"What Sarah Palin has done, and this is something I like about her, is that she's a women who has succeeded very much on her own terms. She talks about motherhood as a training ground for leadership; she manages and balances her family and her work in her own way. It's very hard to see where her family ends and her work begins. I think a lot of women see their lives that way. Not everyone's going to go out and shoot a moose and put their hair up in a bun and put on their sexy open-toe shoes and go to dinner. ... But does everybody have to be lock-step on every issue? Or can somebody who's outside--in Sarah Palin's case, very much outside--the traditional feminist agenda still move the ball forward for women? I think the answer is yes. When I hear Pat Buchanan on TV, decrying sexism in the media, you know? This is not all bad. ... I don't know where abortion rights are going to end up in all this, and honestly that concerns me, but I think we need to find a different language to talk about it. I think that there are more women who identify with Sarah Palin than Gloria Steinem right now. Even if they don't agree with 100 percent of her agenda, her life looks more like their lives."
The passage above is an excerpt from an article written recently by Dee Dee Myers. You'll remember that Dee Dee served as White House Press Secretary in the first Clinton administration. She is an ardent Obama supporter, but has the intellectual honesty to speak her mind on Sarah Palin despite the fact that she does not agree with her politics.
We could use more of this in politics and certainly in the media.
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Actually we could use more discussion about issues in the media rather than personalities.
Issues are important, and so are personalities, but let's not overlook judgement as a critical component of how our leaders are wired. At the end of the day, all of the branches of government shape the issues, but the judgement of our leaders, in good times and in bad, will determine how our country responds to prosperity and/or crisis.
I read this over a couple more times, and I still don't see the discussion on personalities. It's about what Governor Palin has accomplished and how she's gone about it. I thought it was a fairly non-partisan passage, unlike most of what we hear these days. Just trying to be positive...
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