Hey BIDEN! Don’t Insult Women with Doctorates!
Posted: August 23, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized 9 Comments
“Ladies and gentlemen,
my wife Jill, who you’ll meet soon,
is drop dead gorgeous…
she also has her doctorate degree, which is a problem”
Senator Joe Biden … VP and Presidential Wannabe
Hey BIDEN !!! Stop Picking on Smart Women! Hate to out myself, but I’m an economist who teaches economics to college students, and I’m working on my doctorate. What kind of stereotype do you have in your mind? I also play jazz piano and this is me.
Any more stereotypes you wanna discuss?”
Do you ave ANY idea what it means to get a doctorate?
I’ll tell you. It’s hell, it’s one test after another. It’s extremely hard classes and one research paper after another. You do a lot of grunt work, you smile, and you know that most of the glory goes to your teacher. Wanna do some time derivatives? Wanna take on some growth models? Wanna learn what it really takes to stimulate an economy? Analyze moral hazard and determine why CEOs cheat? Discuss derivatives… financial or math? Call me. It’s on. I’ll match my ability to turn around the economy against yours ANY day. Not only that! I can do it while playing Gerswhin’s Rhapsody in Blue, a piano concerto of your choice, or a great Monk riff.
YOU ARE an effete snob. Go back to your DC elitists or come down here to the ninth ward for a throw down! I challenge you to make it on the salaries any of my neighbors make any day!
If that’s not enough you want to discuss my Indian friends, who have doctorates? Perhaps, the one that’s dating my daughter? They’re both in med school. None of them are running 7-11s or Dunkin’ Doughnuts. I also have plenty of black students down here that are “clean” and “articulate”. Would you like to meet them? What exactly would you say to them for your so-called compliments?
Let’s discuss your vote for the Iraq war or how you chased photographers so you could get your pic taken with Dubya after 9/11. Would you rather discuss your inability to support Dr. Anita Hill and her charges against now Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas? Obama said he wouldn’t put his name up for nomination, yet you didnt’ stand up and stop the slurs against a very brave women who detailed a hell of sexual abuse. Why didn’t you stand up against the republicans for her truths? How about, hmmmmmmm, the ordinary Americans that now suffer because you’ve sponsored bills that make bankruptcy for ordinary Americans more difficult? How about the laws that would punish predatory lending? Wanna talk about those? Yeah, right, that’s what I thought. Much easier to joke about the fact your wife is highly educated and you’re embarrased rather than go down to the alter and confess that you’ve sold out to corporate interests.
We know you’ve got ambition. We know you have brains. We also know that like Senator Obama, you will do anything to get ahead.
Guess what Joe, you are not the smartest man on the planet and there will be some one to out you as just another ambitious wannabe.
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yeah! (from a double doc)
Caroline Kennedy thinks and hopes that Obama’s selection of Biden is as good as her dad’s selection of LBJ.
Well, sure. LBJ delivered Texas and Obama delivers Scranton, Pa., and Delaware.
Maybe she’s hoping for Catholic males?
Kat, I think that post gave me an economic pup tent! When I’m in the White House would you chair the federal reserve, and play Rhapsody in Blue the night of the inauguration? That’s my favorite Gershwin piece, and American in Paris (cliche I know, but sooo good).
You can’t let yourself get too bent out of shape by a guy who sings that.
Leonard Bernstein!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiyc9Ak3EtQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOcuvv01nO4&feature=related
Shtuey: Great taste in music! and sure!!!! Can I have secretary of Treasury or Chair of Economic Advisors instead? I kinda like Ben … if he retires, I’d be glad to step up though!
I appreciate your postings.
To be fair to Biden, I think his comment was associated with the Obama campaign’s confused notion/self-deception that people do not feel comfortable with Michelle as the first lady because she is a bright, educated, strong woman? Logically-challenged lot that they are, they are unable t see that Hillary’s strong performance negates their claim. Though it is likely that some people do not feel comfortable with Michelle (and Hillary) for this reason, the fact is that it is what Michelle’s said about America and Hillary Clinton that makes the uncomforted feel that way. I think Biden meant to say that because his wife is bright, educated, and strong, just like Michelle, this doubles the campaign’s first lady problem.
Unfortunately, the Obama campaign and its surrogates appear unable to sense any misogyny other that directed towards their members, which is to say that they couldn’t smell manure if they were buried in it neck deep. Accordingly, with respect to the educated women as problems comment, it is not that are not careful about how the context of the campaign might colour their statements, it’s that they are unaware that their statements could be coloured any way other than through the lens through which they see the world.
Shalom.
Oops. “.” not “?” after strong woman
“Logically challenged… claim.” should be bracketed.
should read “…misogyny other than that…”
Sorry for the carelessness and this clutter.
I’m sorry, but the one thing the current incumbent has going for him is his bright, educated, strong wife. Although what a Masters degree in Library Science is I haven’t a clue. And Hillary, wasn’t she First Lady? If Obama is trying to make that point, recent history shows otherwise.
Anyway, good luck with your doctorate Miss Kitty. And see my previous comments on Kat for a place in government.