Posted on 11/16/2009 7:46:51 PM PST by ventanax5
I like Sarah Palin. There is something refreshingly genuine and un-smarmy about her. But, after watching Oprah’s interview this afternoon with the former candidate, I have not altered my fundamental opposition as a future president.
I oppose her possible candidacy for two reasons. One, she is not smart and steely enough. Two, she is a feminist.
Granted, she is not an extreme feminist and she differs with the mainstream movement in her opposition to abortion. But Palin wholeheartedly embraces feminist egalitarianism and the radical transformation of society that it entails.
Palin made a number of interesting revelations in this interview. She said she did not tell her husband that the child she was carrying had Down’s Syndrome until three weeks after she learned of it from doctors. It was three weeks before the couple was alone and she could share this important information.
This amount of estrangement due to busy schedules did not, judging from this interview, seem to bother Palin in the least. She also said that when she learned she was pregnant with Trig, even before she knew he had Down’s, she felt understanding for women who choose abortion.
Palin said her daughter Bristol was ”devastated” and embarrassed when she learned the national press had picked up the news that she was pregnant. Palin was unapologetic that she chose to put her daughter in the limelight at a difficult time and instead blamed the media for its excessive interest in her children.
When asked by Oprah how a woman could possibly handle five children and the vice presidency, Palin offered feminist boilerplate. “Things have changed,” she said. “There is so much equality.”
Yes, but children haven’t changed, have they? Of them, Palin said, “The children are my strength. They keep me grounded.” But does she keep them grounded?
(Excerpt) Read more at thinkinghousewife.com ...
Me too. I hate that idiotic comment about how she is not smart enough, I dont give a rats behind who says it, Republican or Democrat. We have the most incompetent moron in the White House yet Sarah isn’t smart enough. What more does Obama have to do to convince people he’s an idiot
...so is Scozzafavva.(sp?)
Oh I forgot. We do know that Obama was a Pot Smoking, Cocaine Snorting (and selling) little Commie wanna be in College.
As General Patton said of Rommel, I read your book!
And I’m of the opinion Laura Wood is a moron, Republican tag notwithstanding.
I just love these I like Sarah, but, types. s/ Some women can be their own worst enemy and I am not talking about Sarah.
All good and fine. Is Laura Wood a conservative?
Really? Are you just making it up, or did you get it from reading her stuff? Just curious. Frum is a lop, and so is Powell. If Wood really IS a fan of them, then she's a lop, too!
As for "smart," CLEARLY Palin is very smart. Anyone who claims otherwise, whether or not they like or support her, is either kidding themselves or has a very limited experience in the world. As for "steely," there again, she had to be pretty steely to give birth to Trig in today's societal environment and the easy-out it gives any woman in her predicament; and she had to be pretty steely to go on with McCain even knowing that Bristol was pregnant out of wedlock. Hugin writes today what I thought at the time it was happening, and where I found my first admiration of Palin, at the time, for doing the tough but right thing for Bristol and sending the right message:
I would suggest that refusing a request to serve in order to protect Bristol from the consequenses of her own bad choices would not have been a good lesson for Bristol, nor good for the country. Just because something is hard doesn't make it wrong.
As for her not being able to tell Todd about Trig's Down's Syndrome for three weeks ... again, the writer seems to be coming from pretty limited experience. I grew up in a family where work took my dad away from the home for months at a time. Not EVERYBODY has, wants, or is suited for a 9-5 job. The kinds -- like Todd, and like my dad -- who are suited to extreme "prime producer" jobs like commercial fishing and oil work, are likely to have pretty "steely" wives. I speak from long first-hand observation.
Thx for the response from the NAGs.
Palin risked a world of catty, silly women judging her for "putting her poor daughter through hell just for political power," and she did it for Bristol. It was the hard thing to do -- and the right thing to do for Bristol.
Yes, Sarah has proved her steel as far as I'm concerned.
Elitism once again. So sick of these alleged intelligence elitists trying to tell us we're dumb. Because that's what this is about. By calling Palin 'not smart enough', she's calling most of America dumb.
No. Beyond the first sentence or two of this article, I haven't read any of her stuff. In fact, I've never even heard of her before. She's writing a political article about Palin, but she brings up Palin's children. My analogy was wrong, even Powell and Frum have more class than this fool.
One, she is not smart and steely enough....
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Translation: Not a east coast graduate from Yale or Harvard. Does not visit the NYC cocktail circuit.
That sure doesn’t mean much these days, does it? Dede Scozzafava is a Republican too.
And there it is, the truth! The elites who despise Sarah also despise down to earth Americans.
Touchet!
This criticism is nuts. I expect at the very lest a subtle form of evil from the national media, but I don't think anyone could have predicted the over the top feeding frenzy that Sarah's selection initiated. The idea the a news media would go from hands off with the Carter and Clinton daughters, and the Obama girls (okay they picked on the Bush girls a little but only a little) to the sadistic abuse of everyone Palin regardless of age shocked even me. Palin didn't put her daughters in the limelight, a bunch of communists and socialists who believe in "the greatest good for the greatest number" decided to destroy some children in the hope that it might advance their political agenda or at least be fun.
I agree and Bristol will be all the stronger for it. It surely helped prepare her for what lied ahead with Levi. There were going to come a’ gunning for Levi regardless. What they have done by bringing Levi into the spot light truly shows them for the evil, depraved sickos that they are.
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