Welcome, Guest!

Sarah Palin and the glass ceiling

Dear Sarah Palin,

Years spent on developing a fake and overexaggerated Southern accent still have not prepared me for the words I would like to say in it: YOU DON’T REPRESENT ME!

Call me a militant feminist, or delusional, or “Lucifer” if you will, but I supported Hillary Clinton in her bid for president. Not that it really matters, since I can’t vote, but I felt incredibly confident in her ability to run the country.

And yes, after she was edged out, or “slaughtered” depending on your views, I was a bit upset. I was nervous about a bit of early ambiguity in Sen. Barack Obama’s policy plans, troubled by the patronizing "Youth for Obama" movement the mainstream news channels wouldn’t stop raving about, and honestly a bit angry over the sexist media coverage criticizing her for being "shrill" and "weak."

But there was never any doubt in my mind that Barack Obama was the best remaining choice for America, simply based on his positions on the economy, global warming, the war on terror, tax reform, education, and the list goes on.

And after all her years of hard work, less than a week after my candidate publicly throws her full support behind Sen. Obama, a little-known governor from Alaska who has neither the accomplished record of Sen. Clinton, her years of hard work, nor a similar position on well, anything, is thrown onto a major party ticket and claims that she will continue to fight and break the metaphorical "glass ceiling" so we can have a woman in high office.

And we’re all supposed to rejoice and support a gun-toting, allegedly corrupt, inexperienced, social conservative, just because she’s a woman?!

As a Hillary supporter, I am offended. As a female, I am embarrassed. And as a human being, I am disgusted.

Make no mistake about it. The nomination of Gov. Palin isn’t breaking the glass ceiling; it’s just raising it out of our sight.

Comments

well written blog entry,

well written blog entry, laura.

Lor Sligar's picture

i like

this blog, laura.

Erin Hayes's picture

LAURA

I LOVE YOU.

Two thumbs up.

Sarah Palin

Its funny how much people hate sarah Palin and they try to create just to knock her. I think mccain is gonna win and i was supporting obama till last week but no more.

Sarah Palin is possibly the

Sarah Palin is possibly the worst veep pick in the history of the United States. Thus, "creating" scandal about her is more than warranted. After all, if McCain dies, we would have a woman who supports the mass slaughter of wolves from the air as our president. That, and she has no experience whatsoever and is being investigated in numerous corruption scandals. So there's that.

Rezko??

Palin has more experience than Obama, and did someone hear the name Rezko?

Isaac Chambers's picture

So what you're saying is

So what you're saying is that you care more about buzz and distractions than real issues like the economy.

"That, and she has no

"That, and she has no experience whatsoever and is being investigated in numerous corruption scandals."
Buzz and distractions are what i replied to.

Isaac Chambers's picture

Here are the facts:

Here are the facts:
1. Palin has comparatively little experience: no foreign policy experience, little national experience
2. Palin is being investigated in one corruption scandal.

Those are fair arguments because they have to do with her ability to serve as the president, should she be required to, and how she exercises her executive power/judgment.

Associating Obama with Rezko, for which he is only tangentially related to, and is certainly not responsible for his actions, is a very poor attempt to diminish Obama's qualifications to be president.

I agree with one of your

I agree with one of your earlier posts, Palin should be compared to Biden.

Experience at what? Being

Experience at what? Being the mayor of a small town in Alaska and banning books from libraries? Did someone say "troopergate?"

Not that I actually support

Not that I actually support Mcain and Palin, but using the argument that Palin has no experience as a reason not to vote for Mcain is a bit ridiculous since Obama's experience is also limited.

Isaac Chambers's picture

I think the comparison is

I think the comparison is being made because one of the fundamentals of McCain's campaign before Palin was announced was experience. Now that's he's picked someone that is at the very most equal to Obama in experience, McCain's platform looks hypocritical. I agree though that it's a mistake to compare Obama to Palin, though. Palin should be compared with Biden.

Biden

Obama made a huge error by picking Biden as his VP. Obama had an ad supporting clean coal, Biden just made a short speech to an activist saying that he did not support clean coal tech. Also, Biden just shot down one of Obama's attack ads against McCain. I think that Biden is really undermining Obama's campaign.

Isaac Chambers's picture

I disagree strongly.

I disagree strongly. Although I would not say Biden was necessarily the best pick, Biden is a very solid pick. If you want to get picky (no pun intended) about the Vice-Presidential candidates Biden trumps Palin in almost every way. Keep in mind that your same argument, that Biden is undermining Obama's campaign could be used against Palin and McCain. McCain built his platform almost entirely on "experience" and "honor." Palin weakens McCain's claim to the experience throne and McCain's negative tone of his campaign and his attack ads in the past few weeks undermined the "honor" aspect.

Required Sacrifice?

If MCain is elected, dies, and Sarah Palin becomes president, not only will abortion, sexual education in schools, public sale of birth control, gun control, CO2 control, and gay marriage be abolished, but we will be forced to sacrifice exactly one goat a day to the one true god. (A.K.A. Carl Rove)

Palin

More like one moose.

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <i> <b> <p> <br> <br />
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

Word Verification
Please verify that you are human by correctly translating the image into text.
Copy the characters (respecting upper/lower case) from the image.