Two women in the news have prompted me to start writing this blog... Lilly Ledbetter and Sarah Palin.
Lilly Ledbetter's story makes me want to cry. A woman who worked for twenty years at Goodyear only to find out from an anonymous note that she made less money than her male counterparts... and then lost her case in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision- how many women are treated exactly like Lilly and now cannot win their lawsuits- and how many women in the same situation don't even know. Then, when congress tries to make their fix- to change the law in favor of these women, John McCain and other Republicans vote down the law on the grounds that it may provoke "frivilous lawsuits." This is morally and ethically unjustifiable. Now Sarah Palin signs on with McCain on the grounds that she will be some sort of advocate for women?
Sarah Palin- Oh, but she's a Hockey Mom? And she wears lipstick? And she can read a speech like a fully trained drama student in front of her supporters... these characteristics make her qualified to be the Vice President of our country??? As someone who is likely to be a (insert sport/activity of daughter's choice here- she's 2 now) Mom, that doesn't help me relate to her- nor does that make me qualified to be the Vice President.
Hillary Clinton went for the whole schabang when she ran her own campaign- she catapulted herself to the glass ceiling and helped chisel it away just like the rest of us do everyday. She fought long and hard to win the nomination for President. She made the cracks; not Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin- she totes guns, and she hunts salmon, and she drives her own car, and she brings home bacon, and she engages in all kinds of activities that are traditionally male activities, and that's great if that's what she wants to do.... that doesn't make her a Women's advocate- that doesn't make her someone who might change the fact that women still don't make as much as their male counterparts- and it certainly does not make her ready to run this country. Hillary fought her fight and still fights for her party. Don't you ever forget that Sarah Palin was chosen- maybe even "vetted" if you will... by a guy... who votes against women. Hey Governor Palin, aren't we sick of that, yet?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94377272- Lilly Ledbetter's Story
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I believed the entire country should be sick of Sarah's damsel in distress act. If you you want to act like one of the guys then put on your big boy pants and quit crying about how everyone is mistreating you. Maybe if the McCain Palin ticket had some intregrity we could get to the issues and stop talking about all this nonsense. But I guess that wouldn't help the "New" Republican party of change because they aren't changinging anything. These tactics are another example of "more of the same". We want change.
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