I plan on writing about how (and why) the VP nom for Sarah Palin will set back women in national, executive politics by years. But first
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considering phelbaseudaimoniacallySeptember 4 2008, 01:07:23 UTC
ok, first of all, when studboy takes the stage tonight, the real question is whether this gives or takes his cred with the homecoming committee of Jack Frost Memorial High.
as far as the feminist/political issue...don't miss the forest for the trees here. This isn't about choice and morals and ideology, it's SO much simpler. The problem here, whether in the vetting 'process' or not, is that the family has low-rent 'handlers'. America is no place for amateur politicians, of which, apparently, Alaska is pretty friendly too. Check Huckabee for a comparison...the man knows how to run a campaign, successful to slipping the clutch on the party processing or not; the man has managed his career pretty very, very, well. Bush, Clinton, etc....these big guns have substantially different skill sets/attributes, and have their careers in the 'ironsides' mold.
Palin is a political aberration, and as such, quite exciting. She may yet provoke one of those long-jabbered about national conversations. Does the chirality of my gonads REALLY color my suspicion of the character of a parent who puts civic duty/personal ambition above keeping track of 5 kids? I mean, a little math here, 24hrs-10(sleep, meal prep, staple shopping)-4(transit, interruptions, household maintenance/errands/hygiene)=10hrs/day.
Divide that by 5 kids for 2hr/kid.
Now, there are some very prosperous families with highly successful parents who do not forsake careers for professional success and manage their families as orderly committees of shared responsibilities, duties, and recompense. It's just that many of them are in polygamist compounds.
Now, if the boyfriend brings a guitar and starts in on some audience participation 'a part-time lover and a full time friend'...well, all bets are off. Then again, baby got back but papa don't preach.
Re: considering phelbaseudaimoniacallySeptember 4 2008, 01:21:44 UTC
To finish that dangling thought...
I'm not averse to the arrangement of lots of kids that don't get in the way of high office...it's just that it takes a singular sort of personality for the job, something extremely executive, like a DuPont, Kennedy, Addams, or Bush...then again, wait, all their kids...and she's from Alaska? Is she Mormon enough to be from Alaska AND sober ?
Or she could just be a small-time fish in an awfully big pond. The thing about being an 'insider'...is that you have some clue where to step. I mean, if everything goes perfectly for McCain, he's going to end up with a presidency that looks like a hybrid of a Carter-Bush H.W. term. That's the best case scenario.
Regardless of how one feels about Obama...his presidency would be substantially less paralyzed. And I'm pretty sure a McCain presidency would not help Japan figure out which way the wind is blowing AT ALL.
as far as the feminist/political issue...don't miss the forest for the trees here. This isn't about choice and morals and ideology, it's SO much simpler. The problem here, whether in the vetting 'process' or not, is that the family has low-rent 'handlers'. America is no place for amateur politicians, of which, apparently, Alaska is pretty friendly too. Check Huckabee for a comparison...the man knows how to run a campaign, successful to slipping the clutch on the party processing or not; the man has managed his career pretty very, very, well. Bush, Clinton, etc....these big guns have substantially different skill sets/attributes, and have their careers in the 'ironsides' mold.
Palin is a political aberration, and as such, quite exciting. She may yet provoke one of those long-jabbered about national conversations. Does the chirality of my gonads REALLY color my suspicion of the character of a parent who puts civic duty/personal ambition above keeping track of 5 kids? I mean, a little math here, 24hrs-10(sleep, meal prep, staple shopping)-4(transit, interruptions, household maintenance/errands/hygiene)=10hrs/day.
Divide that by 5 kids for 2hr/kid.
Now, there are some very prosperous families with highly successful parents who do not forsake careers for professional success and manage their families as orderly committees of shared responsibilities, duties, and recompense. It's just that many of them are in polygamist compounds.
Now, if the boyfriend brings a guitar and starts in on some audience participation 'a part-time lover and a full time friend'...well, all bets are off. Then again, baby got back but papa don't preach.
So.
Is the kid the new Federline, or what?
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I'm not averse to the arrangement of lots of kids that don't get in the way of high office...it's just that it takes a singular sort of personality for the job, something extremely executive, like a DuPont, Kennedy, Addams, or Bush...then again, wait, all their kids...and she's from Alaska? Is she Mormon enough to be from Alaska AND sober ?
Or she could just be a small-time fish in an awfully big pond. The thing about being an 'insider'...is that you have some clue where to step. I mean, if everything goes perfectly for McCain, he's going to end up with a presidency that looks like a hybrid of a Carter-Bush H.W. term. That's the best case scenario.
Regardless of how one feels about Obama...his presidency would be substantially less paralyzed. And I'm pretty sure a McCain presidency would not help Japan figure out which way the wind is blowing AT ALL.
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