McCain Changes....His Mind

McCain fails the Economic POP QUIZ!

Change is coming--of your ideals, Mr. McCain.

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Sarah Palin: Anti-Feminist

Men and women can be both be feminists and anti-feminists. By feminists I mean people who believe men and women are equal and should be treated accordingly, and by anti-feminists I mean people who perpetuate or condone sexist behavior.

Gov. Sarah Palin (AK), John's McCain's candidate for VP, is an anti-feminist.

First and foremost, by joining the Republican ticket, she has sided with the Bush-McCain economic strategy that protects wage discrimination against women.  Protects discrimination.  I don't expect her to be monitoring workplaces, but now that she's on the McCain team, what do you think she's gonna do in the Oval Office?  If she won't support equal pay for equal work, why don't we pay her 80% of the Vice President's salary? Maybe then she'd get it.

Second: choice.  It is a woman's right to chose how she controls her body.  But not in the Palin home.  Sarah Palin would outlaw abortion if she could.  I know it sounds good to some people, but in reality a reversal of Roe v. Wade would force women to seek out the worst of treatment. Sarah Palin and I can amicably disagree about this issue, but beyond a shadow of a doubt, her position is not that of a feminist.

Third is Iraq.  For some of us the only feminism-related connection we can conjure about Iraq is that it's a shame our soldiers seem to rape so many women there. And that is a shame, but I don't think it's a tenable, feminist position to advocate staying there. This nation has a choice.  We can vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin and win this war. Victory, not retreat. YAY!! Or we can make a statement to the world that we fucked up.  We invaded a soviegn nation under false pretenses.  I mean, Jesus, we still claim we're executing the will of the United Nations, but interestingly the UN didn't agree with our decision to invade Iraq.  And now they don't want us there. The Iraqis don't want us there, and their President is saying it.  Maybe, just maybe, victory in Iraq is leaving Iraq.  Now that's feminist.  Dump the abusive boyfriend who keeps killing your troops and bankrupting your nation.  But Sarah Palin just married him.