Comments on: Presidential candidates ignore unmarried women & risk successful campaign

By: DLS

DLS — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:47:26 +0000

“'is the candidate someone I'll have a beer with' kind of thing”

Yes, or (can you stand) going fishing with him kind of thing (or being stuck with him in a spacecraft).

By: Jillmz

Jillmz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:19:28 +0000

Runasim: you're probably right. What depresses me about that is that still, the qualities we NEED to be testing/seeing/learning about related to running this country just aren't on display, imo.

By: runasim

runasim — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:50:37 +0000

:” Do you think this will change once the Dem nominee is finalized?”

One can always hope.
I think, however, that the fight will be high-decibel. That means that an awful lot of time is spent on attack and defense, less for laying out plans.

By: Jillmz

Jillmz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:15:03 +0000

For me, the issues really are 1) the children and 2) given the life expectation of women, how is it NOT in the entire population's best interest to make their concerns generic to the point that they get resolved with everything else – I think particularly in terms of economics but also health care and housing.

By: Jillmz

Jillmz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:13:07 +0000

DLS, it is interesting that you never see stories about single men – I don't have a clue as to how many are single and whether they're seen as a voting blog due to being single. I often think of them in terms of the “is the candidate someone I'll have a beer with” kind of thing (I know – not proud of that, just saying).

Very interesting…I'd not thought of this before…

By: Jillmz

Jillmz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:11:47 +0000

runasim: Do you think this will change once the Dem nominee is finalized?

By: Jillmz

Jillmz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:10:29 +0000

Superdestroyer: My goodness, you really believe that?

By: DLS

DLS — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:45:13 +0000

"So, until we can answer that question, we do nothing?"

That's your contention, not mine.

And,

"debating who is to blame"

It's not only the fathers who are to blame. If you can't or worse, won't face the truth, too bad. [scowl] Nobody said we shouldn't ignore deadbeat dads (who when they are to blame should be the nice little whore-slaves of the state for a while...).

By: runasim

runasim — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:42:44 +0000

"And where are the fathers:

So, until we can answer that question, we do nothing?
Problems don't get solved by not dealing with them.

In fact, there are systems in place to find the fathers and collect from them, but they fall very, very short.
In the meantime, children, who didn't create the problem, are the real vicitms.
Sitting around debating who is to blame and figuring out what should NOT be done for them is the best way to make the problem worse.

By: DLS

DLS — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:56:30 +0000

The solution isn't government goodies, sorry to inform many.

And where are the fathers?

By: runasim

runasim — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:56:28 +0000

I guess it's all for the good of the general election, but I I'm also disappointed by the campaign because of its narrow agenda. It's been the econom y in a general , promise-them-everything way, with Iraq. as a punctuation mark.
Aside from single mothers, huge issues touched on only in the morst cursory way are the environment and global warming.

I'd like to hear them make statements on all of these issues, detailing the how along with the why. It's kind of sickening to think of all energy and money spent during months of contentious exchanges about, mostly, petty points when what we really need to know is: what i are your plans for dealing with these issues.

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:37:04 +0000

I keep wondering how a party that supports unlimited immigration and open border, depolicing, emptying the prisons, quotas for minorities, set asides for minorities, lousy schools, and heavy regulation of the private sector is seen as pro-woman.

Since the Republican Party will soon be irrelevant, the real question is where single women will be in the queue for government goodies. My guess is that they will be behind black men, immigrations, and Hispanics. They will also be behind the northeastern elite who get to be the order givers.