Women In Power

Song of the Day: Middle of Nowhere / Hot Hot Heat Word of the Day: Xyresic / Being as sharp as a razor 2008. Is it safe to hope? Can we dream? Our first chance in eight years to move beyond the Historical Embarrassment that is George Bush Jr.? If I were to have one wish for the presidential election, one thing that could possibly salvage my depressed American identity, it would be if we could for once, FINALLY elect a fucking woman to the office. It is, without exaggeration, too much to stomach that we have never had a female (save Carter) hold the highest office in the land. If we were to elect a woman, it would be such a milestone, such a first. We would take the lead again at the cutting edge of Global politics, just a few generations behind the likes of... United Kingdom's Margaret Thatcher" (wouldn't do her), Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko (did her), Phillipines' Gloria Arroyo (might do her), Bangladesh's Khaleda Zia (wouldn't do her), Finland's Tarja Halosen (wouldn't do her), Latvia's Vaira Vike-Freiberga (I'd... do her?), Mozambique's Luisa Doigo (only if drunk), Argentina's Peron (would SO do her, and DO her, and DO her...), Bolivia's Tejada(nah), Iceland's Finnbogadottir(pass), Ireland's Mary Robinson AND Mary McAlasee (yes, in a three way), Nicaragua's de Chamorro(undecided pending more recent photos), Panama's Mireya Moscoso(no), Georgia's Burdzhanadze,(OK, in the name of cross-cultural exchange), Liberia's Johnson-Sirleaf(depends on time of day, blood-alcohol content, and number of witnesses), Chile's Bachalet-Jeria(she looks like Martina Navratilova but whatever, I'm in...), India's Indira Ghandi (just for the name-dropping rights, yes), Israel's Golda Meir (she scares me), Sri Lanka's Bandaranaike (i'm gonna say yes), Portugal's de Lourdes Pintasilgo (negative), Norway's Harlem Brundtland (she looks like my uncle), Yugoslavia's Milka Planinc (no, no, NO), Pakistan's Bhutto (in the dark, on holiday), France's Cresson (with the right wine...), Poland's Suchocka (decline), Canada's Cambpell (just oral), Turkey's Ciller, Burundi's Kinigi, Rwanda's Uwilingiyimana (affirmative), Bulgaria's Indzhova (anal), Guyana had Jagan (unthinkable), New Zealand had Shipley AND Elizabeth Clark (still no), Lithuania's Degutiene (what can I tell you? I'm a sucker for a gap tooth...), Mongolia's Osoriyn Tuyaa (whatever), Senegal's Madior Boye (can't), South Korea's Myung Sook (*grits teeth, exhales through them*... ok. one time), Finland's Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki (mmm... not feeling it), Peru's Merino Lucero (apparently she was in the girl scouts, that's weird and I'm pretty sure disqualifies her), Macedonia's Radmila Sekerinska ( any time zone, any embassy, any position, Germany had Merkel (bang! bang!), and... by the way, two women who lost elections but lifted erections, Temperence Alesha Lance-Council from here in the States (I think it's good she didn't win, because FUCK she is hot, and a hypnotized nation is a vulnerable nation...) and Ivonne Juez de Abdel of Brazil (hurting. it hurts.) how long do I have to go on with this? Islamic nations, communist nations, democratic nations, socialist nations, every kind of country you can think of has put a women in highest position of power, but not us. don't even get me started on minorities. if we don't make an African American Woman President soon, I'm moving to Monrovia.