By Adrienne Ross

On August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants women the right to vote, becomes law. Washington women had won the vote in 1910, after which Washington suffragists had helped with the national campaign to amend the constitution so that all American women could vote.

Eighty nine years after the 19th amendment, America is still engaging in conversations that seek to define who a feminist is and what she stands for. Without a doubt, Sarah Palin resurrected some of those conversations when she became the first woman to earn herself a place on a Republican ticket. Geraldine Ferraro had done the same for the Democratic ticket in 1984.

It is astounding that it took so long for both these accomplishments, and even more astounding that women are still in the position of defending their place within the political process. No one knows this more than Governor Sarah Palin. She has always acknowledged those women who have gone before her to pave the way for her and desires to be a source of inspiration for those girls who follow after her.

It is unfortunate that the governor has had to fight against the smears of both men and women, some of whom seem content with having a conservative woman exercise her right to vote, as long as she’s not the woman we actually vote for. Nonetheless, Sarah Palin rises above the small thinking of some who want to put "feminism" in a box. Many women have now broken out of the box and are grateful, not only for the privilege given in 1920 to walk into that voting box, but to see the name of another woman staring back at them when they get in there.

In the video below, Governor Sarah Palin discusses with Greta van Susteren her commitment to uniting women on issues of health care and equal opportunities if ever she chooses to run for higher office again.
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/08/19th-amendment-and-sarah-palin.html

I believe instead of politians being "stars," they are more in the line of "cult of personality."  This is a theroy about politians and a great song by Living Colour.  Instead of the devotion to ideals, the devotion is to the person.  Plus the absolute love or hate of the politian, which we see currently.

And one slightly off topic queston, I am the only person offended by the "Chia Obama"?

A cult of personality is similar to general hero worship, except that it is created specifically for political leaders. However, the term may be applied by analogy to refer to adulation of religious or non-political leaders.                  Wikipedia

sorry jon, you have said nothing that hasn’t  been said before. stay and see where and how far..

As a woman, I cringed when I heard Governor Palin exhibit a total lack of understanding of both the domestic and foreign policies of our country.  What she said, and what she failed to be able to say, allowed the more ignorant masses of men across our nation feel smugly superior to her and thus put her forward as their ideal in womanhood.  Yes, I cringed.

Oh, how I wish the mud-slinging and lies would stop being hurled by those who feel they must stand and yell at the top of their lungs.  This is, and has been throughout the history of mankind, a sign of desperation trying to drown out reason.  This desperation is almost always based on fear of having a belief-system eroded or destroyed by Truth, as we have seen over and over again.  Galileo proved we were not at the center of the universe, and that was unacceptable, albeit true.  Impossible that living things we could not even see could be responsible for disease, sickness and death!  We do not want to accept the new, the different, the unimaginable, or, worst of all, that which shows us to have been mistaken.

We need serious sweat exerted on rational debate and intelligent research as to how we can clean up the debris of the financial collapse caused by deregulation and unmitigated greed in our marketplace.  Those hurting most are those who were already working hard and living paycheck to paycheck.  Today they cannot comprehend what has happened to them;  especially as in most instances they were doing everything right. It is those they trusted to protect them from the wolves of Wall Street who failed them.  Regulation is a means of protecting our vast public from the voracious avarice of the much smaller numbers of wheelers and dealers.  The same ranchers who build and patrol fences to protect their herds of sheep show total disinterest in laws meant to protect their fellow human beings who are unfortunate enough to carry smaller balances in their bank accounts.  I simply cannot understand this distain for others.

All this useless, meaningless chatter about viewpoints and opinions is drowning out the really crucial things such as the future of the entire human race.  Global Warming is about to reach a point beyond which we representatives of the most "intelligent" animal on our small planet are going to be able to do anything except yearn for the opportunity to go back in time and change our habits and "opinions." 

If another species one day rises from the ashes of this sphere or visits from another place in our galaxy, they may well study our books and tapes and say of us in summary:  "they had a lot to say about nothing, while doing nothing about things of most importance to their very survival." 

 

 

 

 

I heard someone say Sarah should not be a Republican but The Resistance. She sure can command attention. I don’t know if she will or should run for anything again—but I welcome her attempts to zing The Chosen One.

"Politics isn’t a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good."

Sarah Palin

It would be interesting to watch Hillary Clinton and sarah palin debating . Hillary Clinton would provide an opportunity for republicans and conservatives to see and hear what an intelligent, well read, educated, articulate and informed woman looks and sounds like. 

It would be priceless just to hear sarah palin repeat the Couric fiasco.

I could careless about sarah palin. I never respected her as a serious contender for office nor as someone intellectually qualified. Besides, whenever, I saw her she reminded me of some Saturday  Night Live skit and an insult to educated, well versed and articulate women attempting to make change. She has successfully suckered republicans and conservatives into assisting her in promoting herself for personal monetary gain. I’m not attacking the woman. This is simply a personal observation. 

Palin is probably out hauling in a net or taking care of her five children and her grandchild, or finding a way to annoy power (which is initself power), or reading the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, and local Alaska media (as she said after recovering from the condescension of being asked something so trivial), or trying to work with her PAC or her supporters on Team Sarah, or maybe all at once—while we are sitting here, some of us, saying "Sarah needs to educate herself about the world." Oh, please.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has chosen among offers from 20 agencies that wanted to represent her and signed with Washington Speakers Bureau, which represents everyone from George and Laura Bush to Bob Woodward and Katie Couric to Alan Greenspan, Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani. More than 950 requests for speeches have poured in for Palin, and over 120 candidates for office have asked her to appear, including folks running for Senate, House and state legislature. She’ll be doing both paid speeches, which are expected to go for six figures apiece, and unpaid speeches for political and charitable causes, including Christian organizations, groups that support families with special-needs children, and military families. Palin has made no commitments so far, and Washington Speakers Bureau will start responding to the invitations this week. She’s about 85 percent finished with her book, due out this spring from HarperCollins, and then she’ll begin looking through the inch-and-a-half thick file her lawyer, Robert Barnett, has built of offers for network and cable pundit gigs, documentaries and business opportunities

http://www.politico.com/playbook/