September 11, 2008
Sexism? Really? (A.B. Stoddard)
Loyal readers know I am loath to wade into discussions of women or women's issues, but it seems I have been scratching my head so much in the last week I may soon go bald.
So, apparently the entire news media and the Democratic Party are sexist. Could someone explain this to me? I know I am inviting the wrath of womankind here, but I didn't understand it when Hillary Clinton cried foul on this at the end of her campaign and I don't understand it now. Watching Palin-mania unfold, I was struck by a contradiction that rendered the word "sexist" pretty meaningless.
Why? Because with Sarah Palin's historic nomination we suddenly have a new set of rules. Apparently women with five children don't face any special challenges in their job, least of all the second most challenging job on the planet, because women are the same as men and the mother and father roles are interchangeable. To ask about this balancing act is considered sexist. However, women are not the same as men when it comes to our qualifications because no one is allowed to question Palin's readiness to be president — they way we would have that of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine had Obama chosen him — because anyone who asks is sexist.
So, I await some clarification. In the meantime, I wrote in my column this week about the women who believe Hillary and Sarah are interchangeable. Don't underestimate this group; they could turn the election. Let me know your thoughts, but only if you read the whole thing.
COULD THE MCCAIN OF 2000 STOMACH THE TACTICS OF THE MCCAIN OF 2008? Ask A.B. returns Monday, Sept. 15, and I want to hear from you. Please join my weekly video Q & A by sending your questions and comments to askab@thehill.com. Thank you.
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There is nothing off-bounds about how Palin and her husband manage their family of five while they both juggle careers simultaneously.
It is a legitimate question, as is the question of her daughter's untimely pregnancy about how much the members of this family communicate with each other.
After all, the saying, "charity begins at home" means what you do/learn at home, you carry out into the world.
As a public servant, there is nothing wrong with such questions.
There may be something wrong when public officials use the "sexism" chant as a red-herring to divert attention from the questions rather than providing an answer.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 11, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
I don't know if Gov. Tim Kane's wife works a full time job, but if she did, I think such questions would be legitimate as well for him.
It would give the candidate an opportunity to explain how well they are at multi-tasking.
Too bad Palin and her handlers chose to take the negative tack.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 11, 2008 @ 1:15 pm
It's very simple AB. Hillary played the gender card every opportunity and chance she got. Her whole campaign, indeed her whole life, was based on her gender as a victim identity candidate. Then along comes someone who doesn't have gender as her campaign so when someone makes that type of remark it simply appears more obvious. By the way, I see Joe Biden made a non sexist remark, stating that Hillary would have been a better choice then he for VP. Don't worry though, I don't think Sarah Palin will have any problem bringing home the bacon and frying Obama up in the pan.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 11, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
Fry Obama
Shame on you, Rosencrans, for calling Palin an African cannibal.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 11, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Who really cares if the questioning of Palin was "sexist"? It seemed vicious, as one baseless or exaggerated accusation after another appeared in the first few days of her candidacy. Clearly, the children of an active Vice President will get less maternal attention than children of a stay-at-home mom. What is this sudden concern for her children though? If she can do a good job as a Vice President and her children get less attention, what's it to the millions of people who only depend on her doing a good job?
Comment by Igor R. — September 11, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Anybody who has even one kid knows how much your life is consumed by their presence, especially when they are young.
If Palin's husband was not working it would not be an issue. I don't think we ever had a President or vice President with young children, and both parents working full time.
It is a legitimate FAMILY question, NOT A GENDER QUESTION.
Why doesn't Palin just tell us her husband intends to quit his job if she serves the country as VP?
It is our business, if she works for us, the people.
But apparently Palin and her political handlers think there is more to be gained by chanting "sexism" and turning the issue into a food fight.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 11, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
Fred: If that's what you took away from that you're further gone then I imagined.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 11, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
Let's see - when Ted Kennedy's kid crashes his car, hopped up on prescription drugs the answer is to elect both father and son to Congress.
But because Sarah Palin has a large family then clearly she's not capable.
There are issues to discuss people. There are questions to be asked of Palin just as there are questions the media still won't ask Obama.
Comment by Jay from Texas — September 11, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
Rosencrans
Respond to the point if you disagree. The debate is not about ME.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 11, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
JAY
You too are throwing out red-herrings.
Nobody defended Ted Kennedy with these events. Neither did we defend Rush Limbaugh's drug abuse, or Kemps gambling obsessions while preaching "virtue"
Stick to the issue, the points and counter-points.
You guys know this Rovian stuff is not going to fly this time, and you're worried Palin won't come out of it like "Sally Fields in Mooseburger Heaven."
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 11, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
AB — It's OBVIOUS you weren't part of the feminist movement. As someone who was turned down for employment in 1975 because I had small children — and that was the reason given — I must say that this "but what about the children" BS is sickening.
Absolutely sickening.
NO feminist would participate in it.
And yes, I read your other article. All of it.
I used to be a strong Democrat, until I saw how willingly the party throws women under the bus. No major male democrat stood up against the sexist comments thrown at Hillary, it took NOW and other feminists to do that.
I won't be voting for McCain/Palin — but neither will I participate in or condone sexist attacks on Governor Palin including the old stay-home-and-take-care-of-the-babies trash talk.
Too many Democrats are attempting to marginalize the governor of a state by sneeringly calling her a "hockey mom." Good God — what an embarrassment this party is.
I just read a comment on another message board that summed up for me what my party has become under Obama's so-called leadership. The young male Dem said: "A white trash shotgun wedding resulted in a knocked up daughter."
If that ain't sexism, honey — you tell me what is.
Comment by Pat — September 11, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
Fred: When you make idiotic comments you make it about you.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 11, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
I am not one of those people who votes based on identity or need the excitement of something new to get out and vote. Heck, I am a woman who has been with the "boring, old white guy" from the beginning. However, I recognize that many people are voting based on identity in this election and that some Hillary women will vote for McCain/Palin for that reason. My guess is that if Hillary won the primary and McCain selected Condoleezza Rice, some of Obama’s African American supporters would vote for the McCain/Rice ticket. I do not agree with this type of voting but do not judge in either case.
Regarding all of the fake outrage, I am sure President Clintons had a major shadenfreude moment watching Obama deal with Palin. Step back and remember when he said that Obama's description of his Iraq policy was a fairy tale. All of a sudden, the Obama campaign surrogates were saying he had compared Obama's campaign to a fairy tale, which was deemed outrageous and racially insensitive. Instead of outraged Republican women, we had outraged African American Democrats. Personally, I am bored with all of this type of politics. However, I find it interesting that the media is horrified by it in its current form when many of them actually joined in on the fake outrage against Clinton over the fairy tale comment.
My new favorite is the media outrage because McCain has limited access to both himself and Palin. After months of barely covering him when they had unlimited access, (except of course to nail down that important number of houses count that is so very vital to our understanding of the issues), they are now outraged that access is now limited. I am pretty sure they can continue to recycle the same negative stories they have been running since March and none of us would notice the difference.
Comment by Jackie — September 11, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Sexist or racist comments like "uppity" only point to the speaker and their agenda not the target ot the slur. If Putin calls someone a "moose" is that sexist, and if it is, so what! Consider the source and their motivation to speak such "trash" talk. Do we really want our politicians to have the emotional age of a junior high student? That's how we got the bus stuck in the ditch. What are you doing to get the bus back on track?
Comment by DripWise — September 11, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
We do have sexism and racism inthis country but hillery pulled both cards then ran behind her hubby and anyone else she could..
'Cheney in a beehive' paraded her family in front of the world and then she and her running mate cry foul!!! Does not compute…She may have some attributes but she has no values that I share.
I have been shocked at the amount of racism that I have seen on the campaign trail but sexism does not show its head so readily.
Comment by Docb — September 11, 2008 @ 6:17 pm
Do we really want our politicians to have the emotional age of a junior high student?
yes, I do for it would be a step up from the pre school 'I'm telling' behavior of our candidates. People this sensitive to criticism, constructive or not should not enter politics.
Comment by james d granata — September 11, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
Docb, if you have no values you share with Palin than I suggest that you either already are one of the crazy protesters that break windows at various conventions or you should start doing it. You obviously don't want to defend this country, because that's one of her values.
Comment by Igor R. — September 11, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
We surely don't want politicians to become President who delight in flipping off their opponents in a debate while pretending to scratch their face, who use stinking fish metaphors to describe their opponents policies if not the opponents themselves, or who befriend terrorists and excuse themselves by calling their friends just someone in the neighborhood.
Comment by Igor R. — September 11, 2008 @ 7:10 pm
A.B. your column has a lot of food for thought, but I have a lot of respect for the women in America. I don't think that a large segment of American women will vote for McCain just because he named a women.
Pat's comment here (#11) would reflect the attitude of a lot of women I know. They certainly are offended by those who would hold Gov. Palin to a different standard than they would a man.
But that doesn't mean they will ignore the issues that are important to them, like the economy, healthcare, unemployment, equal pay, freedom from government control of the womb, and all the issues that worry their brothers, husbands, fathers, and sons.
I think that Gov. Palin is way outside the mainstream of America and I think that men and women alike will realize that before the election.
Comment by smilinjack — September 11, 2008 @ 8:58 pm
AB
I linked to and read your column.
I can't believe a successful smart cookie like you would listen to, or, repeat anything NBC has to say about this election.
In one sweaping statement NBC depicts that women voting for Mccain/Palin are voting w/ their hearts and not their heads?!!??!!
Wow. So is that what the suffragettes fought for? So we little women with the right to vote with all the grace and wonder of buying a new little puppy. AB, that is the most sexist thing I have heard to date.
Also, with no offense to People Magazine, I doubt any women runs to the magazine rack at checkout counter to get political counsel.
So lets imagine this … McCain and Obama are standing outside the world trade towers on that 11th day of September day in 2001. Of the two men, who do you imagine would not think twice to run in the burning building to carry out survivers? Without a second thought John Mccain would move and lead and do what he could do. I believe his choice of VP, Gov. Palin reflects those selfless courageous qualities.
Gov Palin is a living example of what the suffragettes lived, fought and some died for. Palin has proven she is a born leader, she built a resume with leadership, a track record of successes, a commanding popularity in her own state, that is what the American society is nuts about. This was not something she did in a year or two, it is the and guts she was born with.
I only want to reach your praagmatic logical mind, stop thinking like those from MSNBC. They will confuse you and turn you into a pretzel.
Voting should never be based on gender. That is the point. Asking the gender-related questions, just diminishes the whole thesis that women should and have the right to be treated not as servants to men but equals. McCain, the oldest and wisest guy in the room gets it. Those on NBC play dumb just to take advantage of their tired viewers. NBC is a merchant of sexism.
Comment by JFK-HRC — September 11, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
I'm an independent woman politically and in every other way. Hillary set women back 50 years with her double standard whining; the same for Palin. Most women with clear thinking will vote for Senator Obama. Gov Palin is new and different but she will fizzle. I am a 63 year old woman and most younger women have NO idea what it was like when my generation went out there in the business world and tried to get a job, or housing. I had to have my 80 year old father sign a mortgage when I had a good job and more than enough money to pay for it. #11, Pat; you have no idea…….I'm voting for Obamas and I'm not a democrat; I just want my kids and grandkids to have a better life. Thank you A.B. for your column.
Comment by Joyce — September 11, 2008 @ 11:08 pm
Joyce — I have no idea about WHAT? I have the feeling that you are a double digit IQ individual who would love Obama if he'd picked Pol Pot as his VP.
Keep the HOPE honey…don't ask any questions…just genuflect at the alter.
God, what a bunch of idiots.
Comment by Pat — September 12, 2008 @ 12:56 am
Joyce, Obama, who has made a speech about how he wants to decimate the military and who makes promises that will cost more than a trillion dollars to be financed by taxes that can't amount to more than one hundred billion will make this country vulnerable on the military and economic fronts. There is nothing good about this admitted friend of terrorists who also sat a the church where America was damned for twenty years.
Comment by Igor R. — September 12, 2008 @ 1:07 am
Democrats being sexist is another "snow job" just like the Iraq War!
Republicans Hijacked 911, by Keith Olberman on 9/11! Courage to Speak Truth!
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/09/special-commen…
Never again should a President you want to have a beer with be allowed to lie the American public into a False & Phony war and ignore the real war as George W. Bush was able too! National Security strength, I don't think so, after all 911 happened on the Republicans' watch, but they distorted that message too and you would think that Democrats are weak on national security! Politicans who lie to the public are engaged in a betrayal of the public trust and such distortion should be deemed unethical and in some cases, criminal!
And, it is an outrage or should be that the government can give millions of dollars to CEO’s from the failed Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac and yet, cannot give a second stimulus check to American citizens in these hard economic times?
Republicans say No to a second stimulus while the Democrats say Yes to a second stimulus!
Is the Republican Congress working for CEO’s or are they working for you, the people?
Comment by angellight — September 12, 2008 @ 6:55 am
Somebody is quoting Keith Olbermann? Why bother? The general consensus is that he's nuts and a hate monger.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 12, 2008 @ 9:23 am
RR;
KO may be a hate monger to you only because he speaks the truth and you're use to listen to Hannity or Limbaugh. I'll take KO who has more integrity in his one finger than FOX noise has in their whole organization.
Comment by Mike Coleman — September 12, 2008 @ 11:34 am
#25 Robert
Ditto on that comment!
Check out the article on Olberman"
"One Angry Man" , by Peter J. Boyer
New Yorker Magazine, 6-23-08 issue.
Sorry - no link.
Just key in : The New Yorker, Olberman
Comment by JFK-HRC — September 12, 2008 @ 11:37 am
Thank you AB for your insights.
People should look at how powerful identity politics is. It is why it is used. I know what it is like to be dismissed because you are a woman does that mean I want to vote for Sarah Palin for this reason alone? No nor should it. To the women who were denied opportunities because you were women voting for Sarah Palin will not change that experience. You need to believe she and McCain will be best for the country in order for her election to be meaningful.
Comment by Eileen Conklin — September 12, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Rosencrans
If you think my statements are idiotic, you can attack the statement - not me personally - attacking me personally only shows poverty of character on your part.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 12, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
Rosencrans thinks my #6 post is idiot.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 12, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
A.B. should be required to add the following caveat at the end of her columns, as well as her appearances on MSNBC: "I'm A.B. Stoddard and Barack Obama approved this message."
Comment by Fred from South Carolina — September 12, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
This is a joke we should be discussing her record and the LIES. Who is taking care of her children when she is campaigning with her husband? What about the fact that for 10 months out of 12 she was at home not at the state capital governing. The questions are okay but it is a trap Rove and his political wrecking crew want us to discuss her so we won't discuss the issues. i want to know how many small town Americans can pay $15,000.00 a year for their child to play a sport? I want facts. Let's discuss the fact that troopergate ia over 3 yrs old and that she started this as mayor was warned by a judged and was still after him when she became governor. Let's discuss her on ISSUES and FACTS not personal attacks that while they do speak to her character and values can be spun into sexism.
Comment by Brandon — September 12, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Rosencrans:
By now most people know you are a fool and a hate monger. That's the problem with posting foolish, hateful things in public.
You might want to live in the spiraling downward confederacy of dunces you support but the grown-ups are gettin pissed. We know what this country should be for all of it's citizens and we know it's hate and foolishness like yours and the candidates you support that does the real damage to our country. We are sick of being robbed by your narrow minded foolishness. We're sick of our country being denigrated by your small minded ideas and held back from the future by your fear. We are sick of cowards presented as heroes who haven't the faintest idea of the promise of America.
I don't feel sorry for you. I dislike you because you insult MY country with every keystroke. Your ignorance and willingness to denigrate your fellow citizens is a poison.
Comment by pghremodeler — September 12, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
Brandon, why did Obama maintain a separate household in DC from his wife in Chicago and didn't see his children for weeks at a time? Why is he not with the children every day now?
Comment by Igor R. — September 12, 2008 @ 7:46 pm
Fred: Once again, this isn't about you.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 12, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
It is about you Rosencranz and absolute losers like you.
Most of us are sick of the way you republicans are so scared.
Not scared of november but scared of everything. You need boogeymen to live. How sad.
Please do shut up
Comment by pghremodeler — September 12, 2008 @ 10:31 pm
pghremodeler: You're proving once again that you're the one who is afraid. You're the one telling people to shut up. Isn't that what scared little minds and Nazis do?
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 13, 2008 @ 5:31 am
AB - I am canadian and have no bias of any kind.
I agree with the poster who says you need to identify yourself as an Obama supporter when you write. I have been a fan of MSNBC for years and have watched you on the station. I have recently stopped watching all but hardball (although even that's getting hard) because of the obvious obama/anti republican bias (a bias I believe you have). You miss one key point in your article, Sarah Palin has achieved what she has on her own, Hillary has gotten where she is by using her husband and playing the victim. She may or may not do a good job but no-one can deny she is where she is because of Bill. As a professional independent women who has earned everything I have myself I can respect Sarah. I believe John McCain picked her because she is a reformer and the perfect partner for him.
Why are people not asking about how Obama's children are suffering because he is not with them every night. It is sexist to assume that the mother has the only key role in parenting and an insult to men.
Comment by Barb from Toronto — September 13, 2008 @ 10:08 am
No Rosencranz:
That's what true americans did to the Nazis in spades. When America was under attack the last time true Americans invaded Europe en masse and silenced the attackers.
True Americans created nuclear weapons and used them on our enemies.
The lies and hate you and your ilk spew is an attack on the United States plain for all to see.
What am I? A communist or a Nazi or a panhandler? Which do you care to call me today?
Comment by pghremodeler — September 13, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
RE: 35.
That's what I told you in the first place.
You are as bad about stealing an issue and turning it around, as McCain is about forgetting experience and focusing on change.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 13, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Franklin said,
"a quick wit is often accompanied by an empty head.
The McCain/Palin strategy
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 13, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
Now the stupid pghremodeler is comparing shutting down debate in the US to killing Nazis as equivalent actions. That's how Marxists think: their view is correct, so why even bother with the opposing views? I lived that reality in the Soviet Union, I know how these monsters thingk! Nobody has to call you a Nazi or a communist, pghremodeler, you've identified yourself!
Comment by Igor R. — September 13, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Barb, AB who has been quite evenhanded in the past has revealed her pro-Obama bias loud and clear in the last few weeks. Her sudden interest in the welfare of Palin's children is laughable, she is just having a nervous breakdown because the Messiah who was getting ready to invite interior decorators to the Oval office is suddenly struggling.
Comment by Igor R. — September 13, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
Fred: You have no sense of humor, like most liberals. I was simply pulling your leg. You make it easy.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 13, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
Earlier this summer I wrote a post on my blog, www.politicallyaddicted.com, about the the accusations of sexism towards Sen. Hillary Clinton and how I felt that she was not a victim of sexism. Just like I don't believe Gov. Sarah Palin is a victim of sexism. I commend her AND her husband for raising five children while they both have a full time career. However, that in and of itself does not qualify the self-identified "hockey mom" to be Vice President or President of the United States.
I find it interesting that the Republicans can ask for and receive earmarks, such as Gov. Palin did while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and as governor, but no one else can. Alaska receives a disproportionate share of federal dollars, many coming from earmarks, than probably any other state in the nation. To call an earmark by any other name its still an earmark. An earmark is simply a specified amount of money for a specific project, like Alaska's now defunct "bridge to nowhere," which the governor originally supported.
Gov. Palin told Charlie Gibson of ABC News that the billions of dollars requested to study harbor seals and the mating habits of crabs in Alaska was requested in public instead of being hidden in legislation. News flash, governor, federal legislation is public informatin and should be read by congressman and senators, and if not, they're not doing their jobs. And this legislation can be read by voters, as well. How anyone can call themselves a reformer when you hired a lobbyist as mayor of Wasilla, AK and using lobbyists to bring home the bacon, so to speak, as governor is beyond me. More hypocrisy!!!
As a man, I have voted for women for public office, and will continue to do so. As a person who has worked in 23 campaigns since 1990, I have come to learn that many people vote for women because they believe women to be more trustworthy. Gov. Palin may be hard working, pretty ( I've heard this is why some women are voting for her), and a supporter of gun rights, but more importantly is she honest?
When she plays a game of semantics and CYA with Charlie Gibson on the issue of requesting and spending earmarks, I don't find her to be honest and forthright. This is one woman who I don't find to be trustworthy. Maybe she's learned too much from the good ol' boys who she defeated, such as former Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski? Regardless, I won't be voting for her.
Comment by Politics Junkie — September 14, 2008 @ 2:06 am
Have you seen a Palin Nutcracker recently? How about a t-shirt that says Bro's not Ho's? Did a pundit ever say about Sarah Palin that when she walks into the room he reflexively crosses his legs? How can you possibly say that there was no sexism relative to Hillary's run for the presidency? Palin is not being subjected to this, nor should she.
Comment by carol — September 14, 2008 @ 7:36 am
Have you seen a Palin nutcracker recently? How about a t-shirt that says Bro's over Ho's? Did you ever hear a pundit say that when Palin walks into the room he reflexively crosses his legs? This is the stuff Hillary Clinton had to deal with and it was indeed misogynistic. Palin isn't being subjected to this kind of venom, nor should she be. She's being asked legitimate questions about her record. But suggesting Hillary Clinton wasn't at the receiving end of sexism is unbelievably ignorant.
Comment by carol — September 14, 2008 @ 7:39 am
carol, when Sarah Palin goes outside in Alaska, every moose reflexively crosses his legs. Is that speciism simple practicality?
Comment by Igor R. — September 14, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
Have you heard of a Japanese chef who became an OB/GYN and started using an unorthodox treatment of his own invention? He became known as "the miso-gynist".
Comment by Igor R. — September 14, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
RE: 44
Cute Robert,
But if you were living in Iraq, or if you just lost your house or job, or life savings in the market, or if you are a poverty-level elderly/disabled person watching Bush cut housing subsidies budget, while he spends more than the cut in one week in Iraq…
you would not find anything funny about this campaign and the Rovian tactics the McCain people are using.
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 14, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
Fred, so any personal problem, tragedy, inconvenience has to have a government solution?
Comment by Igor R. — September 14, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
I'm with you on this one, Fred. I still feel Obama/Biden is the winning ticket November 4th and that will help the people [especially young people] that I love down the line.
Comment by Joyce — September 15, 2008 @ 2:43 am
Fred from Oregon: There it is. You and other liberals and big government types live in the false belief that the American public is too stupid to see through the hyperbole and hubris. You hold up Karl Rove as some type of bogeyman who can manipulate the public, because, presumably, they are all dumber than you or Karl Rove. That is precisely why you have no sense of humor and precisely why you're doomed to fail. You're just wrong. The American public is ten times smarter then you or other liberals give them credit for, at least when they get the right information. And the internet has made that possible. The internet has busted up the biggest monopoly ever created, the news business.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 15, 2008 @ 6:43 am
RR #53;
You must be kidding. You called Fred a liberal and a big government type when Bush has presided over the largest increase in government in a generation! Man, you really have to do the Apollo with jokes like that.
Comment by Mike Coleman — September 15, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
After yearstelling women that they had no self-respect if they chose not to pursue a career outside the home, I love how the Democrats have suddenly discovered the vitures of stay-at-home mothers. It's too rich. For forty years, you've implied that stay-at-home moms were somehow deficient. Sudenly, when it's a Republican working mother standing on the dias, she's neglecting her family. Gimme a friggin break.
Comment by Publius — September 15, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Igor:
LOL!
Carol
Comment by carol — September 15, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Mike Coleman: Apparently you missed the part where Congress pass the bills to authorize the increase in the size of government. And, by the way, I do agree that is one area Bush failed in and Barack Obama wants to grow the government even more. Is it my understanding you will call for him to change his plans and reduce the size of government? If not, then you obviously don't care and you're a two bit phony. Deal with it.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — September 15, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
"YOU CAN PUT LIPSTICK ON McCAIN BUT HE'S STILL GEORGE BUSH"
-Richard Volaar
Comment by Fred from Oregon — September 15, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
RR;
From 2001-2007, who ran Congress? Hint, it wasn't the dems. Now you're trying to cloud the fact that it was repubs that built up government, please. As Chris Matthews said the other night, you repubs are trying to change your uniforms and run away from your own party. Won't happen this time.
Comment by Mike Coleman — September 19, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
This was originally about judging Palin based on her sex. That is wrong, regardless of the candidate. Let's judge her on her policies and her issues. For those of you who would vote for her because she is a woman and Hilary didn't get the Democratic nomination, let me just say that you are cutting off your noses to spite your faces. Palin stands in direct oposition to every thing Hilary stands for.
Comment by Beatrix Davis — October 22, 2008 @ 1:23 pm