I encountered an interesting New York Times editorial today. It says, in part:
Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? . . . Or where is it written that mere representatives aren’t qualified . . .? . . . Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial? . . . Presidential candidates have always chosen their running mates for reasons of practical demography, not idealized democracy. . . . What a splendid system, we say to ourselves, that takes little-known men, tests them in high office and permits them to grow into statesmen. . . . Why shouldn’t a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow?
What a bold and principled statement! Is our fabled Gray Lady actually acknowledging the Republican vice-presidential nominee’s legitimacy as a candidate?
No. That was from July 3, 1984, and it was about Geraldine Ferraro.
Hey, listen, you know, just ‘tween us chickens, I think you’re right to be scared of Sarah Palin. ‘Cause, you know, she likes guns, and she believes in invisible sky beings, and she has, like, 17 kids, and she gave them all weird names. (Serves that witch right that one of them’s knocked up, don’t you think?) Former mayor of some backwater? And yeah, she’s technically a governor now, but I mean, Alaska? Sh’eah, right. Has she ever lived in Manhattan? In Georgetown? In anywhere that matters?
Oh, how can we even contemplate such a lunatic running the country?
Yet apparently, Caribou Barbie actually thinks she can come to Washington. God help us all.
Boo!
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Caribou Barbie…that’s a good one. This has shaped up to be a most interesting election only because of McCain’s pick. Anyone else and I’m not sure I’d even be following and I’m a political junkie.
Scott, I wish I’d written it. A clever person did, and probably very recently.
No question, the political theater is engaging this time around.
Caribou Barbie?
Can you believe that my sister and I stayed up past midnight discussing politics on Saturday? We were in freakin’ New Orleans, party city, and we were in the hotel talking smack.
‘Seester: Sure; I’ve been around you both. 🙂
CNN.com is running an editorial right now on Palin, women voters, and feminism.
This political science professor is no fan of Palin, yet does a wonderful job commenting on the sociocultural implications of her nomination, as well as the climate that made it possible in the first place. Though she leaves it largely implied, she also does a good job underscoring why the nomination of Sarah Palin is every bit the triumph for women Ferraro’s nomination was 24 years ago.
Kudos for running a great piece, CNN.com.
We now return you to near-ubiquitous comic hysteria on banned books, guns, moose, abortion, affairs, and speaking in tongues. Also, how dare that slut wear her hair down?
I’m as ambivalant about Palin as I am about just about any Republican or Democrat. They are all the same animal as far as I can tell. One thing is for sure though– regardless of the outcome of this election, it should be interesting. Black (sorta) president or woman vice president. Couldn’t McCain find a black woman as a running mate? Maybe Obama should dump Biden and try to find a Hispanic Woman.
Anyone else pick up her foot in the mouth comment about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
“They’ve gotten too big and too expensive to taxpayers,” she said. “The McCain-Palin administration will make them smaller and smarter and more effective for homeowners who need help.”
Last time I checked the Fed bailed them out and they were not taxpayer funded until then..