From Seneca Falls to … Sarah Palin?

Kanan Divecha, Mumbai, India
Do you think American women are THAT stupid? It's the hype! I am a mother of 2 and Palin's presence disgusts me big time. If Mccain were to pick someone else I would vote for him. Aftre all, he is more experienced. By picking Palin, he might get a bump in the poll but that's as good as it gets for the Republicans. But it also shows his poor judgement. He is 72 and a cancer survivor. By picking Palin he is telling America that this amature will be our next presiden if he can't make it thru his term. He needs to send Palin packing NOW. He just lost a vote from a woman (me) because of Plain, oh sorry, Palin. Also check out this website "www.womenagainstpalin.com" . We want the right to choose, not to be brought back to the Dark Age when Bible was the only textbook, and a woman could not make her own decision to terminate a pregnancy if she got knocked up by her own brother or father.... Palin is a disgrace to women, to mothers and to career women around the nation. She would not get my vote.

LORIW- Obama/Biden are pro-choice, not pro-abortion. You conservatives aways find ways to distort the truth. Factcheck (a nonpartisan group that check facts on election campagin ads) found that the Mccain campaign run false ads agains Obama 80% of the time vs Obama's 20%, prompting another article in Washington Post to urge Obama "to stretch the truth as much as the Mccain campaign" to fight back..

I was in church today talking to some of the congregation and we were talking about politics. The church had a voter registration in the main hall where many were actually changing their party preference to republican from democrat. I truly think people are tired of the liberal movement and are convinced that the Palin/McCain ticket is the way to go, especially with the Evangelicals. The Pastor encouraged everyone to vote and take a stand for the country. In God we trust. Did anyone notice how the Democrats and Obama especially does not refer to God in his speeches or at the convention. He calls himself a Christian yet he is afraid to offend or utter the word God?

People on here are saying Palin does not have enough experience to be V.P.!! Obama is running for President and has no experience! Lets think about it Obama needs no experience to be president but Palin needs experience to be V.P. So let;s not vote for either of these 2 candidates! Vote McCain!!!

The Women's Movement has always been about capturing rights for women; the rights that should accrue to all humans. The right to vote, own property, work outside the home, get an education, run for office; in other words, the right to have choices. Does this mean that women must prove that they can do everything in order to justify the fact that they have choices? Does this mean that it is unfair to ask the question "How is it possible for a woman, who has chosen to have five children, possible fulfill the commitment she and her husband made to them when they brought them into the world?"

Further, until being female and being asked what you know about relevant topics is not perceived as off-limits, women really aren't equal. Would we really consider a man with the limited credentials possessed by Gov. Palin as qualified for the position of VP?

~~~ TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA ~~~~~
LADIES, WE'LL HAVE OUR CHANCE ANOTHER DAY. IT'S JUST NOT NOW!! AND WHEN WE DO, IT WILL BE A WOMAN WHO WILL HAS IMPECCABLE EXPERIENCE, AND CREDENTIALS TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY. SHE WILL MAKE US PROUD AS A GENDER.
UNTIL THEN, VOTE - OBAMA/BIDEN '08!

Let's put this into perspective. One of the services that almost every American (with the exception of a few hardcore Libertarians, I suppose) agree that our government should provide is policing and investigation into crime, especially of a violent nature. Rape, one of the most difficult to prosecute, disproportionately affects women--young women, in fact. If Palin wants to play fierce mother hen in her stump speeches, I suggest she explain how it is that she wouldn't do everything in her mayoral power to make sure that rapists be caught and prosected.

I use to have alot of respect for you lori, but you amaze me everyday. Have you looked at people loosing their jobs and what jobs are offering now. Jobs being shipped overseas. NAFTA and CAFTA taking good jobs from American people. When you have McCain tell our American pilots that they make too much money. Now they are getting furloughed. People do get jobs lori, it's just that the top executives love to make more money and it's the working class that doesn't get the respect they deserve.

Let me see - Nancy Pelosi, who has a very very very low approval rating - something like 11% - has not had to endure this type of story by the bloggers. Ms. Pelosi has cost us so much MONEY by her obstinate and personal decision to not allow for safe drilling. Instead, we have a wonderful woman running for office and all the media can do is slam her. Its time to write some stories on Pelosi - uncovering her for what she is. A Democrat with a large family who never had to be subjeted by such abusive reporting.

So, let me get this straight. The Republicans think that women are such sheep that we will give up the rights our foremothers fought for which in my mind is the right to use our good judgement when exercising our vote. This is one woman who is not impressed by the Republicans pandering strategy. I will vote for a woman, a black, a martian if need be, but only if I feel they are qualified. Sarah Palin is most definately not qualified, and to think she could be a 'heart-beat' away from the oval office scares me.

Whoa, wait a minute hear women...I'm a 47 y.o white women in PA with 4 kids. I work full-time and was a Hillary supporter. But I am not abouit to switch to support another woman who has been lying through her teeth most of the time. Have you been even listening and watching the news and reading about what she's REALLY done in Alaska? It isn't all pretty and I really don't want someone who by merely getting a women into office puts us back with some of the rights we've fought so hard for. And having just lost a mother who had Alzheimer's not that long ago, I beleive in stem cell research, and certainly don't like the way their behaving in their campaign. Whoever said McCain didn't have honor anymore was right. Read everything you can people before you make this choice. She was asked on national TV (first interview with C. Gibson-you can see this piece on internet) how the proximity to Russia gave her more insight into what was happening there lately and she actually replied, "well their our neighbors, you know we can see Russia from Alaska." ok, maybe that's not a precise quote, but watch it yourselves! It's pretty darn close. It was the most ridiculous answer I've heard in ages! Then theres the cover up with the Troopergate, seriously, if she has nothing to hide, why not get it out in the open! It should be out their for us to know the truth, and the bridge to nowhere lie. It goes on and on. She's not a fiscal conservative, she put Wasila into major debt, hired lobbyists and has gotten millions in earmark monies! WAKE UP WOMEN. SHE IS NOT THE CHOICE TO REPRESENT US FIRST! IT WILL ONLY MAKE US LOOK BAD LATER!

Bottom line is people like Sarah and can relate to her. She is the only person of change and "one of the people". The electorate can see it and so can the shrilling leftists.

Being anti-abortion should not be synonymous to being against women's rights. The anti-abortion stance is about supporting the life of the child. Its ironic that many in our country are choosing a life-style of being vegetarians for ethical reasons (myself included), yet the killing of a human life (in the stage of life where we all once were, and without, you and I would not be reading this) has been made legal.

Except that Palin never said she went to Iraq, but Kuwait.

WHEN THE LIBERAL ELITE "MAIN STREAM MEDIA" INJECTS ITSELF INTO A NATIONAL US ELECTION, IT LEADS TO THE "LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES"

IF THERE'S WAS NO "MSM" BIAS AGAINST HILLARY, HILLARY WOULD BE THE US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND OBAMA WOULD BE THE VP CANDIDATE

IF THE TICKET IS CLINTON/OBAMA.....THERE IS NO SARAH PALIN EFFECT

IF THERE IS NO SARAH PALIN, THERE IS MCCAIN/ROMNEY REPUB TICKET

THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE 8 YEARS OF CLINTON/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE 8 YEARS OF OBAMA/KEANE ADMINSTRATION


BY US LIBERAL ELITE MEDIA BACKING OBAMA AND TRASHING HILLARY, THEY LOSE A POSSIBLE 16 YEARS IN POWER AND WILL PROBABLY NOW LOSE 8 OUT OF THE LAST 11 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

THE MSM DESERVES WHAT IT GETS

I???ve got a copy of ???McCain???s War on Women??? by Kate Sheppard right in front of me. It appeared in the magazine In These Times, August, 2008. Rather than spin new stuff I???m just going to type up some information that I found in this article, and readers can decide whether they still want to vote for McCain.

1. McCain opposes the Ledbetter Fair Play Act. In fact he told a New Orelas audience, ???It hard for them (women) to leave their families when they don???t have somebody to take care of them.???
Is he referring to Sarah Palin here??? Bear in mind that the Supreme Court rejected Lilly Ledbetter???s. If we appoint more judges like Alioto or Roberts, women who have been victims of flagrant sexual discrimination will not have the ghost of a chance to get justice

2. McCain voted against the proposal to expand SCHIPS in 2007, which would have expanded SCHIP???s coverage to pregnant women.

3. McCain has pledged to appoint Supreme Court judgest who will overturn Roe vs. Wade. Sarah Palin wants to ban all abortions, including cases of rape and incest.

4. McCain also voted to require parental conest for teenagers who want access to contraceptives. He voted to abolish funding for birth control and gynecological care for low-income women - a big reason that our infant mortality rate is higher than Cuba???s, and the highest in the industrial world.

When I look at this data, my gut level straight talk reply is that any woman who supports McCain is about a stupid as a Texas high school cheerleader who puts out for the star quarterback just before the big game without the appropriate ???protection.???. But then again, teenage shot gun marriages are back in style, albeit in the real world the vast majority of baby daddies hit and run.

And, I don???t want to be called some sort of evil, elitist liberal.

So, ladies. Look at the list. Is this what youwant? If it is vote for McCain. I could, of course, quote George Bernard Shaw, ???Beware of what you wish for, it might come true.??? But then again I don???t want to get trashed for telling the truth.

If women don???t like this list, they???d better vote for Obama as well as his Democratic allies. Democrats really give women an offer they can???t refuse.

When FMLA was started by Bill Cllinton, women who gave birth stayed home to take care of their new born and get paid. Since Bush took office, he has reduced the amount of time a woman can take time off and you don't get paid. This is what the Republicans do to take care of the big corporation and John and Sarah approves this measure.