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Palin... *facepalm*

Meadmaker said:
I don't think she was trying to say that. In fact, I don't think she was trying to say anything serious at all. I think she was making a joke about how silly things sound when you get great thoughts from Starbucks mugs.

Four more weeks to go.
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I was trying to work it out, too. Especially since she says she didn't know how people would take it. They cheered, but I'm sure it was on the assumption that whatever she said, it was a dig at lefty feminists.
 
Palin is only interested in helping women who think like her. That is to say that she is quite willing to see women abandon the feminist movement. Anyone who gets a 100% rating from the Eagle Forum is not likely to do much for women's rights.

Her beliefs, as stated, and the sorts of policies she advocates are not likely to be much help to rational women. She apparently doesn't even believe in birth control.
 
leftysergeant said:
Palin is only interested in helping women who think like her. That is to say that she is quite willing to see women abandon the feminist movement. Anyone who gets a 100% rating from the Eagle Forum is not likely to do much for women's rights.

Her beliefs, as stated, and the sorts of policies she advocates are not likely to be much help to rational women. She apparently doesn't even believe in birth control.
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In fairness, I would guess that many if not most people are only interested in helping people like them. I'm not particularly interested in helping Phyllis Schaffly advance her agenda. That's why the statement that Albright made is rhetorical and cannot be parsed into a workable policy.

I'm reminded of a scene in the movie Dave, where Kevin Klein plays a look-alike who replaces a far right wing president. At one point the real president is giving a speech, and is trying to channel Lincoln, but with one little change. He says, "... so that the government of the people, by the people, and for all the good people, shall not perish from the earth."

We all decide who is good and worthy of being helped, and what issues to support. I feel that Palin's choice of who to help or support would be at cross issues with mine, so I don't support her.
 
Tricky said:
In fairness, I would guess that many if not most people are only interested in helping people like them. I'm not particularly interested in helping Phyllis Schaffly advance her agenda. That's why the statement that Albright made is rhetorical and cannot be parsed into a workable policy.
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Of course, Albright's statement, while rhetorical, also had nothing to do with advancing the agendas or careers of female politicians.
 
dirtywick said:
I'm absolutely certain it would be taken out of context and portrayed as the most horrible thing ever said ever. But in reality, many people have said publicly many times that blacks need to come together and do this or the black community needs to do that.
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Actually, many Afro Hillary supporters went over to Obama specifically because of Afro pressure from the Afro American coimmunity leaders who insisted that every Afro had a moral duty to be on the side of History by voting for an Afro USA president.

BTW
No one reacted by portraying it as the most horrible thing ever said.
 
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