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Thursday, 04 September 2008 14:02
I prefer to minimize my political ramblings on here but watching the Republican convention last night made me crazy so I was ripe to respond to anonymous"s comment on my last post about my thoughts on Palin.

So I"m irritated with the reporters who are using the Palin nomination to revive the tired old working mom debate. Rounding up some convenient "everymom" and asking her to speculate on someone else"s working life is not news and it"s not journalism. And I am bloody tired of it. So, in direct answer to the question, my irritation lies with the media, not the Obama campaign ... as far as I know. And I"m also irritated with women who engage in this useless, self-absorbed battle.

But, on the political front, I am deeply irritated with the fact that this meaningless conversation about Palin"s family life obscures the real issue at hand. That is, there is a woman on the Republican ticket for the first time in history and the best they can do is a someone whose sole relevant experience, aside from a stint as the mayor of a town with a population smaller than the University of Chicago, is 20 months presiding over a state with less than 1 million people that lives on government handouts and oil money? It"s insulting. Palin"s numerous children are the least of her problems at the moment.

I was relieved to read the Economist hadn"t bought into the bullshit and amused to hear what Republicans really think of the nomination when they"re not playing cheerleader to the bandwagon of illogic.

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