Column: My Own Random Idaho
More Men Than Women Skeptical of President Obama
A worthless blog post to calm the panic.By Jill Kuraitis, 3-22-09
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A joke among women is that you can’t change a man’s habits, no matter how odious or …well, no matter what.
My otherwise perfect husband doesn’t close cabinets and drawers despite 27 years of asking him, the doofus.
A common complaint is that husbands strip off their tee-shirts inside out, thus requiring us to turn them back when folding clean laundry. “It doesn’t take extra time or effort to take them off right-side-out – no skin off their noses,” we say. We make him do his own laundry for awhile, but he puts reds with whites, knowing we’ll start doing it again. Rolling our eyes, we diagnose passive-aggressiveness.
Some men don’t like it if you change the location of something, like the dishtowel drawer. Often, they never adapt to this inexplicable decision on your part, and open the old one for years. And asking for help rearranging the furniture is a BIG mistake. “What’s wrong with it the way it is?” they want to know.
(Rearranging should be done when they are out of town.)
Since they’re busy thinking about sex (so we are told) men tend to be unobservant. That’s why the tracking in of animal crap is more often done by males, and then men don’t understand that the nasty stuff could permanently ruin the carpet their salaries helped pay for. “Stop being hysterical,” they calmly say, deftly making it our fault. Neat trick, darling morons. Do you think we haven’t caught onto this?
Here should be inserted alleged examples of infuriating things women do and habits we refuse to change, but there aren’t any. We are never annoying. Men should emulate us. I have statistics to prove it.
All this illustrates why I suspect that more men than women are afraid of President Obama.
According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, eight million more women than men voted for Obama. Obama lead with women by about 14 per cent, and McCain lead about four percent with men, according to Polimetrix, a firm which surveyed 26,000 voters for its statistics.
(We all know statistics should be viewed with a squinty eye, but eight million is a pretty big margin of error, don’t you think?)
Imagine what the anti-change men heard when they heard campaign pundits say, “Change vs. More of The Same.” SKY FALLING! SOFA FACING THE WRONG WAY! SHUT UP! WE ARE MULTISLACKING JUST FINE!
It’s telltale, some of us believe, that most TV economists are men, and most TV economists are seriously wigged out about President Obama’s actions to help fix the economy. WE ARE IN THIS TRAIN AND WE ARE USED TO ITS ROUTE! THAT’S HOW WE ROLL, MAN!
I know a man who isn’t the least impressed that Obama said, “I screwed up,” something much admired by women. He’s thinking YOU PANSY-ASS TRAITOR! NOW WE MIGHT HAVE TO ADMIT FAULT, TOO!
No doubt many of you are going to point out that plenty of men do like Obama, and plenty of women don’t, and some guys change habits easily, and lots of women don’t, and I should quit this sexist, hypocritical stereotyping. You are right. I should. It’s outrageous.
But that would upset my comfortable view, and I like it just the way it is.
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A place for everything, and everything in it's place.
Is that so hard to understand?
You call your husband a "doofus" for not closing drawers and a "darling moron" for trying to deflect blame for tracking in dog crap. Then you try to facetiously state that women are never annoying. And all of this leads you to conclude that "more men than women are afraid of President Obama."
Maybe the idea of Obama following Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" doesn't worry you, but it worries me.
Obama is purposely bankrupting our country while our enemies are going nuclear. He's packed his cabinet with criminals, and he's going after private citizens. And that's just for starters.
We are living in interesting times. God help us all.
Now, clean the carpet.
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It helps to have a sense of humor, rather than just a mean spirit.
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Sarah Palin.
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And all that executive experience? Yeah, she can see Russia!
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In the context of "executive experience", being able to see Russia is about as useful as a Bill Croke comment.
Obama is averaging a 65% approval rating. Zogby had an outlier that they are about to release showing 50%, but given the rapid ups and downs of an early Presidency, it really isn't indicative of much, yet.
Geitner's ratings are rising quickly, people approve of the stimulus, and the only people that are ranting are those that don't even know the definition of socialism. I'd say that Obama is doing pretty darn well so far.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualites/2009/03/19/01001-20090319ARTFIG00357-confidentiel-barack-obama-a-ecrit-a-jacques-chirac-.php
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Islamic States Push to Criminalize 'Defamation of Islam'
"A powerful bloc of 57 Islamic states is again pushing for the UN to make it a criminal offense to criticise or ‘defame' Islam. In a new resolution circulated at a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 11, a paper entitled "Combating Defamation of Religions" was circulated ahead of the Council's next meeting on March 26-27, when the resolution will be voted on."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/islamic_states_push_to_crimina.html
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And I'd be more than willing to take that bet with you, Bill.
As a matter of economics, our level of debt is done to pay for the riches lost during the Bush years. If Bush and his moronic cronies had listened to real economists instead of giving feel good speeches to try to get Republicans elected, we wouldn't be here today, and government spending wouldn't have been needed nearly as much.
But please, keep grasping for those libertarian straws, Bill, and please keep attacking Jill.
As for Kitty, you might want to check your closet, I heard that some horrible Muslims were looking to use it as a base.
You are a twit!How you can get work published when it has such gender biased bigetry in it is absured! If you were to say that african-american males alone were like this it quite litteraly would be elegal. as it is discriminatory in nature!
In closeing your a bigot, whom has bias attitude toward men, and yet threw out this intire thing did i see one refrence to ONE PEICE of FACTUAL information, thus i conclude you are stupid and speak of things to witch you are uneducated and have no obvious room to talk!