TNA in LA Times: Obama Should Replace Gibbs with a Woman!
January 6, 2011
by The New Agenda
|The New Agenda is again speaking out to urge President Obama to include more women for important roles within his administration.
In the upcoming days, Obama will also be choosing a replacement for Larry Summers. Will Obama continue to keep a circle of predominantly men?
Here’s what TNA’s Amy Siskind told the LA Times:
Women’s advocates have urged the White House to appoint more women to high-profile posts. While women hold senior positions and are deeply involved in the everyday work of the West Wing, with a few exceptions they aren’t part of Obama’s inner circle. Inside the administration, some officials believe the White House press shop is a bit of a frat house, with press aides assuming a needlessly combative posture.
“His administration is like a boys club,” said Amy Siskind, president and co-founder of The New Agenda, a women’s advocacy group. “You get the sense that the women who are there are outsiders.”
You can read the full story here.
This is all the more pressing given President Obama’s appointment of William Daley as his chief of staff. Yet another male appointment!
Well he already disappointed us just now with Chief of Staff. This man is uncomfortable with and tone deaf to women!
It’s not going to happen. Not only is he personally uncomfortable with women, but it’s just extremely hard to find a woman who is a corporate sellout at the level that he required in order to get hired. Some women are problematic, but very, very few at the point of sending an entire planetary economic system teetering on the edge of an Armageddon-quality total collapse.
Female sellouts tend to jiggle their asses in someone’s face. It’s male sellouts that send billions to die like worms in the streets.
Amy,
He won’t choose a woman because he doesn’t want to have to play basketball or golf with her. Don’t you get that yet? (end snark.)
–Optix
And let’s not forget: he learned in 2008 that he can shit on women all he wants, and they’ll “come crawling back.” He’s doing what he was trained to do. Like Kathleen said in another post, he’s doing it because he can get away with it.
Summers replaced by Gene Sperling. Strike two!
Absolutely shocking…NOT!
I’m amazed that anyone still believes this guy gives a crap about women, much less, respects them!
He showed his true colors about women by the way he stood silently by while his minions and the boyz in the media spewed vitriolic misogynism at Hillary and then Sarah.
What will it take for women to realize that men don’t wnat us in their exclusive club of entitlement?
Janis is right. It’s time for women to get in touch with “constructive anger”. It’s empowering and motivating and most of all, it commands respect.
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