So much for Obama’s “womanly leadership,” eh?
Seems like only yesterday the White House was basking in the glow of worldly feminists effusing over the president’s Grrrl Power governance.
Chaudhury: The criticism of the Obama administration seems to be particularly “male,” you know? When you say ‘why aren’t you fighting back, why aren’t you policing?’ I think we’ve been talking about having women in leadership positions, and Obama’s attitude to leadership is really a very womanly one, you know, which is consensual, which is thought through, which calms the temperature down of the world, and it’s very important to remember that, you know.
Jarrett: Thank you.
Chaudhury: Yesterday, Barbara Walters kept asking, ‘Should we police the world? You know, are we doing this? Should America fix it?’ And, I think, you know, I’m from India, and we really respect, uh, the Obama administration, purely for changing the way people speak, for changing the discourse of the world, and for bringing the temperature down, you know. This is a womanly leadership.”
Jarrett: Thank you. I’m going to tell him you said that. I think he’ll be very pleased to hear that that’s how you describe it. And I think I’m going to use that in terms of taking the temperature down. Because it has to come down if you are actually going to listen to one another, you have to take a lot of the heat out of the discourse. I think he’s very good at doing that, thank you.
Now, some of the actual women who served in the White House are bemoaning the “hostile workplace” at 1600 Pennsylvania:
Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White House grew so intense during the first two years of the president’s tenure that he was forced to take steps to reassure senior women on his staff that he valued their presence and their input.
At a dinner in November 2009, several senior female aides complained directly to the president that men enjoyed greater access to him and often muscled them out of key policy discussions.
Those tensions prompted Obama, urged on by senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, to elevate more women into senior White House positions, recognize them more during staff meetings and increase the female presence in the upper ranks of the reelection campaign. “There were some issues early on with women feeling as though they hadn’t figured out what their role was going to be on the senior team at the White House,” Jarrett said in an interview Monday. “Most of the women hadn’t worked on the campaign, and so they didn’t have a personal relationship with the president.”
…One of the most striking quotes in the book came from former White House communications director Anita Dunn , who was quoted as saying that, “this place would be in court for a hostile workplace. . . . Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”
Dunn says she was quoted out of context and told The Post on Friday that she told Suskind “point blank” that the White House was not a hostile work environment.
Except that, er, she did say that:
On Monday, Suskind allowed a Post reporter to review a recorded excerpt of the original interview, which took place over the telephone in April. In that conversation, Dunn is heard telling Suskind about a conversation she had with Jarrett.
“I remember once I told Valerie that, I said if it weren’t for the president, this place would be in court for a hostile workplace,” Dunn is heard telling Suskind. “Because it actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”
Unfortunately for the rest of us, Obama compensated by elevating extremist radical women like Kathleen Sebelius, Jane Lubchenco, and Carol Browner — all of whom have employed Beltway business-as-usual tactics to run roughshod over the rule of law.
In the end, Obama’s gals will be brass-knuckle boys to secure their agenda and power.
It’s not just a “hostile workplace” for a few grumbling women left out in the cold.
It’s a hostile workplace for all American taxpayers and job creators.
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I have to agree that Obama does exhibit “womanly” leadership.
Women, by nature, tend to elevate all others as equals and they build consensus. They operate as committees.
Men, by nature, are very hierarchical in their social structures. They see winners and losers, leaders and followers.
Obama is not a get-out-in-front kind of leader and never has been. He pretends he is when he’s reading the teleprompters, but when it comes to actually getting things done, his strongest urgings are to disappear into a sea of committee members with no real accountability.
(Disclaimer – male and female observations mentioned in this post are based upon general sociological tendencies, and not a description of any one person or group of people. Except for the pansy Obama.)
Of course that is to compensate for the effeminate in chief.
Lamestream Media’s paving the way for Hillary?
drum beats drum beats drum beats…
You’ve clearly NEVER worked in Wasnington, D.C..
Barbarians know no gender.
Obambi’s womanly leadership should not surprise anyone. Zero is a woman. Hey, he’s lied about everything else, why think he/she/it didn’t lie about gender as well as country of origin, SS#, education, religion, history, and intent.
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I think that most of the women in Comrade Obama’s White House are tougher than Hell. Witness our beauteous First Lady Mooochelle and Valery Jarrett. And His appointments to high government positions have some take no prisoner ladies there also. Janet Clownitano comes to mind.
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They don’t care who gets hurt or loses as they implement their dreams of the new United Socialist States of Amerikka. Madame DeFarge would be proud of their style.
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And you ain’t seen nuttin yet if Shrillery Clinton takes over in 2012.
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John Bibb
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I have a feeling that bho and mo are not the warm and fuzzy kind to be around. Both want their way and will step on male of female to get what they want. I just wonder what the wh staff and the SS would say about them if they could without getting fired? IMO, both are really hateful humans!
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Yes Ms. Chaudhury. I was just talking to the 15-armed goddess Patahundraflatumudre (She recently lost one in a Punjab knife fight. Had she not been drinking bad absinthe she likely would have prevailed against her assailant. I mean how can you lose a cat fight when you have 16 arms?) and she told me that we must give vent to the power and sensuous might of the woman to solve the world’s problems. I told her that I agreed that a vaginatical approach to world affairs would be lovely and comely but that we might also want to keep some special forces black ops and nuclear weapons capability.
I’m still having some diffilty breathing since she sunk her talons into my neck and chest after that last comment. I won’t hold it against her though since she did look very hot in that lime green salwar kameez with red lehnga choli accessory. ppppuuuuuurrrrrr, ruff ruff.
I don’t doubt the sort of power plays that go on in D.C. would edge the less aggressive out of the spotlight and women who aren’t used to dealing with real sharks of either sex are probably going to get sidelined. (Yes, I used to work within the Beltway.) Anita Dunn needed to be more Mao and less Mother Teresa to survive that kind of environment.
And here I thought I was the only one who thought he was a sissy. I have three sisters and any one of them would make a better, gutsier president. Obama is just a hack, and not a very good one at that.
By all means, put a bunch of unqualified, incompetent, leftist, misandric, fem-nazis in power in the Obama regime.
It will just make it that much easier for us to beat them in 2012.
Actually, don’t. Left-wing feminists have already done enough damage to this country.
mmmmm Sebelius, Lubchenco, Browner… They are the most delicious Marxist women I can think of right now. I must take a cold shower or I will never get any work done today. I have a tendency to suffer from obscenely high levels of that paternalistic hormone testosterone, the effects of which will breach any defenses against fraternization with Liberal women. It is my great weakness, my great burden.
It seems that bho and team have a much serious thing to worry about than the gals he is around. F&F is in the news again. This, along with solyndra, needs to take bho and team to prison, IMO.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/09/20/attorney_general_in_mexico_200_murders_result_of_operation_fast_and_furious
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Barry is an OMEGA MALE!!!
That’s why he’s so easily frightened. That’s why he likes to ‘lead from behind’. He got pushed by his puppet masters to be the ALPHA MALE and that’s why he has failed so completely. Please, President Zero’s administration reflects that sad reality. The strong survive, and the weak get pushed aside.
Maybe Obama leads like a woman because Michelle keeps his gonads in her lockbox.
Lockbox? Is that the same thing as a sows ear purse?
Of course Obama would be hostile to women. He was raised in the mooslum cult for much of his early, formative years. He hates America and he thinks women are inferior. That kind of propaganda in childhood doesn’t just go away. They bob their heads up and down as they recite the crap the mooslums want them to believe. Over and over until it is permanently imbedded in there. Do not doubt it…Obama has been radicalized in mooslum ideas.
I am convinced that Obama will not run again and they will put Hillary in his place. It makes sense. She would probably win the election. And, she is just as Marxist as Obama is. She would act more moderate, but secretly, she would finish us off. If Soros wants Obama to step down and Hillary to step up…it will be done.
This explains the mom jeans.
In a perfect and just world, that would happen. In the world in which we live, with gutless politicians who don’t have a good track record in being principled and following the law anyway, probably only a few low-level bureaucrats need fear being asked, or ordered to fall on their swords.
He certainly throws the baseball like a little girl and wears women’s jeans and bows graciously to dictators. Girly man…
Uh-oh – I had assumed the mom jeans were his….but maybe he borrowed them from someone.
Reggie – what do you know and when did you know it?
Happyscrapper…
I think you are not off at all on your post. I think Hillary has been the subject of much talk lately among Dems.
Demons are neuter.
He sure throws like a girl. And rides a girl’s bicycle. And then there is his thin-skinned cattiness. Case closed. Obama is Chaz’ girlfriend.
no way in a million years will I listen to the video at the top of this thread. I’ll be the first to say it would just make me more misogynistic.
Just a guess, but hey….
well, it would certainly leave a snail trail…
Womanly leadership?
This administration is, and has been, fixed on creating a calm image, claiming that their approach in diplomatic circles has a calming effect. That belief is a false, narccistic belief that actually, when put into action, makes them look even weaker, more petty, and thin-skinned than they already appear.
“Womanly leadership,” indeed!
If dear hill did decide to run, she better get rid of weiners wife, her close friend. That gal is out slamming the US in rop type countries. Also, I saw something the other day on hill, they asked if she has had a face job? She looks different and her hair is long, like some of the r women who is and might run for president.
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This is of a piece with representative Clyburn’s recent opinion that but for the fact that it’s “their” guy in the White House, the Congressional Black Caucus would be protesting there these days.
It is the natural outcome of what happens when pretend-principles collide with the hypocrisy that they engender: Clyburn’s racial hypersensitivity gets elbowed aside by his own plantation mentality racism, and Dunn’s otherwise delicate-yet-shrill female sensitivities somehow get squelched by her own selective laryngitis – although she can still belt out the chorus to “Stand by Your Man” with gusto.
But at least they’re coming out and admitting it, which is a sign of progress one supposes: the path to overcoming any deep-seated cognitive dissonance begins with letting go of the denial and avoidance mechanisms just long enough to recognize that one has a problem – something that few, very few liberals can bring themselves to do. So in a weird way, I have to give these people some small amount of credit.
Re: the hostile work environment
Susskind quotes Anita Dunn on the hostile work environment. Dunn predictably denies she said any such thing.
Fos News reported today that Susskind played a tape for WaPo of Dunn saying exactly what he quotes he as saying.
Ooops! Busted!
In liberal circles, female politicians believe that in order to be taken seriously, you have to look more masculine, or least, less feminine. Hillary is a great case in point:
Little, to no makeup. Poorly, or un-coiffed hair. No dresses. Haggard, or tired appearance (bags under the eyes), little to no show of emotion, other that anger, outrage, etc. And, little regard for fashion.
Hillary led the pack of “potentials” even before she ran for office. One of the things she had going for her, was her “Reubenesque” body shape. Add to that, the habitual use of pantsuits, the oft unkempt looking hairdo, her aggressive/domineering personality, and her penchant for vengeance when she felt slighted.
Yeah, we got that after we saw what kind of bike he was riding and how he curtsied to foreign potentates.
You guys are right. Obama is the “dead man walking”. Obama is destroying the Liberal edifice. That cannot be permitted.
If not Clinton, then a Dem version of Mitt, like an Evan Bayh.
Gee, what’s it like to have to lie to do damage control? Does it matter at some point that a veil of deception is necessary for everything the libs/progs do so that the truth is never known? How do they think that their ideas will ever work when they marinate in all the lies? I would think that at the end of the day, the stink would rot them.
Egads. I have to admit I was trolling for your comment but…
‘Womanly’ isn’t exactly the word that comes to mind:
Light in the Loafers
Isn’t there some evidence that our Dear Leader is a regular, or was, at a Chicago Bath House?
I can only speak for myself…but I kinda like to think My President is a warrior putting the American People first. I like men to be men and an American President should not be considered womanly anywhere in the world, not even a woman president, Palin is more manly then Obama and she would be a warrior to reakon with.
Evan Bayh??? Wow…I would be just fine having him as POTUS, if a democrat MUST win! Evan Bayh is a centrist…he could even be called a Republican. He is not a socialist. I would accept him as the candidate and would not feel like I had to hold my nose and vote for a RINO. I prefer a Conservative, but I wonder if there will be a true Conservative candidate this time around. Evan Bayh even has some common sense, and moral values.
Back in the 80s, I read an article about a study (I think the article was in “Omni” magazine), where they interviewed men and women about their views on “justice”.
The results were that the men tended to think of justice as rewarding good behavior and punishing bad. Whereas the women tended to think of justice as doing the least harm to the least number.
They concluded that this was a result of our roles in pre-historic society. Men had to go out on the hunt, where mistakes could cost lives, and extra efforts and successful risks could mean full bellies.
But, the women were the most competent people back at the base camp. The had children and old people to watch over, egos to protect, conflicts to settle.
So, compromise would be the word of the day, and the most important thing for them would be to keep the kettle of emotions from boiling over.
Mine:
kill ‘em all
Let G-d sort ‘em out.
I for one, see the light at the end of the tunnel.
To cal Zero “womanly” denigrates every woman I know on a personal level. Zero exhibits the worst attributes of the worst kind of woman – lying, deceiving, untrustworthy slugs who will do or say anything to get what they want – and then make excuses for their behavior; or simply blame it on someone else. The women I know would be aghast at being mentioned in the same breath as Zero.
Obama: Do these jeans make my butt look big?
Moochelle: Does this belt under my boobs make my butt look big?
Valerie: Does this $1000 suit make my butt look big?
Janet Ineptitano? Does my manly haircut and huge hands make my butt look big:
Hillary: Does this orange and pink pantsuit make my butt look big?
Not only is this entire administration made up of America-haters, it is loaded with people who don’t know what gender they are. Obeyme is feminine but not a feminist.
A very good acid test indeed. Progs natural proclivity is to view the world thru an elitist pecking order, regardless of gender.
As the hostile workplace continues to shake out, how many of these gals will come clean their hopes of being treated as equals didn’t survive the inaugural ball..?
More lip service…
Does that mean it would be a bad idea to ask her about her cankles as she was cutting into her wagyu steak at a dinner party?
I love you. Let’s run away and plan the brave new world together.
Sounds like Obama took steps to fix the problem.
Typical stupid Malkin artice.
I love how everyone has been ignoring the troll today! Keep it up! If we ALL stop feeding it, it will die.
Thing is he should have never had this problem to fix!!
On September 20th, 2011 at 3:00 pm, Ilovemycountry said:
Sounds like Obama took steps to fix the problem.
Typical stupid Malkin artice.
Obama doesn’t fix problems…he creates them. Check your facts.
Arrr! Avast ye bilge scum! I laid me pearlies on the saucy wench first! When it comes to carving the odd scurvy dog, my blade be mighty sharp!
Hey Ma, me and Obama got something in common!
Depends on what you mean by problem…..I believe you think that word means something different than what he thinks it means.
Cut your dried out rat cheese Rogue, cry in your beer. I done made my move and stand by it. Never said I was above a bit of betrayal and skullduggery. “I done killed ye now Bill.”
“Look, just because you let some useless tosser blow his beans up yer muff–well done…”
The Office/BBC
Which explains one of the reasons they so totally hate Sarah Palin.
Female politicians aren’t supposed to be smokin’ hot.
Time to consign Ann to the “Dunn Heap” of history…
Not only has this Maoist putz proved herself to be a whining one-note feminist harpy, but a bald-faced liar as well.
Ann, you are indeed, “DONE!”
Okay, so let me get this straight:
Obiased’s administration failed with men in senior positions, failed with women in senior positions and failed with men and women in senior positions. So maybe the real problem here lies with the staff member who’s making these appointments, the
Prezuhduncetop senior staff member on this White House staff–but then we already knew that.And, uh, does it matter who Ocallous appoints to which staff positions since it’s akin to [total cliché] placing new chairs on the deck of the Titanic?
From a libs point of view, an ideal candidate would be a clone of Bella Abzug.
LOLOLOL… oh man. I’m insane and quite proud of it, making no attempts to hide the fact. Glad to see you and Rogue are with me. I think I’ll go buy myself a liter of Evan Williams white label to celebrate. Wifey will not like it but…
I didun’t know it was talk like a Pirate Day…
Count me in. I don’t suffer from insanity – I enjoy every minute of it. I am encouraged however by the fact that the nation is run by fruitier fruitcakes than meself.
Also, speaking of girly libro-loonies, this lady says us Tea Partiers are F-ing nuts. I rest whatever case I may or may not have had, or will ever not have had.
As for Zero’s feminity, I would hope that a wise-azz, whimpy Kenyan with the richness of his/her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion. I could be wrong.
Again, other than a few side captions, all Michelle has provided is ( as usual ) Liberals In Their OWN Words:
Without much of an effort, it’s clear to see a pResident that struggles w/ the most BASIC aspects of the office was in no place to accept such praise.
Think of it this way, this has been by and large considered A Man’s Recession. Construction, finance and other male dominated fields have been particularly HARD.
What His female supporters need to ask themselves is, we can PLAINLY see what Obie has done for my husband ( what has he done to advance Women’s causes? )
And that should be obvious. Zilch.
The near future ex-prez could make one heck of a tupperware salesperson.
Swede: I can see why Greg Allman thought it was a good idea to leave Cher. It was probably an I “Ain’t Wastin Time no More”.
A few posts ago someone was talking about Mrs. Obama and a lockbox for the manhood of the Pres. I must be so CAREFUL about a comment, MM would ban me for life. LOL
Complete with an extra pocket for tampons on those “special days”. A pocket so big, he can carry both Mooochelle’s and his.
Obama’s a woman. I knew it when I saw him throw a baseball.
He didn’t throw it…he frowed it.
O hasn’t listened to anyone since the day he was born. Taking the temperature down? Really? Was that what I keep hearing every time he opens his trap to let loose another straw man to fulminate against? What a load of crap.
The sooner we get this guy, gal, whatever it is, out of the white house, the better.
Oh yeah, that goes for both of them.
With all due respect, I’m not impressed with a male in the White House who’s style is described in soothing terms as “womanly”, nor one who’s described as “manly”. How about competent? Vladimir Putin’s barechested stunts make for a funny story and photo op but in the end are just that – stunts. I’d like to see Boehner speak candidly on-camera with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth just for the titillation value, but I don’t want need to see him getting guys in headlocks to wonder if he’s managing things when negotiating with the Dems. Just do it.
Womanly or dangerous Ass Clown – you be the judge:
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/09/20/obama-waving-hand-gaffe-picture-not-a-hoax-or-a-photoshop-after-all/
Reason Obama won’t give equal props to women in his White House?
Because, there can only be one Big P–, uh, sorry, Large Vagina in the White House at a time.
Which also explains why Finally Proud Michelle doesn’t hang around there much.
when I see a bunch of women hanging around someplace, or if I get invited to some all-female get together, or a ‘girl’s night out’, I run the other direction as fast as I can. Women–keep me out of it.
If I lived in the stone age, I guess I’d have to go with the men on their stag hunt. Not to hunt, mind you, but for better conversation and to study the flora and fauna.
I saw that on TV this a.m. What a maroon! It is always all about Teh One, isn’t it? The first comment after that article was excellent…
I’m just surprised his middle finger wasn’t up also!
That happens when mrcakes sees me empty the dishwasher.
Whilst wearing your best French maid outfit, I presume.
yes, he likes that.
But he doesn’t like it when my cigarette ash drops into the tea cozy.