[lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates...

[Dorene Cornwell]

Fred Thompson is extolling the virtues of knowing how to field dress a
moose. We won't speculate about the survival of the moose species under a
McCain-Palin administration. Nor do we get any info about how this will help
with Mugabe or Musharraf. But at least when the last one passes on the veep
will know how to dress it.

But now back to the presidential race.

--Say this for this year's R's: both of them have kids in the linfe of fire
for the various stupid war options.

--I still have this idiotic streak of glee. I think it is brought on by the
chattering classes' line more or less that "we don't know who Sarah Palin is
so she cannot possibly be anyone important." I KNOW she is a right-wing nut
who makes George the Shrub look like a spineless liberal, She will not get
my vote. But as long as we get the repubs going for affirmative action hook
line and sinker, I think we have to celebrate how the whole moralistic dance
brings some "women's issues"right out into the glare of public discourse.

--How many of you all have teenaged or unwed at time ofconception relatives
in your direct family tree? I know I have a couple of the former and cannot
guess about the latter

--I think we need to add race as well as class to the reasons the Repugs are
so forgiving. Cue any number of republican politicians blathering about
unwed motherhood when it is clear they are talking about people of a
different race or class. Should be really fun to make some ads out of all
that footage.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Which office is your mother running for?
>
> In which races would you consider my behavior an important factor when
> evaluating her?
>
> > And which draconian pot law did
> > she back?
>
> Which draconian anti-teenage-mothers law did Palin back? (Maybe she
> shouldn't have cut Covenant House Alaska's allocation by $1.1 million,
> although I am greatly amused that Palin's most enthusiastic detractors
> will suddenly go to the mat to defend the public financing of a
> faith-based initiative. Maybe she also shouldn't have cut the $237
> million from the transportation budget a year earlier. Who knows? Not
> having done more than five minutes research, I certainly don't.)
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure
> mægen lytlað."
>
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