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HisNani -> RE: Palin As President (11/8/2008 2:30:20 PM)
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candystripper- I love that Barbara Bush quote. It's awesome lol
Palin as anyone in power scares me. She's done so much that just horrifies me. I tried to like her...you know, hey a woman might have a chance in office, even though I don't support McCain or her views...but...come on. She bought her 7 year old a Louis v bag. What SEVEN YEAR OLD needs that??? And she spent all that money on clothes...you can get the same looking clothes elsewhere for cheaper, you don't have to shop and Barney's to get a good skirt, so I personally see no excuse for her on that one. She illegally used Alaskan government funds to drag her poor kids with her everywhere she went (the funds were to be used for campaigner's families only if absolutely necessary for the family to be there). And, really, even with all of that...the only thing that made me irate and disgusted by her is how she uses her children. She totes them around for sympathy. Her entire platform was 'I'm a mom' Yes, a mother who supports abstinence only education (which fails most of the time and 80% of those who go through it wind up pregnant or with an STD because they don't know how to use any type of contraception, because it's usually taught as evil) whose 17 year old daughter is pregnant (POSSIBLY with her second child- Trig or whatever the poor baby's name is, being the suspected first. That wouldn't surprise me. Down's Syndrome does NOT hide a pregnancy that much.) and engaged to a boy who doesn't want to get married, doesn't want to marry HER, and never wanted kids in the first place (smart move kid. really.). She allegedly fired her brother in law or some such because she didn't like him using state funds to pay for rape research...and she wants rape victims who go to the hospital to have to pay for their own rape kits! That's awful!
Tangent. Anyway, she drags her kids around, who clearly don't want to be there, and is all 'look, I'm a mom' and 'I'm a hockey mom!' and all of this other stuff, as if that's all that matters. Michelle Obama is a mother as well, and I respect her much more. She actually was the first political figure to point out what I'd been thinking all along, and that is how shameful it was for Palin to use her children as pawns like that.
I think Palin is a prime example of why a lot of people still believe women shouldn't lead. I wouldn't have voted for Hillary because she creeps me out and doesn't hold my views, not because she's a woman. But Palin...I don't want her to have any sort of power over anyone, even. She just...ugh.
And THEN she says she's a feminist, gives the textbook definition of one (which, I suspect she doesn't quite understand...) and then a month later says she's not going to conform herself to labels and say she's a feminist.
When a woman won't support equality of the sexes, there's a problem.
*steps off soapbox*
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