Obama campaign continues to depict Palin as a moron
From “senior Obama adviser” Anita Dunn:
“She’s new, and a good performer of that speech that she reads, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into votes eight weeks from now,” Dunn said
A good performer of that speech she reads. Sarah Palin is the goddamn Governor of Alaska. She’s a crack politician who has made her own way. She is not some blow-dried twit on cable news.
And of course Obama trots out a woman to spew this garbage. Irony overload: you know how everyone on the left likes to say that Palin is a typical anti-woman conservative, the type of successful woman who’s ready to stick it to other women instead of helping to raise us all up?
Sounds to me like a perfect description of the women on Obama’s staff.
19 Responses to “Obama campaign continues to depict Palin as a moron”
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myiq2xu says:
Politically correct feminism = feminism is only for the politically correct.
The idea that feminism is for all women is passe, didn’t you hear?
September 10th, 2008 at 4:50 am EST -
kenoshaMarge says:
Yup. Women smacking down women is so much more “politically correct” than Obama doing it himself.
The remarks by women about women is particularly offensive to me. It’s almost, an apologies to all the wonderful men who support women’s rights, but it is almost as if we expect such comments from men. Some men. Bad men. Sexist men.
Sexist women are more difficult to deal with. But with each misogynistic remark they are ever closer to that special place in hell mentioned by Madelaine Albright.
The fauxgressives seem to think we are so stupid that we believe, as they seem to, that feminism is only for liberal women. Sexism is fine and dandy if it is used against conservative women. Or Democratic women you don’t like.
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tpfka nycblue says:
Funny, that sounds just like Obama. “He sure can read a good speech, but that doesn’t mean people will vote for him.”
His people are masters of projection.
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simply wondered says:
and since when have politicians written all their own speeches anyway?
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Janis says:
The only requirement to be feminist should be that you go to the mat for other women. The only disqualification should be the sabotage of other women.
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octogalore says:
I am no fan of Camille Paglia, but I love one line she had in her story about Palin at Salon:
“Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership.”
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Anna Belle says:
Speaking of sabotage, you would not believe the latest argument. Palin is a Trojan Horse! She’s like Clarence Thomas! (never mind that Biden himself is like Clarence Thomas, except he’s white)
These people are deranged. No wonder Democrats keep losing.
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Randall Shake says:
If the stupidity of Obama’s supporters does not cease. The Democratic Party will implode. Statements like this are not helping. They are driving voters to McCain Palin as it reveals a vindictive, not mature enough to Govern, has poor Judgement mentality. It is driving voters away from Obama than toward him.
When He was nominated I had genuine Pride in our Country. To elevate an African American to Democratic nominee says the Country has made progress. The knee jerk reaction to Palin and instant smear campaign, is working against Obama and not in his favor.
He should focus on McCain, his Age, his Health, his Temper. And ask some hard questions. Instead he is directing his Fire at Palin, and pissing off Americans who tend to be fair and who take issue with the attacks on her Family.
Really stupid tactic. If he had Hilliary as his running mate we would be debating issues, instead of hearing the rubbish about Palin’s Church, Bristol Palin’s pregnancy etc. If the Democrats cannot win this election. There is a more serious question to answer. It is how they are running their campaigns???
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notmandy says:
I really wish self-identified feminists would stop throwing the word “colluder” around when talking about Palin. Aren’t most of us “colluders” under the patriarchy?
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grasshopper says:
The double standard thing is crazy making. When will the Dems learn that it’s idiotic to keep trying to fight fair with people who relentlessly and shamelessly use every dirty trick in the book?
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cellocat says:
And part of the trouble, from the perspective of me, a liberal democrat, is that when the left engages in personal attacks, attempting to make Palin into a caricature ultimately makes it close to impossible to actually criticize her for anything substantive. People will become so sensitized to attacks on her that they won’t listen to legitimate criticsm.
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Bruce says:
Sarah Palin is the goddamn Governor of Alaska. She’s a crack politician who has made her own way. She is not some blow-dried twit on cable news.
Agreed, she seems like a good politician, but then why is McCain hiding her from the media? They’ve all but admitted that they aren’t going to allow her out on her own until the media shows proper respect and deference. Protecting her from the media makes her seem like anything but a bulldog. Yes, she may be the governor of Alaska, but most of the nation knows very little about her. So McCain needs to let go of the leash so we can finally find out what Palin is really all about. Right now they are basically allowing the media to define her because they won’t let Palin define herself.
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gmanedit says:
Sarah Palin has not made her own way. She came up through GOPAC: http://www.gopac.org/alumni/
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Level Best says:
Ah, Violet; you are the ghostly voice crying out in the wilderness!
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Carmonn says:
Bruce, watch the full interview between Gibson and Palin, then watch the edited interview that ran in the 6:30 time slot, then ask yourself that question again. Obama doesn’t seem to like to engage with the media much either, and unlike her, he can count on uncritical coverage that ranges from, at worst, merely adoring to outright worshipful. But the media’s previous attempts to demonize Clinton and beatify Obama didn’t seem to work.
“Sarah Palin has not made her own way.”
And it began the moment she was born. She didn’t crawl out of that womb herself, did she? She had help, didn’t she? Right there she absolutely flunked the female double standard.
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Violet says:
Right there she absolutely flunked the female double standard.
Oh, good one.
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grasshopper says:
I’m trying to force myself to watch a YouTube video of her interview with Gibson, and am alternating between pity for her at the fact that she seems completely out of her depth and horror that a person of such - ineptitude and inexperience? is even remotely being considered for VP.
If the video is at all representative, I’m afraid I’m not buying that she’s either a good performer or a crack politician. Watching her fumble through this is PAINFUL, to say the least - her hesitant, rote responses with the unconvincing hand gestures make my skin crawl in mortification (and I’m not even talking about her pronunciation of ‘newk-you-ler’). If this woman is not an airhead, she’s sure giving a good imitation of one. The fact that Obama is equally clueless/laughably inexperienced is cold comfort.
The whole thing’s a joke, a farce. It makes me want to crawl under the covers and not come out again, ever.
(And I realize I may be unfair judging her on this single performance - I don’t watch TV and rarely listen to radio, so maybe her clumsiness represents the fact that she’s the first female run by Republicans to make it this far up the ladder, and she’s frickin’ nervous as hell. As would anyone be. Maybe it’s like the story of the slow-cooked frog - they’ll just slowly boil her alive. I wouldn’t wish this fate on her, no matter how ‘evil’ her policies.)
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grasshopper says:
Dang, I said ‘female’. Meant to say ‘woman’. Aarrgghh, hoist by me own whatsit.
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CoolAunt says:
The following is a link to a post at a right-wing blog that’s done what looks to me to be some extensive online investigative work to uncover the source(s) of the latest Palin smear videos floating around the ‘Net. All other political differences aside, these folks know a rat - or should I say an Opposum - when they see one.
Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194057.php
