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Okey dokey – here are the ones on these topics from my Safari tabs. What’s the difference? I generally work in Firefox – do my reading and research there. But I open Safari to read my gmail and twitter. Don’t ask me why – I just do – it became habit. So, what happens is, when I don’t feel like going back to my writing or researching on Firefox, and I’ve already started to explore links from tweets other people include, those get opened in Safari. Sometimes I do research in Safari, but the bulk is done in Firefox.
1. One of my fave female political bloggers, PunditMom: The Post Where PunditMom Defends Sarah Palin:
Palin has won the political profile lottery in a way few politicians ever do, no matter where they are from or how long they’ve been on the scene. Skilled politicos know how to seize the moment and move forward when others say their success is unlikely — can you say “Barack Obama.”
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What Palin does have is a sense of opportunity, something that doesn’t generally come to girls or women naturally in our society. She’s got some serious chutzpah, something I wish I had more of. For better or worse, without a dose of that even qualified women have a tough time getting ahead in any career, especially politics.
Palin has taken charge of this moment that is unlikely to come again and she’s making the most the notoriety that was offered her.
I have to say, if I were in her shoes, I’d do the same thing. When it comes to promotion of women in high profile situations, whether it’s corporate or national politics, none of the men who are still running the show are going to do it for us. Women have to do it for themselves.
2. Helen Thomas returns to “finish off” Dana Perino (that’s what Wonkette declares). Great video but I have to say, Thomas did not look that frail at all when I met her last March. Godspeed to her.
3. From John Farrell at U.S. News & World Report: In Defense of Sarah Palin:
Sarah Palin has been the target of a lot of cheap shots in the past 10 days.
Certainly, she was not qualified to be a septuagenarian heartbeat away from the presidency. The long and rugged American presidential campaign has the virtue of revealing such shortcomings, and it did.
But it’s not just me being gallant, or contrarian, to wonder at the blithe way that the press is promoting anonymous Republican dime-droppers about her fancy clothes, or debate prep. It’s a failing of Internet news that, these days, nasty tidbits appear to flow straight from “a source” into general circulation—seemingly without much verification.
4. Lisa Renee has written on similar themes throughout the last few weeks at her more personal blog, Liberal Common Sense. Here is one example about the sexism, and another here focused even more on the media.
5. This is just a link in remembrance and sympatico sadness of what it feels like to lose a lot of one’s work: Jason Rowsey also has written in defense of Sarah Palin and spoken out about his dissatisfaction with media and blog coverage of her, but his site crashed recently. Sigh – I know that sinking feeling – I’m very sorry for our loss.
6. This rant by Dennis Miller on Sarah Palin’s sex life is, in my opinion, just as unsavory as anything else. If we’re going to talk about why mothers and women wouldn’t want to run for office, having Miller talk about them that way would certainly be reason for a chill.
7. Charmaine Yoest of Reasoned Audacity always writes in support of Sarah Palin. This post is one example. Yoest was with the Family Research Council as a communications director, with the Huckabee primary campaign and is now President and CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL) and AUL Action. I do not agree with a lot of what she and her husband write on the blog, however, they’re a great source of information and support for people who are aligned with their beliefs.
8. Andrew Sullivan, of The Atlantic’s The Daily Dish, on why Palin still matters, from his conclusion:
My point is not to persecute or hound some random person. I wish I had never heard of Sarah Palin. I wish this nightmare had never happened. I wish totally innocent by-standers, like Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston and Heather Bruce and Trig Palin, had not had their lives disrupted by this circus. It’s distressing to everyone, which is why most journalists left many aspects of this charade alone. But Palin is claiming vindication, is on every cable show, is at the National Governors Association Conference, and is touted as a future leader of the GOP. There comes a point at which you have to simply call a time out and insist that this farce cease and some basic accountability and transparency be restored to the process. Since no one else seems willing to do so, the Dish will stay on the case. So where are those medical records anyway?
9. Sue Katz on Palin Attacking Blogger Couture.
10. Stephanie Howse, a White House Project Ohio Go Run! graduate, is endorsed by the Plain Dealer for the special election in Ward 7 next week.
11. Slate announces a new women’s magazine, Double X – catching the wave maybe.
12. The National Young Women’s Leadership Conference is scheduled for March 21-22, 2009. I assume this site will change to reflect that soon. I received info in the mail about the 2009 event but there doesn’t seem to be a webpage for it yet.
13. From a White House Project newsletter:
While we are working on several fronts to shift this paradigm, a fundamental question remains: what would it take to transform the perceptions held about women and leadership? The 21st Century Women’s Leadership Project, a collaboration by The White House Project and the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service’s Research Center for Leadership in Action, was designed to answer this very question.
A new report from the project gives a glimpse into candid discussions among top women executives across the public, private and nonprofit sectors about leadership styles, ambivalence about ambition, and the role race plays as women confront not just a single glass ceiling but a series of challenges in the “labyrinth of leadership.” Authored by White House Project leadership consultants Shifra Bronznick and Didi Goldenhaar, we encourage you check out this fascinating report.
14. Link to People magazine article on the incoming first family.
15. Camile Paglia on Obama, Palin and the next four years.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:25 am November 14th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Elections, Gender, Politics, PostWH2008, Sarah Palin, Women
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You GO Helen Thomas! I was lucky enough to have a chance to tour the press room many years ago and have a photo of me sitting in Helen’s famous front row seat. I really cherish that I got to sit where the grand dame did and now does! And thanks for the kind words and the link!
Skilled politicos know how to seize the moment and move forward when others say their success is unlikely — can you say “Barack Obama.”
The higher the monkey climbs….
So what the question is and always has been is what is being brought to the table. Did anyone truly enjoy watching Palin negotiate mine fields?
Success is subjective, all you can see is sitting in the FN seat that matters. I am not up for that if I say you are not qualified then that is that, if you cannot see that then that is part of the reason you are not qualified in the first place.
Boys go to Mars for candy bars and girls go to Jupiter to be stupider.
Men hold back woman and that competes with woman that hold themselves back, they play on the same team. Do not impose that on the rest of us, if you ignore it you discount it, if you address it you give it credence. Push the sexist out of the arena what ever gender they are.
Palin should be ignored and discounted, she lacks substance…next.