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Free Sarah Palin!

September 24, 2008 at 9:36 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , , ,

I guess Hillary Clinton was right – sexism in the presidential election really is rampant.  Campbell Brown, a CNN anchor, weighs in with this hard-hitting commentary:

Frankly I have had it, and I know a lot of other women out there who are with me on this. I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin. It has to end.

She was in New York on Tuesday meeting with world leaders at the U.N. And what did the McCain campaign do?

They tried to ban reporters from covering those meetings. And they did ban reporters from asking Gov. Palin any questions.

I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.

This woman is from Alaska for crying out loud. She is strong, she is tough, she is confident. And you claim she is ready to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. If that is the case, then end this chauvinistic treatment of her now. Allow her to show her stuff.

Allow her to face down those pesky reporters just like Barack Obama did today, just like John McCain did today. Just like Joe Biden has done on numerous occasions. Let her have a real news conference with real questions.

By treating Sarah Palin differently from other candidates in this race, you are not showing her the respect she deserves.

Free Sarah Palin.

Free her from the chauvinistic chains you are binding her with.

Sexism in this campaign must come to an end. Sarah Palin has as much a right to be a real candidate in this race as the men do.

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Clearly, it’s still a pig

September 10, 2008 at 12:31 pm · Filed under Politics ·Tagged , , ,

Stop the presses!!!

Barack Obama has been saying in his stump speeches that McCain and Palin can try to dress up their records to look like reformers, but they are still regular politicians, in the mold of George W. Bush.  There’s a cute but offensively sexist (really??) saying for this assertion….how does it go….”You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”  And Obama used it on the stump yesterday to illustrate his point.

All kinds of bloggers and even media types are crying foul– calling the joke a slur against women. And it’s not like anyone in the McCain campaign, least of all McCain himself, would ever use those words, especially to talk about a female politician who was running for the highest office in the land.  Because that would be offensive and sexist, right?

Oops.

Enough.  This sort of gratituitous whining is unabashed reverse sexism.  It raises the barriers for women rather than lift them, and as a woman I couldn’t be more offended.  It seems to me that Team McCain want Sarah Palin to be the subject of every discussion, preferably of insults they can decry, because otherwise their candidacy goes back to being, well, boring.   So they trot out surrogates claiming that people are demeaning Sarah Palin as a woman! (I just heard an Oklahoma Congresswoman said that).  Nonsense.

Obama and company are clearly just demeaning Palin as an underqualified politician, period.  Sort of like how Karl Rove ripped on Tim Kaine when everyone thought he would be Obama’s veep pick.  If you haven’t seen the clip from the Daily Show, it is a must watch.  Bill O’Reilly kicks Jamie Lynn Spear’s MOTHER for bad parenting, then a couple months later, defends the honor of another mother of a pregnant teen.  Hmmmm…..

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