Comments on: Women vs. Women on Sarah Palin

By: MaryC

MaryC — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:20:17 +0000

In her interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin could not name a single supreme court case she disagreed with (including the one that came out earlier this year that DIRECTLY AFFECTED Alaska). And yet she is running for a position in which she will potentially be appointing justices.

In what way is she qualified to be vice-president? I mean this sincerely. What about Sarah Palin makes you think she is qualified?

PLEASE do not answer this with an attack on Barack Obama. His qualifications are irrelevant to hers.

By: Joe from Texas

Joe from Texas — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:09:04 +0000

I think Sara will be fine and I am voting more for her than McCain.

And yes, I am a grown 41 year old man of mix race and I happen to feel that if Condoleeza
Rice were running I would vote for her too!!!

By: trish

trish — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:57:28 +0000

Such Anger! and toward a woman that we all barely know. I think it is so hypocritical to keep bringing up the family issue. I live in a neighborhood where there are many stay at home dads and they don’ t seem to be hitting up the family counciling center every week. I oppose obama’s policy yet I don’t feel such a deep animosity for the gentleman. Remember folks, Obama comes from a very corrupt state of which he did nothing to reach across party lines and help destroy this political machine we have here. Sarah, whether or not she takes full credit for this, did help ( I emphasize help) break some of the corruption in Alaska. I guess I am one of the few who don’t believe that people are either all good or all bad. I will support her if only to oppose irrational hatred. I am thrilled that someone running for vp has so much going for her. Even your good friend Bill Clinton said she is not to be underestimated.

By: Betty

Betty — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:09:42 +0000

Look, I’m just disappointed. Here we now have a VP candidate who is a joke, doesn’t support funding to help pregnant teenagers (gee I guess only certain pregnant teenagers are worthy), has lied about her qualifications (what little there are) and now the national news is making this a “white” woman issue. Is it that “white” women can only vote for another white woman? I doubt that. And I truly hope not. But, if history serves me right the majority of people will go into the booth and vote out of fear of someone who may not look like them. This country has gone straight downhill for the past 8 years and now we’re going even further downhill and backwards if you ask me.

By: nik

nik — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:57:13 +0000

I totally agree with katiec. It is about the kind of woman Sarah Palin is. Not only do I disagree with her on every single issue, but I think her background and experience as mayor and governor call into question her ethics and honesty. She seems to bring a vindictiveness into politics that is characteristic of Republicans, but is particularly negative in a woman. I do not want this person representing me with other heads of state or making decisions that profoundly affect me. I object to her religiosity, her personality, her positions. It doesn’t matter at all that she is a woman. She harms all the causes that move us collectively (men, women and children) forward.

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By: blue milk

blue milk — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:35:05 +0000

Fantastic thought-provoking post! A really good read, thank you.

By: nila

nila — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:57:03 +0000

correction: spokewoman should be read as ‘spokeswoman’.

By: nila

nila — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:53:10 +0000

I am not a U.S. citizen but like the rest of the world views of the importance of the outcome of the US presidential elections, I am intrigued with Sarah Palin’s candidacy. Is she running as VP or as spokewoman of John Mcain? It appears from her several speeches to date that she is of the latter.

She accuse her opponent of talking about her family, but she is on stage parading her family including her child of special needs. Is it her kind of campaign strategy? If it is so, then she better shut up when her family is being talked about. Afterall, she is the one driving people’s attention to her private life.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:15:46 +0000

I agree her political views are really what is at issue, and I have to say they should scare the living daylights out of everyone. However, the question of career and family makes for an interesting discussion point. Firstly, although I agree the pregnant teenager should be off limits, I think it is the hypocrisy of the religious right on this issue that really annoys, hence the reaction. I heard a television guest (cant remember who) pose this question…..”can you imagine the reaction of the right wingers if Chelsea Clinton had got pregnant while in the White House?” Yep we can and it would be ugly.

Interestingly a couple of my friends made the point the other night that they would actually question a man, if he was running for this position with family including a special needs baby, pregnant daughter etc. They really felt that the same question would apply to anyone, male or female with such enormous family challenges. I worked with special needs children for about 8 years, and the commitment required from the families was huge for both mother, father and siblings.
It raised the question of career and family, maybe my friend said it best. VP or President is not a career, it is a life.