Sunday, December 20, 2015

How Far We've Come

Some of us remember when Nelson Rockefeller's divorce cost him the nomination, when Adlai Stevenson's divorce may have cost him the Presidency, when worries about the Pope dogged John Kennedy's campaign, when Eleanor Roosevelt polled as the most admired woman on the planet but no one ever thought of her running for office.
Today no one even seems to notice -- our media is frantically considering presidential candidates who have been divorced, been divorced more than once, who are Catholic, black, female, Jewish.
     Does anyone even realize there's not a single male Protestant on the Supreme Court?
We've come a long way, baby!
 
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4 comments:

  1. A. MarieDecember 20, 2015 at 1:43 PM

    Re: divorce, it's true that this no longer seems to be an issue, on either side of the pond. (On the other hand, I'm not sure Princess Margaret would have been any happier if she *had* been allowed to marry Peter Townshend...) But I would personally enjoy hanging various divorced presidential candidates who are endorsing the "sanctity of marriage" out to dry.

    Re: the Supremes, I never thought about it before, but by golly, you're right. (Even John Roberts is a Catholic.)

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  2. AnonymousDecember 21, 2015 at 4:57 AM

    You're right but clearly Scalia makes up for it - - - and then some.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 21, 2015 at 4:57 AM

    You're right but clearly Scalia makes up for it - - - and then some.

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  4. mamaconnieJanuary 4, 2016 at 12:47 PM

    Does Clarence Thomas have a publicly declared religion?

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