Palin is feminism's greatest leap forward since Madonna says Paglia

I'm still waiting for the interviews. The only Palin we've seen to this point is the pre-packaged speech that any actor can pull off. A great example would Ronald Reagan. When she has to come through with substance on the issues, it will be the stroke of midnight at Cinderella's ball. This election is one of the most important in our short history. It has to be about issues. The person with the best plan to resolve those issues should be elected. How do melatonin, vaginas, or penises figure into this equqtion?

Wow, Paglia really is full of crap! Any woman who thinks we should not have the right to choose is NOT a taking a step forward for the feminist agenda. I don't care how groundbreaking it is that Palin nominated- she's more anti-woman than I can believe. It doesn't make any sense at all!

Paglia really needs to read this:

http://current.com/items/89248709_your_whiteness_is_showing

...and so does every other woman thinking of voting for McCain only because of Sarah Palin.

Sarah's time in the lime light won't last. Give her a few one on one interviews and she will eventually hang herself. Obama should not even respond to her remarks and move forward with his campaign.

I agree. Obama needs to be move forward and not get side tracked by Palin and McCain.

We already have had a female VP many years ago and yes it is wonderful yet the issue is not that a woman is on the ticket. The real issue is who is best for the country and I think it safe to say that Obama/Biden would do more for our country than McCain ever will.

I don't even think I can comment on this because it is such a good statement; I just got off the floor from rofl-ing!

Sarah Palin is just about as feminist as Pat Buchannan. I can see her sittin' on her couch watchin' fishin' shows with her hand down the front of her pants.

I don't want to hear another word about her being a feminist, reformer, fighter or that having a large family somehow is a qualification for the office of Vice President.

If she were truly a feminist, she would have been appalled to be picked for VP merely due to gender and attractiveness. If she were a feminist she would not presume to impose her anti-choice agenda.

If she were a reformer, she would have said no thanks to the bridge to nowhere from the start and not only when it became a political time bomb, then still kept the money. If she were a reformer she wouldn't have requested and taken 27 million in earmarks as Wasilla Mayor. If she were a reformer, she wouldn't have billed her state for lodging at her own home, it goes on and on as we all know.

If she were a fighter, she would have the backbone to go on Meet the Press, or even better, interview with Bill Maher or Keith Olbermann, after all, Senator Obama went into the belly of the beast to be interviewed by Bill O'Reilly. If she were a fighter, like a pitbull with lipstick, she wouldn't be so thin skinned as to cry foul over Obama's lipstick on a pig still being a pig comment. A fighter, or any rational, informed person would take for what it was, a cliché that McCain has used repeatedly, and moreover, view it as McCain's own daughter, a ridiculous cause complaint.

As for a large family being a qualification. If that's a qualification, then everything about her family should be open to critical review. If that's a qualification, anyone who has followed my posts would know that I am uniquely qualified for the Vice Presidency as many of you are. I can also tell you I have had to make way tougher budgetary decisions than she has. Until you have to go a month without very needed meds so your 5 kids can have Christmas, you haven't really had to make hard budget decisions. Again, I know I am not alone in that column, but Sarah Palin is not in that column with us.

While this is a well written article, um NO. lol