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Women's Suffrage was an economic and political reform that gave women the right to vote. There were many pioneers to such a campaign: Lydia Chapin Taft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony. For 70 years these women and many others struggled to secure the right for women to vote in this country.
Now, I feel that with Gov. Palin's Vice-Presidential nomination for the Republican Party has knocked the women's movement back to the 17th century. My rationale on this is that there has been a clear double-standard taking place in this election in regards to Gov. Palin. For so long women have fought and many still continue to fight to be considered equal to the their male counterparts. Being able to establish that women can operate in a male dominated world.
So, why is the McCain campaign wanting Gov. Palin to get "special treatment"? Why isn't Gov. Palin taking more questions? Why isn't she doing more interviews? Why isn't she giving us more substance instead of these rehearsed beauty pageant answers? Why did the McCain camp want the Vice-Presidential debate rules altered for her?
Do the rules not apply to her? If not, how come? If Gov. Palin is such a reformer and a maverick. If she is so confident and ready to become the 2nd most powerful leader of America, then why is she in hiding? Gov. Palin plays hide-n-go-seek better than Osama Bin Laden.
Why is it when the media does ask her the tough (yet valid questions), the media is being sexist or treating her unfair? I mean let's get real. And what's even worse, you actually have women voters out there buying into this shit. This shit is utterly ridiculous and absurd.
Come on ladies, are you really that stupid? Are women so desperate to put one of their own in office that we would overlook everything?
When did having a vagina become the #1 qualifying factor for getting a job? This election is nothing but a gigantic job interview. She's interviewing for the biggest job of her life as well as the lives of the American people. Because how she does in office will have an adverse effect on our lives.
Gov. Palin should be treated just like any other individual who has been in her position. Reflect back to 1984 Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman Vice-Presidential nominee to a major party. Ms. Ferraro did not hide from the media. She did not shy away from questions. She campaigned on her own.
So, why can't Gov. Palin do the same? Gov. Palin doesn't go anywhere with Daddy McCain holding her hand.
I'm sorry, if McCain has to hold your hand constantly. And if you have to do an emergency field trip to the United Nations and get a crash course in Foreign Policy-----YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED NOR PREPARED TO BECOME THE NEXT VICE-PRESIDENT OR POTENTIAL PRESIDENT.
Remember what Rudy Giuiliani said during the Republican Convention "This is not time for on the job training."
So, please please ...stop lowering the bar for Gov.Palin. Make her work for this. Stop acting like the women's suffrage never took place.
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Posted by Destined on 2008-09-24 13:10:35 | Rating: | Views: 58
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I agree with this!
When Hillary Clinton was up against Obama during the prelims, she was cut no slack, no special treatment. In fact, quite the opposite occurred; protesters showing up with signs that read "do my laundry", etc... Unfair, and I wouldn't wish that exposure on anyone.
However, now that Palin has been rolled out, to even ask questions regarding her qualifications begs screams from the right of "sexism". She being holed up, unable or unwilling to take questions from the press and this begs the question from everyone with a brain: why is she not coming forth to answer any questions?
As a woman, I was feeling like the nomination of Palin was made to passify me--a female R-leaning-independent voter. Yet, it was an insult in my opinion, to suggest, that Palin, with her limited experience in the global stage as being a likely substitute for Clinton. A) issues are very different; B) experience very different; C) what she represents for female voters... you guessed it, very different. For me, the introduction of Palin and a viable candidate was not only insulting to female voters but suggested something else... that women do not vote with their mind wrapped around issues, but rather, look for some physical similarity instead. The tit vote?
I balked at this, at first,... but now, I read and hear woman after woman state that she was initially for Hillary and now is giving her vote to McCain because of... and only because of... Palin. What!? How could any rational Clinton voter look to Palin and see representation of the same ideas/values/philosophies/platforms? One couldn't, frankly... which begs yet another question... Are most women really that freakin' simple?
If Palin was not meant as a Clinton substitution, but rather a push toward some other Republican agenda... fine. But, let's let her out of the bag guys... let her talk. All this preface about "control" and "fixing gaffs" really does speak to the Rep campaigns overall mistrust of Palin and of her abilities to begin with.
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Posted by KateTheShrewd
on 2008-09-24 15:33:26
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