This subject was brought up in an earlier post, but Kelli sent me a great article from American Thinker titled “Republican Women Too Smart to Fall for Hillary’s Ruse” discussing Mark Penn’s recent declaration that 24% of Republican women will defect and vote for Hillary because she’s a woman. Of course the article goes on to state why this is a ludicrous thing to say, much less publish in a public newspaper. I still find it amusing that people think women vote “emotionally”. I think we deserve much more credit than that.
I’ll be the first to admit that a woman president would be cool. I’m already developing a Girls Can’t WHAT? design for that, but I could never vote for a candidate based on gender just to add another “female first” to the tally of feminist achievements. As an American citizen, my privilege to vote is not something to be sqandered.
I absolutely HATE discussing politics, but I thought I’d throw this one out for commenting. Is anyone planning to change political parties just to elect a woman president?
5 comments
gretchen
Wow – cool assignment. b-)
Bri
Find a blog entry that makes you agree or disagree strongly, and respond. For the assignment, you’ll have to respond one or two times, but you certainly can respond more than that.
In your response, I want you to either ANALYZE two of the three types of appeals used in the original blog, or you, yourself, can USE two of the three types of appeals in your response.
When you’ve finished, copy BOTH the blog entry to which you’re responding AND your own response to this thread. IN addition, in the same post, list the appeals you’re using and/or analyzing and point (in words) to where these appeals are.
gretchen
Great post, Bri. =d>
Using this blog as your homework assignment? Man, school is so cool now! All I ever got to do with a computer at school was play boring text games like “Oregon Trail”. No graphics. What exactly is your assignment?
Bri
I definitely agree. I think that it™s more important to vote on issues that are important to you, and to the choose the candidate that best represents you and what you stand for. I feel that it™s more important to vote on the issues that candidate brings to the table rather then just because if they are man or women.
(I have been using this Blog for my homework assignment, so I had to Respond according to my assigment as well as to how i feel.)
Kel1
Uh…nope. ;)
I vote on the issues that are important to me, and choose the best candidate who represents them.
Sometimes it’s choosing the lesser of two evils, but I guess then, you just have to choose the lesser and pray for the best! Besides, once the person takes office, campaign “promises” can quickly change.