The House and the Senate are led by women, with Senate President Sylvia Larson and Speaker of the House Terie Norelli
New Hampshire’s 5 member Executive Council still retains considerable power from the colonial days, requiring the Governor to seek their approval on key decisions, has a 3 women majority (also has 3 Democrats–but only 2 women are Democrats).
And of course, half the members of NH’s US House of Representatives are women.
Oh ya, there was one other tidbit I can add about Obama’s appearance and not reported in the press…he made it clear that his wife was smarter than him.
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was just quoted in AP as hinting he may withdraw his Kerry endorsement in favor of a CLinton/Obama ticket if Kerry doesn’t get on the ball and declare himself. Sounds like Kennedy has made the anti-declaration for him. lol
I do hope Kerry doesn’t run again. The little flap just before the Congressional elections highlighted Kerry’s inability to deal effectively with the media…Somebody needs to explain to him that he isn’t going to be President.
I still think people are making way too big of a deal over the stupid comment made by Kerry. Look, if you’re gonna criticize him, don’t criticize him for the comment, criticize him for not backing up his comment afterword by changing the debate to something along the lines of, “Okay, I screwed up the joke, but Bush screwed up Iraq. And while we’re at it, Why is it that recruiters target lower income families? And why is it that the Army tries to make it seem like war is a videogame?” etc. For me, the comment wasn’t nearly as bad as the fact that he had an opportunity to shift the debate around but couldn’t do it successfully. Instead, he defend it as some sort of “botched joke,” which everybody knew it either wasn’t or was and wasn’t funny. If it wasn’t then he’s a spinner and if it wasn’t funny then he’s not likeable.
On the one hand, I think he got a raw deal and the media is making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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On the other hand, I don’t want him to run again, so I’m happy that this might be disuading him.
I was saying that the incident shows he is lacking in important skills for dealing with today’s media environment, and your comment actually acknowledges this–he is constitutionally incapable of “shifting the debate” to his point of view. What you were suggesting, however, wouldn’t work–the media love to focus on the trivial, and there’s no way to divert them from trivial gaffes to serious matters (like Iraq) that they are striving to avoid.