[Publib] Palin's history

[Harry Willems]

This is an interesting forum; Hydrox is out because it is off topic but,
political sniping is in if we can connect it to possible censoring of books.
I suspect that this discussion could get nasty pretty easily.  

 

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From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Fred Beisser
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 1:43 PM
To: Sue Kamm
Cc: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Publib] Palin's history

 

You may be right, Sue. 

Some commentary from a well-known political pundit:




Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a
feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This
Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and
femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract
Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers
and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative,
and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this
sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight
to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is
a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.

I'll tell you how powerful Mrs. Palin already is: she reignited the culture
wars just by showing up. She scrambled the battle lines, too. The crustiest
old Republican men are shouting "Sexism!" when she's slammed. Pro-woman
Democrats are saying she must be a bad mother to be all ambitious with kids
in the house. Great respect goes to Barack Obama not only for saying
criticism of candidates' children is out of bounds in political campaigns,
but for making it personal, and therefore believable. "My mother had me when
she was eighteen
" That was the lovely sound of class in American politics.

Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the
chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of the
Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble people. We
are Bubbleheads. We know this and try to compensate for it by taking road
trips through the continent -- we're on one now, in Minneapolis -- where we
talk to normal people. But we soon forget the pithy, knowing thing the
garage mechanic said in the diner, and anyway we weren't there long enough
in the continent to KNOW, to absorb. We view through a prism of
hyper-sophistication, and judge by the rules of Chevy Chase and Greenwich,
of Cleveland Park and McLean, of Bronxville and Manhattan.

And again we know this, we know this is our limit, our lack.





Another Bubblehead blind spot. I'm bumping into a lot of critics who do not
buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship (Palin had two terms in Wasilla,
Alaska, population 9,000 or so) and executive as opposed to legislative
experience. But executives, even of small towns, run something. There are
262 cities in this country with a population of 100,000 or more. But there
are close to a hundred thousand small towns with ten thousand people or
less. "You do the math," the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told me.
"We are a nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos."


Looks to me as if the author is saying that mainstream America will be
voting.....

Fred



Sue Kamm wrote: 

I think the biggest worry the DNC may have about Hillary's supporters is not
that they'll vote for McCain but that they'll stay home on Election Day.

 
Your friendly CyberGoddess and Councilor-at-large,
Sue Kamm
Inglewood/Los Angeles, CA
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- Vin Scully, describing Kirk Gibson's walk-off home run, Game 1, 1988 World
Series
 





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