Oh, that's right - she's got to rape a few of her constituents and learn to swing the power of her office around like Billary did in Ark-in-sas.
Conason is scum.
Obama had a chance to tap Hillary and most likely win. It isn’t our fault he chose a lazy, rich, white old Senator as his number 2.
Obama left himself wide open to criticism and validated Hillary’s complaint. Too bad.
Joey is breederphobic, neh?
“Palin is the epitome of tokenism, exactly what conservative Republicans have always claimed to scorn, until today, as the politics of quotas and political correctness...”
Libs accuse conservatives of which they are most guilty.
By the volume of the libs primal scream, McCain/Palin is a winner!
"I have a feeling, somewhere somehow, Hillary is snickering!
Hillary has to keep the party happy to a certain degree, but for many reasons, I do not think she wants Obama to win.
Plus, you have gotta give McCain kuddos on his awesome timing. Nobody's talking about the "The One's" marvelous acceptance speech, even if they could remember a word about it.
It's all Palin, all the time, even if they are trying to tear her down. I predice ZERO post-convention bump for Obama.
The experience argument is a fraud. Maverick doesn’t need an experienced VP, Black Oblack does.
They keep hammering her and more women will vote out of sympathy. They ain’t likin the personal attacks on their sister.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I remember a guy who was a County Executive, then governor for two years, then Vice President — Spiro Agnew. Was he a token pick, too, Conason?
Joe is just pissed because he knows Sarah Palin could kick his arse. God help him if he ever angers Todd.
Rush has never had a problem with empowered women. What is he talking about???
Yes - it has no decades listening to a black racist minister.
Yes - it has no decades of corrupt Chicago machine politics.
Yes - it has no real estate deals with convicted felons.
Yes - it has no history of drug use.
Yes - it has no history of Muslim training.
Yes - it has no history of lying in an autobiography.
Yes - she spent years running the State of Alaska instead of her mouth.
Jeeeze -- these bastards are really acting worried and silly.
Look, we don’t live in gender or race neutral society. Woman do care about things like having women in power.
Mort Kondracke on FOX News roundtable had pretty much the same reaction. It was all Bill Kristol could do from laughing in Mort's face. Even Juan Williams didn't have Kondracke's sour take. My feeling is both Conason and Kondracke are depressed seeing their hero Obama's chances greatly diminished.
I looked up Joey’s bio on Wikipedia. Lol. He’s a effeminate New York/Boston pussy. Aren’t they all?
Gender bias in presidential coverage, politician says
Remember Obamania from early on in the presidential primary season?
Around the time of the Wisconsin primary, Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk suggested the media was guilty of gender bias in its news coverage of the Democratic presidential candidates, saying that media reports were favorable toward Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
She said that type of coverage did a disservice to New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the candidate she endorses for the Democratic presidential nomination and whom she believes is better qualified to serve in the White House.
A story today in the Press-Gazette touches on another issue of concern to Falk, which is the low numbers of female lawmakers in the state Legislature.
Falk and others, such as Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton - who also endorses Clinton - said the political landscape, statewide and nationally, is very much an "old boys" network that is hard to crack.
In an interview last month, Falk said the gender bias in the political arena is so insidious that it often goes unchecked by the media.
She said that when Clinton was heckled in New Hampshire by a male protester carrying a sign that read, "Iron my shirt," there was very little media coverage and even less outrage from pundits.
"The media did not react...to that overt sexism as they would have had that been an overt racial slur," said Falk.
Instead, she said, female politicians continue to receive press coverage that focuses on such trivial matters as the clothes a female candidate is wearing.
Falk says the underlying message to the public is that the media is struggling to picture a woman in a position of power.
"If you can't picture somebody in that position, we'll never have somebody like that in the position," said Falk. "And they don't seem to be having that same trouble with Senator Obama, who happens to be a man."
Obamania has fizzled, due in large part to recent comments by Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and by Obama himself on small-town voters.
But female politicians say there's a long way to go before the playing field is level for women seeking office.
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