Warner: Palin proves women have arrived

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    oil alternative wrote:
    Pretty much like the world series!

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    yeah that one always makes me giggle. :D
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  • decides2dream
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    brokenarrow wrote:
    Isn't it amazing? And yes, in all respects the author hit the nail on the head. She's just as good as Georgie on a certain level isn't she?

    :::sigh:::: and look at where Georgie ended up.




    crap/shit/fuck/ass/this/makes/political/tourettes/syndrome/rear/its/ugly/head/again :D

    EXACTLY.
    this article really says it. maybe it IS true, we have finally reached our 'equality' if a ho-hum female candidate makes the ticket. :rolleyes: i however see it as mere window-dressing, using a bland and ineffective candidate simply b/c of her gender, so really......it's even worse. blah.


    and this:

    Donny Deutsch, the ad executive turned talk show host, put it less elegantly on CNBC right after the Republican convention. “Women want to be her, men want to mate with her,” he said, describing Palin as a “new creation that the feminist movement has not figured out in 40 years.”

    And this was the crux of the Palin Phenomenon: she was a breakthrough woman who threatened no one.

    The McCain crowd would have you believe that Palin is the perfect representation of the post-feminist woman, a candidate whose very existence marks the end of feminism — of the old “liberal feminist agenda,” as McCain himself has put it — and the start of a more global kind of triumph for the great mass of women.


    NO fucking way would i ever want to BE her, not by a long-shot. and the end of feminism? why? i think the liberal feminist agenda is still a GOOD thing, for ALL. equality for ALL is a noble goal and for the benefit of society. palin is NO triumph for women, at all.....and even if elected - ack! - i will NEVEr see her as a role-model for women, at all. she is the antithesis of anything i would want in ANY candidate, regardless of gender. the fact that she IS female actually makes it worse.......
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  • Dylan Stone
    Dylan Stone Posts: 1,145
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Or you skipped over this part of the quote:

    "She’s actually, as Colin Powell carefully said, quite “distinguished” — for her looks, her grace and charm, her ability to connect with an audience, her ambition and her drive. Those are admirable, even enviable qualities."

    Looks. grace and charm and ability to connect with an audience.

    That was Britney Spears a few years ago... before the head shaving of course... but I hear she's coming back.

    Britney in 2012!!!!

    Makes sense using your logic bootlegger! :rolleyes:
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    And her only ambition seems to be ambition.


    And shoes.
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    GTFLYGIRL wrote:
    Looks. grace and charm and ability to connect with an audience.

    That was Britney Spears a few years ago... before the head shaving of course... but I hear she's coming back.

    Britney in 2012!!!!

    Makes sense using your logic bootlegger! :rolleyes:

    Hmmn....you just ignored the point of my multiple posts. The very things that Colin Powell said about Palin are the only reasons that people are voting for Obama. He can talk and charm people. It doesn't matter that he is only a first term senator. Apparently 2 years in the Senate makes you superqualified, while 2 years as a governor (an executive position) doesn't. It is fine if you want to vote for Obama because of hope, but don't say that Obama is qualified while Palin is not. They both hardly have a record to run on.
  • Cosmo
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    I think it's admirable... her role as Govenor of Alaska. It's a fit.
    ...
    I believe her main problem is... the more she speaks, the more apparent it becomes that she belongs in Alaska.
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Hmmn....you just ignored the point of my multiple posts. The very things that Colin Powell said about Palin are the only reasons that people are voting for Obama. He can talk and charm people. It doesn't matter that he is only a first term senator. Apparently 2 years in the Senate makes you superqualified, while 2 years as a governor (an executive position) doesn't. It is fine if you want to vote for Obama because of hope, but don't say that Obama is qualified while Palin is not. They both hardly have a record to run on.



    gawd, i am sooo tired of reading people typing that? you TRULY believe and KNOW that EVERY person who is choosing to vote for obama will do so SOLEY for superficial BS? spare me. and sure, get a clue. his charisma, looks ability to connect with an audience sure play a role....of COURSE.....being an effective public speaker IS important, but even more important is his views, his idea, what he'd like to inact, etc.....and yea, crazy....MANY of us will be voting for that.


    as to the whole 'qualified' bit, it really depends on your perspective. what is on your resume only says so much, and also where and how you serve adds a lot more to work with and interpret.
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