I find it terribly ironic that it’s Giuliani and Huckabee that are calling the media sexist, while Steinem takes shots at Palin. The media has had a melt down; my opinion is that it’s more based on bias than gender, but I do think it is worth addressing as their behavior over the last week and a half has been ridiculous.

I also love this old man line they trot out with McCain. Like he’s going to swear an oath to the presidency then turn around and keel over. I’m much more comfortable with the less experienced candidate being at the two slot than the one slot. All odds are that in the unlikely circumstance that a vp
has to take over the presidency they will have had some experience as vp before becoming president. Not to mention that Palin has executive experience. She knows the energy issue inside and out. She’s run a small business, she’s booted out entrenched incumbents, and her resume is just as strong if not stronger than the Dems #1.

BTW - The Obama campaign should stop whining about the community organizer crack. He was referring to her as just a mayor the prior weekend; her counter strike was simply far more powerful than his jab.

KM, what do you call Palin and Giuliani doing about Obama’s Community Organizing? Wouldn’t that be belittling Obama’s past? Saying that Obama’s resume is so very thin would certainly be belittling his 4 years in the U.S. Senate (including a spot on the Foreign Relations committee, Committee on Veteran’s Affairs, Committee on Health, Education and Labor, and the Committee on Homeland Security) not to mention his previous 6 years in the Illinois State Senate.

What is it when Palin and Giuliani mock and laugh at Obama being a Community Organizer and getting all those cheers and laughs at the GOP convention, wouldn’t that be belittling the first black candidate? Instead of “sexism towards Governor Palin”, would we call that “racism towards Senator Obama”?
Maybe we could just call it Palin and Giuliani being fools and making it sound like Obama is going straight from Community Organizer to running for President.

As for Palin as the VP nominee, I don’t agree with those that question if she should be concentrating on her family instead of politics or not. That is not up to anyone else to judge. If she feels she can do it, then all the power to her.

My problem with Palin is not that she is a mother of 5. My problem is that she is incredibly unqualified to be next in line to a 72 yr old that has had 4 bouts with cancer.

By the way… I think every post I end up asking… When do we talk about the issues that are actually going to affect the average American??