Top Five Sexist Attacks on Palin

Amanda Carpenter Wednesday, September 03, 2008

There’s a savage narrative developing among the media’s elite that suggests Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin will be a bad mother if she becomes the nation’s first female vice president.

MSNBC, CNN and the Washington Post have each hinted Palin may neglect her five children, including one with Down’s Syndrome should the Republicans win the White House in November. Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden even spent a considerable amount of time opining about Palin’s looks while attempting to lay out the differences between himself and Palin.

Here is a list of the five worst lines used so far to discredit Palin’s candidacy: (link)

Commentary: Feminism is not about advancing the cause of women but about advancing a left-wing agenda. Feminist never honor conservative women of achievement. Margaret Thatcher, Condoleezza Rice, Elizabeth Dole, or Sarah Palin cannot be considered feminist by the political feminist establishment, not because they are not women of achievement but because they are conservatives. It is much the same with the Civil Rights establishment: Michael Steele, J. C. Watts, Clarence Thomas and Colin Powell will never be honored by the Black establishment. Identity politics is not about righting wrongs or uplifting people but about advancing an agenda. Feminist activist are not above using sexism to advance their true agenda.

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A Great Convention! A Great Speech!

I just finished watching the convention and think the Party struck just the right note.

I thought Lieberman did a good job and was glad he had a role. Fred Thompson was good. I would still like to see him become President. I thought Governor Palin was great!

I thought John McCain gave a great speech! I know he is not known as a great orator, but the rising crescendo of oratory at the end had me wanting to cheer and applaud. I was impressed and inspired. More impressive than the building emotionalism of the speech however was the perception of John McCain as a decent, honorable, man who has served his country with honor and distinction. He is someone I trust to do the right thing. I think he is wise and good and will put country first.

I think our country has been headed in the wrong direction and feel John McCain will put us back on the right track. We need change and reform, but not the statist solutions offered by the Democrats. We need a return to principled conservative governance but we also need pragmatism and someone who is committed to changing the partisan climate of Washington.

I just now made my second contribution of this campaign season to the McCain campaign and sent $100. Not a lot, I know. If you have done more, shame me into another contribution. Please, if you want to see John McCain elected president, make a contribution. If you can’t afford $100 make a contribution of $50 or $25. If you have the means to make a larger contribution, please do so. Obama’s supporters have put their money where their mouth is. Do they care about the future direction of this country more than we do?

We need to flood the campaign with money. If you, like me, watched this convention and felt that it is important that John McCain be the next President of the United States, open your wallet. Do it now, while you are still motivated. You can safely and easily make a campaign contribution using Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express. Just click on this link: John McCain. It will take you to the John McCain campaign site, then click on the “Invest in Victory” button.

I know Obama is leading in the polls. It is going to be an uphill battle do win this election, but I feel energized and feel more passion for a Republican victory than I have in a long time. November the second is still a long way off. A lot can happen between now and then. I believe McCain can win!

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A son and a brother of Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware are accused in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour, The Washington Post reported, citing court records. (link)

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Joe Biden's deep (but mythical) blue-collar roots

Steve Chapman, August 31, 2008, Chicogo Tribune

Joe Biden once got in trouble for plagiarizing a speech and inflating his academic record. So it will not surprise you to find that his famous working-class background turns out to be mythical. But it may surprise you to learn that Biden isn't the one who has trouble with the facts. (link)

Comment: It seems Joe Biden is not the man of the people with working-class roots after all. His family was solid middle class. His father was an excutive, a co-owner of a business and a manager.

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Labor Day: Here's to the Working Man

Politicians of both parties routinely extol the virtues of “hard working Americans.” Who are they talking about?

These are peoples who I think deserve the title of “hard working Americans:” People who rake hot asphalt in the summertime, people who freeze in the winter while they're out repairing busted pipes, people who pick lettuce, people who pour concrete all day long in the sun, people who pluck chickens, waitresses who must stand on their feet all day and work long hours and put up with demanding bitchy customers.

To my way of thinking, it is not just physical labor that makes you a “hard working American” however. Some white-collar jobs and people with professional jobs also qualify. If you have a high-stress job, that may qualify you. If you are an attorney with a heavy caseload and you are practicing family law or criminal law then you are a “ hard working American”. If you own you own business and have to struggle to meet payroll and you work a lot of hours, you are a “hard working American”. If you are working in the emergency room of a hospital you are a “hard working American.” I guess I also think of anyone who is working more than one job or working more than 50 hours a week as a hard working American.

Americans certainly work more hours than other advanced industrial nation. In a typical year, Americans work the equivalent of a week more than the Japanese, three weeks more than the British, six weeks more than the French and nine weeks more than the Germans. And, more of us work. The unemployment rate in America is only 4.6% and it is 8.3% in France and 8.4% in Germany and in lots of third world counties they have unemployment rates in the 40% range. By the world’s standards we are hard working.

You often hear Americans complain about how hard they must work. Sometimes people will say that if takes both husband and wife working to support a household whereas when they were children, one wage earner could support a household. This is only true because we want so much more stuff, like bigger houses and newer and more cars and toys. A family of five in the fifties could live in a 3-bedroom house with one bath and drive only one used sedan and have no cable TV or cell phones and not feel poor. A family living in those conditions today would think of themselves as deprived. It does take more income to support the lifestyle we expect, but we expect a lot more. We work more because we value money and the thinks it can buy more than we value leisure time and other things.

I suspect almost everyone who is working thinks of himself or herself as “hard working”. What about the person who works 35 hours a week at a job that is not particularly physically demanding or nerve racking? Their job may be stressful at times but not all the time. They have benefits, eight paid holidays a year and three weeks paid vacation. Is this person a “hard working American?” What about the mid-level bureaucrat or the college professor? There are a lot of Americans like this. Apparently they still think of themselves as “hard working Americans.” I don’t hear anyone say to the politicians, “What about us non-hard-working Americans?”

Compared to the person raking hot asphalt in the summertime, I am not a “hard working American.”

Hear is a song for the working man. (To hear the song, click the song title)

Working Man Blues by Merle Haggard

It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife
I been a workin' man dang near all my life
I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use
I'll drink my beer in a tavern, Sing a little bit of these working man blues

I keep my nose on the grindstone, I work hard every day
Might get a little tired on the weekend, after I draw my pay
But I'll go back workin, come Monday morning I'm right back with the crew
I'll drink a little beer that evening,
Sing a little bit of these working man blues

Hey hey, the working man, the working man like me
I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be
Cause I'll be working
long as my two hands are fit to use
I drink a little beer in a tavern
Sing a little bit of these working man blues

Sometimes I think about leaving, do a little bummin around
I wanna throw my bills out the window catch a train to another town
But I go back working I gotta buy my kids a brand new pair of shoes
Yeah drink a little beer in a tavern,
Cry a little bit of these working man blues

Hey hey, the working man, the working man like me
I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be
Cause I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use
I drink a little beer in a tavern
Sing a little bit of these working man blues

Yeah drink a little beer in a tavern,
Cry a little bit of these working man blues

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