McCain Camp Says She Won’t Do Interviews Until It Knows She’ll Be Treated with “Deference”

http://tinyurl.com/5svvo7

Apparently her anti-women politics and complicity with a Misogynistic McCain weren’t enough. Now she’s asking for special treatment in the press. It seems that despite all the posturing about being a “pit bull”, a “barracuda”, and calling Hillary a “whiner, she’s sending a pretty clear message that when it’s time make the same media rounds the MEN in this election are making, women “vying for high positions of power are going to curl up in a little ball and cry when you treat them as though they’re vying for a high position of power”.

I’m getting that feeling like my head is gonna explode. Again. Argh.

He was not balancing an entire city budget which is typically in the millions. Similarly, someone sitting on a board, which is also critically important work, who is given a budget is not responsible for overall asset planning but adminsters a budget for specific purposes. Please understand that I am not knocking either activity, but trying to illustrate why the Republicans were trying to say there is a closer parallel between mayor: VP than community organizer: President.

Obviously, Obama has experience beyond that, in the Senate. Not disagreeing with that, and obviously there’s no question in my mind about whose social policies gibe more closely, point by point, with my own.

http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/why-do-republic.html

Community organizers actually DO oversee budgets, and staffing – not that I agree with your intimation that those “hardcore” responsibilities make someone “qualified” or “unqualified” for the highest executive position in America. I DO think that his desire to help support and lead a struggling community – with virtually no personal incentive other than an innate desire to help those who feel they cannot help themselves become stronger and more prosperous – is probably the single highest qualification I can think of for someone who must inspire and lead our country out of the giant hole eight years of Republican mis-administration has put us in.

And I still believe that it shows the Republicans to be a rather elitist group who dumped all over the hard work of average Americans who volunteer to help their communities. Not all of us have off-shore tax shelters to ensure our “equality” and access to goods and services. Thus, “community organizers” are responsible for many of us enjoying a better quality of life. To sneer at that, in my opinion, is unacceptable by ANY party or person.

AND it’s not the ONLY job Senator Obama has had. Making it seem like it has been is disingenous as well.

It struck me that RG and SP were saying it’s a resume bullet point for law school, not the Presidency. Dems have similarly critiqued the idea of being a mayor of a small town, not saying being a mayor is something to be ashamed of but just saying it’s not adequate.

See, that would be one thing, but they were being really snarky about it, and one of Palin’s actual comments was: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” That seems to me an awful lot more like belittling the actual job rather than whether or not it’s adequate experience to be president (and on its own, I’d agree that probably not).

Also was shocked (or not) by the sexist pins, a la “hottest VP.”

The community organizing comments didn’t bug me so much. I didn’t see those as belittling community organizing in itself as much as comparing resumes and saying it doesn’t translate to time in federal politics. It struck me that RG and SP were saying it’s a resume bullet point for law school, not the Presidency. Dems have similarly critiqued the idea of being a mayor of a small town, not saying being a mayor is something to be ashamed of but just saying it’s not adequate.

I wasn’t even paying attention anymore by that point, but I see what you’re saying.

Renee, I share your sentiment. I’m still sort of shocked by Giuliani. (I think by now you’ve gathered that I didn’t much enjoy the night.) It’s almost unbelievable to me that he has the audacity to still harp about 9/11; by that point nobody remembered he was still in office. He needs to stop trying to play the hero and realize when your humility should speak louder than your words.