Posted on 11/06/2008 6:55:35 PM PST by Boardwalk
It seemed appropriate for this thread.
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But what does it mean? Was that an analogy or something? I’m serious. It went right over my head.
This thread feels like the Twilight Zone or something.
Yes. You did. Otherwise you wouldn't have posted that reply. Perhaps your problems stem from your lack of self discipline and self control rather than your gender.
Instead of whining why don't you go out and do something about this issue? I'm not forcing you to post your drivel. You are doing that.
Are you waiting for an Affirmative Action hand out (per your original post)? Wouldn't it be better if you turned off Oprah, got off your butt and did something constructive with your life?
Facts remain by the time a woman is elected President Hell will freeze over. Evey other minority under the sun will be elected first including male UFO.
No, not yet. She’ll follow in the bitch’s tracks and run for a Senate seat in Illinois.
I wonder where I can pick up a Palin/’12 bumper sticker?
Exactly!
This thread goes right along with the way Sarah Palin was treated.
The following are Fortune 500s that filed briefs (along with labor unions and lawyer organizations) in favor of so-called affirmative action in the Michigan “Grutter v. Bollinger” (Michigan University) case.
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf
3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines
General Motors Corporation
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/gru_gm.html
Sarah Palin got unfair treatment, but she took it like and adult and fought back admirably and with humor. Was it unfair?
Sure.
But the best thing about Sarah Palin and conservatives in general, is that when we get into a situation, we occasionally blame others a little as is human nature, but our focus is almost always along the lines of "What can I do better?" to deal with it.
Ms. Palin isn't a made-up (and self-made) populist in the mold of someone like Abraham Lincoln (and on the other end of that spectrum, Al Gore with his ridiculous "cleaning out the hog pens" fairy tale.)
She genuinely has a lot of characteristics WE can relate to. I have a few things that stuck out at me from watching her this election. To me, they were important because they were absolutely things someone cannot fake, the tone of the voice, the look on the face...
Before Halloween, when their campaign bus stopped to buy pumpkins, Sarah gave the guy a pumpkin to buy, and Piper, standing next to her began to tug at Sarah's pant leg. Sarah, with the practiced look of someone who has done it a lot, put her hand on Piper's back, and leaned down and in to listen to what Piper was trying to say. Her head jerked back, and she said "Piiiiper! An even BIGGER one? How many pumpkin pies can you bake?!!!"
That was priceless. Do a search on Piper Palin and Pumpkin.
The second, was after her acceptance speech at the RNC, and this is what I observed at the time, comparing her to Hillary Clinton:
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"...It is clear she dislikes men. But what REALLY gives her away (and the radical feminists by extension) is the spectacle of the fake affection she has shown towards her husband, simply accepting it as a personal cost to her as she grasps for power. The the contempt she holds him in (and richly deserved in my opinion) is real which makes her willingness to prostitute herself (along with any shreds of principle she may have retained) in order to gain and keep power, a particularly egregious insult.
Quite a difference from Sarah Palin.
The sound of Hillary saying "... "I'm not sitting here as some little woman 'standing by my man' like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together..." has all the feminine charm of a chainsaw cutting through a large plastic log.
Now.
I just want to paint a contrast here. And folks...this is the part that really made me smile, because it will be such a boon for our country if she can deal a deadly blow to Radical Feminism. If she does, she may cripple the feminist movement in the same way Joseph McCarthy crippled the Communist movement in this country. He made it disreputable.
This is what Sarah Palin may do to free millions of young girls and women from the societal influence of the bitter brand of feminism that has tried to destroy the family and drive a wedge between men and women. I believe that Radical Feminism has been one of the most powerful negatively eroding forces in our country since the middle of the Sixties. A very destructive, divisive and wasteful ideology.
One would read this and wonder how on earth Sarah Palin could destroy the Feminist movement. What would her "weapon" be?
Ironically enough, her Femininity.
She likes men, and it is evident she has real respect and affection for her husband. When one is forced to watch leftist junk on television showing fathers as being contemptible, incompetent, idiotic boobs, you would think American Husbands are the lowest form of life on earth, surpassed only by men in general. (Brent Bozell has written brilliantly and insightfully on this viewpoint.)
THIS is what struck me during her acceptance speech.
Did anyone else hear this during Sarah Palin's acceptance speech, when she talked about her husband:
Todd is a story all by himself.
He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers' Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.
Throw in his Yup'ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.
We met in high school, and two decades and five children later he's still my guy.
In the same breath she ended speaking, even though the camera was on her husband and not her, I thought I heard something in that moment when she stopped talking. I heard, just barely above the threshold low enough to miss it... a giggle. A real, giggle. Just four little heh-heh-heh-hehs under the breath, almost as if she tried to keep them bottled up inside of her chest, so everyone there wouldn't hear it. She involuntarily giggled to herself almost completely inaudibly, but the sensitive microphone picked it up. I went back and listened to it on Youtube, and sure enough...it was an affectionate, genuine giggle of a girl for a guy.
As a man, it was a wonderful thing to hear. It was very feminine, from a woman who sees nothing wrong with femininity, who didn't view her "guy" as a contemptible enemy..."
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It was genuine. The last was Piper grooming her baby brother's hair on national television. That said volumes about their family. They were as real as it gets.
We would have been fortunate indeed to have her as a Vice President.
So genitalia your primary motivation when selecting an individual to wield supreme executive power? Does content of character have any room in the equation?
well i think we should prove them wrong. i am still rooting for sarah, top of the ticket for 2012. run jindal or steele as VP and it is a hell of a ticket:)
Women outnumber men so the trouble lies in........
With your permission, I need a new tagline...
You’re from Massachusetts. That explains a lot.
if you find a palin 12 bumper sticker, ping me. i want one too.
And allow me to offer my humble compliments on your post #48. You summed up the facts quite nicely.
And it's still not about you.
That being said, in this election I have learned that:
It's fine to LYNCH a woman in effigy, but not a "man of color" (quotes to signify disgust for the stupid term).
The FEMALE candidate's family is fair game.
And
The C-word is acceptable, but the N-word is most definitely NOT.
I never cared for That One, but do you know when I began to hate him? When McCain brought those t-shirts up at the third debate and That One LAUGHED. And the next few days when the MSM ignored it? No words.
I am through playing nice and letting the Libtards off the hook, and any self respecting man who calls himself conservative who thinks we are "stupid" or "over reacting" need do a bit of soul-searching IMNSHO.
Excuse the rant, I guess I had more to say than I originally intended.
I’m not only from Massachusetts. But as far as the biggest insult so far, you win!
You see, with a few exceptions, (like New Zealand) most nations prefer their female leaders to be conservative.
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