Obama unveils new women's group
With Sarah Palin helping John McCain make inroads among female voters, Democrat Barack Obama today announced a new group of women who are business leaders, astronauts, athletes, and elected officials.
The Obama campaign said the women give advice, speak on his behalf, and "where appropriate" push back on false attacks.
“Change has never been easy, it’s always been hard-fought with bumps and bruises along the way, but these women leaders have had the tenacity to charge on. I am honored to have the support of such remarkable women who have broken down barriers and paved the way for change for my daughters and generations of women. In accepting their support I also accept the great responsibility to carry the torch by advancing women’s rights and bringing the change women need,” Obama said in a statement. “For every Sally Ride, Tory Burch, or Billie Jean King, there are hundreds of young women out there whose dreams seem a little more possible. As president, I will work to safeguard and support those dreams for my daughters and future generations of Americans through policies that further opportunity for all.”
Palin's surprise selection, and her speech at the Republican convention, energized the GOP's conservative base. She is also giving McCain an opening to reach out to swing voters who are concerned about the economy but are traditional on social issues.
In an AP-GfK Poll conducted Sept. 5-10, about two-thirds of working-class whites said Palin shared their values and positions on issues, and three-quarters said so about McCain. Only about half said that of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Among white blue-collar women, 65 percent said Palin shared their values, and 71 said McCain did, compared to only 52 percent for Obama and 46 percent for Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Newsflash Team Obama:
Putting Gov Palin on the national ticket has done more for giving young women and girls a role model and a dream to look up to than any number of partisan hacks you could trot out.
The PUMAs met with you and asked you to appoint more women to your Cabinet if you win and you laughed in their faces.
You ran an offensively misogynist campaign against Hillary.
We haven't forgotten and we will make our feelings known on Nov 4th.
Is it just me or is the Alaska governor more experienced than the top of the Democratic ticket? Why has the 'drive-by' media been making fun of the Governor of the largest state in the U.S.A.? Did these same media elites question Bill Clinton's experience as governor of Arkansas? (one of the smallest and least powerful governor positions in the 50 states). The Alaska executive position (the Governor) is one of the most powerful in America (as is the MA governor executive position). Did the media elite question GA governor and undisputed disaster of a President Jimmy Carter? Is Mr. Obama's only experience (in running something) his running of his campaign? I thought he had a campaign manager? Who is this Mr. Obama? I never heard of him 2 years ago. Can & should I trust this unknown with the responsibility of the US Presidency? Wake up! Stop smoking pot. Think of the future of this great nation. The only reason Mr. Obama is the choice is that he defeated my candidate Ms. Clinton (a far superior candidate & definitely more qualified). Admit it Liberals; if Mr. Obama was a white man named Bill Smith with the same lack of experience, and the same dearth of qualifications, he would not be the Democratic candidate. Why are we letting our white guilt and politically correct racial preference choose the next President? This is an abomination!
Great post by Karen!
Well done, Senator Obama! Some of my best feminist friends are male feminists, and, with this move, I'm sure you'll reclaim that territory that the Republicans have been poaching upon, in the past few days. Additionally, I'm delighted with the REAL measures you and Senator Biden are taking for women's empowerment, across the board.
Try voting on issues not sex
Karen,
Voting from a place of spite is a great call!
Let's see what the dreams of young women & girls look like when their "role model" Palin works w/ McCain to appoint Supreme Court Justices that will overturn Roe v. Wade.
You go girl!
note the consistent lack of concrete examples of misogyny in obama's campaign. PUMAs are bad for america. They are alarmingly selfish.
Palin is good for women? Really??!!
Obama trashes Hilliary and Bill Clinton and he expects to get the blue collar and women's vote? He is an elitist. The Democrats always nominate an elitist. Remember Dukakis, Gore and Kerry, they were as out of touch as Obama.
Karen-
Are you crazy? Please lift that big chip off your shoulder and vote your best interest. Senator Obama DID NOT laugh in anyone's face, nor did he run a misogynist campaign. What bloggers choose to say- on either side- is not relevant (have you read any of the truly despicable racist comments on many blogs and comments? Are we to blame Hilary- or McCain for that matter- for these indefensible attacks? The obvious answer is no)
shut your stupid self up! if mccain get in rove vs wade will be over turned.You will have no healthcare,your pay will not go up.you woman are only hurting yourself by being mean and stupid.remember Obama and his wife will still have heath care and their kids will still have the best education.he is trying to help up you stupid fool
Karen, do not insult the thinking women of this world with your ignorance.
This is fantastic new!!! Go Obama!!!
What is Obama worried about? Is he worried that women won't vote for him. I thought he had this wrapped up.
This does sound like a desperate move by the Obama camp....to Obama and his supporters...what voters like me are looking for is not stunts like this...give some straight forward answers....how are you going to bring about change in this country??....raising taxes for people making over $250,000...and your best explanation was that is was the right thing to do....if that be true...how much money have you given out of your pocket has contributions to various causes.....the last time I checked...it was less that 5%...if you think it is the right thing to do...then practice it before forcing it on someone....I don't make 250K/year....in fact I don't even make 70k per year but I don't agree with taxing higher salary people just because it is their civil duty to help out others....I don't want hand me downs...I want a solid logical plan in place to help me through these tough times...you claim you are going to raise taxes on oil companies....GREAT....while doing that are you going to set a limit on gas prices as well....cause they have to make money to stay in business and that means they will raise gas prices....which basically computes to more expenditure for me....so how is this supposed to help me out???
Now to McCain....I don't believe that you are Bush part III or whatever the democrats are making you out to be....but I want to know how you are going to cut taxes to the extent you are promising and at the same time fund the different goverment funded programs....i know you are advocating different energy sources but I am interested in knowing which source are you going to be focusing on the most and why.....and also how do you intend to control banks and financial institutions that have cause the current economic crisis...
Answer these questions...and you have earned my vote....I don't care for the rhetoric...I want solid answers.
Karen:
Palin on the ticket is wrong for several reasons. I cannot see how any woman can support Palin if they were truly a Hillary supporter. As a woman, I voted for Hillary in the primary and will support Obama because his beliefs are similar to Hillary. McCain and Palin are way our in right wing field. If you are going to support McCain, you were never a true fan of Hillary in the first place.
A role model for women is not one who takes our rights away--Hillary would be digusted by your post. Will you really side with someone who will set us back 50 years? Thats progress! Im sorry, but the women who are role models to me--stand up for our rights--Not the good old conservative boys way!
There is far too much at stake in this election for Americans to be casting their vote based on the Gender of the Vice President.
Karen S.
If you are really a true PUMA as you profess no way would think that Sarah Palin speaks for Hillary Clinton supporters. As a former Hil supporter and now an Obama supporter I am appauled that you think that becuase Sarah Palin has a uterurs I should vote for her and encourage my daughters to do the same. I would make more sense if you decided that you did not want to vote for Barack Obama because of his race, not becaue of his politics. SHAME ON YOU!!
That's not true at all - if anything, Obama has conducted one of the most principled and considerate campaigns towards women in that I have ever witnessed in a Presidential election, including his deft understanding in handling a quite abrasive and rather unwomanly Hilary Clinton during the primary season. Besides, Hilary could very easily have turned on him in the DNC like Kennedy did on Carter in 1980, which she did not do.
Perhaps the above poster has not considered all of the anti-women stances that Palin herself is condoning, not to mention the blatant misogyny of McCain in his treatment of women throughout his career. Dumping an ailing wife in the hospital for a young attractive heiress, making extremely hurtful jokes about Chelsea Clinton in the 90s, or dumping several other women in Republican party for a younger former beauty contestant who is aloof, staunchly prolife, anti environment and anti-education - if this is your idea of a good role model for young women and girls then I suppose McCain Palin deserves your vote. Not for my young daughter, let me tell you.
Settle down, Karen... Let's stop the personal political attacks and get down to facts... Have you ever stopped to look at McCain's voting record on Woman's rights? It's abysmal. You can vote for whomever you wish put to portray Obama supporters as partisan hacks when questioning Governor Palin's record in public office is retrograde. Same with labeling the democratic Primaries as "offensively misogynist" You are merely creating dismissive comments that do not adress the issues. .
Ugh. It's transparent political ploys like this that are the hallmarks of a campaign that has spent far too much time, effort, and money on consulting and focus groups. As soon as I saw that Obama was absorbing some of Hillary's strategists when he clinched the nomination (the same strategists that were largely responsible for her short-sighted, constantly-shifting P.R. messages and tactics), I got the feeling that we'd be seeing stuff like this coming from his campaign. This "stovepiped" focus on pleasing specific voting demographics is a very unfortunate distraction from the broader issues that should be at the heart of this campaign -- issues that McCain has deftly led the media to avoid by naming a virtual unknown to his ticket and sitting back as the throngs of reporters go on a month-long wild goose chase to figure out who she is.
Why isn't the Obama campaign announcing an "economy group" or a "healthcare group" or an "energy policy" group? This pointless announcement does little more than admit that they are back on their heels and allowing the McCain camp to control the discussion. Whatever happened to calling a spade a spade, and standing firmly on your assertions that American voting public is smart enough to tune out the juvenile, irrelevant squawk of tabloid talking points and blind identity politics? Get it together, people... you've got 6 weeks left.
Wow Karen, way to play into the whole ordeal. McCain only chose Palin to secure votes, not to show her as a role model. He cares nothing about her or her policies.
As for Obama "laughing in the faces of the PUMAs", I'd love for you to cite your proof for this. I think it would have been all over the media if it had happened.
As far as Hillary goes, she ran an equally horrid campaign against Obama. I don't hear you complaining about that.
That's the problem with a lot of women. As soon as Palin was put on the ticket, they automatically jumped over to her, regardless of how horrible a choice she really is. She has no foreign policy experience, she has very questionable ethics (since her ethics are currently under investigation for more than one thing), and her views on religion and sex ed are horribly skewed. This is not the middle ages. Try voting the issues, not the gender. Thank you.
Why is the media so bias towards Obama?
There is something very wrong in our society when the media selects a candidate as a favorite.
Have we not learned from history where such blind worship leads?
The dictators Hitler, Mussolini, Kim Jong Il all began as a cult of personality worship. The media for these dictators were slanted during their rise and then controlled after they assumed power. Obama is clearly following the same pattern.
Obama and his wife have a horrendous history of evil and whenever facts of Obama’s infamous life is mentioned, the press ignores it. But for Hillary, McCain or Palin, if they so much as sneeze, they are mercilessly taken thought the ringer and insulted by the press relentlessly.
Is this because we are afraid to criticize an African American or because some powers above are manipulating the media?
- It is also interesting to note, that Obama critical posting are often banned or removed by the mediators of blogs or newspapers. A shocking example of this is The Swamp - Tribune's Washington Bureau who will almost NEVER print anything anti-Obama yet they are ubiquitous throughout the Internet. Doesn’t slanted reporting and opinion contradict the concept of news? Doesn’t China and Russia do this?
Obama is not even elected yet, and Obama’s cult followers have already managed to implement restrictions on Freedom of Speech and undermine media neutrality. What will happen to us if Obama were elected? He will teach our youth to be thugs like himself. And if you don’t know why I call him a thug, find out how he got elected as senator and look at all the ill associations he has hobnobbed with throughout his life. Remember when he gave the finger to Hillary on national TV and now calling Palin a pig.
We have clearly become a society whose depth of thinking is equivalent to that of Britney Spears and we will pay for this lazy intelligence and lack of critical thinking with our country. We are setting the stage for an American Mussolini.
Nice try, Karen S. If you think all women believe what you just posted, then you are fooling yourself. You are just like the rest of the McCain/Palin team......a liar!
Karen S. - Newsflash: Sara Palin is NOTHING to look up to; she's embarrassing. Did you miss her interview with Charles (not Chaaaarlie) Gibson?
If you want to vote for someone simply because they're a woman than you're a fool. Also, Hillary did not want to be Obama's runningmate; she wants to run for herself in 2012
Thank you Barack for using intelligent women to push back those misconceptions that the Rep. Party is trying to once again bamboozle the American Citizens with again. The funny part about this whole women's right thing is I'm a women and I never felt as thought I was less ever.
To Karen S. New's FLASH! Gov Palin has not said one thing to make a change for the better for me or my 2 daughters. Her speeches are right off of Karl Rove's playbook and you know it. Palin needs to tell me something that really means something. I don't know about you Karen but Pit Bulls and lipstick doesn't get me excited at all! Palin is full of $#!@ just like the Rep. party is. They threw out this women to take your minds off the issues. Health Insurance, JOB loss, Economy, Fuel Alternatives, The IRAQ War which should have never happened. Saddam didn't bring the towers down Osama Bin-Laden did... stay on point. I'm a working mom, a volunteer in the community, and a Christian women. I can't stand the lies is misconception of the Rep. Party and that is why I felt the need to check you on this. Maybe you can relate to Palin, maybe you tote guns and kill innocent animals and eat Moose on your table every night however I don't know one women that can relate to this chick. If Karl Rove wanted to pick someone for McCain as a running mate and we all know McCain didn't pick her, because he only met her once... Maybe she should have picked Michelle Obama... we all know she's intelligent, she graduated from Harvard Law School and she has executive experience to boot! :o) Enjoy your day and open your eyes. Oh yeah, McCain wanted his wife to enter a topless biker girl contest. Now that's someone you want your daughter to look up to isn't it!
I am surprised that so many Americans feel that Sara Palin is qualified JUST for the simple fact that she is a woman. What about her corruption investigation in Alaska....wonder when the trial is going to be? She hunts mutilates and murders for sport but thinks that it is IMMORAL to teach a teenager about safe sex. OBVIOULSY telling a teen just don't have sex DOESN't work. She is not for Women's rights. She is not environmentally concientious...in fact she DOUBTS that global warming can be attributed to humans. ARE YOU KIDDING?? People need to wake up and start getting educated. Sarah Palin is not qualified to be Governor and CERTAINLY not qualified to be VP.
OBAMA 2008
The ignorance of the Karen S's of the world is frightening. If she thinks Gov. Palin is a role model and a dream to look up to she is sadly mistaken. Gov. Palin is the most anti-woman, anti-feminist candidate McCain could have picked. Her scorn for women's rights and her abuse of power for her personal gain is another rung in the ladder of Republican disdain for the minorities, oppressed and discriminated against people of the county.
Newsflash Team McCain:
Putting Gov Palin on the national ticket has done more to set women back to the 1950s than any other female in the Republican party.
I am a woman from the 50s. I know what the 50s look and felt like. Sarah Palin looks, talks and acts the part of a 1950s woman.
I haven't forgotten what the 50s were like for women ... especially women who had no choice ... and I will make my feelings known on Nov. 4.
Newsflash Trolls:
John McCain will not make you rich if you continue to post laughable spam on his behalf.
Newsflash::::
I cannot understand how people that would have supported Hillary Clinton can turn their backs on the democratic party and support Mcain/Palin. It is ridiculous. So just because she is a woman, you are willing to turn back the clock on women's rights and allow them to attack a woman's right to choose? You're gonna let these maniacs give everyone in the U.S. the right to carry a gun? You're going to allow them to give extremely rich corporations even larger tax breaks than they have, while they outsource more jobs to India? And they plan to cut taxed on the wealthiest people in the U.S. while not adjusting taxes on the middle class? Palin even suggested war with Russia! Unfortunately I wouldn't put my money on us winning that war with the way Bush has our military stretched so thin around the world, fighting a non-sense war in Iraq when it has been proven they were not terrorists and were not harboring terrorist and had no WMD's.
They're also fooling everyone with this drilling for oil nonsense. Any drilling starting now will not effect our supply or prices for 10 to 15 years seeing that even the exploration process has not started yet. You don't just drill a hole and oil shoots out.
Think before you give up our future to the rule of people who don't even understand the notion of separation of church and state.
Newsflash Karen S.
Palin is no role model for young women & girls. Unless you want them to be lying, conniving, double talking religious freaks.
I haven't forgotten McSame's platform against women's rights and I'll make my feelings known November 4th as well.
1. Newsflash Karen S.
If you are really prepared to vote for McCain/Palin where you were earlier prepared to vote for Hillary, you are either an idiot or you're lying: how can you compare the politics of McCain/Palin with that of Hillary? If you supported Hillary because she was the best, most experienced candidate and thought her most likely to accomplish what you think the next president could accomplish, then how on earth could you support the diametrically opposed ticket of McCain/Palin? I'm assuming you're lying...unless you really are an idiot.
America is coming to its end does not matter who you choose ! just like the Roman empire! vanished.
Oh shut your trap and get over it !
Take off your B%tch hat off and put on your thinking cap on and look at what McCain/Palin policies are....same as Bush.....wake up!!
I am a licensed CPA in Arizona for 20 years. I am a female voter. I find Mr. Obama to be accurate in his financial data and analysis as well as his suggestions to fix the economic problems.
Hey Oblahblah, too little too late!
PUMAs grow up get over it and understand that Sarah Palin represents everything that Hillary Clinton does NOT. Anyone who would look at her views and ideology would understand that Palin is going to set women back 100 years. So understand that Barack is SURROUNDED by women and STRONG women and they will expect nothing but the best for women. So do us all a favor accept that Hillary lost and understand that McCain/Palin could possibly appoint the next TWO supreme court justices...
How absolutely wonderful. I was hoping that the women of this country would have a powerful voice in this election. Our hopes and dreams and aspirations for a future full of freedom must not be spirited back to the 19th Century....This is indeed a wonderful thing.....
Most Sincerely
A Thinking Woman
How can Palin be a role model for women? What women? Opportunistic, vindictive, lying women? Women who don't believe in Science? Women who think God is behind the war in Iraq? You can bet this God is a male God. Or is it that we're so hard up for attention any woman will satisfy our desire to be the center of attention? Just like a dog who whether he is beaten or treated with love can't tell the difference between the attention. Please.
Karen S .. Let it go .. really .. this is about picking a leader of our country .. You are making this about putting a woman .. it seems ANY woman in the white house ... Palin is about as smart as George W. It's people like you ...... Karen .. that are dividing the country .. Do you really think the policies of McCain/Palin are ANYTHING close to the policies of Hillary ... Grow a brain Karen ...
Barack had a chance to have a woman as a running mate, but decided to turn to one of the "good old boys" instead. Anything he does now will just be pandering to the female vote.
Karen you are hilarious and an obvious republican. If you gave two hoots about Hillary Clinton you wouldn't have just said what you did with a straight face. You're dream MUST be to have the government take possession of your womb, because that is what Sarah Palin stands for. You must dream of more wars started by Republicans who talk to God and think they are on Gods missions. You must dream of no polar bears because the polar ice caps have completely melted, because certainly a McCain Palin administration thinks this is all just a natural cycle and global warming is nothing to concern ourselves with. How sad that you are naive enough to have a role model in a person who thinks being next door to Russia gives her foreign policy experience. I could go on and on but at the end of day, my vote will hopefully cancel out yours and thats good enough for me.
I can't get over it. Sarah Palin good for women? Which women?
Look at the real accomplishments of the women whom they are dismissing as "partisan hacks". PUMAs are decidedly bad for women.
Does being a woman automatically make her a role model for women? How are you going to solve anything by voting for Palin on Nov. 4th? This should be about leadership and whats best for the country not some issues you have with female role models. Your insight is weak and not well thought out.
How can Palin be a role model for women? What women? Opportunistic, vindictive, lying women? Women who don't believe in Science? Women who think God is behind the war in Iraq? You can bet this God is a male God. Or is it that we're so hard up for attention any woman will satisfy our desire to be the center of attention? Just like a dog who whether he is beaten or treated with love can't tell the difference between the attention. Please.
Karen S.,
It seems anti-productive to vote for a candidate just because he picked a female VP. You shouldn't vote for someone just because they're male or female, black or white, or simply out of spite. Hilary supporters--her true supporters--rallied behind her leadership and her stance on the issues. They supported her not because she was a woman running for president but because she was a qualified, intelligent leader -- one who happened to be a woman.
Gov. Palin's views on women's rights are almost completely at odds with Senator Clinton's. Palin looks to stall, even reverse, the progress Clinton has worked so hard to gain for women, for New York, and for America.
A vindictive vote for McCain/Palin to spite Obama -- a champion for many of the same causes as Clinton -- is dangerous and petty. And it's something Hilary Clinton has repeatedly warned her supporters not to do.
If you supported Hilary Clinton for president, and I mean agreed with her on the issues, believed in her strategies for improving our healthcare system, economy, and our role and reputation on the world stage, then it seems fully impossible that you could ever reasonably and in full conscience endorse someone like Sarah Palin. They're just too divided on the issues.
There's nothing wrong with a woman becoming VP or president. What's wrong is casting your vote based on someone's sex instead of their qualifications and political agenda.
Obama already has Lindsay Lowdown, Pam Anderson, and Eve Longoria, three intellectual giants of the 21st century. What's next? Makes me wanna vote Democrat!
"Barack Obama today announced a new group of women who are business leaders, astronauts, athletes, and elected officials."
But he conveniently ignored the most relevent woman in the election against the plea of millions of women.
Remeber Hillary?
Men always pretend that they know what women need. But all we want is a woman in the White House and we have to support Palin.
Desperate? I'd say so. Seems like his effort to destroy Palin hasn't worked and the American people can see right through Obama and his media's attempt to besmirch her. John McCain is doing better than ever, so now Barack has to resort to desperate measures to win women voters. How Pathetic. Why didn't he come out with this months ago? After all he has been on the trail and managing a campaign for 14 months.
Whatever you say there Rush
Attn Karen S. - go ahead and vote out of spite....we'll return the favor in 2012 if you think Hillary will become president then.
Obama would never laugh in anyone's face if asked about appointing women to his cabinet. Why don't you prove it! You're a liar. Sounds like lying is the thing to do if you're a republican these days!
Karen, you would vote for McCain/Palin out of spite? That's not feminist, it's juvenile and dangerous.
Type your comment here...this is a great move for Obama
Karen,
You are so full of it. He never laughed in their faces. Sources I know inside the campaign are talking about Hillary as either Sec'y. of Health, Education and Welfare or Senate Majority Leader.
Caribou Barbie is an insult to women. She is a leader back to the Dark Ages, and is as vile as they come. Charging women who have been raped for an evidence kit, pushing to ban all birth control...she is a Phyliss Schlafly for today. What a joke! Especially when she's convicted of abuse of power on October 10th! Yeah, that's what we want---our daughters to be gross liars and backstabbers. You are nuts.
Karen, you Pumas have only served to make yourselves look ignorant and dishonest.
Now please, by all means, prove that by voting McCain/Palin and see what that accomplishes for you or your daughters. Win or lose, Palin will become invisible after the election. She is a prop...a trophy VP. If that's what you want your daughters to learn, good luck to them.
You are lying to say Obama laughed in your face, about appointing women, and any thinking adult knows that. Not enough time in the day to go into your other insane beliefs. You're all crackers
Who are the PUMA's?
Karen S and the PUMAs - you need to get over it for the sake of the future of this country. Think about who you'd rather have running the country based on their positions on the issues - not based on their sex. As a woman, I cringe at the thought that a bunch of angry and bitter Clinton supporters may subject our country to being run by candidates who might actually be worse than Bush and Cheney.
"The PUMAs met with you and asked you to appoint more women to your Cabinet if you win and you laughed in their faces.
"You ran an offensively misogynist campaign against Hillary."
Neither of those things are even remotely true.
If you are voting with McCain, you don't support women's issues and you probably never did. You blindly follow a cult of personality centered around a losing political candidate. McCain is a misogynist, and he WILL let Roe v. Wade be overturned if he is given the chance. He called his wife a cunt. How you could possibly support this man and call yourself a feminist is inconceivable.
To chose among the Republican party a woman so obviously inappropriate and unprepared to become President of the United States in the event McCain should die is as sexist as you can get. The educated women I know will not vote for a woman just because she is a woman. Imagine a man with the same background and experience; would you want that man to be in line to be the next president??? I don't think so .
Gaia Lamb, M.A.
I really am having difficulty understanding recent efforts to pander to female voters. I appreciate and support the hope that we can break the gender barrier in the White House, but isn't it more important that we have a good candidate in there, regardless of gender? Is it really an achievement if the woman wins because of her gender, and not on her own merits? I always felt a bit put-off by Mrs. Clinton's assertion that a large part of her qualifications came from her time as the first lady. I feel like that message is more demeaning to women than it is inspirational.
I really hope that John McCain's attempt at gender-based pandering doesn't really sway women to vote for him. Sarah Palin is in no way a reasonable alternative to Hillary Clinton. Saying people should support this woman because of her gender is completely ridiculous. Following that kind of logic, shouldn't I be supporting John McCain because he's a white male?
Oh yes, Palin the role model. lol. Mommy, when I grow up, can I fail out of 4 schools before I get it right too?
Will creationism and abstinence-only (which worked so well for her family) be the only things taught in school? Will the rights of myself and my daughter to opt for abortion (specifically in instances of rape) get taken away?
What does she know about foreign policy? Hell, what does she know about domestic policy? Read up.
If this country votes for the McCain and Palin ticket, that explains why the country is in such a deep economic crisis. Palin is a shallow, hollow script reader. She will make a good TV host, but not a VP or a potential president. Too many lies from her camp. She is no Hillary, girlfriends.
Newflash PUMA:
Sarah Palin pick has the honor of setting women back 50 years...Get real! she was chosen not because McCain thought she best qualified to be leader in command. But because she could help him advance to where he wants to be..Its about him not about her..the fact that she is only a heart beat away from the Oval Office...And will be in charge should the next bout of Melenoma take him out..Did not occur to him, we are the only ones that think he may not surrive..If you were thinking with your brain and not your vengeful feelings you know I'm right! There hould be no reason for you not to not vote for Obama if you were a true Hillary Clinton Supporter, were you supporting her because you just like her? or did her beliefs line up with your beliefs?..Just because Hillary did not win, why do you want the 36 million people that beleived in change and voted for Obama and Hillary suffer by doing your best to elect McCain?..Wow ! you are a selfish group of people..There are people out here in this world that really need what Senator Obama proposes Health Care, Better Education, More Jobs, Equal Pay, Maintain a Womans right to choose. Please, I beg you to get over it and be about the change..All that Senator Obama does not complete in his eight years, we will run to the Polls, in equally great numbers to get Hillary to finish the job....We the majority want change and you and your group want revenge for Hillary...You are not helping her with your actions..Please, think of others that are counting on your vote..This election is not about Senator Obama, but about the little people that have not had a voice, we have now have that voice in Senator Obama. Please, don't rob us of this chance.
Hmm - I wonder is the "PUMA" referrence is yet another example of a republican wolf in sheep's skin?
Q: Which party put a woman on the national ticket first anyway?
Good idea. I think Obama should go out on the campaign trail with his supporters. Its good to have someone who believes in equal pay for equal work in the office.
We definetly need to raise the minimum wage. the overwhelming majority of those who are suffering from that are women.
McCain's views are archaic on these issues and a detriment to women.
Wait, so now Gov. Palin is a role model for young women? A dream to look up to? How does a radical right-wing conservative all of a sudden become the dream of young women this country over? Just because some old white guy picked her out of a select hat of political advantageous women? Good women in our history are collectively rolling in their graves.
only race ,hate and bad mine that drive you to talk like that
karen s.
Gov Palin a role model? You have got to be kidding me!!
As a working mother, I am appalled to see her nominated in a clear attempt to use her gender as a vote getter, and then cry sexism at every turn. You want to step up to the big leagues, act like a grown up and take the good with the bad.
My daughter said it best ... "Just because I have a ****** doesn't mean I'm automatically going to vote for one."
Fortunately, the younger generation can tell when they're being played. My demographic appears to be a ship of fools.
To Karen S.,
I think it is way more sexist on McCain's team to think that women across the country will vote red simply because he has a woman on the ticket. Furthermore, their campaign has played the gender card way more often than needed (reference lipstick on pig comment). They're using Palin's sex to advance their own campaign.
It would have been sexist on Obama's behalf if he didn't run a tough campaign back in the primaries. His efforts show how much he viewed Clinton as a smart and capable woman. McCain's team is claiming people ought to go soft on Palin because they see her as a weak woman needing protection. That's what I call sexist.
KarenS, dont be a moron. I am a former Hill supporter too. Still, I find Palin much more offensive than anything Obama is accused of doing. Get over it and dont be moron.
Obama did not run a misogynist campaign against Hillary. I'll certainly agree that Hillary faced sexism in the primary, but we should put the blame for that where it truly lies: with the mainstream media and the pundit class.
Hillary lost the primary for one very clear reason - her support for the Iraq war.
Seriously, Karen?
Did you not listen to Hil's speech at the DNC? Did you vote for her, or for the issues? Did you vote to save our children, or to leave them to rot in an education system that isn't working? Did you vote to bolster our economy, or leave it for dead under the old regime. I must say, you make me very, very, sad.
McCain's pandering for women's votes by picking Palin is offensive. He insults my intellegence, because he assumes I will vote for him because he has picked someone of the same sex. But, what he neglects is that I want the rights over my own body, to stop global warming (that is man made), and protect my social security.
McCain-Palin is the wrong choice for women, and for everyone.
Give me one example of a misogynistic campaign from the Obama team? He didn't pick her as a running mate because she would have wanted to be a co-president. The VP, by definition is a subordinate role, and all know Hillary wouldn't do well in that position (which is a credit to her). She lost. Get over it. She did.
News Flash Team Karen S. The only thing Palin shows other women is that
it is alright to lie to the people of america as long as you are trying to win an election. Palin has told more lies in one week than there are people in Alaska.
She sold a private jet on Ebay: LIE!!, she sold it privately at a cost of 600,000 to Alaska
She said she fired a private chef : LIE!! Chef is still on staff but cooking for the Legislature
She is qualified to run the United States : LIE!!!!!!
It was all about Palin last week and now the dust has settled--it's over. The old republicans scrambled for any chance to save their dead party, latching onto another bloated country bumpkin. Sorry guys. Obama's here and you lose.
The Republicans have done a great job by distracting voters from the real issues. Palin's right wing hawkishness will put us at odds internationally both from a global economics and foreign relations perspective. This election is not about putting a black man or woman at the top levels of government, it is where Americans want to take this country over the next several years.
So are you saying any women as president/vise president will do? It sounds like you don't care that this women (Palin) believes that if you are raped and impregnated by your father you should have the child, nor does it matter that she knows nothing of foreign affairs, economics or for that matter the constitution. And to beat all she lies.
I would love nothing more than to vote for a women for the highest office in our country, however, if I don't agree with her on the issues, the fact that she is female is superfluous
McCain picked Palin because she is a woman. Not because she is most qualified for the job. He is already making descisions that are not in the best interest of the country.
I do not understand that just becouse Palun is a woman that she shoud be voted for. When she brags that her daughter chose to have her baby, she wants to take away the right of other girls the choce of having a baby or not. Not only that but if a child is molested by a family member she can't have an abortion. I can remember girls going to a durty back room and some durty person using a coat hanger to abort an unwanted baby, cool, lets go back to that so every body dies. I watched her enterview and a question was asked three times and she used the same memerized words to not answer the question. She is a woman that knows nothing about being vise president by her own words. She can do nothing for women with out knowlege to do so.
How offensive and silly. Hillary lost not because she was a woman, but because she is Hillary. So, you can continue in the grand American tradition of voting against your own self-interest, and elect Palin. She will turn over reproductive rights, and delliver our nation back to the Stone age culturally.
Newsflash GOP wingnuts,
"Mooselini" is NOT a positive role model for women.
As a woman who has spent her life working as a waitress to earn two masters degrees and a PhD, I am deeply offended that people think Gov Palin is anything close to being equivalent to Hillary Clinton. I have so much respect for Hillary, and have no respect whatsoever for the integrity or character of Sarah Palin.
Come on, women! Obama did nothing misogynistic against Hillary. The MEDIA did! As a woman, I could only trust Obama to protect my rights and my interests - for myself and for my children.
Women, we are smarter than this! Please let's inform ourselves with hard evidence and truth - and have the womens' intuition to protect our children. I value their right to become educated and to have science in their curriculum, and to have health care if they are sick.
Women, we must challenge ourselves to do some soul searching and to think for ourselves!
News Flash for you Karen S.
Hillary has and will continue to have a thousand time more experience and intelligence than Sarah Palin.
The only problem with Hillary was that she was a serial liar (dodging sniper fire and negotiating treaties with world leaders while being the first lady)
and she was married to Bill.
While you are correct that the "image" of Ms. Palin is quite a role model for young ladies/girls all over this great country, her policies and intelligence speaks volumes as to why she is another terrible decision made by the
war hero - political zero McCain.
By using the acronym PUMA, when it is not specifically mentioned in the article, you do a disservice to women in general and specifically speak to your own mysogyny.
Are you really a woman?
Perhaps you will be unpleasantly surprised by all the truly intelligent and forward thinking women of this country.
Vote for McCain and Palin and you'll put the womens movement back 100 years. They'll add two more judges to and already rightwing supreme court. You think it it's a slippery slope now.
Can you say Roberto Gonzalez, Cheney, Wolfawitcz, Rove, Rumsfeld, Libby, Scalia, Roberts, Alito, Abermoth, Delay, Stevens, Cunningham, Foley, Craig... and the list goes on and on.
Hillary said it herself, "Did you do this for me, or for the people the Dems are trying to help"
My God my fellow Democrats and Independents first Al Gore, then John Kerry oh so close and the Republicans screw us each time or so did the Supreme Court in Al Gore's case but how many times are we going to let this happen to us. Can't we unite and fight these bastards? Sarah Palin as President if McCain dies? Oh Please!! God help us. I beg of you think long and hard we need change this time. Please give Barack a chance, Please.
Karen S I don't really leave comments but I have too first ARE YOU A TRUE DEMOCRAT!!!
Second Hillary started with the campaign bashing!!!
Third the only reason Palin is there is because of hillary so you go right ahead buy into the repuke vision for america just don't think there will be change.
"group of women who are business leaders, astronauts, athletes, and elected officials"
You miss the point. Sarah Palin appeals to women because she is not an astronaut, business leader, etc. She is everywoman, that is the rest of us. We have had well educated and so-called experienced people in Wash and on Wall Street. You have not only made a mess of it. I am thinking de-regulation of the airlines? Does that sound familiar? It is too late to grab a team of women together to remedy the error of judgement the campaign made in ignoring Hillary and then wanting her to stump for you. Have you heard about "The New Agenda". We already have high powered women getting together. We don't need the Obama campaign to do this. This also looks a bit ridiculous. I think the democrats have just got to wade through this and see what they can do by discussing the issues. The only one in politics who saw this coming was Ron Paul. We missed it again like we missed Ross Perot.
Karen S. -- I only hope my daughters don't take Palin as a role model. She is unblinkingly arrogant, lacks curiosity about the world, and reminds me much more of George Bush (another governor with "executive experience") than she does of Hillary Clinton. Palin and what's-his-name who is running for president will not be getting my vote in November. For my daughters' sake, I'm voting Obama '08 (hey, that's catchy...).
Go ahead and destroy 100 years of women's progress by voting for McCain. You are an ignorant and clueless voice for an ignorant and clueless leader. We don't want you.
The democrats don't want anyone who would vote for president based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. Go back to the kitchen and enjoy your sexist leadership spearheaded by the ultimate opponent of women's right, Sarah Palin.
Oh thank goodness. Any woman who thinks that Palin's nomination represents a significant step forward is out of her mind. It's a cynical attempt by the McCain campaign to exploit women who were disappointed by the outcome of Hillary's campaign.
Make no mistake, Sarah Palin would revoke women's rights to choose what they do with their own bodies. She has done nothing positive for the women of Alaska, and has actively worked against women's interests. Giving her carte blanche to do the same on a national level would be the worst, dumbest thing women could possibly do right now.
I'm glad to know that more women are willing to speak out for the Obama campaign. McCain has used Sarah Palin to avoid discussing the issues that are important not only to women but to all citizens. The race is between Obama and McCain. As far as I'm concerned, McCain has been using Sarah Palin and it is not only foolish ... it is insulting.
Electing someone based on their gender rather than their qualifications is ridiculous. The fact that the GOP puts a charming woman on the ticket with no national government experience shows just how desperate the GOP is. They can't win on merit or party platform alone. The USA can't take 4 more years of misinformed lobbiest based government.
I will be voting for change, change to the Democratic ticket.
Palin is just a Bush follower who, along with McCain, will drive our country into further economic disaster and continue to ruin the USA's reputation throughout the world.
Karen S: Take your angry female testosterone and shove it.
NewsFlash Karen,
You probably would not have a problem with your teenage daughter being pregnant and not being able to afford health care.
It's a shame that you are so threatened by people who think differently then you.
Americans are not stupid. We the people can clearly see how the Republicans are putting this unqualified vp choice Sarah Palin in our faces. I can't understand why any woman would be proud to have her propped up as the best our country can do.......
I am a woman, I think it would be wonderful to have a woman on the National ticket---BUT----THIS womsn? There are so many more accomplished women than this cynical, self-boastful Sarah. Let her return to Alaska, read some newspapers, listen to the international and national news, and then maybe she might learn what is REALLY going on in the world. Gosh, I was President of the PTA---so were thousands of others--- is that the criteria for mayor, govenor, president? Oh yes, many many of us are ALSO good mothersb
NewsFlash Karen,
You probably would not have a problem with your teenage daughter being pregnant and not being able to afford health care.
It's a shame that you are so threatened by people who think differently then you.
Americans are not stupid. We the people can clearly see how the Republicans are putting this unqualified vp choice Sarah Palin in our faces. I can't understand why any woman would be proud to have her propped up as the best our country can do.......
Thats a ridiculous lie. He did no such thing. Besides that who would decide the members of the presidential cabinate based on gender? Thats sexism pure and simple not to mention dangerously divisive. One should choose his subordinates based on policy and talent alone not by gender race or anything else! You madame are the sexist not Senator Obama. As for Palin, She is a dangerously incompetent and prejudised woman. She' a woman who attends a chruch that proclaims those who voted for Kerry are going to hell. She has reversed herslef on every major policy she once supported. Not to mention she has a nasty history of abusing her power in order to show both favoritism and to settle grudges. We have had enough abuse of power in the last eight years. She is not a good role model for woman. She is certanally not who I want my daughters to look up too.
All this is well and good, Karen, but the stakes are higher than these things you point out - true or not. The issue is not whether she's a woman, but that if John McCain is elected, Sarah Palin will be a heartbeat from the presidency - something I don't think she has the intellectual and personal skills to take on. Her interviews with Charlie Gibson clearly showed this as she dodged questions and repeated answers she was clearly coached to give. Yes, we want a woman in the White House some day and Hillary would have been great or any number of other women I can think of GOP & DEM...eg Elisabeth Dole, Kay Baily Hutchenson...why didn't McCain go with this kind of seasoned female political candidate.
Barack Obama has shown himself to be articulate, fully versed in the issues and prepared with solutions - I have seen no anti-female side to him from his choice of campaign advisors such as Madeline Albright on foreign affairs to Caroline Kennedy on his veep search committee.
John McCain has chosen Sarah Palin as his Veep - what does that say about him. It was a rash last minute, poorly betted decision, likely pushed on him by people who didn't want him to pick Joe Libermann because he was too far left and McCain didn't have the guts to stick up for what he really wanted.
More lies and vitriol from Karen S. Where on earth did you see a misogynistic campaign? A misogynistic press, maybe, but that had nothing to do with the campaign. Where's the evidence that he laughed in their faces? This is just more smear-mongering. Count me one Hillary voter who will be voting for Obama. I bet HIllary will be doing the same.
Karen S. How can you vote for Governor Palin when she is totally against everything Hillary Clinton stands for? You shouldn't be voting based on gender. You should be voting on the issues. I'm disappointed Hillary lost. I voted for her in the primaries. But Obama and Hillary pretty much have the same views on all the issues that are important to Democrats. You'd be voting against everything Hillary wanted to do if she became President. You shouldn't vote against your party just to spite another candidate. What kind of role model is Palin? How can she teach abstinence if she can't even keep her daughter from getting pregnant? Get over Hillary losing. This is much bigger than her. Do you realize we have three Supreme Court justices older than McCain? If the Republicans win, the conservatives will take over the Supreme Court. That could set women's rights back for generations to come.
Karen you and your organization are committed to nothing but anger.
You were never committed to Hillary Clinton's campaign or her ideals. It is the height of disrespect to Senator Clinton to actively seek to elect Republican candidates that are diametrically opposed to her on the issues.
First we focus on the election and furthering policies that are good for all women, then we focus on cabinet appointments.
Senator Clinton and other women of stature are much more appropriate advisors to be called upon to recommend cabinet appointments.
It is you and your group that are misogynist. You are a roadblock to women and only serve to reinforce the status quo.
Newsflash Karen:
Hillary lost because she mismanaged her campaign. From reading her internal campaign memos, I wouldn't trust her to manage a 7-Eleven, let alone the country.
Gov. Palin is a role model only if you think lying about your record and pretending to know what you're talking about is a good thing.
On August 29 John McCain announced his VP running mate candidate Sarah Palin. As a woman who voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries, I found the commentary aired and printed about McCain’s choice disturbing, since most of the commentary centered primarily on Sarah Palin’s gender, and implied that by choosing her McCain had been able to secure much of the Hillary Clinton bloc.
As a woman who voted for Hillary in the primaries, I am naturally offended and find this type of oversimplification an affront to thoughtful voters who chose Hillary based on her views and perspective, rather than on her gender. To suggest that women in this country primarily if not exclusively judge a candidate’s suitability for office based on gender is offensive.
To suggest that Hillary voters will be more likely to vote for McCain, now that he has a woman as a VP running mate is a gross oversimplification. Hillary Clinton’s perspective, vision, and political insight have little in common with Sarah Palin, the discrepancies become even more glaring when the partisanal political views and opinions of an outstanding Democratic candidate are compared with a go-along freshman chosen to reinforce the stale Republican ticket demonstrating desperation moves as regards “sprucing up.”
You're stupiid Karen. I'm sorry to say that but if you care about your life and your future you won't make decision based on the fact that the other ticket carries women. She has nothing in common with Hillary, and this is the proof you don't understand anything about election. No wonder Bush was elected the second time. Good luck with your unreasonable thoughts.....
Karen S. Go make me a samich. Or let me spell it correctly. Make me a sandwich and have the rest of my dinner ready.
I wonder if Palin left the AOG church because they like most evangelicals churches don't allow women pastors, or for women to teach men in bible study,etc? I can not imagine a woman that cares about her rights voting for this woman.
bj
Well, "Wonder Boy" has now gotten a group of women business leaders, astronauts, and athletes together to bash Gov. Palin. I wonder how these wonderfully accomplished DemFems felt when Barak passed "all" of them over for Vice President for good "OLD" (Say It Ain't So) Joe Biden?
Right on Karen!
I always thought that the dems were representing me as a working mother trying to suceed in both roles until I heard the attacks on Sarah Palin daring to run for VP as a working mother. Now I know just how much they really represent me and care about my problems. They've lost my vote.
Wow - if Sarah Palin is your notion of a role model for women...she's got a long way to go first. She may have had a future, but she was not ready for this jump.
Karen, I'm not sure what you have against Sally Ride, Tory Burch, or Billie Jean King, but to call them hacks is rude. I don't care whether you are a man or a woman; I do not like to hear women called hacks.
Your sources are misguided Karen. Perhaps you should research the facts on your own instead of relying on your Pumas.
The campaign against Hillary was run the same way a campaign against the men was run. Why should it be different. I'm for equality in all aspects and don't want someone going easy on me because I'm a woman! Give me a break!
Yes, we will remember how you instilled hope in our daughters and granddaughters with your inclusive message and we will vote for you, Mr. Obama!
Let's hope that as a role model she doesn't continue her distorted view of proximity equals knowledge. By her logic, the Mayor of Key West is an expert on Castro! I'll take Sally Ride any day over her. Partisan hack or not.
Can he ever complete a sentence without using the word "change". Although, the the young and ignorant will fall for it every time.
The woman in this group will push back any false attacks? Where were they when the liberal media was attacking Sarah Palin? I'm sick of the double standard.
Newsflash PUMA:
Obama and Biden stand for the policies that will further women's issues as Hillary stood for them. That you think all women are interchangeable is ridiculous and flies in the face of all that Hillary stood for. No one is paying attention anymore. No one cares who you will vote for. You are all a bunch of bitter hags!
It's quite ironic Karen that you would take Barack Obama to task on the issue of trotting out people simply to garner votes when most people would agree that John McCain (who I assume you will be voting for) chose Sarah Palin for that very reason.
If you want a real role model for females to look up to, look no further than the likes of Hillary Clinton, a woman who fought to get as far as she did, unlike Sarah Palin who is taking a short cut to the Presidency by getting selected as VP last minute.
As far as the "offensively misogynist campaign" you claim Obama ran against her, I think that even Clinton herself would disagree with you. I also believe that any campaign that’s been run this year can be viewed as sex, race or age discriminatory if you twist it enough.
Karen S. what role model would that be.
Palin wants to turn over Roe v Wade and believes that we are in Iraq cause that is gods will.
Sounds to me like Palin wants to take this country a few steps back instead of a few steps forward.
Pretty sad when ladies are so nieve to the fact that she would like to take your choice away as a woman to abortion especially when it is a rape or incest case. Bravo good going.
Dear Karen S.
Gun toten' Rednecky Palin is NO ROLE MODEL for my daughters. She is right-wing fundamentalist big-oil tyrannical scary creationist anti-choice closed-minded uneducated untraveled mouthpiece in pantyhose and got where she is with stabs in the back. Please point out ONE moment where Obama is mysogynistic. He dedicates his life to his wife and daughter, dedicated his books to the strong women who inspired him, and treats women exactly how they should be treated: as equals and NOT as sissies. Please take your "we haven't forgotten" and put it where it belongs: on McCain's smear campaign.
"We haven't forgotten and we will make our feelings known on Nov 4th."
If you think Obama was misogynist, wait 'til the backward, backwoods policy of the Republican party you plan on voting for hits you and everyone else in your position. You may make your feelings known, but you do it at the expense of common sense. G'head and toss your core values out the window on account of feeling slighted for some foolishness that may or may not exist. Do womankind some justice and rise above emotion.
- T
"Putting Gov Palin on the national ticket has done more for giving young women and girls a role model and a dream to look up to than any number of partisan hacks you could trot out."
Women with self respect will run from Palin. Women who think men should legislate their lives will flock to her.
"We will make our feelings known on Nov 4th."
We Who????
newsflash, newsflash
tory burch and billy jean king would have been much better choices than palin.
miss burch has been quite an inspiration to my daughters and their friends, and i think that barack obama is incredibly smart and respectful towards women as evidenced by his strong companion michelle.
tory burch- would you please run for office in new york.
we need you now more than ever.
-jamie hetfield
You had your chance to choose Hillary. Too bad. Too little, too late.
Hmmm.... karen S