"... Obama won 18 million votes, faced countless tough interviews and emerged with a reputation for fluency in discussing affairs of state, whatever one thinks of his politics.... "

That self-referential logic is breathtaking. So running a campaign for president proves that someone is experienced enough to be president? I think I'll try that logic next time I go for a job interview. Better yet, I guess I'll go start a presidential campaign. I may as well start collecting some experience for 2012.

It may sound sexist, but if you want to make a Mint, make T-shirts with Sarahs face on them above the caption "The Arctic Fox". Last night, she proved that McCains dog can hunt, and The Arctic Fox has fangs. Touche'!

You nailed it in the first sentence, the Dems are comparing their top of the ticket to the bottom of the Republican ticket. That's an admission of submission right there; if they just weren't oblivious to it.

I was supporting McCain before Palin, maybe not enthusiastically, but still I was going to vote for him. Let's just say I have now changed gears.

Countless tough interviews?

By countless, you mean zero I suppose?

When I read Steinem's comments, this immediately came to mind ...

Palin is the Gen-X candidate who sounds the death knell for the Baby Boomer dominance of politics.

I have no executive experience, but I did stay at a Holdiay Inn last night.

Brillant take down sir.

Did the "can't I just eat my waffles" interview count as a tough interview?

Steinem's problem with Palin isn't that she actually worked her way up, as opposed to Hillary. No, the old-guard feminists hate her for delivering a DS baby, doing it proudly and properly claiming the moral weight of that act as compared to the feckless baby-killers she has attempted to reduce our women to for decades. The success of Palin indicates the failure of Steinem. And it hurts. Hurts so good!

Obama still is the better candidate ... for community organizer

Just once I'd love to see someone put together a montage of liberal journalists grilling Conservatives juxtaposed with the same journalists tossing soft-ball questions to liberals....

And then switch on them and actually hit the liberals with 'gotcha' questions like they routinely throw conservative's ways. Something tells me that since liberals NEVER or ALMOST never get hit with tough questions, (without warning) they'd fold like a house of cards in a hurricane.

Gloria Steinem wrote in her L.A. Times editorial:

"...[McCain's] main motive [in selecting Palin] was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom."

She later wrote:

"She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child."

"Reproductive freedom" is a crock. What Steinem really means -- and doesn't have the nerve or intellectual honesty to say -- is the right to "abortion on demand, without apology," as N.O.W t-shirts used to read. In supporting Barack Obama, Steinem supports abortion not only right up to the ninth month (per Roe v. Wade), she not only supports partial-birth abortion, she supports AFTER-birth abortion!

Now, about this "right to have a child" -- WHO in the Republican party or any other political party is suggesting that some people be denied "the right to have a child"? The last people I can remember suggesting a government-sponsored/endorsed sterilization program (that weren't self-confessed white supremacists) are Margaret Sanger and Alan Guttmacher, advocates of eugenics and the driving forces behind so-called Planned Parenthood. If it were up to Sanger, Trig Palin would be classified as medical waste. In Sanger's book "Woman and the New Race" (1920), she described her personal mission as "nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or those who will become defectives."

Once again, Steinem's dishonesty is apparent. To pretend "reproductive freedom" is the raison d'etre of the "pro-choice" movement is like saying a can of pork 'n beans must have more beans than pork because "pork" comes first.

Abortion is EVERYTHING to Steinem; in 1998, in order to come to the defense of pro-choice President Bill Clinton -- who at the time was being sued for sexual harassment by Paula Jones and had just been revealed to be swapping DNA with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office -- Steinem wrote in a New York Times editorial that even if Jones' story that Slick Willie groped her, dropped trou and asked her to kiss little Willie was 100% true, it STILL didn't meet the threshold of "creating a hostile work environment." If after doing all that to a female subordinate, Steinem wrote, if he took "no" for an answer, he was in the clear.

You won't find that Steinem editorial on the New York Times website; it's vanished into thin air there (probably at her request, IMHO). But it WAS published, and was cut-and-pasted on USENET days later: "Feminists and the Clinton Question," March 26, 1998

Gloria Steinem wrote in her L.A. Times editorial:

"...[McCain's] main motive [in selecting Palin] was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom."

She later wrote: "She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child."

"Reproductive freedom" is a crock. What Steinem really means -- and doesn't have the nerve or intellectual honesty to say -- is the right to "abortion on demand, without apology," as N.O.W t-shirts used to read. In supporting Barack Obama, Steinem supports abortion not only right up to the ninth month (per Roe v. Wade), she not only supports partial-birth abortion, she supports AFTER-birth abortion!

Now, about this "right to have a child" -- WHO in the Republican party or any other political party is suggesting that some people be denied "the right to have a child"? The last people I can remember suggesting a government-sponsored/endorsed sterilization program are Margaret Sanger and Alan Guttmacher, advocates of eugenics and the driving forces behind so-called Planned Parenthood. If it were up to Sanger, Trig Palin would be classified as medical waste. In Sanger's book "Woman and the New Race" (1920), she described her personal mission as "nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or those who will become defectives."

Abortion is EVERYTHING to Steinem; in 1998, in order to come to the defense of pro-choice President Bill Clinton -- who at the time was being sued for sexual harassment by Paula Jones and had just been revealed to be swapping DNA with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office -- Steinem wrote in a New York Times editorial that even if Jones' story that Slick Willie groped her, dropped trou and asked her to kiss little Willie was 100% true, it STILL didn't meet the threshold of "creating a hostile work environment." If after doing all that to a female subordinate, Steinem wrote, if he took "no" for an answer, he was in the clear.

You won't find that editorial on the New York Times website; it's vanished into thin air. But it was published, and was cut-and-pasted on USENET days later:

http://www2.edc.org/WomensEquity/edequity98/0561.html

God, CY, I hate your server.

Neo is right!

For those of us born at the tail end of the baby boom, and like Sarah Palin have lived in the shadow of the most spoiled, narcissistic, self-loathing, non-patriotic, perpetual adolescents on the face of the planet…

Last night, they got a little taste of a generation that's going to help clean up their mess.

Whenever I hear Gloria Steinem, I think of the "Crazy Cat Lady" from the Simpsons.

Angry. Lonely. Mean. Desperate. Pathetic.

Sad.

Hurling one of her 547 cats (with itty-bitty claws and teeth) at any intelligent woman who has found love with a 'penis bearer,' gone on to spawn offspring (eeeewwwww!), and worked her ass off for her success.

How dare that bitch Palin find happiness.

How dare she find joy!