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	<title>Comments on: Trying to Woo Women to McCain/Palin</title>
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		<title>By: Rich Horton</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2008/09/08/trying-to-woo-women-to-mccainpalin/comment-page-1/#comment-415738</link>
		<dc:creator>Rich Horton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Baloney Travis.  If McCain has chosen Gov. Bobby Jindal you wouldn&#039;t have seen any of the same questioning.

But then again he has a penis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Baloney Travis.  If McCain has chosen Gov. Bobby Jindal you wouldn&#8217;t have seen any of the same questioning.</p>
<p>But then again he has a penis.</p>
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		<title>By: Travis Buell</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2008/09/08/trying-to-woo-women-to-mccainpalin/comment-page-1/#comment-415735</link>
		<dc:creator>Travis Buell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Republican party, of which I am a member, would like to portray picking Sarah Palin as a great accomplishment for women. However, it is not. Women have been fighting for centuries to achieve EQUALITY. The Republican party have slapped us all in the face by nominating a women who by no means would have been nominated if she were a man. There are hundreds of Republicans more qualified to be our Vice-President including many women who have more relevant knowledge of issue such as THE ECONOMY, rather than experience in fishing.

What this country needs is a White House with knowledge and experience in rebuilding financial stability of a large scale. Mitt Romney fits this category. I am hopeful that the American public, including my fellow Republicans, see this VP pick for what it is: irresponsible political pandering with the fate of our fiscal stabilty hanging in the balance.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Republican party, of which I am a member, would like to portray picking Sarah Palin as a great accomplishment for women. However, it is not. Women have been fighting for centuries to achieve EQUALITY. The Republican party have slapped us all in the face by nominating a women who by no means would have been nominated if she were a man. There are hundreds of Republicans more qualified to be our Vice-President including many women who have more relevant knowledge of issue such as THE ECONOMY, rather than experience in fishing.</p>
<p>What this country needs is a White House with knowledge and experience in rebuilding financial stability of a large scale. Mitt Romney fits this category. I am hopeful that the American public, including my fellow Republicans, see this VP pick for what it is: irresponsible political pandering with the fate of our fiscal stabilty hanging in the balance.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich Horton</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2008/09/08/trying-to-woo-women-to-mccainpalin/comment-page-1/#comment-415730</link>
		<dc:creator>Rich Horton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Bruce sees the Obama campaign as misogynistic and, if some of the interviews I heard from DNC delegates are to be believed, Bruce is not alone in that perception.&quot;

I don&#039;t think you can call the Obama campaign misogynistic, as that would imply they believed in something.  They believe in one thing only, The Pursuit of Power, and to that end everything is more or less acceptable.  If that means trashing female candidates (even of their own party) or even to get surrogates to make the openly sexist arguments, than so be it.  I&#039;m sure they would prefer NOT to be associated with such arguments, but they are willing to make that deal with the devil.

The trouble is they are beginning to  be held personally responsible for such tactics.  You might argue that no one was a more cynical in their pursuit of electoral victory than Karl Rove (and you&#039;d have a damn good point there) however, Bush remained the guy a lot of Americans would &quot;like to have a beer with.&quot;  Right now Obama has a lead of almost 10 percentage points over McCain in the not so coveted &quot;Very Unfavorable Rating&quot; category.  This depite the &quot;McCain&#039;s a cranky old guy&quot; meme that was so popular with much of the media all summer.  This is a danger zone for Obama, although his campaign seems a little slow on the uptake.

Obama needs the story lines to change and change dramatically.  The debates can do that...but that sort of venue hasnt been the kindest to Obama so far.  We shall see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Bruce sees the Obama campaign as misogynistic and, if some of the interviews I heard from DNC delegates are to be believed, Bruce is not alone in that perception.&#8221;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think you can call the Obama campaign misogynistic, as that would imply they believed in something.  They believe in one thing only, The Pursuit of Power, and to that end everything is more or less acceptable.  If that means trashing female candidates (even of their own party) or even to get surrogates to make the openly sexist arguments, than so be it.  I&#8217;m sure they would prefer NOT to be associated with such arguments, but they are willing to make that deal with the devil.</p>
<p>The trouble is they are beginning to  be held personally responsible for such tactics.  You might argue that no one was a more cynical in their pursuit of electoral victory than Karl Rove (and you&#8217;d have a damn good point there) however, Bush remained the guy a lot of Americans would &#8220;like to have a beer with.&#8221;  Right now Obama has a lead of almost 10 percentage points over McCain in the not so coveted &#8220;Very Unfavorable Rating&#8221; category.  This depite the &#8220;McCain&#8217;s a cranky old guy&#8221; meme that was so popular with much of the media all summer.  This is a danger zone for Obama, although his campaign seems a little slow on the uptake.</p>
<p>Obama needs the story lines to change and change dramatically.  The debates can do that&#8230;but that sort of venue hasnt been the kindest to Obama so far.  We shall see.</p>
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		<title>By: J. Harden</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2008/09/08/trying-to-woo-women-to-mccainpalin/comment-page-1/#comment-415727</link>
		<dc:creator>J. Harden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama is beyond pro-Choice, Kranky.  Forget about the moral clarity needed to decide when life begins, this guy isn&#039;t certain that &quot;reproductive rights&quot; should necessarily cease upon birth.  I had this conversation with my 2 year old and told her that under an Obama administration I&#039;d probably have the right to throw her off the cliff -- she is now an avid 2-year old supporter of the McCain/Palin ticket.  Another woman for Palin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama is beyond pro-Choice, Kranky.  Forget about the moral clarity needed to decide when life begins, this guy isn&#8217;t certain that &#8220;reproductive rights&#8221; should necessarily cease upon birth.  I had this conversation with my 2 year old and told her that under an Obama administration I&#8217;d probably have the right to throw her off the cliff &#8212; she is now an avid 2-year old supporter of the McCain/Palin ticket.  Another woman for Palin.</p>
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		<title>By: kranky kritter</title>
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		<dc:creator>kranky kritter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Ironically, the two candidates behave as if this anatomical observation were reversed.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Right. Obama is pro-choice, but Palin is pro-life. Go figure.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Ironically, the two candidates behave as if this anatomical observation were reversed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Right. Obama is pro-choice, but Palin is pro-life. Go figure.</p>
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		<title>By: J. Harden</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2008/09/08/trying-to-woo-women-to-mccainpalin/comment-page-1/#comment-415722</link>
		<dc:creator>J. Harden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>â€œBarack Obama has a penis and Sarah Palin has a vagina.â€

Ironically, the two candidates behave as if this anatomical observation were reversed. 

...thank you, thank you, I&#039;ll be here all week, remember to tip your waitress...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>â€œBarack Obama has a penis and Sarah Palin has a vagina.â€</p>
<p>Ironically, the two candidates behave as if this anatomical observation were reversed. </p>
<p>&#8230;thank you, thank you, I&#8217;ll be here all week, remember to tip your waitress&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: kranky kritter</title>
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		<dc:creator>kranky kritter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bruce is not the first and will not be the last to argue that women should vote for Palin for what boils down to &quot;Barack Obama has a penis and Sarah Palin has a vagina.&quot;


It&#039;s gender identity politics, and it up to everyone&#039;s individual milage as to how true you think it is that you have to be a woman to understand women, black to understand blacks, and so on and so forth.

 I don&#039;t really have a problem with folks voting this way. But it&#039;s irritating when folks try to camouflage it under long-winded explanations that make it sound like its not what it is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bruce is not the first and will not be the last to argue that women should vote for Palin for what boils down to &#8220;Barack Obama has a penis and Sarah Palin has a vagina.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s gender identity politics, and it up to everyone&#8217;s individual milage as to how true you think it is that you have to be a woman to understand women, black to understand blacks, and so on and so forth.</p>
<p> I don&#8217;t really have a problem with folks voting this way. But it&#8217;s irritating when folks try to camouflage it under long-winded explanations that make it sound like its not what it is.</p>
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		<title>By: josh</title>
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		<dc:creator>josh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tammy Bruce&#039;s op-ed is thoroughly dishonest.  She presents herself as a &quot;life-long Democrat,&quot; but she voted for Bush and supported Romney in the primaries.  Now we&#039;re supposed to view her support for McCain as some sort of conversion and a tribute to Palin Power, but it&#039;s clear she was going to support McCain all along.  It&#039;s also worth noting that not only was Bruce not a Hillary supporter, but she based her regularly during the primaries - sometimes in language (calling her Tracy Flick from the film Election) that was clearly sexist in its own right.

If Bruce had a real argument beyond Obama is a misogynist because someone at one of his rally&#039;s wore a sexist t-shirt, she wouldn&#039;t need to pretend that she was something that she&#039;s clearly not in order to make her points.

If this article was entitled, &quot;A President Bush and Mitt Romney supporter&#039;s argument for McCain,&quot; no one would be talking about it.  But that&#039;s all it is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tammy Bruce&#8217;s op-ed is thoroughly dishonest.  She presents herself as a &#8220;life-long Democrat,&#8221; but she voted for Bush and supported Romney in the primaries.  Now we&#8217;re supposed to view her support for McCain as some sort of conversion and a tribute to Palin Power, but it&#8217;s clear she was going to support McCain all along.  It&#8217;s also worth noting that not only was Bruce not a Hillary supporter, but she based her regularly during the primaries &#8211; sometimes in language (calling her Tracy Flick from the film Election) that was clearly sexist in its own right.</p>
<p>If Bruce had a real argument beyond Obama is a misogynist because someone at one of his rally&#8217;s wore a sexist t-shirt, she wouldn&#8217;t need to pretend that she was something that she&#8217;s clearly not in order to make her points.</p>
<p>If this article was entitled, &#8220;A President Bush and Mitt Romney supporter&#8217;s argument for McCain,&#8221; no one would be talking about it.  But that&#8217;s all it is.</p>
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		<title>By: bubbles</title>
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		<dc:creator>bubbles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Better for women&#039;s history? Sure. 

Better for women? Eh... maybe?

Better for feminism? Hell no.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Better for women&#8217;s history? Sure. </p>
<p>Better for women? Eh&#8230; maybe?</p>
<p>Better for feminism? Hell no.</p>
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