Posted on 09/05/2008 12:28:29 PM PDT by KingofZion
The glummest face Wednesday night might have been, if only we could have seen it, that of Hillary Clinton.
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Imagine Hillary's fury. The gnashing of teeth after all the years of sacrifice and hard work—a life of it—and then the endless nuisance of stylists, makeovers and fittings for Oscar de la Renta gowns for Vogue covers. And surely that gimmicky holding of the baby papoose style by Todd Palin after his wife's acceptance speech is sacrosanct left-wing territory! If only Chelsea had been younger of course, Bill could have done it and then, well, who knows what might have been forgiven him?
American feminists have always had a tough sell to make. To the rest of the world, no females on earth have ever had it as easy as middle-class American women. Cosseted, surrounded by labor-saving devices, easily available contraception and supermarkets groaning with food, their complaints have always seemed to have no relationship to reality.
Education was there for the taking. Marriages were not arranged. Going against social mores had no serious consequences. Postwar American women (excluding those mired in poverty or the odious restrictions of race) have always had the choice of what they wanted to be.
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Sarah Palin has put the flim-flam nature of America feminism sharply into focus, revealing the not-so-secret hypocrisy of its code and, whatever her future, this alone is an accomplishment. As she emerged into the nation's consciousness, a shudder went through the feminist left—a political movement not restricted to females. She is a mother refusing to stay at home (good) who had made a success out in the workplace (excellent) whose marriage nevertheless is a rip-roaring success and whose views are unspeakable—those of a red-blooded, right-wing principled pragmatist. ***
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Betting on the hockey mom
I pity the fool who don’t learn from Mrs. T!
That Mrs. T?
I never knew Maggie Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer. I had always assumed from here manner and distinction that she was born to wealth and title.
Noble is as noble does. What an extraordinary woman.
i was wondering the same thing...
Margaret Thatcher is a brain. Sarah Palin is more of a Ronald Reagan type, a sportscaster with TV charisma, an outdoors and people person.
oh—i think they mean Margaret Thatcher... hahahaha!
Mrs. T could teach her how to make pierogies.
http://www.pierogy.com/
In addition to credentials, the likeability factor is so important. Sarah seems like a genuine nice person. Just being herself worked for her. Hillary had too many personalities from Day 1.
She would have done well to have stuck with the image of a real woman.
Nor can you inherit it nor learn it in a deconstructionist queer studies class at Harvard.
The British feminist movement at that time was of little import. "I owe nothing to women's lib," Mrs. Thatcher remarked, thus assuring herself of a permanent place in their pantheon of evil. During her years in power, Mrs. Thatcher could and did use the rhetoric of home economics in a way a prudent male politician no longer dared do. Metaphors of kitchen and gender abounded in her speeches: "it is the cock that crows," she would say, "but the hen that lays the eggs."
Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and a non-lipstick wearing Pit bulldog...hmmmm...not so shabby company for one to find themselves lumped in with! ;^)
Gov. Palin would, of course, fill them with moose meat...
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That is an excellent article. Thanks for posting it!
By the way Margaret Thatcher's two-part autobiography is an excellent read, especially "The Path to Power." She discussed the books in her 1995 interview with Larry King:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/21/larry.king.thatcher/index.html
KING: Britain has had a history of strong women. You had strong queens. Was it still unusual for women to be in parliament?
THATCHER: It was still quite difficult for us to get into parliament, to get adopted. I remember I first put in for quite a tough, industrial seat, and the chairman said, 'We can't have a woman here. This is an industrial seat.' However, they adopted me, and it was the first seat I fought. It was a tough labor seat. But it really gave me a good deal of experience of fighting. And I had a very interesting labor member opposite me, who challenged me to a debate in the local school hall. And I think he thought he was going to make mincemeat of me. But I really had grown up to debate in my family, so we had a very equal debate...
Everybody has class - with some it’s just a little lower than with others!
Remember the 'Feminist's' complete and utter silence about the whole Lewinski affair, not to mention the rapes of all those other women who were silenced by Hillary's clean up crew? If anything, the Democrat 'Feminist' defended Clinton's "right to privacy".
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