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It’s been a tough
campaign for Hillary Clinton. In fact she is so hard up for the female vote
she’s promising 50% of her cabinet — if she returns to The White House — will
be females.
When US President’s form
their cabinets don’t they generally look for the best qualified candidates to
serve as advisors and to run the nation’s leading governmental agencies ?
Females have , since the
1930’s, served in many very high profile cabinet, diplomatic posts as well as
direct advisors to the president. Over the past decade or so an ever growing
number of females have become influential members of the US Congress and many
now serve with distinction as state governors . Some of the nation’s best
corporate executives are females.
Of course there are
qualified females to run the Department of Justice. The Department of Defense
and the US Treasury. But since when does a US President need to work off a quota
system to select a cabinet member?
Clinton says, “I am a feminist because I believe that
women deserve the same rights as men .” Well , Obama picked her to be
his secretary of state. Ask the survivors of Benghazi how her gender appointment
worked out.
Arguably, Hillary
Clinton can choose whomever she wants and can make her cabinet look as she says
“like America” but why limit her choices before she even receives the nomination
and why is she pandering to the female vote in such an obvious
fashion?
One reason may be that she has so little to offer in either
accomplishments or new ideas that her campaign hs ben reduced to the only real
issue she has - her gender.
