem to have reached a trial-balloon stage — right-wing outlets come up with attacks, throw them against the wall, and see what sticks.

Yesterday, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, a conservative tabloid, rolled out one I hadn’t seen before:

[Obama] is like a woman: slim, good looking, with long elegant fingers, appealingly dressed — all terms more typically ascribed to female candidates.

Those shots of Barack and Michelle sitting with Oprah on stools had the feel of a smart, all-women talk panel: Obama fit right in for reasons beyond race. […]

Women are gravitating to Obama out of a different urge — the desire to invite him to our book club, join him for coffee or have him coach our child’s soccer team. He embodies many of the positive characteristics we tend to regard as feminine: sensitive and empathetic, seeking to find common ground and minimize conflict, not taking power for granted. We’ve yet to catch Obama beating up an opponent.

The New York Post piece apparently resisted the urge to use the Saturday Night Live colloquialism “girly man,” but it walked right up to the line. It concluded, “By the end of this year we might indeed have our first woman president — but not necessarily Hillary.”
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