How stupid do they think women are?
What burns me the most is her line in the speech:
"It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America, but it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all."
Seriously? "...we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all"???
A beauty queen picked by a man for a #2 job . . . "Oh, watch out for all that falling glass!"
Maybe it would help (a teensy bit) if Palin supported equal pay, endorsed a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices, and wanted to expand access to children’s health care.
I guess it just makes me incredibly angry that "any woman" is seen as a viable substitute for Hillary Clinton. Of course, don't we all realize that women are the same and interchangeable!
I suppose it doesn't matter if McCain himself voted against equal pay for women back in April this year: http://vesperstar.blogspot.com/2008/04/tough-luck-ladies.html
Maybe he's looking forward to cutting down on the budget by paying this possible VP less than previous holders of the office.
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I am SO with you!
More later.
It doesn't help that all I've heard on the television is high praise of her. And the praise is connected with her fitting the right type of femininity, one acceptable to people, and by acceptable I mean harmless and ineffectual.
I heard someone praise her for wearing a dress for X's sake. Someone else noted she had such "grace" and was so appealing and likeable.
Then on Washington Week a journalist blasted Michelle Obama as a "drag" on her husband because she was perceived as a vocal spouse.
To top off my anger, on another news program they interviewed a random woman on the street, who echoed that stupid glass ceiling comment from earlier today. And then the program cut to a video of Palin shopping, picking out a red onesie and waving it in the air.
I find her soooo irritating. I am sorry--HRC is supposedly so objectionable because she rode her husband's coattails to office--not to mention the fact that she has a solid Smith College and Ivy League education and credentials as a public service lawyer, but nooooo, she is just a byatch who is unlikeable. As for Palin--what exactly are her qualifications to be second in command of the entire country? Oh, wait, she's a former beauty queen who had a baby a few months back and she's governor of one of the 2 freak states (that's a Simpsons quote, by the way--from the episode where Marge is afraid of flying).
I would think that the Republicans would be afraid that they would be accused of hypocrisy with all their focus on traditional family values. I mean, shouldn't she be sitting at home with that baby, taking care of it, especially since it is special needs? Oh wait, but republicans don't apply their rules to themselves--just the rest of the world when they feel like accusing us and labeling us 'liberals.'
I just hate the fact that they picked a really dumb, no ignorant woman who is clearly the female equivalent of W to just play off the whole age, gender and insider/outsider thing with the Obama/Biden ticket. Although, I guess on the plus side, she is originally from Idaho and went to the U of I (yours, not mine :) )
I also really dislike that the Democrats always go first with their convention. I think it always give the Republicans just a little more momentum.
I can only hope that the whole thing will just really really backfire--I mean McCain is so old and isn't he a cancer survivor, does this country really want this inexperienced woman in charge if something should happen to him?
Anyway, I am totally rambling on and on and probably hating on things too much. I have to go pet Clarence or Delmar!
Oh, and we got the package. Thank you!!!!! I will call you later to say more. Olivia loves the panda. I have some video I am going to post.
Thanks again,
Catherine
PS--I was always secretly hoping that Obama and HRC would work it out so that they would run together on the same ticket, but I'm guessing that party leaders decided that that ticket would be just too too radical to fly with the red state folk in the general election.
Oh well, there's always next time....Or maybe Obama will nominate her for something like Secretary of State.
U of I is known as the "party school" in the state. I feel no need to claim Palin as a native Idahoan.
Palin thinking she has attained some great feat makes a mockery of Clinton's hard work. Clinton was really tried in the fire of public campaign, only to have Palin step in and think that her appointment by one man proves something. All it proves is that Palin is a mere political pawn. It's hollow pandering, and it makes me ill.
I guess if the worst does happen and McCain/Palin win, then in 2012 McCain might be too old to run for re-election, and Palin would be taken down by Clinton. Now that would be poetic justice. Only, I don't want to suffer through 4 more years of a Republican presidency to get there.
Anyway, I'm glad you got the package and that Olivia likes her bear. I couldn't find a Care Bear Panda.
For now I'm going to the school to make myself be productive until about 5:00, but I'll be home after that. J.D. had to go into work today to finish a big report. Usually they will be due Mondays, but since tomorrow is a holiday and this is his first report, he needed the extra time. Usually he won't have to work weekends.
Hopefully I'll talk to you later.
Answer: they think we are very stupid, and some of us are. Talk about a case of "the soft bigotry of low expectations." You can't out-ignorant the ignorant. I'm venting and ranting and beside myself with the whole of it. They consistently make a game of this country, and worse yet, they consistently win at it.
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