Clinton says half her Cabinet will be women

[SillyAmerican]

How about a cabinet that is 100% competent? Seriously Hill, can you stop pandering to my genitalia? It makes me uncomfortable. #safespace

Good. I believe that Clinton's cabinet could be all men, or all women; I don't care as long as they can perform their jobs in a competent manner.

LOL typical Clinton statement, pandering for the woman vote as much as she can, what else is new?

All of the above.

[SillyAmerican]

Obvious pander for the woman's vote. I don't care if she wants women, or Hispanics, or whatever in her cabinet, but if she's actually picking a woman over a more qualified (and ideologically okay) man, that should be considered discrimination on the basis of sex, and therefore a crime.

Yes, but of course nobody will be able to prove that anything wrong was done, so Hillary will not have done anything wrong, right? Come on, get with the program. Go Hillary, our feminist hope...

[SillyAmerican]

I find it hilarious that so many people in this thread think Hillary can't find less than a dozen qualified women for cabinet positions, and therefore will be putting in unqualified ones solely to fill a quota.

In the words of Obama, we don't need a bunch of binders in order to find qualified women!

Okay, so you'd be fine with a candidate saying "90% of my cabinet will be men"? If not, why not? Then take that "why not", and apply it to what Hillary Clinton said about 50% of her cabinet being women. Frankly, I find it appalling that any serious candidate would make such a dangerous statement. It's utterly wrong, and I would have thought someone who is supposedly fighting for women and minorities would know better.

[SillyAmerican]

The Senate may or may not have thoughts on that.

And how do you think it would look for the Senate to reject Cabinet appointees because they have some sort of problem with the President's intended gender balance?

Those in the Senate should not look at a candidate's gender. Neither should the President making the nomination. Was I not clear in saying what I said?