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| If Hillary loses, it's Jack Bauer's fault! |
| 2008-01-22 |
| Jim Geraghty, National Review Over in the Corner, Kathryn [Lopez] looked at poll numbers for the number of Americans who were okay with an African-American and woman president. The African-American numbers are up, but Americans aren't more sure that the country is ready for a woman president; among African-American women, the number actually dropped from 2006. Kathryn wonders about the pop culture effect (Geena Davis, etc.). Let me throw out another example: Since 2006, we saw a second African-American President rise to the occasion to deal with a crisis on 24. (Although in the world of 24, it appears pretty much guaranteed that each Palmer presidency will include at least one nuclear bomb going off on American soil, and at least one attempted coup by the Vice President. In the same day.) We were supposed to see a woman president played by Cherry Jones this year, but the episodes of this season that are completed are on hold until the writer's strike ends (the creators of 24 don't want to show only nine hours of a full day)... and may not be seen for a long, long time. A bad bit of luck for the Hillary campaign. Right about now, we were supposed to be watching Jack Bauer get instructions from a (presumably) tough, in-command woman in the Oval Office... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 Jack Bauer is doing 48 days in county lock up for DUI. It's all undercover. He's insinuating himself with the radical imams. Double agent kinda stuff. Sadly, he'll give himself away because the MAN likes his ribs and he eats with both hands. |
| Posted by: MarkZ 2008-01-22 19:17 |
| #3 "Creators of 24 don't want to show only nine hours of a full day". Okay, I'll bite, WHEN DID MOSTLY UNIVERSITY-EDUCA "CREATORS", etal. FORGET HOW TO WRITE, OR FIND A REPLACEMENT? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-22 17:36 |
| #2 Before she smoked the pipe at State I would have said President Condi Rice sounded fine. And that would have been a Republican twofer. Plus she would be the hottest President in history. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-01-22 15:50 |
| #1 A woman President will happen when a woman who is qualified runs for election. I'd vote for a Thatcher-type. A black President would already be a fact if Powell had run. The problem is the average woman/black candidate is so wrapped up in identity politics and the far left that goes with it that they generally become unelectable. It has little to do with their sex or color. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-01-22 14:22 |