The Next First Woman President

Posted by Mary Mancini on May 19, 2008 under Uncategorized |

Yesterday’s Sunday Times had an interesting piece about the next first woman president. “She Just Might Be President Someday,” offers up a profile of Hillary Clinton’s successor (just in case she doesn’t win the nomination):

That woman will come from the South, or west of the Mississippi. She will be a Democrat who has won in a red state, or a Republican who has emerged from the private sector to run for governor. She will have executive experience, and have served in a job like attorney general, where she will have proven herself to be “a fighter” (a caring one, of course).

Names bandied about include Sarah Palin, the Republican governor of Alaska, as well as democratic Governors Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.

Well you can sign me up for Governor Sebelius’s 2016 campaign (or Senator Obama’s Vice President?) because today this friend of democracy vetoed a bill that would have required Kansans to show photo identification to vote. Said Sebelius, “HB 2019 seeks to solve a problem of voter fraud which does not exist in our state due to the tireless efforts of our local elected officials” and “will only work to disenfranchise many of the electorate and serve as a barrier to their participation in the democratic process.”

You go, girl! Er, I mean, Governor Sebelius. M’am.