Posted on 09/20/2008 9:32:40 AM PDT by bobsunshine
Feminists like to claim that if women ruled the world, there would be no more wars.
Sarah Palin, the woman poised to become the most powerful female politician in the free world, disproves that once and for all.
The gun-toting, Iraq war-supporting Governor of Alaska may decide the next U.S. presidential election. Here is a politician who won't rule out war with Russia.
Here is a mother who waved her soldier son Track off to Iraq on September 11. And here is a campaigner who next week will man the barricades at a public protest against Iran's President Ahmadinejad.
If Palin becomes America's first woman Vice-President, one thing is for sure - there will not be an end to war.
Nor to the war between two cultures she has already unleashed in her own country.
The pro-life, devoutly Christian, happily married mother-of-five has emerged from the political margins to become the most intriguing and divisive woman in today's America.
She has enraged the Left in general and feminists in particular at every turn. What infuriates them most is her rapid rise to the national stage and her ability, like Ronald Reagan before her, to talk to the people in a language they understand with a fundamentalist message many of them want to hear.
It's all so damned reactionary. Heck, the man she admires most in the world is her husband.
There is something almost evangelical about her desire to give voice to the largely unheard folk of America; the ordinary, hard-working, God-fearing majority.
The liberal elite of the East and West coasts despise her, but middle Americans seem to have fallen for Palin as the figurehead of a new kind of politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It will do no good for Billary to take note. She exhibits no femininity and has piano legs. God bless her little heart, she can take all the notes she wants, a PIAPS with lipstick is still a PIAPS!
I don’t compare her to Princess Diana. I compare her to Diana Prince, AKA Wonder Woman!
Smart, brave women have been a part of America's history from its beginning. Many stories of Revolutionary women can be found here .
One such story related there is "Deborah Samson Gannett, American Patriot (1760-1827)"
"Deborah Samson was born on Dec 17, 1760 to John and Deborah Samson in Plympton, Massachusetts. The family could trace their lineage to the Mayflower on both sides including such notables as Priscilla Alden and Myles Standish.
"Deborah was the eldest of 3 daughters and 3 brothers. When Deborah was about 5 yrs old, her father left to go to sea and was supposed to have died at sea. Later day research shows that he simply walked out on his family and created a new life in Maine. This left the Samson family with 6 mouths to feed and Mrs. Samson was in poor health. She fostered the children for a while, but at the tender age of 8 or 10 Deborah was placed in indentured servitude with the kind, but large family of Jeremiah Thomas of Middlesborough. The Thomas family had no girls, but lots of boys and Deborah was responsible for taking care of them and getting them ready for school. She read the boys' school books at night and succeeded in learning enough this way that when she turned 18 and was freed she obtained a position as schoolteacher in Middlesborough. All the time she spent with the Thomas Family and afterwards was spent among the growing tension between the British and the Colonists. It was during this time that the Stamp Act was placed into effect, and revolutionary thinkers such as James Otis and Samuel Adams were starting to show the colonists that they didn't need the British to protect them, that in fact the colonies could protect themselves. Deborah watched as the British attempted to halt the rebellious talk and acts by closing the port of Boston and quartering troops in private homes. She watched as the "intolerable acts" were put into effect and she heard the news of the stand in Lexington and Concord that fateful April day. She heard the reading of the Declaration of Independence and she watched the young colonists get their first real taste of war. She was not frightened by this, her only question was "Why can I not fight for my country too?".
Deborah finally decided that to do her duty to her country she would dress up as a man and enlist. Her first attempt was in 1782 but after signing the enlistment papers to join the American Army, she had a change of heart and did not show up the next day. A while later in 1782 she firmed her resolve and attempted again to enlist in the military. She, on May 20, 1782, signed up to join the company of Captain Nathan Thayer, which later became a part of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment using the name Robert Hurtleff. Although General Cornwallis had already surrendered at Yorktown, there was still fighting in New York.. Her disguise worked and she was mustered into Captain George Webbs Co. Her local church hearing rumors of "Unchristian" like behavior, of wearing men's clothing and joining the army, decided shortly after her company left the Boston area, to excommunicate her. Such was often the price for individualist thinking. Deborah's company though was going to lower New York where while Washington held the area, many small guerilla attacks were still happening. Deborah's company was charged with assisting to halt those attacks. During one of the particularly bloody engagements in Tarrytown, NY, Deborah, while attempting to retreat, was wounded in the head and then the thigh. She was escorted to a field hospital where her head wound was treated.
"She did not tell the doctor about the musket shot in her leg for fear of discovery. She tried to treat the wound herself, but lacking the strength to dig the musket ball out, she left it there and as such her leg never healed properly. She, after many weeks, healed enough to return to active duty. During this time though she was to come down with a fever and the doctor while treating her, discovered her secret. He had her removed to his house and personally oversaw her treatment, all the while keeping her secret. After Deborah was healed he secretly passed her secret on to a General at Fort Knox who then honorably discharged her on October 23, 1783, while publicly keeping her secret.
"Deborah when talked about as Robert, was thought of as a great soldier, with endurance and courage, something much needed in the military at that time. The war had been long and hard. After the war she met and married Benjamin Gannet. Although a good marriage, it was a poor marriage. The Gannets often had to borrow money. Paul Revere, a good friend of Deborah, upon hearing this, petitioned the Massachusetts government to provide her with back pay and interest to the sum of 37 pounds. This was not enough to ease their financial woes, so Deborah took to the lecture circuit. She was the first female lectern. he would travel from city to city and give lectures about her experience as a soldier in the war, wearing her uniform and such. This while better still was not enough, so in the early 1800's she was awarded a veterans pension of 4 dollars a month. This pension was eventually awarded to her husband as a survivor pension after Deborah died on April 19, 1827 in Sharon, Mass. She was 67 years old and had 3 children. Deborah is now the official Heroine of the State of Massachusetts and there is even a chapter of DAR named after her. She was a true American Hero."
Perhaps Sarah is more in the mold of the original American women than of the late brand of unremarkable feminists who today criticize and belittle Sarah Palin.
If anyone notices, she is flanked by her husband at many events.
She does not think a normal man is a threat to her.
(contrast this with the nags. Rush needs to do a feminist update)
You got that one correct. I can't think of a better time with better material for him to go after the feminazis!!
From your ear to his?
OH PHOOEY! Nothing is going right for me today...
I meant...from your mouth to his ear!
Oh come on!
Charles has always done that sort of thing - before, during, and after Diana - just doesn’t make such a song and dance about it.
Well, if I’m misinformed I’ll cop to it, but he doesn’t have the “People’s Prince” reputation. She did.
Catherine the Great.
“as popular as Diane”
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I know NO ONE has polled me on the Dianne subject
as far as I am concerned, if the statement is true, Gov Palin’s rating is a little bit lower than whale ‘....’.
Despite the comparison of Diana and Sarah, it was a very good article.
Boy, I could have done without that comparison. Yes, she and her lawyers won that war against the big bad power company (and it may have done some bad things but not necessarily with the environmental consequences claimed), but nowadays she's out there pimping for the asbestos lawyers. I put her in the same class as the John Edwards tort lawyers who do more to drive up the cost of everything because, in their view, everything industry does is bad, hurts people and deserves fixing through legal extortion.
Just yesterday the NM health department came out with asthma statistics that pointed to SE NM as having the highest rate in the state and speculated it's due to oil and gas drilling, a "large number of refineries" (there is only one with two locations), dairy operations (manure), and agriculture (crop dusting). Got just about every type of industry there is here. But there are two reasons that there is a problem here -- first smoking is still prevalent here (they admit that and indeed parents who are heavy smokers in the home may well be hurting their kids) and the second is the longer growing season combined with more moisture (or irrigation/watering) that produces more pollen-bearing plants for a longer period of time than other areas of the state. Allergies are commonly linked to asthma so that connection seems clearer than that proposed by some Santa Fe bureaucrat that speculates out loud about the cause. As for Ms. Brockovich, I hope she's happy working for the trial lawyers that made the best fireproofing material in the world into a hazardous material, eliminated worthwhile products and drove productive companies out of business.
Thanks for your note I had never heard of a rogue wave before this....you know guys just mess around on the rocks and to Jeremy it was just another day with his girlfriend/fiancee and friends. But God has really opened up doors to share with folks and to send out info on Jeremy...for youth groups etc. Jeremy had a tatoo on his chest he put there before he went to Egypt Philippians 1:21 for me to live is Christ to die is gain..and how God used a nice young man from Fairbanks, Alaska is amazing the same as usuing a simply gal from Wasilla...who is quite geniune and unique. Please check out the jeremyearnhaw.com site...blessings your way.
The critics are saying that Todd is the real power behind her and acts as a shadow governor. Not true of course -- they are just both strong, determined individuals who respect each others strengths and accomplishments without jealousy.
BTTT!
bump for TR
Extremely well stated!
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