Two Candidates, Two Standards
September 6, 2008
by The Stiletto
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Consider these headlines:
- Experts Helping Palin Brush Up on Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, September 5, 2008
- High-Profile Foreign Policy Experts Guide McCain, Obama, The Statesman, August 10, 2008
- A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy, The New York Times, July 18, 2008
- Obama’s Policy Team Loaded With All-Stars, Chicago Tribune, September 17, 2007
- Obama Taps Influential Foreign Policy Experts, Chicago Sun-Times, May 10, 2007
The Washington Post‘s headline suggests Sarah Palin is being tutored by foreign policy experts, rather than being ”guided” or ”advised,” as John McCain and Barack Obama are. Even when Obama was a rookie candidate in early 2007, he had a “team” of experts that he ”tapped” - meaning they answered to him, rather than he answering their pop-quiz questions.
So Palin is doubly diminished: Not only she is depicted as needing to cram for her October debate with Joe Biden – Obama was never portrayed as having to bone up for his debates with Biden, Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson – but she is in the subordinate position of being a student rather than leading a team of experts at her beck-and-call.
It’s the same way we see women characterized in the media all the time. I bet they don’t even know they’re doing it.
Gah.
If it’s any satisfaction, at least Palin doesn’t have 300 minions on her payroll trying to get her up to speed. Palin admits her lack of foreign policy and wants to learn more!!
Not like BO, who never admits he’s wrong, and is not ready to be the next POTUS.
This Headline is EXACTLY why we need Sarah Palin in Washington:
Feds Probe Oil-Sex Scandal
WASHINGTON — Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday.
ref: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420541,00.html
[...] Two Candidates, Two Standards [...]
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Look, this may not last. Sarah Palin may not continue on her current trajectory to be the most popular and influential politician of the 21st Century. But if Obama loses in November, I know who I’m going to blame: Al Gore. If only he hadn’t invented the Internet…
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....25558.html
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