Obama Says Women Make Best Leaders
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:40 am
It's an interesting statement to make now since he'll have to endorse someone sooner or later.
Obama is a calculating person and his use of "old" and "men" leaves me to think he could be preparing to endorse Amy Klobuchar. Elizabeth Warren, though not even close to being politically progressive, is probably too far outside the mainstream-middle for Obama. I suppose it's possible he might be referring to Buttigieg since he's gay, though not referring to Buttigieg as a male might be dangerously close to alienating an entire segment of democratic supporters.
Is Obama correct in asserting that females make better leaders than their male counterparts? Is his statement a prelude to his endorsement, or did he mouth off indiscriminately?
"Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you're better than us [men].
"I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything... living standards and outcomes."
Obama also said this: When asked if he would ever consider going back into political leadership, he said he believed in leaders stepping aside when the time came. "If you look at the world and look at the problems it's usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way," he said. "It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self importance or your own power."
Which some might see as contradicting his recent participation in the public dialogue surrounding democratic party politics, and if his first statement is, in fact, a prelude to his endorsement, that sort of criticism might appear more valid. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50805822
Obama is a calculating person and his use of "old" and "men" leaves me to think he could be preparing to endorse Amy Klobuchar. Elizabeth Warren, though not even close to being politically progressive, is probably too far outside the mainstream-middle for Obama. I suppose it's possible he might be referring to Buttigieg since he's gay, though not referring to Buttigieg as a male might be dangerously close to alienating an entire segment of democratic supporters.
Is Obama correct in asserting that females make better leaders than their male counterparts? Is his statement a prelude to his endorsement, or did he mouth off indiscriminately?
"Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you're better than us [men].
"I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything... living standards and outcomes."
Obama also said this: When asked if he would ever consider going back into political leadership, he said he believed in leaders stepping aside when the time came. "If you look at the world and look at the problems it's usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way," he said. "It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self importance or your own power."
Which some might see as contradicting his recent participation in the public dialogue surrounding democratic party politics, and if his first statement is, in fact, a prelude to his endorsement, that sort of criticism might appear more valid. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50805822