http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sexist/ en-us Wed, 1 Oct 2008 05:27:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094642/posts GWEN IFILL: And there's also a big difference between running a state or running as long as she has run a state and running for one of the biggest jobs in the country. What advice do you give her on how to balance this? She's got five kids. She's got one...REP. HEATHER WILSON: You know something? Let me say something about that. That bothers me. No one ever asked John Kennedy whether he could be president and be a dad. Nobody asks Senator Obama whether he could be president and be a dad. But because Governor Palin is a woman,... www.pbs.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094642/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 05:27:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079644/posts Sarah Palin: What's Sexist and What's Not Sexist?September 10, 2008 04:31 PM ET Bonnie Erbe Women can be sexist, too, you know, just like persons of color can be racist. As the media debate whether Gov. Sarah Palin's public treatment is sexist or not, take this punch, socked to Palin by a woman, that's as clearly out of bounds as a husband slapping his wife in the face in public. As related by The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus today: My colleague Sally Quinn put it most provocatively. "Is she prepared for the all-consuming nature of the job?" Quinn wondered. "When... US News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079644/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:27:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079209/posts CNSNews.com) - Non-intern female employees did better working on the Senate staffs of John McCain and Hillary Clinton during the latest public reporting period than they did working for Barack Obama, Cybercast News Service determined through an analysis of payroll data published by the Secretary of the Senate. On average, women working in Obama’s Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That’s according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama’s Senate... Cybercast News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079209/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:19:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079013/posts I can already see the pattern repeating itself with the Obama campaign. Challenged by a woman, he uses subtle (and sometimes shokingly overt) sexism. I'd like to establish a tread to track these, because if we don't call him on it he will continue to use it. Things he said about Hillary: His response to Mrs Clinton's reminiscences about learning to shoot as a girl at her grandfather's summer cabin in Pennsylvania. Miss Ferraro said: "He walked up and down the stage with his microphone like a stand-up comic and ridiculed her as an Annie Oakley," she said, quoting his... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079013/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:44:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078524/posts Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA: Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra. "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig." "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink." "We've had enough of the same old thing." The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick." Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078524/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:36:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077905/posts Contact: Chris Barron Office - (630) 424-3490 Cell - (630) 215-9118 or (202) 297-9807 cbarron@sauerberg2008.com Sauerberg Calls on Sen. Durbin to Denounce Sexist Remarks Against Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin “Blogs such as ‘Daily Kos’ have stooped to a new low by publishing these ridiculous commentaries regarding Sarah Palin’s newborn son and her teenage daughter. As someone well-connected with the ‘Daily Kos’ staff, Sen. Durbin should be first in line to condemn this behavior.” – Steve Sauerberg, M.D. (Minneapolis, Minn.) –Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Steve Sauerberg, M.D., called on Senator Dick Durbin to denounce the sexist remarks being blasted... http://www.sauerberg2008.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077905/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 05:29:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073225/posts Here's Joe Biden's reaction to John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. "There's a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice presidential opponent," he said in Toledo, Ohio. Pause for the punch-line. "She's good looking." It's the way he tells ‘em, folks. A female supporter shouted out: "You are gorgeous!" The Delaware senator duly asked her to say it again into the microphone so his wife Jill would hear at home. "I haven't heard that in a long, long, long time," Biden said. "Being around this lean... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073225/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:43:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072213/posts Obama's speech electrifies Kenyans11:59, August 31, 2008 Kenyans on Friday joined the world in celebrating U.S. Democratic Party nominee Senator Barrack Obama's acceptance to vie for the presidency and thus become first black American to run for the top seat. Dozens of Obama's close relatives stayed awake across the country, particularly, Kogelo village, the family homestead, on Thursday night, awaiting his acceptance speech in Denver. According to local dailies on Saturday, thousands remained glued to their television screens on night to follow the proceedings live from the United States as a five-km dust road stretch to Sarah Obama's homestead remained... English People .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072213/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 05:05:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067182/posts Group: Topless taboo is sexistCity says shirtless protest can skirt ordinances Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican 8/22/2008 - 8/23/08 An organization that believes in extraterrestrials and claims to have cloned the world's first human wants women to bare their breasts in public today. They'll get no legal arguments from the city of Santa Fe. The Raelian Movement was founded by a sports-car journalist named Claude Vorihon who claims to have been visited by space aliens near Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1973. Vorihon, who subsequently changed his name to Rael, said the aliens — 3-feet tall with pale-green skin, almond-shaped eyes... Santa Fe New Mexican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067182/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035492/posts WASHINGTON -- Barack and Hillary, together again. Less than a month after their bitterly contested Democratic primary campaign drew to a close, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will share the political spotlight once again -- only this time as a team. Obama's aides announced Friday that the presumptive Democratic nominee will campaign together with Clinton for the first time next Friday. The two Democratic senators are also planning a joint fundraiser. The news comes as a new Ipsos poll shows three in 10 Americans would be more likely to vote for Obama if he named the former first lady his... The StarPhoenix http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035492/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:48:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021052/posts Obama has lost women 'with sexist campaign' Phillip Sherwell in New York Last Updated: 12:15AM BST 25/05/2008 Geraldine Ferraro, the only woman to run on a major party presidential ticket and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, has accused Barack Obama of conducting a "terribly sexist" campaign. Miss Ferraro, the losing Democratic candidate for vice-president in 1984, said that she might abandon her lifelong party loyalties and vote for the Republican John McCain if Mr Obama is confirmed as the nominee. "Should I ratify how the Obama campaign has been run by voting for him? I am going to have to... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021052/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 16:11:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015993/posts If the media truly are not more gender than race biased, then Barack Obama's remarks on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania this week should get as much coverage as Hillary Clinton's remark about Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson. While flirting with female factory workers in Allentown, he called one "sweetie," a paternalistic way to address a woman if there ever was one. It might have worked had he been trying to do his best imitation of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine, the telephone operator, but this was no spoof. This was Obama trying to relate to working-class women in a way... U.S. News & World Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015993/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 21:06:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999453/posts Dee Dee Myers has just come out with her amusing tale, Why Women Should Rule the World. You may recall Mrs. Myers was the first female White House press secretary, appointed during the first two tumultuous years of the Clinton administration. Simply put, Myers is a female supremacist. "Women tend to be better communicators, better listeners, better at forming consensus," she argues. That entitles women to run the world because they do everything better than those power-hungry men, Myers believes. As the unsmiling Myers goes about promoting her book, one wonders what led her to pen a tome filled with... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999453/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:58:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990441/posts (CNN) -- Facing fire from some fellow Democrats for his decision to endorse Sen. Barack Obama, Gov. Bill Richardson said Sunday he still considers himself loyal to the family that helped make his political career. Gov. Bill Richardson endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, but says he is very loyal to the Clintons. "I am very loyal to the Clintons. I served under President Clinton. But I served well. And I served the country well. And he gave me that opportunity," Richardson told "Fox News Sunday." "But you know ... it shouldn't just be Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton," he said. Richardson was... CNNPolitics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990441/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:48:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975729/posts The Nation -- Liberal smarties and sophisticates are having fun mocking John McCain , but assuming he gets the nomination, he will a formidable candidate. He may look like a grumpy old man -- specifically, as my friend Kathleen Geier joked, the grumpy old man who yells at kids to get off his lawn -- or the nutty old uncle who rags on everyone at Thanksgiving before passing out in front of the football game. But that's another way of saying McCain is a familiar, indeed family, character. It does not require an imaginative stretch to get John McCain. How... Yahoo!.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975729/posts#comment Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:15:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950226/posts How desperate have Hillary Clinton's backers become? One of the more prominent supporters, Gloria Steinem, takes to the pages of the New York Times to complain about the ascendancy of Barack Obama because black men have had an easier time than American women. In doing so, she inadvertently makes the Republican case against the entire slate of choices on the Democratic side: THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6. Herself the daughter of a white American mother... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950226/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:24:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915814/posts NEW YORK (AP) - The wives of five 2008 presidential hopefuls on Tuesday traded tales of juggling their kids, marriages and self-esteem in the maelstrom of a national campaign. Republicans Cindy McCain, Jeri Thompson and Ann Romney joined Democrats Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Edwards at the California Women's Conference, an annual gathering in Long Beach hosted by Maria Shriver, the state's first lady. Shriver, a former television news anchor, moderated the panel. Political differences scarcely were mentioned during the hourlong discussion as they described how they keep up a grueling schedule of campaign appearances while trying to preserve time with... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915814/posts#comment Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:29:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856345/posts So now it turns out that the martyr of the academic hard left, Norman Finkelstein, was denied tenure at DePaul University not so much because of my critique of his non-scholarship, but in large part because of his overt sexism. According to a news story in today’s Chicago Sun-Times, a report filed against his tenure by three members of the Political Science faculty “claims that Finkelstein allegedly called a female staff member a ‘bitch.’” The report also claimed that Finkelstein “shunned” colleagues who disagreed with him and that his boorish conduct extended to “dramatically closing his office door when his... Frontpagemag,com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856345/posts#comment Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:38:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781519/posts Nancy Pelosi has decided to play the gender card. For good measure, she's thrown in a soupcon of Rumsfeld-phobia. MSNBC just aired a clip of Pelosi making the following remarks on the issue of her demand to the Pentagon for a large plane: "I don't even know the numbers of the planes. So this is something that is really very strange. That the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, which I have been a constant critic of the war in Iraq, and where I understand Mr. Rumsfeld still has a desk, even though he's no longer the Secretary, has decided that... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781519/posts#comment Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:41:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775076/posts DES MOINES, Iowa -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her quest for the White House on Saturday stressing her potentially historic role as a woman -- a tough woman at that who will "deck" opponents, win the presidency and enact universal health care that eluded her as first lady. "When you're attacked, you have to deck your opponents," the New York Democrat said to applause from a group of about 50 Iowa Democrats. "I want to run a positive, issue-oriented, visionary campaign. But you can count on me to stand my ground and fight back." Clinton received enthusiastic applause from... McClatchy News Service via SacBee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775076/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:28:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774848/posts Clinton in Iowa: "About time" for woman president By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent2 hours, 11 minutes ago Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew big crowds and loud cheers on Saturday during her first visit to Iowa as a presidential contender, defending her votes on Iraq and saying it was "about time" for a woman president. In the state that holds the first contest in the 2008 presidential nomination battle, the former first lady said she thought Americans were ready for a woman in the Oval Office. "It's about time, if not past time, we had a woman president," she told... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774848/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:34:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756793/posts Sen. Hillary Clinton told a TV audience of 3 million women yesterday that the nation has "never had a mother" be President. Appearing on "The View" to push the 10th anniversary reissue of her book "It Takes a Village," Clinton chatted about family Christmases and raising kids these days. The former First Lady noted, "We've never had a mother who ever ran for or held that position." Clinton also acknowledged that the concept of electing a female President is "such a leap of faith." The senator, considered the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, raised the issue after conceding this... Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756793/posts#comment Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:01:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756753/posts WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton told a TV audience of 3 million women Wednesday that the nation has "never had a mother" be president. Appearing on "The View" to push the 10th anniversary reissue of her book "It Takes a Village," Clinton chatted about family Christmas and raising kids these days. <> The former first lady noted, "We've never had a mother who ever ran for or held that position." Clinton also acknowledged that the concept of electing a woman president is "such a leap of faith." The senator, considered the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, raised the issue... Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756753/posts#comment Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742435/posts NEW YORK — "The emperor has no clothes," House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi once famously said about President Bush. Well, actually he has some fairly decent ones, but it's been Pelosi's clothes _ stylish, well-chosen and nicely cut, of the Armani variety _ that have garnered attention since she became the most powerful woman in American politics earlier this month. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742435/posts#comment Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:46:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722435/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nancy Pelosi stands to make life much tougher for President Bush if the November 7 elections net her a powerful job that puts her just two steps behind him. The 66-year-old California liberal stands to become the first woman to lead the House of Representatives if she and fellow Democrats win control of the chamber from Bush's Republicans. She vows to ensure Congress acts as an equal to the most powerful man in the world. Often ignored or even mocked by Bush during his six years as president, Pelosi, now the House Democratic minority leader, told Reuters... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722435/posts#comment Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:28:05 GMT