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Unity New Hampshire. Got it! So words, names included, are important, but to paraphrase Mr. Cline, "They [the people] were nothing more than props, hauled in and out of this tiny town to serve as a backdrop for the media event..." For the Democrats, when have the people ever been more than props and a means to an end for power? br> -- Ira M. Kessel br> Rochester, New York /p> p> WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE? br> Re: Windsor Mann's Woman Up : /p>

The serious public question raised by Mann's musings is what type of man will America's voters embrace in the upcoming election? I fear that the current culture may favor a candidate whose non-threatening form of maleness reflects a national personality that no longer values strength, decisiveness and patriotism.

Obama is a perfect storm of liberalism, pacifism, racial guilt, feminism and charisma. He is mysterious, soothing and messianic to those who would allow government to relieve them of the responsibility of struggling to succeed in a competitive world. Obama represents the Final Solution to the nation's long-standing (but illusory) obsessive mania with a racist past. Aside from his well-modulated baritone, Obama's manner is -- as Windsor Mann pointed out -- decidedly feminine. Not effeminate, but calculated to present no threat to any voter who can be convinced that hard-edged Christian cowboys have had their way for too long. So, why not give The New Man a chance and show the world that we are no longer racists?

The state of maleness in the U.S. is at low ebb. American boys are derided as budding cavemen early on and doped accordingly. They are bombarded with messages that they are all potential sexual predators, unneeded as fathers, husbands and professionals and should just generally behave better -- like the girls do. While women complain that they can't find any real men to share their lives, most fail to draw the connection to their own complicity in that scarcity. We can't raise our boys to think like girls and expect Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich or John Kerry to behave like men when they grow up. The concept is simply foreign.

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