Hillary or Bust

Yawn. Big surprise – Vanity Fair has published an unsubstantiated piece of journalistic garbage that portrays Sarah Palin in a bad light! Wow, what a surprise! (That’s sarcasm there.)

You have to wonder why Sarah Palin is continually being brought into national media attention when the election is OVER…it’s not like you’ll see Vanity Fair publishing hit pieces of Mitt Romney. But Palin is probably the best potential candidate to run against Obama in 2012, and it’s clear to me that people with an agenda are trying to take her out of the running now.

But what women should be up in arms about is the article’s speculation that Palin had “post-partum depression.” Nice. Criticize a woman candidate because she was just pregnant. Do you ever hear things like “He’s going through his mid-life crisis?” associated with male politicians (particularly those who are actually displaying it with their philandering)?

It used to be that journalists had some sort of integrity; that they believed in standards of fairness. They would not print negative quotes without trying to talk to someone with an opposing viewpoint and showing the other side.

The hit-and-run type of journalism expressed by Vanity Fair is nothing more than propaganda. You must remember, these were the guys who published a hit piece on Bill Clinton during the primaries, apparently in an effort to take Hillary down. (I’m actually surprised they didn’t just plaster a big headline across their cover: “HILLARY THE SHREW” – and then blame her for Bill’s sexcapades.)

Palin’s Vanity Fair piece tries to paint her as having narcissistic personality disorder – something that actually fits Obama better. Will Vanity Fair run a hit piece on Obama, talking about the now legendary Obama “Evil Eye”? Nope, because Vanity Fair is apparently in the pockets of people who want Obama and certain Democrats in power.

The mainstream media, which put Obama up on a pedestal and then smashed Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin down with unabashed misogyny during the 2008 election is something I no longer trust. The upshot of this is that they are starting to cry wolf – I am so immune to any Sarah Palin criticism right now that even if the worst were true I would not believe it.

Considering I am a 20-year registered Democrat who has for years been absolutely opposed to the “religious right,” the fact that the media has gotten me turned off of Democratic propaganda and now taking the side of a conservative woman is no small feat. If I am feeling this way, I can only imagine how middle America is feeling.

It’s so amazing to me that the right has turned out to be much more supportive of women in politics than the left. The left tried to run Hillary out on a rail – but the right has mostly embraced Sarah Palin and sticks up for her, rather than piling on more sexism like our liberal friends have done with Hillary.

Check out this amazing article on Palin in American Thinker. What blew me even more away was how many folks in the comments wanted an all-woman team for the 2012 Republican ticket: Sarah Palin and Liz Cheney. Can we imagine the Democrats doing the same anytime this century? Doubtful.

An excerpt:

The street fighting, world class, lifelong political experts of the left see “it” and it makes them crazy. They went crazy for Obama; they are going crazy for Palin, although in the other direction.

Whenever she chooses, she will take her first trip to Iowa to campaign for some obscure congressional candidate, and when she does, the liberal media cannot ignore the screaming crowds. And they will not be crowds manufactured by an advance team. They will be fired up mothers, working people who do not want to pay for deadbeats’ mortgages, people who are now going to grass roots tea parties.

A lot of people are disappointed that Obama did not come out stronger in support of Iranians who are protesting against what they feel is a rigged election. I will submit that he simply cannot – as much as I believe that man is a liar and will say whatever he needs to say to appease whomever at the moment – he has no moral authority to speak on election fraud.

After all, this is the man who “won” the Democratic primaries through caucus fraud. A lot of liberals are equating the current situation in Iraq to nine years ago, when many felt that Al Gore was cheated out of the presidency by Bush. I relate to feeling disenfranchised much more recently: 2008, when Hillary Clinton was denied her rightful place as the Democratic nominee due to bullying and other improprieties in the caucus states.

Sadly, we did not have 6 million determined Hillary supporters in one place able to stage a huge protest to get worldwide attention and sympathy. No, we were the forgotten ones…even made fun of sometimes by other Democrats who claimed we were making the caucus fraud up.

I hope that the caucus fraud story won’t be completely forgotten. It’s a good idea to bring it up once in a while so we will not forget.

Here’s anonymous comment I found on No Quarter on the latest round of Sarah Palin bashing by women of the left:

I am a feminist and a liberal and I like Palin. I know it is fashionable to slam Palin if you are a self-proclaimed intellectual because of her voice and some things she said that indicated she might now be ready for prime time (although if she answered Couric that she read the NY Times she would have been called a liar and if she said Vogue she would have been called an idiot), but let me ask the feminists here this:

Didn’t women go through decades of being told they couldn’t be news anchors because of the high pitch of their voices? It was understood that no one would take a woman seriously if she were reporting the news.

How come feminists ignored her pro-contraceptive stance?
How come we ignored her articulate words of being the parent of a Downs Syndrome child (if it weren’t for us feminists and liberals her son would still be denied medical care and an education. We fought that fight for Downs Syndrome people, and we won)

How come we slam her relentlessly and make fun of her (as conservatives did to Hillary Clinton) and for some reason it’s ok to do so? I mean, I saw her fight (and she won) against powerful oil companies in Alaska to be exceptional. I saw her fight with the corrupt republican administration in Alaska to be tremendous.

Why can’t women, who have fought for decades for the right to women to be who they are and run for office, so disdainful of this woman?

Why can’t feminists congratulate ourselves over the fact that Palin came form modest means, was a recipient of Title IX and went on to become governor a source of pride.

She hunts (many in Alaska do, including indigenous people there) and feeds her family form the meat. Would we slam a native American for doing this? No.

I saw a slamming of her by feminists that resembled high school girl cliques from pre-women’s liberation days.

Clearly, we slammed Madonna for dressing like a prostitute in the 1990s. We got over that. Now we have moved on to slamming women politicians.

Our numbers in government are alarming. 17% female representation in congress and 7 female governors and zero women in the Oval Office is something to be ashamed of. Maybe we should start looking closely at women’s strengths and skills before slamming her for her voice and mannerisms and her daughters.

And I know the law professsors here understand how tough the fight was.

Well, we have four republican women senators and they are all pro-choice.
This is something to capitalize on. This is where we increase our numbers. Yes, Palin maybe be anti abortion, but she is pro-contraception.

Have we as feminsts thought about what it looks like to little girls when they see books and news that depict majority male leadership? How will we ever achieve parity? And how do those young girls and young women feel when we slam this Governor (who is young, vibrant and speaks her mind)?

I think of that. And I am ashamed.

Good for Palin for going to Seneca Falls. Those women fought for all of us.

Since the election, David Letterman has been extremely disappointing in his treatment of women. In his latest misogynistic faux pas, he joked that Sarah Palin’s daughter got “knocked up by Alex Rodriguez” at a Yankees game.

Letterman’s explanation that his joke was in reference to 18-year-old Bristol Palin – as opposed to 14-year-old Willow – has not lessened the ire of people who feel the joke was inappropriate regardless as to whether he meant Bristol or Willow.

Sarah Palin released the following statement, which impressed me in its feminist commentary on our sexually exploitive culture and the harm it does to girls:

“Acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.”

What saddens me, however, are all the so-called liberals out there who are so consumed with their Sarah Palin hatred that they will excuse misogyny, as long as it is directed towards a Republican or “white trash,” as they sometimes call the Palin family.

Reading the comments on the CNN story will open your eyes to the level of abject hatred directed towards anyone with Palin as a last name. A common complaint is that Palin is trying to hog the public eye, that she just wants to be in the spotlight.

Shades of Hillary, anyone? Remember when Hillary Clinton was accused of being too “ambitious” during the primaries?

To misanthropic, woman-hating “liberals,” a woman who speaks out publicly is someone who is an “attention whore” rather than someone who is standing up for what she believes is right.

We still have such a long, long way to go…

Rachel Maddow turns on Obama as he announces his plans to detain people indefinitely because they “might” commit a crime in the future:

Oh. My. God. I told you so. I TOLD YOU SO! God. I just wish I wasn’t right this time. And I wish Hillary weren’t working for this snake. This is bad. Bad bad bad!

I had a conversation today with a high school friend of mine. It absolutely stuns me that this woman, who got decent grades growing up and is fairly intelligent, can’t see the dangers the US economy is in thanks to Obama’s massive deficit spending.

“You’ve got to spend money to make money,” she said. “Investing in the country will turn things around, just like FDR.”

FDR?!!! Obama is FDR?!! When I explained to her that FDR didn’t put us in trillions of dollars in debt, and that we are more like the Weimar Republic at this point, and tried to point her to an article about the dangers of U.S. debt and hyperinflation, she wrote off the information as coming from a right winger.

She then went on to say I was not giving Obama a chance. I said, the point at which he unveiled a trillion dollar budget and threw money away at bailouts was the point at which I felt it was necessary to stand up and say “enough is enough.” To me, this is common sense. How can anyone with half a brain believe that going into massive debt like this going to save the U.S. economy? It is absolute insanity!

I’m not right wing. But I do try to read up on economics and history, and where the U.S. is headed is an extremely scary place. I did not initially believe in conspiracy theories, but with this budget, I have to wonder if Obama isn’t purposefully trying to destroy America. Either that, or he’s a complete idiot! I actually think he’s smarter than an idiot, so he appears to be purposefully destroying America from within.

And yet, many of my leftist friends, those who aren’t clued in to the power of the Fed and the banking elite, blithely go along, believing that Obama spending money is somehow going to save us all. This does not appear to come from any bit of common sense whatsoever, but blind faith in Obama and a dismissal of any Obama criticism as coming from the right. And anything coming from a conservative must be dismissed.

Never mind that there are tons of Democrats and former Democrats who disagree with Obama’s economic policies. Can we expand our horizons, please? Conservatives aren’t wrong all the time. Not all their ideas are bad. I agreed with John McCain’s plans to have a spending freeze in government. I’m very sorry he’s not our president now. I doubt he’d be tossing bad money after bad at bailout after bailout and then approving budgets that are basically selling America permanently to the Chinese.

See, in LiberaLand, there is a vast Republican Conspiracy responsible for any and all criticism of Obama (they’ll write my blog here off as being somehow run by a Republican, despite the that I am still registered Democrat). Any article suggesting the economy is in for a bad run must be written by a conservative, and therefore that person must know nothing.

But if you try to suggest to these people that IF there is a conspiracy, it’s much bigger in scope – and it encompasses both parties – they’ll call you crazy. Somehow, to these folks, the Republicans try to control everything and be the puppetmasters, while the Democrats are always the good guys. Riiight. Isn’t it much more sensible to buy into the idea that both parties have been corrupted by big money interests? Makes more sense to me. Obama and Bush are from the same elite team, people!

C’mon people. Did you honestly believe a truly progressive black man would come out of nowhere and take the presidency, that the mainstream media would support him in this, as if this were a true people’s revolution…isn’t it much more sensible to acknowledge that Obama got into power because powerful people wanted him there?

The naivete is astonishing!

So what’s it going to take? A complete dismantling of the U.S. economy before people wake up? My friend said: Give Obama another 18 months and then talk to me. By then, I’m afraid it will be much too late.

I always wonder why it’s so trendy among the left to be sooo concerned about general human rights (FREE TIBET!) but most don’t seem to give a crap about the horrendous treatment women get in many foreign countries and cultures.

The latest outrage:

Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence, Saudi media reported Sunday.

Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily newspaper based in Riyadh, reported that Judge Hamad Al-Razine said that “if a person gives SR 1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends 900 riyals [$240] to purchase an abaya [the black cover that women in Saudi Arabia must wear] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment…”

I’d like to slap that judge myself…

The latest episode of South Park is…how shall we say it? A bit over the top. The name of it, after all, is “Eat, Pray, Queef.” Queef refers to a vaginal “fart,” so you can imagine some of the gross moments in this episode! But there’s kind of a bizarre feminist point in there, which mainly consists of men having a double standard regarding their gross bodily functions (farting) vs. women’s (queefing). This bodily function divide is used to showcase a greater inequality between men and women, whereby men always get what they want and women still have to prove themselves twice over.

Notably, the episode portrays a political process whereby when men get upset about something, they immediately get the town taking action and end up having a bill passed. We see a sea of mostly male faces at the local “congress.”

I’ll leave it to you to decide whether this episode actually ended up pro-feminist or not, but I felt it was actually more thought-provoking than you might immediately think due to the overt crassness of it.

Be on the lookout for a very disgusting but hilarious scene where Martha Stewart queefs out confetti and decorations, and Hillary Clinton is given a little queefy nod too.

You can watch the full episode online here…I warn you, it’s a bit graphic. (In a cartoon way, of course.)

The New Agenda reports that the US is one of the few holdouts to ratifying the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) into law. As we hear on the news horrifying stories of teenage girls getting beaten by the Taliban, you have to wonder why it is taking so long for women to achieve not just “true equality” but some semblance of true progress worldwide.

Here in America, we feminists have wasted far too much time, brains and energy on the abortion issue. I’m sorry NARAL and Planned Parenthood, but we need to move past this.

I have a simple solution to the abortion problem: USE SOME DAMN BIRTH CONTROL!

Meanwhile, we women just keep on fighting each other over this one issue, while so many other more important women’s issues are left unresolved.

As Sheryl Robinson of the New Agenda writes:

So…what if a bunch of us elected to put the abortion issue aside -– not giving up our personal positions, but choosing to work together on other fronts, fighting any number of other fights for women? What if we decided that getting more women elected and addressing violence against women and equal pay for women and sexism in the media were issues that could be tackled by women from both the left and the right, while we refused to play with the political football that the abortion issue has become?

Our government is comprised of 83% men. The status quo will naturally keep giving men a disproportionate degree of power, and choice is a convenient way to keep women divided and block any meaningful progress that we can make on the 80% of issues that impact all women — the issues that, if resolved, would give us more seats at the table, and shift the balance of power in our favor.