The View host Joy Behar said former President Barack Obama’s statement that women are “indisputably” better than men is not always true.
“I don’t know anybody who disagrees with that,” host Whoopi Goldberg said about Obama’s comments on Tuesday.
“Well, it’s not — it’s sort of a sweeping statement,” Behar responded. “What’s her name, Margaret Thatcher, was not very good for poor people and the working class when she was in office.”
The host pointed to Finland, which she said “has a completely female government” and said they could be an “experiment” into whether women are better at running countries. Obama said women should run every country for two years.
“I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything … living standards and outcomes,” he said at a private event in Singapore.
Obama, 58, said old people and especially old men were refusing to get “out of the way.” “It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self-importance or your own power,” he said.
Thatcher, who died in 2013, was prime minister of Britain through the 1980s. She was a champion of free market economics and polls as the greatest post-war prime minister for the country.
