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Live from RNC: The Mommy Wars, Sarah Palin Edition
Republicans rally around a career woman with a stay-at-home husband, and Democrats call her a negligent parent. Who are the feminists again?
Here at the Republican National Convention I spoke to several Republican women delegates. Should we have a VP who is also a hockey mom? From Maine and Virginia I interviewed four women, one pro-choice, who were all delighted at the prospect of Palin on the ticket. They acknowledge her gender is a key ingredient of her appeal, but they cite her conservative credentials and her outsider status as equally important. The Virginia contingent seemed confident that she will boost turnout in rural areas, which will be crucial to a McCain victory. A male delegate from Minnesota was equally enthusiastic. For all of them, Palin has brought what the ticket lacked: enthusiasm and popular appeal.
But the full force of Palin’s appeal was nowhere more evident that at a Republican Right to Life reception. Palin was supposed to be the guest of honor before assembled delegates. However, a massive press turnout was for naught — a last minute cancellation was announced. She, the crowd was told, was preparing for her big speech Wednesday night.
The fill-in speaker was Laura Ingraham who brought cheers from the crowd, intoning that the media and liberal opposition forming against Palin was solely because of one reason. Ingraham declared, “The reason is life!” She noted that, in contrast to Palin, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was hailed as “a great power broker” and seemed to manage all her family obligations just fine. Ingraham explained that “boosters of Obama — everyone at MSNBC” say they are for empowerment of women.
“Oh really?” she asked with heavy sarcasm. “Then why are you treating Sarah Palin like dirt?” The crowd cheered and cheered again as she listed Palin’s attributes — executive leadership, pro-drilling, and pro-Second Amendment beliefs and a winning appeal with people outside of Washington.
So the storyline today is simple, “Media attacks; Republicans cheer.” The media would like nothing better than to paint Palin as evidence of sloppy legwork and irresponsible leadership by McCain.
Don’t tell that to Republicans — they have fallen in love.
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1. Sandra M:Palin made a great speech on Friday and another I saw on C-Span over the weekend; then the press went nuts on issues I have no interest in and committed journalistic malpractice. The only respite was watching Larry Kudlow on CNBC showing past interviews with Palin and her views on energy, drilling, oil, natural gas and taxes.
I like Palin’s Libertarian side. I hope the Republicans will let her loose to appear on late night shows and everywhere else.
Most of all, for selfish reasons I would love to hear her talk for an hour or two about THE subjects most important for our national security and personal budgets: oil, natural gas, mandates and subsidies for corn-based ethanol (responsible for sky high food prices worldwide) , drilling In Alaska, especially in Anwar, how she defeated entrenched political families. OK more than 2 hours. Fourteen hours.
By the way, WHEN does the press plan to look into
Obama and Tony Rezko and the public housing for the poor they worked on together that I hear is now boarded up and uninhabitable. But hey that partnership helped Obama get a mansion.
Obama and terrorist Bill Ayers. How in the world did two extreme leftists get control of Annenberg’s millions? Annenberg was the conservative publisher of TV Guide and left the money for education.
Obama and his violent cousin Raila Odinga of Kenya for whom Obama campaigned in 2006. Google to find the disgusting details of what this monster has done to Black Christians and his promise, in an 85% Christian nation to enact Sharia law, for the benefit of 15% Muslims if they supported him.
And the press neglects these stories as they neglected the John Edwards scandal while they hound a 17 year old.
Sep 2, 2008 - 11:59 pm 2. Dave II:I don’t want to say I told you so…but Sarah Palin is becoming a bigger sensation than even I had thought would happen. Sure, she’s brought out the loonie left’s claws because she is the antithesis of everything they hold dear. It could be expected and even yawned at from another white male…but a woman?…with 5 kids? And she is smart, good looking..and, and COMPETANT?
OMG!!!
Now…the speech of her life (and the Republican hopes) comes tomorrow.
The NATION will be watching this one. NOT just Republicans.
My prediction: This speech will be remembered LONG after Obama’s coronation speech has faded from memory….straight through to November and the White House!
Get ready for some HISTORY!
Sep 3, 2008 - 12:49 am 3. Benson:The hypocrisy is stunning: leftists bitterly scolding a woman for being in politics, saying she is so she should have taken care of her family “properly” instead. They imply strongly or say outright that the challenges her family faces are her fault. These are the ideologues who rushed to put their toddlers in day care; now they curse a mother for having the energy, courage and ability to manage a career as a reformist politician. Why? They are so scared of Palin that they can’t spit.
Recall rabid Democrat/feminist Camille Paglia’s reaction to Palin’s speech: the governor is “tough as nails.” Right. As the world will soon see.
Sep 3, 2008 - 1:28 am 4. Benson:Ouch! Bad editing, sorry…first sentence should read, “…saying she should have taken care of her family…”
Sep 3, 2008 - 1:31 am 5. Tom W.:The new feminist and leftist position is that women should stay home and take care of their children instead of working.
They’re actually saying this with a straight face. In one day they reversed forty years of their history, and they actually think nobody will notice.
It proves that leftists are purely reactionary and are incapable of critical thinking. They seem to be using only the reptilian complex of their brains.
A McCain-Palin landslide on the way, due in no small part to the demonic, utterly depraved attacks on Palin (and her family) for the crime of being an accomplished woman who doesn’t agree with the leftist establishment.
Thanks for your idiocy, leftists. We appreciate it.
Oh, and have you noticed the new McCain-Palin signs? Both names are in white letters exactly the same size, unlike the OBAMA-Biden signs.
John McCain is two hundred times the man Barack Hussein Obama is.
Sep 3, 2008 - 1:36 am 6. Sarah Palin Speech (Video) » Right Pundits:[...] speech will occur next week on Wednesday and she already has all the buzz. The schedule was a little up in the air depending on what happened with the hurricane, but it is [...]
Sep 3, 2008 - 1:58 am 7. Rotwang:Indeed, the Left is petrified of Sarah Palin. We were petrified of Mitt Romney. Petrified of Fred Thompson. Petrified of Operation Chaos. Petrified of John McCain’s record as a “real American.” Petrified of the PUMA vote. Petrified of the “fake” COLB scandal. Petrified that the GOP would be the heroes of Hurricane Gustav. We are practically swooning on our divans, as we have over EVERY guaranteed, imminent, no-shit-this-time GOP smackdown the Right has celebrated, prematurely, over the course of the primary season.
The NATION will surely be watching Gov. Palin’s speech tomorrow night…although, to be honest, a bit more than half of us will be there to play the “Fargo” drinking game.
Hopefully, she won’t be preceded by a pair of ambulatory Quaaludes like Fred and Joe. Even the die-hard, straw-hatted “must eat brains” floor contingent seemed bored and restless tonight. I’m not sure even a live waterboarding demo could perk those folks up.
Sep 3, 2008 - 2:50 am 8. J.J. Sefton:The rabid insanity of the mainstream media – not the nutroots but the MSM! – may actually drive people to rally around the Palins and elect the ticket come November. They are providing enough material to create a slew of ads that should be turned and used, jiu-jitsu like on Obaaaama.
Amazingly, the networks, with the exception I think of PBS and Fox, aren’t airing the speeches!!! Fred and Lieberman were not heard!
But everyone will be watching Sarah Palin tonight. That said, her speech has to be the Gettysburg Address and FDR’s 12/8/41 address to Congress rolled into one.
I think she has the chops to pull it off. I certainly hope to G-d she does.
Sep 3, 2008 - 3:03 am 9. Broadsword:Rotwang, (your Wang is rotten…?), have you begun the Fargo game a bit early?
Sep 3, 2008 - 3:27 am 10. ex-democrat:“…a pair of ambulatory Quaaludes like Fred and Joe…”
btw, let’s not let this display of the left’s misogyny mask its equally disgusting display of contempt towards anyone over 50.
Sep 3, 2008 - 3:48 am 11. Webutante:Sarah Palin is not going away, even in the midst of our two-faced cannibal, feminist journalists. Face it, no amount of vetting would have ever satisfied these shrews. This is a big night for Sarah tonight. What a woman!
Sep 3, 2008 - 3:53 am 12. Lisa:I have two issues with what the left is doing to Palin.
1. The absolute hypocrisy of telling her that she alone is responsible for meeting the needs of her children (especially the infant and pregnant teen) and that two months of campaigning will ruin their life while ignoring Obama’s 17 months of campaigning and its impact on his two daughters.
2. Mocking her for using the word choice to describe her decision to keep her down’s syndrom baby and her daughter’s decision to keep her own baby since Palin is pro-life and ‘doesn’t believe in choice.’ That’s dishonest (and i say this as a pro-choice woman). Pro-life folks believe that abortion is not a choice but adoption is. Bristol could have hid her pregnancy and then put the child up for adoption, she chose instead to raise it with the father. That is a choice and worthy of respect. Palin would have been offered a therapeutic abortion when the fetus was diagnosed was Down’s Syndrome; she chose to keep it. Again, another admirable decision.
Sep 3, 2008 - 3:57 am 13. Alberto Gonzalez:The left is scared to death and by continuing the campaign against Sarah Palin the worse it gets for them. They are digging a bigger tomb than the one John Kerry and his pals in the media (the same ones here) digged 4 years ago. To all of them on the left side of history I say: BRING’EM ON, WE ARE READY FOR YOU. AND AS A TOKEN FOR YOUR EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE ELECTION OF A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT AND VP WE ARE GOING TO TIE OUR LEFT HAND BEHIND OUR BACK. See you in 2012 lefties of the USA and thank you very much, you made my day! Alberto Gonzalez
Sep 3, 2008 - 4:48 am 14. jdwill:Good post, Lisa.
As to hypocrisy, the media is guilty of two other counts:
1. They want to attack her on her family because they hate the Republican meme of ‘family values’. But they know this a vile form of attack, so they try to blame the victim – ’she put her children in the spotlight for ambition’.
2. They are demonstrably guilty of partisan bias in whose families and children they will embarrass.
Here is an excellent rant with facts too,
from Ace of Spades:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/272283.php
Sep 3, 2008 - 4:54 am 15. AdrianS:What is driving the Democrats crazy? Is it that both Sarah Palin and her daughter have made a CHOICE? And that choice is NOT abortion. But this is very telling because why would there be so much hateful rhetoric if in fact the Democrats were pro-Choice. Fact is, they’re not. Democrats and especially Barack Obama, in a most grotesque way, is hard line Pro-Abortion and Pro-Infanticide. That’s why they don’t respect the CHOICE that was made — which is to cherish life. It upsets and cramps their ‘Democrat Progressive’ style.
To be sure, Mr. Obama is the worst thing that ever happened to choice, women’s rights, freedom from an intrusive government and more. Mr. Obama is NOT fit to lead — he is NOT experienced. Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden BOTH — joined together at the hip — do not have any executive talent or experience.
Sep 3, 2008 - 5:12 am 16. nitpicker:I’d love to see an example of a single Democrat arguing that she shouldn’t be VP because she’s a mother. Just because you want to argue against a point doesn’t mean you get to invent an opponent.
Sep 3, 2008 - 5:36 am 17. Boris:“Barack Obama, in a most grotesque way, is hard line Pro-Abortion and Pro-Infanticide.”
Nobody is buying this but hard core Rove-ites. Keep trying, though.
Sep 3, 2008 - 5:40 am 18. Larry J:The new feminist and leftist position is that women should stay home and take care of their children instead of working.
They’re actually saying this with a straight face. In one day they reversed forty years of their history, and they actually think nobody will notice.
They have experience with such radical reversals. Remember how they condemned sexual harassment, especially between a man and a female subordinate? Remember how quickly they gave Bill Clinton a pass and attacked the women as “trailer trash” and bimbos?
Sep 3, 2008 - 5:53 am 19. goy:I understand that, as I type this, the press is currently plowing through miles of microfiche at the local newspaper up in Wasilla, AK. I’m sure they’re looking for human interest stories and information about Palin’s political successes against entrenched Republican dead weight AND big oil.
Right.
Interesting how LITTLE interest these same cockroaches had in plowing through the hundreds of files documenting Obama’s failed “leadership” on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge – the one and ONLY time he’s ever held any sort of executive position. Anywhere. In any country.
But of course that would’ve been just a “smear”.
Sep 3, 2008 - 6:05 am 20. Matt, Esq.:What’s a hardcore “Rovist”? I’m not sure what it is but as Rove is my dark overlord, sending me telepathic commands from his bunker in Texas, I suppose I am one.
Boris, care addressing the apparent contradictory stances the left is taking when it comes to Palin vs. say Hillary Clinton ?
Sep 3, 2008 - 7:00 am 21. Judy, NYC:i am a life long democrat who is voting for mccain-palin. it is unthinkable that obama with his veiled history and the media’s slavish and baffling unquestioning devotion to him, could end up as president. with his record of no accomplishment and bizarre associations, i find obama frightening. mccain’s choice of sarah palin is like a fresh breeze in a fetid atmosphere that surrounded obama’s campaign from the outset. i like palin and i support her. palin is what real women are capable of. the feminists, btw, joined in eagerly when hillary clinton was disembowled by howard dean, the democratic party and the media.
Sep 3, 2008 - 7:01 am 22. ddc:Although I may not agree with her on a abortion issues, which I do not see as the most important issue facing America today, I think she’s amazing.
What is truly befuddling to me is anyone suggesting that she, as a married woman with children, cannot do this job simply BECAUSE she’s a married woman with children. This attitude flies in the face of the prevailing liberal thought that we, as women, can also accomplish what men can. The attitude also negates the point of fathers. Why get married? Why bother? Why have children, if the men in our lives are nothing more than sperm donors and completely useless in any other aspect of life? Is this what Liberalism is telling us as women?
Apparently Mr. Palin believes his wife is capable and is committed enough and secure enough in his marriage and as a father to give his wife all his support and THAT makes HIM amazing as well.
McCain/Palin 2009!
Sep 3, 2008 - 7:03 am 23. George Clarke:Reversal of position? Isn’t this the same clueless crowd who lambasted Judge Clarence Thomas for using the phrase “pubic hair” in a woman’s presence and making her uncomfortable and then giving Bill Clinton a free pass for doing unspeakable things with a cigar in the Oval Office and then groping a woman who came to him for help after her husband died. And then he lied, perjured and suborned perjury about both in order to cover up something equally as bad (i.e., “dropping trou…”). Leading the defenders of course was Hillary. Instead they attacked Linda Tripp unmercifully, and tried to put HER in jail. This double standard is nothing new. If you study the Monica Lewinsky template, you know what’s coming. Stand tough, Sarah. Show ‘em your Barracuda moniker was not lightly earned. I for one stand with you, no matter what silliness comes.
Sep 3, 2008 - 7:23 am 24. chicago:Just on Fox…news alert, Sarah Palin’s social security number has been compromised. Michael Steele saw some email traffic from Democrat operatives stating that they Sarah Palin’s social security number.
this tactic was used by democrats against Michael Steele when he ran for LT. Gov.
Now it’s identity theft from the left. how low can democrats really go?
the backlash is being coiled tight and went it goes, all of these commies will be sorry.
Sep 3, 2008 - 7:34 am 25. Boris:“Boris, care addressing the apparent contradictory stances the left is taking when it comes to Palin vs. say Hillary Clinton?”
Whoever is saying that a woman with kids can’t lead is an idiot. But I don’t see anyone saying that outside of a handful of bloggers. Does anyone who actually matters make this argument?
I don’t care about Palin’s family–except that I wish them health and well being. I do care about her views, which I think are far right of center. The criticisms should remain there.
Sep 3, 2008 - 7:49 am 26. chicago:“But I don’t see anyone saying that outside of a handful of bloggers.”
it’s quite clear though that the mainstream media an washington pundits are arguing the same thing. I don’t think that’s just a “handful of bloggers.”
I hope it carries on. the american public can’t stand more of this at all. the backlash is being set up nicely.
By the way, Barack Obama is going to appear on the Factor with Bill O’reilly. Bob Beckel just put his hand on his mouth and looked like he just lost a million bucks when Megyn Kelly stated it just a few minutes ago.
it’ll be a fun week! Looking forward to Obama get questioned about Ayers, Wright, Rezko, and the Chicago Political machine. (although I doubt that Bill O’reilly is going to ambush him ruthlessly, LOL!)
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:06 am 27. EtainP:Notice the left is pushing for her to drop out as soon as possible. Why is that? We on the right think that Biden is a horrible choice and reacted with glee. We don’t want him going anywhere, but the left is very very eager for Sarah to drop out as soon as possible.
They are desperately scared of her and want to get rid of her as soon as they can. They wouldn’t be reacting this way if she was truly a weak choice. She is the perfect VP pick.
If this speech goes well tomorrow, she is our Thatcher. Bottom line.
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:15 am 28. Sandra M:OK. Apparently, this pile on has been a coordinated attack meant to drive Sarah off the scene.(Michael Steele on FNC) On Monday, I felt gut-punched and afraid that Todd Palin would tell his wife, “this is too evil, Honey. Let’s go home.”
Instead, she seems to be swathed in love by the convention delegates and some Americans are following every insult they heaar with a donation to the campaign.
I just read a column on Town Hall on Joe Biden’s humiliation of Justice William Clark, a job similar to what he did to Clarence Thomas. Any ally of ours who read about Biden’s Janus faced character would NEVER trust us again.
McCain would probably disagree with what I’m about to propose because Biden’s a fellow Senator, but I would love to see 527’s take on Biden’s role in the BANKRUPTCY laws that are causing such financial pain for people — and his role in CREDIT CARD legislation “Your bankruptcy or credit card woes — brought to you by Joe Biden.”
This man is not fit to be Vice-President. He’s been wrong on every foreign policy issue and should be exposed as such.
I want a relentless campaign to show this serial plagiarist for the revolting creature he is Gloves off. No quarter. Payback time.
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:17 am 29. kaspergutman:“…Indeed, the Left is petrified of Sarah Palin…”
Well, your sarcasm aside, the Left is not petrified of the person of Palin as much as they are frightened of the idea that she may become another wildly popular, politically transforming Reagan.
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:36 am 30. bc:I love her too. My advice to McCain is to resurrect the you tube video where Obama clearly gives the “finger” to Hillary, with a voice over about how his party views, and supports women. Repetition is the key. Eventually, women will understand the “message” Obama is sending in this clip.
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:40 am 31. chicago:Let that left keep on attacking. we’re already seeing many democrats moving to the republican camp.
Palin and McCain will have their sweet revenge on the leftwingnuts and especially the mainstream media when they take the white house.
ALL REPUBLICANS should partake in a media snub once McCain/Palin takes the white house. I’d like to see them just do interviews with Fox news. They could just do press releases to the other networks.
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:41 am 32. Double standards watch | Pundit Review:[...] Jennifer Rubin at Pajamas Media Republicans rally around a career woman with a stay-at-home husband, and Democrats call her a negligent parent. Who are the feminists again? [...]
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:42 am 33. Sarah Palin Watch: The Parental Police | FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog:[...] Palin Watch: The Parental Police Posted by: Flap in Sarah Palin Ah, yes. The MOMMY WARS and the PARENTAL POLICE. Columnists in the mainstream media, who ordinarily would not dare to [...]
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:44 am 34. Rosie:You know what the media has done – create such a sensation about the Palins that everyone will be watching her speech. The beauty of it is that once you hear her, you’re hooked. It will be a slam/dunk.
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:44 am 35. ZEITGEIST:[...] JENNIFER RUBIN: The Mommy Wars, Sarah Palin Edition. [...]
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:49 am 36. Austin:Let that left keep on attacking. we’re already seeing many democrats moving to the republican camp.
Look, I support the McCain/Palin ticket, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If this was true, wouldn’t we be seeing evidence of it in the polls?
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:00 am 37. Concerned Citizen:Look past the headlines to the person’s character. You may not agree with Sarah Palin’s position on abortion, but you have to respect her character. It takes a lot of guts to “walk the walk” and decide to keep a Downs child, knowing you will have a lifetime of responsibility for his care. You have to be impressed with the way she handled her daughter’s pregnancy and I only hope I can be as compassionate as she is if my daughters ever have that situation. Don’t say “it won’t happen to me”…
This lady is the REAL DEAL. Mistreat her at your peril.
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:00 am 38. Austin:Let that left keep on attacking. we’re already seeing many democrats moving to the republican camp.
Look, I support the McCain/Palin ticket, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If this was true, wouldn’t we be seeing evidence of it in the polls?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:00 am 39. Kerry:I am one of those “stupid” women who is voting for McCain-Palin ticket. I am also a hockey mom (husband plays), an author, an attorney, and a CPA. I find it disgusting what the media left is doing.
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:01 am 40. Aaron:I find it so amusing that right wingers, who used to whine constantly about the left playing the racism card, are now playing the sexism card *everywhere*.
I’m not sure which left wingers you’ve been talking to, but I and the left wing folks I know were thrilled about McCain picking Palin on Friday and remain so today given the train wreck her debut week has turned out to be. Keep rationalizing until you’re blue in the face, but McCain made a bad off-the-cuff decision, and it stands a good chance of destroying his chances.
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:04 am 41. chicago:just wait and see folks!
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:14 am 42. the wolf:“I find it so amusing that right wingers, who used to whine constantly about the left playing the racism card, are now playing the sexism card *everywhere*.”
Oh, it’s not sexism, Aaron. It’s just a convenient cudgel for you leftists to use when the woman happens to be a conservative. The NY Times suggested that a woman with five children should focus on her family instead of her career. Is that the new progressive stance? Can you say with a straight face that the Grey Lady would EVER suggest the same for a liberal woman in the same situation?
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:17 am 43. Amphipolis:Sarah Palen became governor having only four children and no grandchildren on the way. Things have changed.
I’ve got news for you – being Vice President requires fewer hours and less stress than being governor. It’s a good move.
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:46 am 44. Charlie (Colorado):Look, I support the McCain/Palin ticket, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If this was true, wouldn’t we be seeing evidence of it in the polls?
Austin, in all seriousness, probably not yet. Weekend polls tend to under-sample R’s, possibly because we all spend weekends at our country estates in the Hamptons. Most all the polls also run a multiday running average, and there was just a Democratic convention (remember?) But Obama’s “bounce” was pretty understated, considering all the attention he got.
Sep 3, 2008 - 9:59 am 45. Javelin:Palin is perfect bait for the pinhead right. She is good looking, loves guns, acts tough but is a tender mom. Also, she supports garbage like teaching Creationism in Schools and opposes teaching sex ed, which should really titilate the mental Christian midgets. You know, those oppressed, neglected people who never tire to tell us just how humble and persecuted they are and sinful their critics are.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:01 am 46. Running Sarah Palin Thread of Hate & Doooom! | The Anchoress:Of course, she has tons of experience as a pork buster and running a huge state.
[...] and for criticism where it is warrented. But let’s try to make the not-difficult distinction between “scrutiny” and “character assassination.” For heaven’s sake, Sarah Palin has been running a whole state for two years, and before that [...]
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:04 am 47. RE:The media is absolutely disgusting in the way they are treating Gov. Palin.
It’s incredibly transparent and pathetic.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:04 am 48. glc:Pelosi has FIVE kids.
Count them . . . 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 kids.
And many grandchildren too.
Where was the public lynching of Pelosi when Pelosi was sworn in as Speaker?
How in heck can Pelosi do her job with five kids?
Come on U.S. media–stop the two-faced, double standard, partisan, biased, all out hate-war attack on Governor Palin.
I’m sick of it. It is as clear as day.
And I’m a female employment law attorney–I can spot this stuff a mile away.
Why have we not heard Hillary or any other public figure female standing up and asserting that any woman–including a woman with five kids–can do any job she wants? (Bingo: partisan hiding, right? You got it.)
What happened to that “glass ceiling?”
What happened to “women’s liberation?”
What happened to “feminism?”
I’ll tell you what happened. Nothing!
It’s call words, words, words. Empty words.
The truth is that women all over this country get up every morning and put on their pants or panty hose and do what they have to do: work, school, parenting, care-giving. They are policewomen, firefighters, teachers, doctors, lawyers, mothers, bakers, city councilwomen, pilots, politicians, scientists, economists, real estate agents, nurses, you name it…..
The U.S. media has exposed itself as haters of normal working women.
And I’m sick of it.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:07 am 49. George Clarke:Austin:
Palin from what I see thinks of women and the female children that die, as victims of abortion, not the proper targets of criminal prosecution. If she could convince a large swathe of females that they have really nothing to fear from her on any direct attacks on abortion, which she will leave up to the courts as always, “and let me choose what I want for my family, if you are really proponents of choice,” then I think the poll numbers would start flowing in her direction. That is the one last log in the poll number log jam. If she could just kick it out of the way the flood tide could start to run. I can’t read her mind and don’t know how she feels about reassuring the pro-abortion crowd, but I believe all that would be needed was a “limited hang-out.” We need to see what her real position about changing the abortion landscape is before we know how pro-choice women will view her, inside the booth, on Nov. 4. Boy, this is going to be hairy.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:08 am 50. MathMom:Goy -
Re the press combing through newspapers in Alaska looking for dirt on Gov. Palin
My friend in Alaska says that the story of Trig’s birth was reported for several days in the local papers, including front page pictures of the grandparents bringing the children (including Bristol, the “mother” of Trig) to the hospital to meet their new brother. She says that the most cursory look into the newspapers of those days would have put to rest any speculation about the parentage of the new baby.
Do you think these pages will be found and widely reported? I didn’t think so either.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:13 am 51. kourosh:From when funny girl and glitzy Hollywood prostitutes like Madonna input in politics have hold any value. Let us face it, most of Hollywood crowd make their money on the back of American, move overseas (living in Mansions not like regular working people) and bad mouth USA and the hands that feed them. After all these people are the most unreliable, uneducated, anti-family, anti-human value, anti-social-behavior low level people. I guess they don’t like that a daughter of a conservative women, acted Hollywoody. Pregnant without getting married. At least Palin’s daughter knows who did it. Most of the Hollywood stars don’t remember who did they sleep with 10 minutes ago.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:26 am 52. Joshua:The battle over Sarah Palin and her family has nothing to do with what is right or wrong. All of the liberal left in this country (and many on the right) is “post-decency,” all in the name of power. Think about it, there are political hacks that make a complete career (20-30-40 years) as smear merchants. They are not condemned or ridiculed or run out of business. Instead, they are paid handsomely and rewarded with promotion. Why stop?
I’m sick of hearing people ask, “Is attacking Sarah Palin & her daughter right or wrong?” It can only be right or wrong if there are consequences for these actions. At this point, 43% +/- of America loves the hate filled vitriol about Sarah Palin. Barack Obama said, “I’ll fire anyone…” caught doing this. I’m not holding my breath.
This whole mess is indicative of our culture. How does a country police it’s own behavior and say, yes we have free speech, but I’m not going to buy, support, discuss, promote the cesspool of ideas and images that are trotted out in the name of free speech. There is no reasonable debate on free speech anymore. It has become the Puritans vs. Mongols that frame the debate.
I’m excited about the possiblity of a smart, tough, hockey mom, Vice President Palin asking the creepy, despicable people in this world, “What the sam hell is wrong with you? Snap out of it and act like a human being.” America can start feeling like we have a moral ocmpass again. America needs a mom now more than ever!
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:26 am 53. inmypajamas:I have never considered myself a feminist but this rocketing back 40 years to restart the debate about women in the workforce by the MSM has me ready to start. How appalling and disingenuous the commenters/pundits “concerns” about Palin’s family are. You didn’t see this concern over Pelosi when she was sworn in with children running all over the place.
These Dems who claim to be for women’s rights seem to be awfully quick to forget that most of the questions being raised about Palin’s fitness for the VP position would be flat out illegal in a job interview. Are they for discrimination against women in hiring or not? Talk about hypocrisy – the MSM (= Dem mouthpiece) coverage is lousy with it right now.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:36 am 54. cedarford:George Clarke – If she could convince a large swathe of females that they have really nothing to fear from her on any direct attacks on abortion, which she will leave up to the courts as always
America was the only democracy where the People through their representatives were usurped by the Courts in deciding what policy to have on abortion. Worse, by a Court that magically found in the Constitution what wasn’t written down – to justify their usurpation and thus aggrandize power to themselves and take it from the People and the Legislatures.
That is why abortion is not an open wound in the other democracies where this was mostly decided and agreed upon in the 70s and 80s. It is in America.
If Roe is overturned, the matter then properly goes to the States, where 3/4s of the states are projected to retain moderate to liberal abortion laws and access to abortion in the 1/4th of states that wish to make it more restrictive is still going to be available to anyone caring to make a bus or car trip to another State.
Your “fear argument” presumes that all women want all matters in America taken away from the People and resolved only by a small elite of lawyers dressed in robes. And only men wish for democracy.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:37 am 55. Robert:Polls always lag behind events, especially “tracking” polls that run a multi-day average.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:39 am 56. Letalis Maximus, Esq.:Look folks, as far as the Democrat elite have been concerned, feminism has always been nothing more than a means to ascent to more political power. And any means to ascent can and will be disposed of as easily as a cheap suit when it is no longer operative or in fashion. They have no principles other than the acquisition, maintenance, and consolidation of power.
If the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill thing didn’t make that clear for you, the way they ignored and then covered for Bill Clinton and his Lower Political/Economic Station in Life Female Conquests of the Week should have. If you still don’t “get it” (to borrow a phrase feminists loved to throw around about 20 years ago) after watching how Sarah Palin is being treated by the Democratic Amen Corner in the MSM and blogs, you are either an idiot or in the tank.
Don’t get me wrong, the GOP isn’t a helluva lot better, and I consider both political parties to be the functional equivalent of organized crime families (with “made guys” and everything). But, the GOP will occasionally whack a Republican from time to time for getting too stupid. Just ask Trent Lott. Ask Jack Abramoff. Ask Foley. But, when was the last time the Dems sent one of their own to sleep with the fishes?
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:42 am 57. jay:The more this lady gets trashed the more P&SSED I get. I agree with what glc said about Pelosi and her kids. What’s the NYT’s position on that? Governor Palin is anti-child murder and so am I. You people talk of rednecks, Do you know what a redneck is? We’re the ones that grow the food you keep stuffing down your throats, we work in the fields and on the roads, we believe in GOD, country and family. We’ve held this country together in the worst and best of times and we don’t have to apologize to YOU or anyone else. I’m tired of you freakin liberals talking down their noses at us while you fly over us. Sarah Palin has my vote. GOD bless her and her family. I wasn’t bitter before this election but I’m damn sure bitter now. McCain/Palin 08.
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:44 am 58. Letalis Maximus, Esq.:Boris:
Are Sally Quinn and Soledad O’Brien MSM enough for you? They’re hardly obscure bloggers, you know:
From “The Anchoress”:
12:31 Sally Quinn, an expert on all things religious, as evidenced by her insistence that she was correct and respectful when she (non-Catholic) received communion at Tim Russert’s funeral, tells Soledad O’ Brien (paraphrased) “we sophisticated beltway women can have careers and children, but Palin is white trash with FIVE kids (!) and one of them is “severely disabled” (likely she knows no one with Down Syndrome) and her pregnant daughter is ‘also a child’” (direct quote! Wait! Isn’t she ‘a mature woman capable of making her own choices about abortion and sex’? suddenly she’s a 12 year old?) She and Soledad display ignorance and bigotry and they shame themselves as they coze together describing how “how we live does not work for Evangelical women” (of whom they know many, I’m sure) who are – of course – the wrong sorts of women, and really, hardly even women at all! To these elitists, the husband is irrelevant. Family support is irrelevant. Palin must be demonized, even if it demonizes millions of women. I ask it again: Where is that “advocate and champion for women and children”, Hillary Rodham Clinton? Also, Hillary Clinton had “help” raising her ONE child. Why shouldn’t Sarah have some for her “five children…one with special needs and the 17 year old is a child, too” (direct quote again.)
Sep 3, 2008 - 10:49 am 59. Scott Somerville:When Obama picked Joe Biden, every Republican I knew (who knew anything about Biden) laughed out loud. We couldn’t believe our good fortune! Big Mouth Biden was our idea of a good time.
When McCain picked Sarah Palin, the left went nuts.
Here’s where things stand now: one the left, we have All Talk All the Time. “Words, phrases…” We have a Senator who has written more autobiographies than bills and a Senator who had to borrow his life from a British Labour leader on one side…
Versus a man who has ALWAYS followed his conscience (whether I not I happened to agree with it) regardless of the torture that entailed, and a woman who hunts moose in bear country. It’s Talk v. Action time in America.
I’m loving this!
Sep 3, 2008 - 11:19 am 60. Mary in LA:ddc said:
In a word, yes.
Sep 3, 2008 - 11:25 am 61. Self-hating boomer:Lieberman.
If your point was that they won’t whack one of their own for being too crazy or corrupt, you’re right. But dissent will NOT be tolerated.
Sep 3, 2008 - 11:27 am 62. Aaron:Joshua — I’m on the liberal left, and I’m not “post-decency,” so your “All of the liberal left…” statement is absurd.
However, I am in 100% agreement with you on your middle two paragraphs. Don’t like the Palin coverage? Don’t watch it. I change the channel when the stuff about her family comes on (I do, however, watch with bated breath as McCain people try to talk about her decisions as CiC of the Alaska National Guard).
The MSM has conservatives and liberals, and they’re all devoted to one thing — money. What they discuss is decided by how many people tune in when they talk about it. So if you don’t like the things they’re focusing on, exercise your right as a non-lemming and change the stupid channel. Don’t like the Us Weekly cover? Don’t buy it, no matter how outraged you are.
Sep 3, 2008 - 11:37 am 63. avoidswork:I, too, am on the left and I think Palin is an outstanding choice for McCain. Stellar, wonderful and generally awesome. Just fantastic.
Did you see Kay Bailey Hutchison fumble when interviewed last Friday about the Palin pick?
Did you see the Campbell Brown/Tucker Bounds interview on CNN where he could not give one decision that Palin made as the Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guards? Did you hear the McCain campaign’s complaint to CNN about the absurd questioning and then CANCEL and interview with Larry King?
Did you hear how the Republicans are not talking about the Palin vetting process?
Look, she will still have to step up the plate and take a swing with regard to tonight, to the debate with Biden and to being in the public and media eye until Election Day. I will wait to reserve judgment on HER until I have observed her.
McCain, on the other hand, is the real one under scrutiny of HIS decision for her.
This is not about Palin, per se, but about the decision McCain made.
Ask yourself this: If Palin’s resume were for a man instead of a woman, would the ticket still say “McCain/Palin”?
Sep 3, 2008 - 11:57 am 64. klee12:I would comment on whether her duties of a VP of the United States, assuming McCain is elected President, would conflictgs with her duties of a mother.
I have always thought that whether or not there would be a conflict depends on requirements of the job. What would Ms. Palin be doing in the first 2 years as Vice President. I suspect she would be going to meetings, and doing alot of reading. I don’t think that her travel schedule need be heavy. In short, I think that most of the work, except the meetings, can be done at home. I assume she would not have to do the cooking, the cleaning, and the laundry. I assume she would not have operational duties, like overseeing a task force to come up with a new health care plan. If my assumptions are correct, then I do not see any conflict, especially if the husband helps out.
High income mothers have advantages over lower income mothers. High income mothers may have more flexible schedules and may be able to hire help to cook, clean and do the laudry. I believe in government assistance for low income mothers who work. I am less supportive of government assistance to higher income mothers
klee12
Sep 3, 2008 - 12:04 pm 65. jay:Aaron: That’s not the point and you know it. If we don’t like it turn the channel? These people are spinning at best and (mostly) flat out lying at worst. Problem is they’re supposed to be honest journalists, so much for a fare press. Some people are still undecided so if we seem edgy well excuuuuuse me! That is OUR right and if you don’t like it well then don’t read it and go away.
Sep 3, 2008 - 12:15 pm 66. Joshua:Aaron – I’m on the liberal left, and I’m not “post-decency,” so your “All of the liberal left…” statement is absurd.
You sound like my wife (God bless her) “Don’t say always, all and never!” I’m glad you’re not post-decency and we agree on a few points here. I am looking forward to seeing the campaigns play out even if we do have to wade through a mile of crap in the process.
When contrasted with the alternative, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, that is raising it’s vile head around the globe I can put up with a little mudslinging in American politics. When I can’t stand the smell any longer, I’ll take your advice, and unplug the unholy beast in my living room.
Sep 3, 2008 - 12:20 pm 67. Squid:It’s fine to ignore stuff on TV that doesn’t affect me. The problem is that this stuff on TV is specifically meant to influence the outcome of the election of my government. If there was some guy on TV saying “We need to kill all the queers,” would you still say that, as a straight man unaffected by these rantings, I should just change the channel?
Deep as a puddle, that line of thinking is.
Sep 3, 2008 - 12:24 pm 68. avoidswork:Oh my goodness, it really does get better:
RE: TrooperGate
In the latest sign that Sarah Palin’s promised cooperation with the Trooper-Gate investigation is failing to materialize, her lawyer is now demanding that the entire case be taken out of the hands of the independent prosecutor hired by Alaska lawmakers, and given over to a state personnel board — whose three members were appointed by the governor herself.
In an unusual “ethics disclosure” filed last night, along with related documents, to the state Attorney General, Palin’s lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, asked the personnel board to look into the firing of Walt Monegan, the former public safety commissioner at the center of the case. Van Flein also asked the legislature to drop its own investigation, contending that only the personnel board has jurisdiction over ethics. And he suggested that if the legislature didn’t agree to hand the matter over to the personnel board, Palin would not be made available for a deposition.
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She was for the investigation before she was against it.
I’m telling you, the “left” really does *love* her. An Alaskan Republican I can believe it! They really do not disappoint.
Sep 3, 2008 - 12:25 pm 69. chicago:This is rich….from the AP:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iElN_Fxq1lEsVF2Z5haqYzv2kqcQD92VDK7G0
Analysis: McCain camp plays sexism card for Palin
By RON FOURNIER – 45 minutes ago
Palin is seeking the second most powerful job in the nation. The media views its job as scrutinizing her background, helping voters determine her readiness to serve and raising questions about the decision-making process of the man who chose her — a man, John McCain, who tells voters he has the experience and judgment to serve as president.
The scrutiny will continue, as it always does, and the betting among leading Republicans is that Palin survives. None of the revelations so far rise to the level of disqualifying. And, while she has served less than a term as governor, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is the living embodiment of the fact that this election is less about experience than it is about change. Voters want a fresh approach, if not a fresh face, in Washington.
so, now we’re hearing that the media is only doing its job. is this the same job that ignored Obama’s own questionable background?
Are we now going to start seeing indignation from the “fair” media that is allegedly just doing their job?
what a bunch of BS! it’s long been know that AP is a liberal news service.
Sep 3, 2008 - 12:30 pm 70. Hucbald:I proposed Sarah Palin for McCain’s running mate over six months ago now, so I’ve learned more about her than the MSM has, obviously. Best analogy? Sarah Palin is… The Terminator. If you look at her record, she has left a trail of political and corporate corpses in her wake, all of whom massively underestimated her. “Why, there’s no way this pretty little thing could… Ahhhhh! *death rattle*”
When Gov. Plain believes she is in the right and her opponents are wrong, she “absolutely, positively will not stop.” No pity, no remorse.
Sep 3, 2008 - 12:55 pm 71. Jamie:avoidswork (interesting moniker, there, that tends to reinforce certain stereotypes – but I try not to go in for stereotypes, so… pass), with regard to your question regarding McCain’s judgment and whether Sarah Palin’s resume, coming from a male candidate, would have garnered that man the VP nomination:
I know it’s belaboring the point, but have you looked at yer man Obama’s resume lately?
Which I suppose counts as a tu quoque. But exceptionally relevant, nonetheless, because Palin (barring McCain’s unlikely death between election and inauguration) isn’t going to be President next January.
Sep 3, 2008 - 1:38 pm 72. chicago:Harriet Christian of the group New Agenda, a group that supported Hillary is now supporting McCain/Palin. Harriet claims that the republican ticket will get at least 5 million hillary votes.
Harriet stated that her group is now supporting Palin due to the sexism bias by the media.
Sep 3, 2008 - 2:08 pm 73. chicago:There will be more Hillary supporters that will come out of the closet as the days go by. Carly Fiorina confirmed that they have been in talks with MANY Hillary groups since Hillary lost the primary.
I told all of you to wait and see. it’ll happen.
Sep 3, 2008 - 2:20 pm 74. avoidswork:Jamie: I have and I support him.
—-and you’re welcome to question my moniker (although most find it funny) as I type from my office. With a window. At a law firm where I am “avoiding work” for a few minutes.—-
chicago: um…a McCain co-chair (and woman) would disagree with you:
Meg Whitman, McCain’s national campaign co-chair and former CEO of e-Bay, veered off message today in an interview with Fox News, describing the media vetting of Palin as “completely fair” and saying that there hasn’t really been any sexism to speak of in the coverage. (video available via FoxNews)
Sep 3, 2008 - 2:22 pm 75. Letalis Maximus, Esq.:Self-hating Boomer:
Ah, but the Democratic machine didn’t whack Leiberman. The nutroots anti-war activists, bloggers, and Democratic primary voters did. The Democratic machine was begging them not to do so because they knew Joe would do what he did – switch parties (and the Dem machine was terrified he would go GOP) – and win the general election.
And the Dems will tolerate dissent on certain supposedly crucial Dem issues when the Dem espousing dissent is powerful enough. Just take a look at Harry Reid’s record regarding the hard rock/heavy metals mining industry and the 1872 Mining Law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_Mining_Law ), and Robert Byrd’s regarding the coal industry, mountain top mining, and the Clean Water Act’s non-application to said industry.
Sep 3, 2008 - 2:31 pm 76. chicago:avodswork,
yes, I heard the Meg Whitman interview. That depends on what “vetting” means to you. to me, asking about troopergate is vetting. asking about earmarks she got for Wasilla is vetting. drumming up a 17 year old’s pregnancy is NOT vetting. asking how she could run for VP and neglect her children is not vetting.
so, what does vetting means? if the media is going to vett a candidate then vett a candidate the same way a male candidate would be.
Obama has gotten a pass with his questionable connections and collaborations that are legitimate questions since it affects his judgment by showing the type of influence he’s been given by the people he associated with. isn’t that part of a proper vetting process? So, if the media is realy concerned about properly vetting a candidate, I still don’t see it at all.
Sep 3, 2008 - 2:43 pm 77. Aaron:Joshua: In the interest of fairness I should admit that I’m not exactly sure what post-decency is, so your “All…” statement could actually be correct. But I would prefer that you use “most” or “99.9%” instead…
Jay: Buying Us Weekly *is* your right. I am not advocating anyone making Us Weekly illegal. However, I do think that as consumers of news, Americans in general do not consider the fact that increased consumption of particular subjects encourages the newsmakers to churn out more of that subject. If the subject we’re talking about is a sex scandal or something similarly ’shameful’, we eat it up. We watch the news programs and buy the magazines. We increase their ad revenues, and then we go on about how bad and awful and trashy the media is for producing such bad awful trash.
I don’t think Pajamas Media or most other blog sites operate like this. We’re not talking about massive sums of advertising dollars that can influence that subject matter. It also has the advantage that there can be a dialog among normal people (by “normal” I mean right- and left-wing extremists like ourselves). So why would I go anywhere?
Sep 3, 2008 - 2:53 pm 78. 888:All this talk about her family and pregnant daughter is ridiculous. If she, or anyone for that matter, was applying for a job inside and outside of Government, the prospective employer cannot ask about how the applicant’s role as mother or father would affect his/her performance on the job. And, as far as the husband’s DUI 20 years ago, how about the Democratic presidential nominee, Obama himself, recreationally snorting cocaine some years ago? He freely admits his cocaine use and wild drinking, but the MSM says nothing about it. Good grief — his coke use is totally illegal and criminal behavior and he’s trying to be president, yet they’re they’re talking about the husband. Unbelievable. Some more hypocracy: how about former presidential candidate (just this past year, folks, if you’ve forgotten), John Edwards, cheating any lying on his dying wife? And the MSM didn’t even want to bring it up. Remember when the LA Times had told their bloggers not to talk about the Edwards scandal? Or how about the NYTimes hiding the Edwards affair for several days? Amazing how phony they all are.
Sep 3, 2008 - 3:01 pm 79. Rubicon:As a male, I am confident I am as guilty of sexism as any other male on the planet. Well, maybe not as bad as many others.
Sep 3, 2008 - 3:09 pm 80. avoidswork:Still, even I am amazed at the attack mentality the media and liberal left have mounted against Sarah Palin. Its…. astonishing. Really!!!
If the media had spent as much vetting the Obama-Ayers Chicago Annenberg Challenge project issue &/or the Rezko issues, as they have already spent in seven days vetting Sarah Palin, Hillary would be the nominee of the Democrat’s.
That so called feminists have launched into attack after attack on Palin’s motherhood & ability as a woman, is just incredible. These same people have tried to sell “their” feminism to America (the world?), for the past twenty or thirty years. They just blew almost all their efforts as Sarah Palin proves women can have it all, & still be, dare I say it, feminine!
Republicans, conservatives, and Christians, have been accused by the left as having a double standard on almost everything. Perhaps those same accuser’s should now look directly into their own mirrors? What they will see is the epitome of hypocrisy. Themselves!
Now, we can begin to look at issues like smaller government & less intrusion into our lives. Now we can look at reforming health care, using the private sector, and not creating another bureaucracy like FEMA or DHS, that failed so many. Health care is not broken in America, its encumbered by the regulatory & bureaucratic mess leftists have made of it over the years. Ever see how many papers a Doctor has to fill out just for an office visit? Its all bureaucracy, & its all created by leftist feds & their state counterparts.
Now, we can focus on showing America that liberalism is NOT what America is all about. Now we can show them that socialism, like Hugo Chavez promotes, is and always has been a failed concept that subjugates the people.
McCain/Palin 08!!!!!!!
Re: Daughter.
What about the McCain photo-op of greeting the baby’s father on the tarmac?
There appears to be a contradiction coming from the campaign between privacy of this matter and then a photo-op of McCain greeting him.
Not saying he (baby’s father) should hide in a closet, but the hypocrisy of asking for privacy and not making this an issue to a photo-op?
Sep 3, 2008 - 3:52 pm 81. chicago:avoidswork,
and the bit with Obama talking to his kids onstage is any different?
the Bristol pregnancy is already pushed into the publics eye. a photo op of the teenage couple is a statement that needs to be made since it’s been said that they are going to marry. if they don’t do the photo op, then the media will keep asking, “if they are going to marry why is Levi hiding?”
it goes both ways bud.
Sep 3, 2008 - 4:42 pm 82. chicago:HOT DAMN! Sarah is one great woman! love that speech! I christen her the female Reagan!
Democrats got their work cut out for ‘em.
McCain/Palin!
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:34 pm 83. chicago:Olberman, Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw are now trying hard to dismantle Sarah Palin’s speech. once you go left, you’ll stay left I guess!
Brokaw was “struck by the attacks to the media!” what indignation!
I dubbed them, the modern three stooges!
Sep 3, 2008 - 8:42 pm 84. Judy, NYC:after hearing sarah palin speak, biden must be running to the bathroom every two seconds, followed closely by chicago pol, barry obama, the do nothing, never done anything, knows nothing candidate. as a former democrat, i am finally not depressed over this campaign and the terrifying thought (the uthinkable thought) that barry obama could be our president. sorry, barry, mayor daley and the chicago mob can’t help you now, pal. take your “styrofoam columns’, huffpo, the nytimes, chris matthews and olbermann, and you know what you can do with them.
Sep 4, 2008 - 8:08 am 85. Sandra M:The new media spin after Palin’s speech is that someone else wrote the speech for her. LIES!!!
I watched her first speech on Friday several times and some of it was repeated last night. The joke she made about the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull being lipstick, she first used on a McCain staffer who was trying to warn her of what she would be facing.
Also, last night her teleprompter was broken. If that had happened to Obama, we would have had a repeat of his infamous Bristol, VA appearance, which is on Youtube and Rush Limbaugh played on his program a while back.
Sarah Palin is the American Margaret Thatcher with much of the Celtic Queen Boadicea who nearly defeated the Romans in England.
What a witty, witty woman. That “styrofoam Greek columns” line will be savored all day. I usually hate to listen to speeches, but Fred Thompson, Rudy Guiliani and Sarah Palin are the best I’ve heard in years. Watch them on C-Span this weekend if you missed them.
Sep 4, 2008 - 10:21 am 86. Kerry:Today, a reporter asked Obama about Palin’s attacks of Obama’s experience.
Obama said something to the effect that, “I am not going to comment on Palin’s comments or her experience. I am running against McCain, not her.”
OBAMA ONCE AGAIN SHOWS HE IS A SEXIST.
Obama is giving women the line, “I’m not going to spar with you, you are not in my league.” His tone was very clear, and many women will pick up on it. Obama considers Palin a clerical secretary.
Sep 4, 2008 - 4:28 pm 87. MedTyper:Here we have a woman who has literally fulfilled a feminist’s dream of having a job, family, and political activism and now ……what do we get from the left? Snarling and hissing……how could this woman dare to be conservative, pro-life, pro school choice, pro family values…..it’s against all their wildest nightmares…..how can it be that their darling Hillary was kicked to the curb by their party of inclusions? How do they explain it to their charges in the Women’s Studies department….a true horror!
I LOVE IT!
Sep 4, 2008 - 7:45 pm 88. Self-hating boomer:Letalis Maximus,
Point taken, but in the long run, it’s the nutroots who will be controlling everything. That’s precisely why Obama was nominated, and not Hillary. The Democrat party is now owned by George Soros. The cigar-smoking backroom boys may not realize it yet, but the ownership of their party has been outsourced to Europe.
In the long run, the distinction that you point to is moot.
Sep 5, 2008 - 1:37 pm 89. AdrianS:Boredis (Boris):
The facts are the facts. You deal with it.
In our form of government we have a Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branch. Obama claims his “executive” experience was as a “community organizer.”
To expand on the definition of executive experience, please note that:
Executive experience, in part, means holding a position subject to responsibilities as prescribed by law, managing human resources, managing budgets and making decisions, which have the potential of affecting several to many people, or the public in general.
The Honorable Governor of the Great State of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has been a council person, a mayor, and now a governor. All of these are positions of intense responsibility.
Obama has NO executive experience.
Please view the article listed below, “Obama’s Community Roots,” which reads, “In 1985, freshly graduated from Columbia University and working for a New York business consultant, Barack Obama decided to become a community organizer. Though he liked the idea, he didn’t understand what the job involved, and his inquiries turned up few opportunities.”
The article continues elsewhere, “He discovered the importance of personal storytelling in politics …” And, “Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama–and hundreds of other organizers–did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries.”
The same article says, “A recent Los Angeles Times report contended that Obama overstated his own importance …”
Not really much to Obama’s “experience”; no definition of responsibilities, no results.
ARTICLE: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg.
I just learned that Mr. Obama was head of the Harvard Law Review. However, the ONLY article he appears to have written was on abortion. Wouldn’t you know it.
Barack Obama’s Sole Article in Harvard Law Review Promotes Abortion
http://www.lifenews.com/nat4184.html
Add to Obama’s lack of experience, a severe lack of judgment.
Sep 5, 2008 - 7:25 pm 90. T.M. Whitworth:Here is a flash for all those who say Sarah Palin should stay home and take care of her preg. daughter Bristol…her daughter is going to marry the father of the baby… soooo do the critics think Sarah should move in with her daughter and son-in-law to take care of daughter Bristol? Not!
Sep 6, 2008 - 7:25 pm 91. Tiffany:I think that the issue isn’t so much whether career over family is the appropriate choice but how it is that Sarah Palin seems to be able to garner the accolades of the conservative, traditional-values wing of the Republican party simply by SAYING that she’s pro-family, though she is not living her family life in the way that that particular group consistently espouses.
Sep 13, 2008 - 8:38 pm 92. vcsmith:What a wild site. Its kind of the right’s version of the Daily Kos. I hope you are all having fun!
Sep 15, 2008 - 1:22 pmIn any case, I’m glad that even though you all have just met her, you’re sure she the one. This is going to crash and burn. Already she can’t be herself. Her handlers are making her a robot. I say, let her loose and let the games begin.