THE RNC tonight.

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Was anyone else amused that they played "Barracuda" by Heart during the balloon drop?

EDIT:

Via Rachel Lucas & Fotci

The latest media wank: Palin went to 6 colleges!

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

I think this officially confirms the media's desperation, or AP's. So, she went to 6 colleges, so does that mean you can only be VP if it's 5 or less? And with that, I bid thee good night.

Palin Switched Colleges 6 Times in 6 Years

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Link: http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palin-switched-colleges-6-times-in-6/161526?icid=200100397x1208514849x1200519331

When the shoe is on the other foot.

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The last few days have been interesting. Especially the conversations going on, not on tv, but in the real world, where actual people live.

I feel for many of the liberal women around me. Not the ones who think that Palin is somehow less of a woman because she doesn't agree with the laundry list of stances she's supposed to, not the feminists who are now throwing every stereotype they ever abhorred before. I feel for the everyday liberal women. The ones who are stunned and don't know quite what to do with the nomination of Palin.

I feel for them because they are, for the first time, feeling what I've felt for a long while now. That sinking feeling that, while they desperately want to vote a woman into the top echelons of politics, that ain't the woman they want. Boy, do I know that feeling.

While I think there are many reasons, the one I've heard most is her stance on abortion. Now, I hold some of the most convoluted opinions on abortion that it's possible to hold in one person but I understand that the buck stops there for them. So much so that several were never able, or did not try, to understand that my one issue, though it's pretty much an umbrella issue, made it so I couldn't vote for Hillary. I want government to stay out of, as much as possible, everything. That would be the antithesis of what Hillary wanted.

So I understand that they want it to stop. They want a do-over. They want a woman they can stand up and cheer for, a woman they can vote for. Even I was stunned. Standing in my kitchen the other day, I turned to my husband and said, "it's crazy to think suddenly I'm the one who gets to vote for the possible first female VP." I get to, instead of being surrounded by wonderful women who get to do it, while I find I can't.

I don't expect them to be excited about Palin. If she causes them to take a second look at my party and what it has to offer, that's a bonus to me. I could never ask them to abandon their one, or many, issues just to vote for a woman. That wouldn't equate feminism for me. If they choose to do so on their own, I'd be happy to have them.

In the meantime, I get to stand up and cheer.

Heart proves that they don't have one...

[modernelegance.livejournal.com]

( So Heart has officially come out and attacked McCain for using the song *Barracuda* in his campaign for Sarah Palin. )

I was under the impression that if someone purchases the song and pays the fees for playing it in public that they can do whatever they want with the song. I think that this is just absolutely ludicrous on "Hearts" part. I doubt that anyone believed that they supported McCain/Palin just release a statement and let us enjoy your song! I guess Americans can't be Republicans and like their music at the same time.

Gloria Steinem's take on Palin

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

One of the grandmothers of feminism, Gloria Steinem, has chimed in on Palin. All I can say is, "you can't have it both ways, Ms. Steinem." Read on.

If I have to defend Palin's position on sex ed one more time, I'm going to explode. Once again to those pinheads, she's against explicit sex ed, not sex ed in general.

Palin: wrong woman, wrong message

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008

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Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,1290251.story?track=rss

Will the Sarah-cuda appear on Oprah?

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/05/oprah-vs-sarah-cuda/

Good question. I almost feel sorry for Oprah, almost. Shifty eyes. You'd think, as a woman that wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she'd jump to put Sarah on. Hmmm....

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[tomorrowimokay.livejournal.com]

The following article irked me to no end.

Free Bristol Palin

My little rant time...
Brisol Palin is five months pregnant. That's WAY before her mother was nominated to the ticket. Before she was probably ever considered for that spot. If she wanted to have an abortion bad enough, if could have been done without it being in the media spotlight, and without the President calling and yelling at her. No one knew who she was five months ago. If her mother wouldn't have been nominated, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE EVER HAPPENED. People are forced to do things everyday they don't want to do, and it doesn't make this big of news. If this would have happened last year, yeah, no. No one would have cared.

Leave the poor girl alone. Let her have her baby and marry Levi. It's really none of anyone's business but theirs. IDK why they can't just leave the families alone. Honestly. Let's find something Obama's girls did wrong and harp on them for weeks about it. Srsly. She's HUMAN. Mistakes happen.