Washington Post Columnist Kathleen Parker Says Barack Obama may be our "First Woman President"

Kathleen Parker, Washington Post columnist, says Barack Obama may be our "first woman president.

Is President Barack Obama our first "female president?" Some moron named Kathleen Parker, who is a columnist at the Washington Post says he may be our "first woman president." What a nasty thing to say. She claims Americans expect their presidents to be more macho. So, he's a girlie man? This may be the most viewed story at the Washington Post and it is a shame that is all Kathleen Parker could find to write about.

No, I'm not calling Obama a girlie president. But . . . he may be suffering a rhetorical-testosterone deficit when it comes to dealing with crises, with which he has been richly endowed. It isn't that he isn't "cowboy" enough, as others have suggested. Aren't we done with that? It is that his approach is feminine in a normative sense. That is, we perceive and appraise him according to cultural expectations, and he's not exactly causing anxiety in Alpha-maledom. Source: Washington Post

She said the president did not act decisively enough on the BP oil spill, for example, and his style of speaking, which she characterized as feminine, adds to the impression of passivity. There's more. She says, “Mr. Obama is a chatterbox who makes Alan Alda look like Genghis Khan.” “When he finally addressed the nation on day 56 (!) of the crisis, Mr. Obama’s speech featured 13 percent passive-voice constructions, the highest level measured in any major presidential address this century.”

She concludes her column by saying “Mr. Obama may prove to be our first male president who pays a political price for acting too much like a woman.” Have we so little regard for our president that we would call him a woman? The Washington Post should be ashamed of itself to allow this so-called columnist to publish such a ridiculous screed.

Do you think Mr. Obama is our "first woman president?"