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Ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate the Republican Party has turned into a hot-bed of feminist thought. Party operatives and commentators have hit the air waves to complain about the “deep sexism” (to steal a phrase from the truthiness challenged commentator Dick Morris) that is part of media culture.
Some observations have been spot on –wondering how Palin will raise her young kids if she is gets elected is just dopey—-, while the majority are pathetic attempts to gin up that moral outrage meter.
The McCain campaign was about the gin yesterday when it called for Barack Obama to apologize to Palin. According to camp McCain Obama called the governor of Alaska a pig. Their proof? During a speech when Obama was calling into question the McCain new found mantra for change, the senator from Illinois used this phrase: ” you can … put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig.”
“Barack Obama’s comments today are offensive and disgraceful. He owes Governor Palin an apology,” Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella opined.
Now anyone who can read knows Obama wasn’t talking about Palin. And team Obama pointed out McCain used the same phrase last year to describe Hilary Clinton’s health care program, minus any calls for an apology. But when you have a memo to push you learn quickly to stay away from facts.
No comments? Guess you just can’t get us upset too easily James. You have responded to me before. ALL THIS CHEAP SHOTS AT TODAYS MEDIA BYTES IS GETTING OLD REAL FAST.
if you want this kind of reporting turn on your tv and watch E!
He didn’t call Sarah a pig (even though she compared herself to a pitbull. A female pitbull?), he called John McCain’s campaign the pig. Sarah is the lipstick.
Concerned Guy,
Morning. I’m a bit confused about your complaint. Could you explain fuller please?
Thanks.
Sincerely,
James
My thought is the Dems. should organize a lipstick boycott both as a sign of solidarity and symbol that they refuse to allow the election to be moved from serious issues like war and the economy to the trivia of Palin’s life.
I didn’t realize that Republicans cared so much about the treatment of women in today’s society… oh wait; They don’t.
If I was in the Obama camp, I’d ask why she hasn’t given an interview yet. I know she plans to give one tomorrow (9/11; her son’s deployment date) but why has it taken so long? If she’s fully qualified to be President if something happens to McCain, then why couldn’t she give an interview sooner?
I saw Obama’s response to the “false outrage” this morning. It was too funny. If anyone gets to see this tape, please watch it. Obama: “I said that they can put lipstick on a pig, it would still be a pig and John McCain said I’m talking about the Alaska Governor.” Too funny.
As stated in today’s LA Times: “Voters might also like to know whether Palin supports, as does her church, an upcoming conference that promises to change gays and lesbians into heterosexuals through the power of prayer. That conference, by the way, is being put on by James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, one of the national evangelical organizations that discovered a sudden enthusiasm for the GOP ticket when Palin joined.”
Please, she compared herself to a dog, one by the way that is predatory and aggressive unfortunately through inbreeding.
Is it remotely possible for society to take a step back and actually listen to what the candidates believe in and stand for. I am floored that people in the LGBT community are actually considering a McCain/Palin ticket. Does everyone realize that the next president will appoint a minimum of 3 supreme court judges and those appointments will change our society and freedoms for a minimum of the next 20 years. Wake up America!
Given the number of women who have looked askance at Palin’s work-family balance, calling such a question “dopey” is, well, dopey.
Moreover, it misses the point. The rant has been that the question is inherently sexist. The problem for that knee-jerk victim feminism is the counterexample of the media frenzy over whether John Edwards should have dropped out of the race to take care of his wife and kids when her cancer returned as well as whether he’d be able to govern effectively if she died and left him in mourning with two young, motherless children. If those questions were fair game for Edwards, similar questions are fair game for Palin.
The ultimate issue is whether the questions are fair game for anyone, but that’s not an issue that can be resolved by the tedious sloganeering of knee-jerk victim feminists.
I’ll take a black lab over a pit bull any day!
On the plus side, all she’s done is energize the base, and doesn’t actually bring anyone new into the ticket. She’s just bringing in Evangelicals that weren’t going to vote for Obama anyway.
My sister (who was a Hillary supporter) at one point was so angry that she said she wouldn’t vote for Barack. (this was towards the end of the primaries, when passions where hight) She cooled down since then, but when Palin was picked, she was simply outraged at McCain.
On the down side she free’s McCain to make an attempt and independents.
What I find funny is that I looked at CNN’s election map, and according to their math, Barack is only 27 electoral votes away (which is exactly Florida), and McCain is 81 away. And based on the odds in those 8 states, right know, Barak is 3-1 more likely to win. Granted recent polls show a slip, but I think those just show a post-convention bounce. In either way, as long as it doesn’t keep doing this for 6 weeks, we will have Barak as president. Just gotta get over this Palin flux.
Why is this country even embracing the Republican party at all? They have been the party of the Ku Klux Klan since the roaring twenty’s! Has that little bit of fact been forgotten in this country or what? If it wasn’t for the Klan there would be no Republican party. Has this country turned their collective heads against everything the founding father’s toiled for years and then try and destroy it all? I am appalled at the way they are hiding behind their brand of fascism and glorifying it in such a way as to make it mainstream. People wake up and smell the coffee will yah. Your white sheets are flapping in the breeze and you are following blindly into yet another disaster that will soon destroy everything this country was created for all because you are being lead blindly and without remorse or respect for your families and everything you have tried to create. Only for the 1% who wish to turn you into nothing but their sheep.
chuck: I think the reason there’s still a GOP now is because there are a few who want the world to run a certain way, and LOTS who just don’t want to think.