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Cooper’s Eye on the Left: Women, men and the Constitution

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley recently put Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota in her place when the latter blamed the United States for the economic mess in Venezuela.
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley recently put Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota in her place when the latter blamed the United States for the economic mess in Venezuela. Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley recently put Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota in her place when the latter blamed the United States for the economic mess in Venezuela.

Wait, what?

A California Democratic congressman who is running for president thought he’d grab a little support last week by tweeting how “unacceptable” it is that the word “woman” is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.

“Women must be equally represented and equally protected,” U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell wrote.

You could just imagine how proud he must have felt as he waited for contributions from women throughout the country to roll in.

But what rolled in were answers to his tweet, noting that the word “man” is not mentioned in the Constitution, either.