Israel's Livni woos female voters ahead of poll

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-02-09 06:37

Article here. Excerpt:

'JERUSALEM, Feb 9 (Reuters) - With Israeli pollsters predicting a close national election on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is wooing female swing voters whose support could help her clinch victory.

Campaign ads for Livni's centrist Kadima party splashed over billboards and across websites promise a "different kind of prime minister" and urge Israelis to elect the country's first woman prime minister in three decades.
...
"I make decisions, not coffee," Livni told an audience in Tel Aviv of her role in the assault on Gaza, countering critics who have said she lacks high-level experience.

"This can also be a country in which women decide their future," she told a rally in Jerusalem to women wearing pink T-shirts saying: "The time has come for women to be first".
...
"It is sexist to say Livni lacks experience. Here the (male) generals think they are God," Shulamit Aloni, a retired dovish lawmaker, told Reuters of Livni, Israel's chief negotiator with the Palestinians and a senior cabinet minister through two wars.'

Like0 Dislike0

Comments

When the polls drop, look for the gender card. Its the same old song and dance -- men are bad, women are victims. Vote for Tzipi Livni and she'll destroy the evil patriachry. Whats next, campaign buttons in the shape of a tampon?

{Cabaret Voltaire}

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-02-09 16:33

It is sexist to say Livni lacks experience

How? Are you implying that all women lack experience and it's sexist to bring that against her? Or are you saying that because she's a woman we should look the other way when it comes to comparing experience. Either way is equally retarded.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by BinaryShadow on Mon, 2009-02-09 21:02

It's time for women to come first, is it? So, in other words, you want men to be treated like 2nd class citizens.

And women wonder why men never vote for them. Maybe because all female candidates seem to have a gynosupremecist agenda which they fail to conceal. Sarah Palin being the exception. Palin is the type of woman who would rather get elected based on merit, instead of gender, effectively playing the victim card, and feminist pandering affirmative action.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2009-02-09 23:54