Sunday, September 14, 2008
'She does not speak for women.'
Wendy Doniger of the University of Chicago’s Divinity School had an interesting comment about vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin: “Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican Party’s cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts and their votes, has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage. She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working-class women.” --Jim Broede
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You could have found something better than that quote of Wendy Doninger. Sara Palin obviously is a woman...but...Ms. Palin certainly does not speak for me. She and I are economically miles apart...Philosophically we are worlds apart.
Ms. Palin is neither Hillary Clinton nor does she believe in the things that Ms. Clinton ascribes to. Should the Republicans win this election...Any Democrat that votes Republican out of protest for Hillary Clinton not being Obama's choice for VP will learn that they have been duped.
The thing that scares me is that Sarah Palin does speak for lots of women. For lots of men, too. And for lots of conservative zealots. Yes, it scares me silly. --Jim
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