Posted on 10/08/2008 7:59:51 PM PDT by markomalley
Politics is irrational and emotional. Why do we even bother with democracy?
LOL! Good thing she doesn't teach English.
You may love or you may hate her but you have to admire any woman who can compose a sentence like that. Paglia is, if nothing else, a really entertaining writer.
William F. Buckley would approve.
Bravo, Camille! Finally...a liberal woman who is not threatened by Palin’s intelligence, vitality, and beauty.
A woman with a fine mind who realizes that yesteryear’s feminist ideology has been shattered by Palin, along with that glass ceiling.
Thank you, Camille, for your hoesty!
The bromides are the intellectual part, Camille. It goes downhill from there. But it sells like cotton candy, and it's just about as good for you.
If so, it's a coincidence. Paglia has written dozens of columns over the years in which she explores her obsession with Madonna in mind-numbing detail.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Paglia. She gets it right far more often than most feminists and leftists, and she is not afraid to piss them off by telling the truth. She’s pretty much an outcast in the modern feminazi movement.
Not much competition for *that* honor...
HONESTY! HONESTY!
What a terrible typo! I am redfaced.
When she finds she invited Sharia Law into the White House she will think again.
Here is the deal libs. You want a free for all hedonistic chaos with lots of government goodies. You will not get that with bambi. Bambi's heavy supporters such as Hamas, Nation of Islam, and Odinga, will slowly bring in an oppressive, patriarchal society that will see the end of feminism and gay rights. You are being hoodwinked. Are you paying ANY attention at all to bambi's history and associates? Are you even giving any thought to the fact that bambi supports tyrants that are the very antithesis of what you want society to be? Are you really that stupid and foolish?
This guy Joe...he’s allright!
“Your story about the calf reminded me of one that I recall personally. It was the mid-1970s, and my young uncle’s car had gotten stuck on the beach during a sudden, howling thunderstorm. Our beach house was bursting at the seams with family members willing to help push the car back to the road. Among those chosen to take up the task were Louise and Jean, two of my grandmother’s female cousins. They were fraternal twin sisters, the last in the family to be born in Italy. At the time they were pushing 55 but were in great shape, strapping and the size of Amazons, their skin tanned into a dark, olive complexion. I wasn’t allowed to go because I was only eight years old.
An hour later, they came back to the house, soaking wet but mission accomplished. They entered carrying Mickey, their cousin, a man of slight frame, who had been knocked over by the wind and who had sprained his ankle. The first thing Louise and Jean did when they came through the door was to drop Mickey unceremoniously on the couch and ask me to fetch them beers from the refrigerator. To this day, I look back and think: Those were two of the sexiest women I ever laid my eyes on!
Not surprisingly, when I later went to college, during the height of the PC wars in the late eighties, campus feminism often puzzled me and sometimes angered me. These women would never in a million years choose my great-aunts and cousins as their role models. In fact, they’d probably cast scorn on them as backwards hillbillies. And you know what, those relatives of mine were hillbillies, in a way, or their equivalent in rural southern Italy. But I suppose the sisterhood of feminism was a rather small tent, the way it played out on campus. Their loss, as you’ve pointed out for years.
When I saw Sarah Palin’s speeches just before and during the Republican convention, I turned to my boyfriend and said, “This woman is the biggest threat to Democratic chances to the presidency since Reagan.” He understood immediately, but others I said that to initially had no idea what I was talking about. Clearly, they never had a Louise or Jean in the family!
Regards,
Joe Baranello
What has Happened to “MY DADS” Democrat Party??
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
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Why would Biden look like a slow sinking punctured blimp if he was winning on points?
“and is hoping he serves two terms”
Some of us are hoping he serves a couple of terms, in the klinker.
What has Happened to “MY DADS” Democrat Party??Naaah... history is cyclic. Any society with overwhelming economic power and no military threats turns to debauchery and hedonism very quickly. It's an organic process. There are plenty of community organizers and various other sundry hippies but they're really not nearly as influential and cult like as you think.
Even the *real* cults like the masons have gone through a tremendous decline of influence. I wouldn't be so quick to see conspiracies in everything.
Disagree she’s a hypocrite. It’s fair to differ with any candidate on issues or ideology, but where the left crossed the line was by attacking Gov. Palin personally. If the “feminist movement” was actually and honestly pro-female, this would have been the typical response to the Palin pick, rather than the exception.
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