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Edited on Fri Sep-26-08 05:08 AM by Turner Ashby
except I want HER TICKET to lose.
Having said that, I will now switch to gender identification. It saddens me that except for the die hard Republicans (who would think she was a goddess of wisdom if she called us the Soviet Union) the woman is increasingly looking like a buffoon. If she continues to crash and burn, she will set back women as power brokers for years to come. Perhaps I am old fashioned. I was the generation right behind Hillary, so I still remember banning the bra, The Woman's Room, gender discrimination and the not so subtle ways to ask if you really meant to have a career ot get babies (and this by law firms!!) So, I may be very guilty of still carrying some of that burden around. I certainly hope that it is, indeed, all in my head.
The women's movement and the civil rights movement are about 10 years apart, so it did not surprise me that the first "minority" candidate was black. Polls show that the voters still prefer a white man, followed by a black man, followed by a woman (race doesn't seem to matter) and a Latino (gender doesn't seem to matter). Being at the bottom of the list in two categories, I have never been one for affirmative action because I know others, of all persuasions, will viciously hold it against you, even if you never used it. Further, when a "leader" of the community fails, the community will never hear the end of it. Obama has acquitted himself to the point of there never being a question of a black person heading a major party. Gonzales (purely Spanish, not like Richardson) did not. I don't think Palin will.
I hope I didn't step on any toes. I don't think whites or men are racists or don't want minorities to succeed. I have never felt a moment of any type of discrimination (well, once), and I was in a very male part of the law. I think Obama can win by excellence, not because the other guy was a buffoon. And I wanted for my gender's sake, for Sarah Palin to be good (not excellent).
I don't want her to win, because the head of the ticket is a Republican. I wouldn't want her on the Democratic ticket, because I still don't think she's qualified in the least.
Sorry, so ranty. Just saw the REAL interview. But, this was a funny skit. The beauty queen in real life gave me a headache, too.
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