P.S. Can’t get enough of Sarah America? Want to get a foretaste of how she might hold up in a debate against big, bad Joe Biden? Then watch Palin in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial debate to be broadcast on C-Span Sunday night, September 7th, at 6:30 PM (ET) or go to the Palintology website to watch the debate on Windows Media Player. During the first ten or so minutes the moderator gives the other two candidates the opportunity to take it to Palin. See how she handles herself. It’s interesting. (The Windows Media Player file takes a few minutes to download if you go that route.)
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1 augustus // Sep 6, 2008 at 7:27 pm
New excitement? As it should be. The repubs obviously have the winning hand. McCain is an experienced, stable adult with moderately conservative views. Obama is a young, pompous leftist with no experience. Palin has more executive/managerial experience that Obama and Biden combined.
It is not in the bag and the repubs will have to work for it, but the dems will lose. The proof is in the polls. Obama and McCain are pretty much tied in the polls. When you add in the factors that Obama had no significant covention bounce, the public is supposedly angry with the repubs, and the fact that the polls contain a PC effect for Obama, it is obvious the dems can’t win.
2 Citro // Sep 6, 2008 at 8:42 pm
From the Los Angeles Times
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>Opinion
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>Palin: wrong woman, wrong message
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>Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is
>Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
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>By Gloria Steinem
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>September 4, 2008
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>Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that
>even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the
>Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with a
>first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women — and to many
>men too — who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted
>violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm,
>who first took the “white-male-only” sign off the White House, and to
>Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny
>to win 18 million votes.
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>But here is even better news: It won’t work. This isn’t the first time a
>boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him
>and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has
>never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life
>more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing
>pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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>Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no
>way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin
>shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive
>and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention
>that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a
>presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a
>platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton’s candidacy stood
>for — and that Barack Obama’s still does. To vote in protest for
>McCain/Palin would be like saying, “Somebody stole my shoes, so I’ll
>amputate my legs.”
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>This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on
>issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can’t do the
>job because she has children in need of care, especially if they
>wouldn’t say the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining
>her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which
>she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen.
>Joe Biden’s 37 years’ experience.
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>Palin has been honest about what she doesn’t know. When asked last month
>about the vice presidency, she said, “I still can’t answer that question
>until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every
>day?” When asked about Iraq, she said, “I haven’t really focused much on
>the war in Iraq.”
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>She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular,
>and she’s won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to
>give a $1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by
>McCain’s campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no
>state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action
>for so long that he doesn’t know it’s about inviting more people to meet
>standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush
>administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job
>candidate’s views on “God, guns and gays” ahead of competence. The
>difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat
>away from the presidency.
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>So let’s be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin
>out of change-envy, or a belief that women can’t tell the difference
>between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing
>ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a
>supporter of reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain
>could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who
>has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or
>Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away
>from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to
>opposing the Violence Against Women Act.
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>Palin’s value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every
>issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that
>creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global
>warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of
>women’s wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves
>”abstinence-only” programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually
>transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers’ millions
>for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn’t spend enough
>money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school
>graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the
>Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas
>pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National
>Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of
>offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
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>I don’t doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle
>Assn., she doesn’t just support killing animals from helicopters, she
>does it herself. She doesn’t just talk about increasing the use of
>fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town.
>She doesn’t just echo McCain’s pledge to criminalize abortion by
>overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were
>impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child. She not only
>opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it
>dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to
>have a child.
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>So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James
>Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, “women are merely
>waiting for their husbands to assume leadership,” so he may be voting
>for Palin’s husband.
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>Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains
>from this contest.
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>Republicans may learn they can’t appeal to right-wing patriarchs and
>most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist
>majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to
>support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to
>invite government into the wombs of women.
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>And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs
>than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national
>stage from male leaders who know that women can’t be equal outside the
>home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are
>campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at
>home for their children.
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>This could be huge.
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>Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the
>Women’s Media Center. She supported Hillary Clinton and is now
>supporting Barack Obama.
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>Cora Cahan
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>President
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>The New 42nd Street
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>646-223-3001
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>ccahan@new42.org
3 Loneranger1 // Sep 7, 2008 at 11:27 am
Does anyone really care. I hope so.
4 Macon On The Move // Sep 7, 2008 at 2:15 pm
The e-mail address on the bottom of the Palin/McCain sign obviously was not original to the sign. If you go to it, it has nothing to do with politics. It’s a Firewall company.
5 Maurice Atkinson // Sep 7, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I think she’ll do quite well. Gloria Steinam is a political neophyte that doesn’t shut up. We’ve heard her smear and slander for years, why should this be any different.
As a suggestion, post the link and maybe a paragraph, but the whole darn article? I just scrolled after reading the author’s (Steinam) name.
Obama had one thing right, America wants CHANGE, but when you read his platform, which he rarely talks about, most folks aren’t interested in a more socialist society. Just like ‘94, this could be a good year for Republicans. We’re talking about reform. We’ve exposed and erradicated many of our corrupt leaders. New competent visionaries have stepped up to the plate to involve themselves. That’s the change people are interested in.
6 wmccnews // Sep 7, 2008 at 4:14 pm
MOTM, I made up the Palin/McCain sign and the internet address as well. Palin’s nickname on her high school basketball team was “Sarah Barracuda.”
7 gladiolus // Sep 7, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Macon on Move….Anchor always used artistic license to make up funny stuff. Always be ready for a ssssoooooprize!!!! Always. As Gomer says, “Sooooprise Suprise Suprise!!!!!”
This is the Onion, (comedy web site) Vidalia GA style.
And the poop that was pasted about Palin above (Phyllis Schlafffffable my ass) is completed contradicted by Matt Drudge, who makes a living diggin dirt on politicos. Read Drudge, not poop.
8 gladiolus // Sep 7, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Gloria Steinem is the widow of a guy who was the sire of one of the most radical folks ever…who would be very sad to see the poop she writ above.
9 gladiolus // Sep 7, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I get sadder and sadder as G Steinem gets bitterer and bitterer. I wish for the olden times when she was less unhappy. I don’t blame her. She has been through a lot of shit. But she needs to get off the kookoo James Earl Carter bandwagon and live in the 21st century. Driving a small Plymouth Valiant won’t solve the gas crisis now.
10 gladiolus // Sep 7, 2008 at 5:09 pm
And no one with a tisch of intelligence ever thought abortion was a good idea. Nobody.
11 gladiolus // Sep 7, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I will always love George McGovern, in perpetuity. Barack Obama is no George McGovern. (And I got to gladhand George in person)
12 Cotton Avenue Solon // Sep 7, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I don’t give a damn what Gloria Steinem thinks or says. In her mindset women must adhere to her brand of liberal ideology in order to be “true” feminists.
Isn’t she over 100 years old by now? She needs to be put out to pasture.
13 Macon On The Move // Sep 7, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I pointed it out, because I wanted the sign!
If McCain wins, it will be mainly because of her.
I was going to the site to order one.
14 Cotton Avenue Solon // Sep 7, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Who are these “right-wing patriarchs” that Ms. Steinem refers to?
Is she referring to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexi II of Moscow?
15 wmccnews // Sep 8, 2008 at 9:05 am
MOTM, we ought to order some signs, sell them and split the profits.
16 augustus // Sep 8, 2008 at 2:22 pm
The most recent USA Today/Gallup poll shows McCain has gained a lot of ground against Obama. McCain is up 50 to 46 with registered voters, and it is McCain 54, Obama 44 amongst likely voters. And don’t forget the PC effect for Obama, which means he is really lower than shown.
The dems made a huge mistake in picking Obama.
17 Cotton Avenue Solon // Sep 8, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Augustus……..it’s hard not to agree with you, but please remember that we cannot take anything for granted. We must always be cautiously optimistic.
CNN and the rest of the media are working to defeat McCain as we speak, and they (the media) are also plotting to destroy Governor Palin if they can.
18 augustus // Sep 8, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Cotton, who said it was a done deal? Not I. Just reporting the facts. Though it is obvious Obama has no chance.
On TV they are calling McCain’s move in the polls the “Sarah surge.”
19 Macon On The Move // Sep 8, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Anchor,
My “I’m Tired Of Being Jacked Around” sticker is up high on the metal telephone pole in front of Jim Shaws. LOL…..
20 Cotton Avenue Solon // Sep 8, 2008 at 8:40 pm
“Sarah Surge”…………..you gotta love it!!!!!
21 gladiolus // Sep 8, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Old or young, I think Gloria is a poo head and I plan to knit, embroider, cook, refuse to take a job outside the home seriously, do what smart men tell me, ignore obnoxious women, wear really pricey perfume, buy cute shoes, go to the salons, (all types, insert any kind here), obsess about my weight, spend 900 bucks on my hair, research the latest clothing, get another facial, darn socks, scrub my kitchen floor, babysit, talk on the phone all the time, order frilly letter papers from france, and sew a new dust ruffle. Steinem can kiss my fat ass, and I do mean that. Her idea of “ideal” could possibly screw us all out of the fun that is living. I have to go now and bake some brownies to keep my fat ass fat.
22 missoldmacon // Sep 10, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Dare I say this?
The best woman’s place in the world is in the USA as a housewife - - believe me, being a housewife in this country is miles sky higher than in any other country in this world….
(wonder how many barbs I’m going to get from this one?)
However, sadly my generation of housewives is slowly fading into the distant past. When we got married, we knew we were going to have that husband as long as the Good Lord allowed us to - and there was a security there in my day & time, I’m afraid is now gone. I’ve told my granddaughters more than once - get yourself an education now that if needed in the future, you can go out & support yourself and any family you may have - the good old days of having a spouse that will be your provider and anchor is going, going, gone…….
23 augustus // Sep 10, 2008 at 1:32 pm
MOM, you did the right thing by being a proper housewife and mother. You made a big sacrifice for your family. My mother did the same thing. Which is a better memory for a child, being dropped off at daycare or seeing a peach pie come out of the oven? You deserve the highest praise.
24 gladiolus // Sep 11, 2008 at 12:34 am
I tried to be a housewife. Then we needed peanut butter, and I did not think I should get the free government kind. In all seriousness, when my sis in law said she was returning to work, we were all mortified for her two kids. In actuality, she will work only 11 until 3, and be off in plenty of time for her two kids.
There is no more difficult, rewarding, or intellectually challenging work in the world than raising children. The quicker we can return respect and feasibility to the life of the homemaker and mom, the faster the world will heal.
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