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  • Posted By: Dartay @ 09/14/2008 3:31:37 PM

    Sarah Palin is NOT a representative of what women want. She is the antiwoman movement because her personal beliefs would be a complete reversal of women's rights. She is a scary combination of bringing home the bacon that she shot, giving birth, governing a state, but using her power in deceptive practice. She is NOT a role model for women that I would be proud of. I was not pro-Obama, but I am now ANTI-Palin. VOTE DEMOCRAT and save the FEMALE GENDER!

    • Posted By: ihateeveryoneincludingyou @ 09/15/2008 12:25:13 AM

      I'm supposed to vote for two MEN to keep WOMEN safe from one of their own? Damn....that's funny!

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/14/2008 4:16:24 PM

    Hey obamamohammeds...got some good news...it's not ya'lls fault....you are all victims.....it's a sickness....

    Psychiatrist Confirms: Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
    As a clinical and forensic psychiatrist, Lyle Rossiter has treated over 1,500 patients and examined over 2,700 civil and criminal cases. Turning his hand to political psychopathology, the author of The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, has diagnosed an alarming percentage of the population as suffering from the grotesque form of mental derangement known by some as moonbattery.

    Among Rossiter's observations:

    Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded. Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.
    A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity ??? as liberals do. A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population ??? as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state ??? as liberals do.
    The roots of liberalism ??? and its associated madness ??? can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind. When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.
    Basically liberalism is a willful failure to mature beyond adolescence that can have catastrophic consequences for society. With luck, the official diagnosis of this disease by a mental health professional will facilitate the search for a cure.

    NOBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: j.Boski @ 09/14/2008 5:56:23 PM

      Anybody that can be FOOLED by ANY of these liars, thieves and crooks is a bigger FOOL!!! They are ALL, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or whatever label they go by, liars, thieves and crooks. It will not make ONE WHET of difference in your life no matter which crook wins. What difference would it have made in your life if you hadn't even KNOWN who the President was for the last 40 years? Can you answer that
      HONESTLY? Can ANY of you tell me 3 laws ANY Congress has passed that REALLY benefited you or your family? How about 1? Can ANY of you tell me ONE law they've EVER passed telling you that you could DO something? No, it's always telling you what you CAN'T do. You're a FOOL to give ANY of them a minute's thought! You're NEVER going to change anything by voting, and just replacing one CROOK with another one. And before you say "if you don't vote you don't have a say", or "if you don't like it leave" let me remind you: Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and the rest of those home boys didn't like what was going on either, but they didn't make a FOOL of themselves thinking "voting" would change it did they? And they didn't "leave" either. What passes for "politicians" today have ALL been bought and paid for before their name ever appears on a ballot. Don't you have more common sense than to be FOOLED by ANY of them? You'll be a lot better off taking care of your own business and not giving them a second thought. Except to change the channel when one of them comes on.

      • Posted By: ihateeveryoneincludingyou @ 09/15/2008 12:22:31 AM

        FMLA, Americans with Disabilities Act, Civil Rights Act. There's others but you only asked for three.

        As for laws that said that I could do something I couldn't before....well, there was that one that allows women to apply for and attend the service academies.....

  • Posted By: AMCNYC @ 09/14/2008 5:19:31 PM

    I don't think you mentioned that NEWSWEEK Poll showed 67%, or 69%, of women polled didn't realize Palin is against abortions after rape or incest. Just imagine, in a McCain-Palin administration, since she told Charlie Gibson /ABC that she would support McCain in reversing Roe v Wade If you or, god forbid, your daughter was raped by a serial rapist/even murderer there would be no available legal abortion. Your daughter would have to live with the trauma and horror of the rape every day for nine months, then give birth to the criminal's baby. That's monstrous.

    Under Palin we'd go back to dangerous backstreet illegal abortions and young women dying. Wait until the 30% of Hillary supporters and other thinking female Democrats find that out. In fact, stunningly, Palin supports Government control over a women's reproductive rights BUT, because the National Rifle Association supported her election (today's New York Times), she is against Government control of a gun owners' rights! They have absolutely BOTH said, on record, they'd reverse Roe v Wade. Does everyone realize the implication of this - reversing what our feminist sisters, including Hillary Clinton, have fought for.

    She's also a hypocrit. She's with Bush-McCain against spending on sex education for teens and ardently promotes "abstinence". However, neither she or her daughter respected abstinence. As you heard on CNN last night, she eloped with Tod Palin and less than eight months later delivered her full-term baby boy. Bristol just followed Mom's example - - both living examples that in the 21st century abstinence does not work In the 8 years of Bush, with no sex ed budgets only preaching about abstinence, US teen pregnancies have grown so much we're now #1 in the world. Here again, she'd enforce abstinence only education on other women's kids, depriving them of proper preventive education, but she the rules didn't apply either to her or her daughter and her daughter and baby father were paraded around the convention like celebrities. Whereas there was a big brouhaha when Jamie Lyn Spears got pregnant vs the pure and virginal she played on TV and how she had disapointed her young viewers.

    Palin lives by double standards. Once EVERY THINKING AMERICAN women gets news of Palin's disregard for women's rights, vs her support of gun owners' rights, and her hypocrisy over her anti-sex education/pro abstinence platform.....only the true right wing evangelicals or neocons should be left in her camp.
    She ain't no Hillary Clinton, no way. Hillary was genuinely, actively and devotedly PRO WOMEN and protective of our reproductive rights. But she is a terrific George Bush. Today the NYT, after many interviews conducted in Alaska, suggests there's a whole other persona in play that is not the carefully crafted public one we've been served up so far by camp McCain. Here's the link http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=sl

    • Posted By: ihateeveryoneincludingyou @ 09/15/2008 12:14:18 AM

      Knock it off already with that Roe v Wade scare tactic. It's been used to beat women over the head ever since Reagan, and it still stands. If it does get overturned, it would just return the question back to the states. Abortion won't be illegal overnight in America.

    • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/14/2008 6:36:43 PM

      I don't think women realized that Sarah Palin also wanted rape victims to pay for their own rape kit. She is very very out of touch.

  • Posted By: the_shelton @ 09/15/2008 12:04:49 AM

    If Palin wasn't at the pork barrel trough and did so mightily fight the federal handouts, then why hasn't she returned the 40 some million that was advanced to the state for the bridge to nowhere? I think they spent it on other things. Nice work if you can get it, fight the federal handout like you are some crusader and then take the money and spend it anyway. Tell me how that is right?

  • Posted By: minnie08 @ 09/14/2008 9:42:10 PM

    Anybody with Common Sense can see that McCain only picked Palin thinking Women are Stupid and will pick
    Palin mainly because she is a woman. That is NOT putting your country First McCain!! Anybody who watched her interview with ABC, and the media documentation Exposing the Lies the McCain Campaign has been spreading, can see the ONLY RIGHT CHOICE IS OBAMA & BIDEN.

    • Posted By: ihateeveryoneincludingyou @ 09/15/2008 12:01:38 AM

      Gee, and I thought he picked her because she can shoot a moose.

    • Posted By: cobalt6 @ 09/14/2008 11:38:03 PM

      Minnieo8: Maybe McCain picked Palin because she is different than the rest of the candidates he could have picked! She is more like the average person that people can relate to! She has not been in politics for years, has children and is more like the average american! She could do more good for the american people than someone like Obama who has been working his way to run for president for years, the problem with Obama is that he did not choose his friends wisley and had he picked Hillary as his running mate he might have pulled this off!

  • Posted By: minnie08 @ 09/14/2008 11:56:15 PM

    " McCain/Palin = Bush/Cheney "
    No Thanks!

  • Posted By: trazer @ 09/13/2008 7:39:23 PM

    Why is it that the media - Carlie Gibson - absolutely refused to ask Palin about her wonderful understanding of energy issues/ There have been some amazing things she has done on the energy front that will help us with a very important issue. She is the one of the 4 who is an absolute expert. She has done the work and done a great job. Why can't the stupid bloggers get us a real news story on energy? This is something that will help with the economy, etc. Why - because Obama - Biden has no understanding of real change while Sarah Pallin does. Shame on the meida.

    • Posted By: minnie08 @ 09/14/2008 11:42:43 PM

      TO TRAZER *********** LET ME HELP TO ENLIGHTEN YOU ARE THE FACTS. **
      Obama / Biden want to take away the BILLIIONS OF DOLLARS OF TAX SUBSIDIES THE FEDERAL GOV'T GIVES BIG OIL EACH YEAR AND INVEST IT INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY, TAX CREDITS FOR INNOVATION, AND TRAINING FOR CLEAN ENERGY JOBS !! MCCAIN VOTED AGAINST TAKEN THE TAX SUBSIDIES FROM BIG OIL. BUT WHO PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW THAT BIG OIL HAS GIVEN MCCAIN AND MOST REPUBLICANS MILLIONS IN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. **

    • Posted By: minnie08 @ 09/14/2008 11:37:24 PM

      TO TRAZER ~~~~~~~~~~
      Obviously Trazer you have not done your research. Check the recent articles our their in major publications.
      Palin has NOT done very much. Her predicesor initiated the pipeline in Alaska. All Palin did was negotiate more money out of the oil companies for her state. That's it. Moreover, they haven't even Broken ground yet! And the article I read said that is will take YEARS before the pipeline is completed.
      Oh, and by the way...... Drilling for more oil is Backwards! We need Plug ins, and alternative means of energy. If they drilled tomorrow, we wouldn't see any oil for 10-30 yrs from now and only a few cents at the pump! That's It! I does however, make the oil companies even richer and happier. Is that what you want?

    • Posted By: CountryFirst @ 09/14/2008 10:15:59 AM

      "Drill baby drill" - that's Palin's energy strategy/"expertise". Nuff said. Charlie Gibson could have asked her to do the math, but that would be too liberal, sexist and condescending for her.

  • Posted By: cm4297 @ 09/13/2008 8:31:29 PM

    How does Palin represent Feminism. She only speaks when she's told. She's not allowed to voice her true political stances. For example, she has put her anti-stem cell research beliefs on hold because she followed the instructions of the men who are attempting to mold her. She's flaunted like one of McCain's accessories. How is this Feminism?

    • Posted By: Woman citizen @ 09/13/2008 9:44:32 PM

      She grants us the ability to finally have enough power to corrupt the vote.
      She is a Veep during a Dem Congress.
      The news and change is that Hillary will not have the mountain of femicide to climb in 2012.

      The arguement of experience won't hold up with Obama. I am insulted that we are all supposed to believe that because he is male without a decent resume, he is more qualified than women with a better one.

      Palin 2008
      Clinton /Hirano 2012
      Enjoy taking power girls and actually having enough to corrupt something so femicidal.

      • Posted By: minnie08 @ 09/14/2008 11:00:33 PM

        I'm a white middle-class voter, and will NOT VOTE for Palin!! I voted for Hillary too!
        Palin is NOT Qualified!! Biden has many more years of experience in the US Senate, and is the congressional Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee!! Obama was a State Senator for (7) years and a US Senator for (4)..plus has a Harvard law degree. Both Obama & Biden have National Legislative experience !! Palin has ZERO..... Nada!! If I were recruiting for this high level position I would NOT choose Palin!! I'm ashamed that you as a fellow female would choose Palin based on her Gender and not on qualications. Hillary is a candidate we can All be Extremely Proud as a candidate for future elections, because everybody knows she is enormously Qualified!! Palin is NOT!! She would embarrass us all!!
        Palin was a mayor of teeny weeny town, and has only been a governor for 19 months. BIG DEAL!! She has NO National Experience, she has NO Foreign policy experience, and she and McCain are getting called under the carpet (Finally) by the Media. The more they dig, the more lies and deception they find out about McCain and Palin.

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/14/2008 9:51:36 PM

    Multiple readers clued us into the latest incredibly disappointing fact about Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin: under her mayoral leadership in Wasilla, Alaska, rape victims were charged for their own rape kits. Op-Edna explains:

    A rape kit is a sexual assault forensic evidence kit, used to collect DNA that can be used in criminal proceedings to assist in the conviction of those who commit sex crimes. The kit is performed as soon as possible after a sexual assault or attack has been committed. It is usually humiliating and uncomfortable for the victim-imagine enduring that and then paying $1200 just so that the criminal who assaulted you might be caught.

  • Posted By: chindognyc @ 09/14/2008 9:27:48 PM

    Why don't women like sharenews and loriw and holy roller explain to me, why did Sarah Palin want to charge women who were raped a rape kit. If she is so great, why would she do such a thing.

  • Posted By: trazer @ 09/13/2008 7:17:04 PM

    Women want writers who are not trying to put us back to the dark ages. So far, Newsweek thinks women should not get schooled, should not go to the work, should not be successful.l The shameful attacks by the media are rampant. The media is condescending - Women with large,k fake, heavily painted lips? With such writing in this story it is truly obvious OBAMA has called all WOMEN pigs. He hates women. He and Biden (talk - talk - talk man0 and no action is stupid. Shame on Jullia Baird for her poor writing - her stupid story -She is downright stupid.

    • Posted By: gloria321 @ 09/14/2008 9:26:29 PM

      Where are you getting your facts. You must be one of McCain advisors. YOu Republicans are a bunch of distorted liars. Obama has a wife and two beauty girls. you are a sick ass****. You must ber a redneck ./

  • Posted By: fstanczak @ 09/14/2008 9:21:37 PM

    I find it ironic that the McCain campaign claims to support the equality of women while it seeks to shield Palin from the kind of media scrutiny about her qualification to be vice president that is generally to be expected by any candidate. Respect is earned, not granted as an entitlement because of an identification wtth a particular group - be it men, women, white black or asian. Palin's poor performance, marked by her inability to recognize the "Bush Doctrine" , suggests a cynical attempt to stoke the personality cult that Palin has created in hopes of concealing from the voting public Palin's grave shortcommings.

  • Posted By: melbee1971 @ 09/14/2008 8:38:28 PM

    I'm one FEMALE Republican that WON'T be voting for McCain, now that he picked SarahPalin. Sarah Palin is an opportunist who knows how to pose for the cameras at the right place at the right time. We've all worked with someone like this. All style, no substance.

    Thanks, but no thanks.

    Seriously, is Palin the best female candidate the Republican Party could offer? I think most progressive and educated women hopefully will dismiss Palin and see her for what she really is: Eye candy with good communication skills! I'm a woman. Call ME sexist. I don't care.

    Sarah Palin majored in mass communications and she knows how to talk to a camera.

    But a heartbeat away from being President of the United States? There are so many more qualified men and women. As a woman, I'm insulted for anyone who would fall for this nonsense. The press needs to do their job and analyze her and her record without fear of being labeled sexist.

    • Posted By: bar0718 @ 09/14/2008 9:03:59 PM

      Thank God, to hear the voice of reason.

  • Posted By: VoteObama08 @ 09/14/2008 8:07:28 PM

    Word is going to get out about what an extremist Palin is. She makes Cheney look like a moderate. She opposed abortion EVEN IN THE CASE OF RAPE OR INCEST. That's downright scary. Oh, you're gay? Palin thinks that prayer can cure that! And, of course, there's the environment. Palin thinks that global warming is farce conjured up by the democrats.

    • Posted By: melbee1971 @ 09/14/2008 8:58:51 PM

      Don't forget the book banning inquiry at the library. Sarah Palin is the kind of person who would want to ban a book in a library because it offended ultra-Christian people. Behind this is the idea that people shouldn't be educated, shouldn't be allowed to read, and can't make up their minds for themselves.

      In a religious fundamentalist perspective, human beings need to be protected from any ideas that threaten the narrow fundamentalist explanation of the world. Books about homosexuality must be banned because if we ban the ideas we can ban the issue.

      WAKE UP AMERICA! The Republican Party is no longer the party of conservatism and conservation. The Republican Party has been taken over by far right zealots who seek to push an agenda that the majority of America opposes under the guise of Christian values.

  • Posted By: ksjyww @ 09/14/2008 8:07:00 PM

    newness? what is mean the newness?

  • Posted By: maq1 @ 09/14/2008 7:21:30 PM

    Question for John McCain: Do you really consider it a service to your country to ask the country to take a big chance on Sarah Palin, to ask us to believe she will learn effectively on the job? to be the Vice President, and maybe President? Is that a service to your country or is that a political game? If you believe Obama is inexperienced, why would you not pick a VP who is ready to lead on day one, as you purport to be? If you ask me, you've done a serious disservice to your country and you lack the judgment and temperament to hold the highest office in the land. Please recognize this and retract your nomination of Sarah Palin.

  • Posted By: dunnhaupt @ 09/14/2008 4:48:09 PM

    Policy will NOT trump Gender, but RACE will.

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 09/14/2008 4:39:14 PM

    As just about everyone knows by now, Charlie Gibson of ABC News had the first interview with Gov. Sarah Palin since her acceptance of the VP nomination.

    If you think that there is no double standard in the media, just compare the questions Obama was asked by Gibson to the ones Gibson asked Palin, courtesy of Nancy Kallitechnis:

    Obama interview:

    How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
    How does it feel to win?
    How does your family feel about your winning, breaking a glass ceiling?
    Who will be your VP?
    Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
    Will you accept public finance?
    What issues is your campaign about?
    Will you visit Iraq?
    Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
    What did you think of your competitor's [Clinton] speech?


    Palin interview:

    Do you have enough qualifications for the job you???re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
    Aren't you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
    Questions about foreign policy
    -territorial integrity of Georgia
    -allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
    -NATO treaty
    -Iranian nuclear threat
    -what to do if Israel attacks Iran
    -Al Qaeda motivations
    -the Bush Doctrine
    -attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
    Is America fighting a holy war? (misquoted Palin)

    2008....the year that will be remembered as the year jounalism died........and it has cost Hussein the election...

    NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: nahummer @ 09/14/2008 3:31:47 PM

    Anybody who doesn't see that the Palin choice was an insult to women is blind or stupid. It was an obvious attempt to woo female democrats who felt betrayed by the Democratic party and are blinded by this betrayal to the gigantic differences between Clinton and Palin. If you missed the SNL skit comparing them, you should see it.
    www.theendisalwaysnear.blogspot.com

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