SARAH PALIN

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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gq0DV1wU3B9BBw_jvkU-wFAC87yg

National Organization for Women is endorsing the Obama-Biden ticket. NOW very, very rarely endorses in a general election, but in this case, we realized that a woman who very well might be elected is not a Democratic Party candidate. There's no question that a lot of women think it's a great thing for a woman to be running for vice president, but what we really want is for the Democratic Party to win the White House.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24344947-5013948,00.html

[The attacks regarding "the Bush doctrine" in the Charlie Gibson interview were] laid bare by the author of the term the Bush doctrine, Charles Krauthammer.

As Krauthammer explains, the term has undergone at least four distinct iterations: fiorst t describe Bush's unilateralism, second to describe his determination in the war on terror, third to describe pre-emptive intervention and fourth to describe Bush's agenda of making the promotion of democracy the centrepiece of his foreign policy.

It is also the case that neither Bush nor any senior member of his administration has ever referred to a Bush doctrine. Foreign policy analysts such as Krauthammer, universally acknowledged as the first person to have used the term, have used it in various contexts. Bush's enemies have used it as a catch-all abuse phrase to describe anything they don't like in his foreign policy.

In the US, the term is also used to mean Bush's unwillingness to allow members of his administration to testify before congress, or to surrender documents. In other words, Palin's response was the only sensible response any politician could have made. Only the true partisan or the provincially ignorant could manufacture it into a gaffe.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/14/BAU112SFSU.DTL&type=politics

Rock star vs. rock star. Inexperienced vs. inexperienced. Newcomer vs. newcomer. Change vs. change.
His "change" is East Coast intellectual. Her "change" is NASCAR.
His change is wine and cheese. Her change is mayonnaise by the gallon.

And notice how everyone is calling her Sarah Palin - not Gov. Palin. That's not good for the Democrats. It shows a certain familiarity that goes beyond just issues or her knowledge of the "Bush Doctrine." Heck, even I didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was when Charlie Gibson asked her about it the other night on her first national TV interview.

And forget the comedy, Barack. You are not naturally funny and you do not speak "street." You speak like a professor. And you do not know how to set up a joke. That "lipstick on a pig" line clearly backfired. If you had said, "As John McCain said about Hillary Clinton's health care ... lipstick on a pig is still a pig," at least you would have had a frame of reference to fall back on. You didn't, you left yourself left wide open and you got nailed. Now everything you say will be double-examined for sexism.

http://thenewagenda.net/2008/09/14/why-the-attacks-on-sarah-palin-are-the-best-argument-for-voting-for-her/

Every day, almost every hour, another frantic hater chimes in. It’s not enough for them to disagree with Palin’s policies or complain that Republicans are wrong-headed.

The Sarah-haters aren’t even interested in her actual policies; if they were, they could easily spend a few minutes with Google and learn the facts, instead of feverishly repeating lurid rumors (no, she’s not anti-contraception; no, she doesn’t believe in abstinence-only sex ed; no, she doesn’t think rape victims should have to pay for their own rape kits; no, she doesn’t think the dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago; no, she doesn’t reject evolution; no, she didn’t ban books; no, she isn’t against equal rights - in fact she is very much in favor of gender equality and is raising her kids that way; no, she doesn’t deny that sexism exists - in fact she’s spoken at length and with intelligence on the obstacles faced by women politicians; and on and on and on.)

But the haters don’t care about Palin’s political positions. They’re driven by some inchoate impulse to crucify the woman herself. To rape her with words.

She’s a slut. She’s a skank. She’s a cow. She’s white trash. She’s a redneck. She’s a moron.

Photoshopped images abound: Palin as a dominatrix (Salon), Palin in a bikini (Huffington Post), Palin in cheesecake poses (everywhere). An “action figure” is made in her likeness, except it’s dressed as some kind of pornified schoolgirl.

And all of this is done gleefully. The nation is having itself a grand ol’ witch-burning party. It reminds me of that picture from Indiana in the 20s: the crowd of smiling white folks milling around under a tree where a black man has been lynched. Hey, isn’t this fun?

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Last updated: 15:52, Tuesday, September 16, 2008