Sarah Palin actually had some good things going for her says Katha Pollitt in the Chicago Tribune:
* She was a gift to Barack Obama, Katie Couric, and Tina Fey.
* She helped define feminism by clarifying what it isn't -- voting for a woman just because she's female or exhibiting female moxie (which Palin has) or being a frilly doormat.
* Her presence on the GOP ticket forced family-values conservatives to give public support to working mothers, equal marriages, and pregnant teens making it harder for them to spout their antagonism to these ideas in the future (though they will try).
* She, with Hillary, normalized the idea of a woman in the White House.
The whole article is worth a read for the snarky attitude.
Who would have guessed? We now hear the Secret Service warned the Obama family of a dramatic rise in the number of threats against the candidate at the same time that Palin was promoting a lynch-mob atmosphere during her rallies.
"Obama Talks with Unpopular World Leader Without Preconditions" screams the headlines. Below that is a photo of the Obamas and the Bushes.
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ReplyDeleteOh, I think 65 million preconditions were met!