Posted on 10/08/2008 7:59:51 PM PDT by markomalley
With Barney Frank as a cellmate.
She’s is voting Obama because she has the antiwar and has the misguided view that he is too! She is a self-described libertarian.
Not really surprising. Although I disagree with Paglia on many issues, I do respect her thoughts on many.
She has been a Palin defender from the beginning, against the so called elite feminists and the elite media as well.
She has written several columns on this.
I am one of her readers. She invites debate without having to ridicule or put down.
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I think it was meant as a laudatory comment. Not racist — just descriptive.
Camille Paglia is the real deal. She bows to nobody, and she reads nobody’s “talking points”.
Her support of the empty suit Obama is a little disappointing, though.
You’ll excuse me if I’m trying to fight fire with fire these days....
yep, yep, yep, and yep.
He looked bad, and he was even worse in the post analysis of who got what right and wrong.
Palin missed several opportunities to put ANY daylight between the Bush administration and the McCain/Palin candidacy and they had to know that was going to be a line of attack. And every politician answers the question they want to answer, but few of them openly admit it!
But Biden tried to prove his down home bonifieds talking about Home Depot and a restaurant that has been closed for ten years. He made up history in Lebanon, recreated McCain's legislative record, contradicted his Presidential candidates policy of Presidential meetings without preconditions, and followed it up by rewriting the Constitution to ex the VP out of Article II while making Article I the Executive article.
Bad night for Biden. If anyone scored it for Biden their point formula is all wrong. You SUBTRACT points for ridiculous statements.
I understand what you mean.
Camille is one of the few libs that is fun to read. Not a braindead robot.
Pray for W, Lady Palin and Our Troops
Camille Paglia is undoubtedly a very gifted writer and a far reaching thinker on the leading edge of Feminism...I love her writing though i may not always agree with her views..Her intelectualism is always bright, honest, passionate, and on the mark...Bless her Italian roots, gotta love this lady for her intellectual honesty...Now if she could just change a few things, one or two....
And thank you Mrs Dingman and Mrs Rafuse, wherever you are...
Paglia needs to reexamine her motivations. On one hand, she savages academicians who are scurrilous pseudo-intellectuals, yet at the same time she embraces the Democrat party and their grotesque and repeated failures. If anything, Paglia should be fiercely independent, rejecting both parties.
It is not Todd Palin she is admiring, for he is just a piece of Sarah Palin’s revitalized feminism. But Paglia should examine what should be a modern adage, that “when women stand up, men sit down.”
Does Paglia expect a powerful woman from a meeching, hypocritical leader of NOW, more concerned with leftist politics than womens’ rights? Or the fanatical, arrogant Hillary Clinton, who is convinced that female power is found from dominating and crushing her enemies (real and imagined)?
Condoleeza Rice is far closer, yet has sacrificed her life for her mastery. More “Vulcan” as she is thought of in Washington, than human. Not everybody can be a genius.
Enter Sarah Palin, reflections of whom can be seen in many of America’s soccer moms. A college degree and a job, but children and everything else. Fortunate indeed to be married to a Todd Palin type man. Sometimes called “supermoms”, properly, they should be known as “superwomen”.
Husband and children optional. While not neglected, they are another part of a masterful woman’s life. A woman who can camp out and fend for herself, who can shoot a moose, drive a motorcycle, deal with a harsh winter, run for governor, etc. Now that is a feminist, and why so many women look up to her—because they want to have a life something like hers, perhaps less the moose.
She can hold political opinions very different from theirs, but she is clear and honest, not like the muddy men who speak in scripted and opaque babble. They know what she is, that she is not a fake.
And what is Obama? He is nothing BUT a fake. An “ackempucky”, the southern expression meaning something like “a bunch of unknown leftovers thrown into a bowl and stirred up, often with a jelly-like consistency.”
In his case, some falafel, some poi, a broken up Chicago hot dog with the works and plenty of mustard, some red cabbage, chitterlings, and a bowl full of US Senate bean soup with extra pork and saffron.
Put it in a blender with unflavored gelatin. Add hope and change.
It would be like if Paglia and I were listening to a debate about the history of feminism and some old professor got it all wrong (openly lying or just confused) while some young professor was more stylish but said things with less authority. I might think that the older woman outscored the younger on points, but the younger won on style. Paglia would shake her head at me in wonderment that I didn't recognize just how wrong the old professor was and how they got everything backwards.
I read where Tina Fey asked for someone to please tell her when she can stop doing this “ woman.” Well, to Tina I would say...Tina Dear, this is the United States of America. No one has twisted your arm to play Sarah Palin and no one can STOP you from playing Sarah Palin and no one can MAKE you play Sarah Palin. So, if you truly do not want to do her impersonation because you disagree or dislike her then...just do it. Oh...what’s that you say? You like the fame and the money? Oh yeah, that would come first before your own convictions....I forgot!
I read where Tina Fey asked for someone to please tell her when she can stop doing this “ woman.” Well, to Tina I would say...Tina Dear, this is the United States of America. No one has twisted your arm to play Sarah Palin and no one can STOP you from playing Sarah Palin and no one can MAKE you play Sarah Palin. So, if you truly do not want to do her impersonation because you disagree or dislike her then...just do it. Oh...what’s that you say? You like the fame and the money? Oh yeah, that would come first before your own convictions....I forgot!
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