I am standing up and cheering. Salon.com has weighed in on Palin.

[aunt_deen]

Do we have to drag out a list of women who miraculously have found a way to manage to balance many of these factors -- Hillary Clinton? Nancy Pelosi? Michelle Bachelet? -- and could still explain the Bush Doctrine without breaking into hives? This is not breaking my heart. It is breaking my spirit.

www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/09/30/palin_pity/

Comments

[marymary]

I agree with Coates that the McCain camp was craven, sexist and disrespectful in its choice of Palin, but I don't agree that the Alaska governor was a passive victim of their Machiavellian plotting. A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently...

ITA.

AND on the "she can't do it all" thing. No, she can't do it all. Neither can Pelosi or anybody else. You can't raise five kids...like, personally...and be governor or vice presidential candidate or CEO of anything.

But if you choose the big career, we assume that you delegate the vast majority of the other stuff. Just like everybody else with a big career has always done. Right or wrong, we expect you to be oustanding at your job, not to use the rest of your responsibilities as an excuse for doing it badly.

[aunt_deen]

AND on the "she can't do it all" thing. No, she can't do it all. Neither can Pelosi or anybody else. You can't raise five kids...like, personally...and be governor or vice presidential candidate or CEO of anything.

So, so true, but people think you're betraying the sisterhood (*waves to CJ*) when you say it.

Seriously, how many hours a day do you suppose Sarah Palin spends with her baby? Probably exactly how many hours a full-time parent could spend campaigning for office. That is to say, about one and a half, on a really slow day.

I don't blame her for choosing the big career, necessarily. But I TOTALLY blame her for choosing the big career for which she is wildly unqualified. If you're going to sacrifice being a mom in anything but name, sacrifice it for something other than vanity and hubris.

[misreall]

I read that article earlier and loved it, and Rebecca Traister is not always my favorite (a bit too much New York Girly for me most of the time), but I think she nailed this.

No pity for Palin, no mercy for McCain. We need Obama to smite this election like an angry, Old Testament God.

[aunt_deen]

Hey, can I get some love for my new icon? I was psyched to show it to you.

I'm actually lovin' yours, too, although I can't figure out exactly what it is.

[misreall]

Sorry, I do love it. Pretty and moody.(Lucky was biting me while I was on the computer last night, so I was a little distracted).

Mine is Maggie from Locas (the only comic book character I have ever identified with) punching the hell out of a deserving party. I wish I could make it clearer, but there you go.

But this one is still my new favorite.

[misreall]

Boy did we get off track. Anyway, I don't consider Mrs. Palin a member of any sisterhood I belong too.

[aunt_deen]

Hell to the no.