[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

And Sarah Palin - despiser of men!

John McCain is a despiser of women -- all women. He is a master mysogynist. He is using Sarah. And she is using him as well. I'm sure John McCain's life circumstances played a pivitol role in making him into an animal. It's not that I have no sympathy for men like him. But I don't want men like him in power positions! Nor do I want women like Sarah Palin in power positions. I think they are both using each other. The saying, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" comes to mind when I think what could happen with this pair in the White House together.
The article linked below discusses his scorn and disrespect for the women in his life.

Beauty and the Beast http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/wypijewski

An Excerpt from the article:

In Sarah Palin the right has its perfect emblem: moral avatar and commodity, uniting the put-upon woman who gushes, "She's just like me!" and the chest thumper who brays, "I'd do her, and her daughter" with those who have long exploited the fear and sorry machismo of both, with the help of another durable reactionary weapon. Now that it's official, as McCain's campaign manager said, that "this election is not about issues; this election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates," McCain's only live tag appears to be, Republicans Do It Better. Translation: small-town, gun-toting, rough-and-ready, all-American Sarah and Todd versus Barack and Michelle. White Power. (Or, close enough, White-ish.) Palin Power.

And there's the rub for McCain. It looks like Palin's party now, and whatever she does for his virility, she's not the hockey mom, or the babe, or the third wife he can stomp on. If her acceptance speech was indicative, she can match the "sneering, condescending attitude" that former Republican Senator Bob Smith says is fundamental to McCain, but with a smile and a dagger's turn. Her role model Esther doesn't just win favor from the king and a reprieve for herself and her people; she enables her people to engage in bloody slaughter against the king's other subjects, maneuvers for the public execution of his closest adviser and the man's sons, sees her de facto father become the de facto king; in sum, sabotages and unmans Ahasuerus. Palin has been too cagey to identify exactly who her people are, but in playing off cronies and oilmen in Alaska and even Christians to get where she is, she does seem to have grasped the art, so vital to politics, of the exquisitely timed double cross.



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[Roy Hamilton]

I'm sure John McCain's life circumstances played a pivitol role in making him into an animal. It's not that I have no sympathy for men like him.

Will you try and get a grip, Anne!

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

Roy,

You are not being forced at gunpoint to read any of my posts. I'm worried about the future of my country. I have four children who want to finish growing up and fulfilling their life's dreams. I owe it to them to do whatever I can to keep these two out of the White House. Even if you don't think it is a very serious matter, others do.

And Roy, did you bother to read the article before you told me to "get a grip"?

Anne

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[Diane Dees]

Actually, all four of the people running for the two highest offices have displayed bigotry toward various segments of society, Anne. It is one of the reasons I cannot get excited about even the "good" candidates. I suppose it comes down to a matter of degree, and judging by their voting records--at least two of them at least vote reasonably.

[Roy Hamilton]

No, I didn't.

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

Yet another excellent article of caution: (for those who are not apathetic)

The Danger of an Unvetted Veep: An Israeli Lesson -
By Dror Wahrman http://hnn.us/articles/53941.html

[Roy Hamilton]

God, preserve us!

[Laura Heidy-Halberstein]

Originally posted by Roy Hamilton:
No, I didn't.

Wise choice. I wish I could say the same.

They don't even get it, do they? With every article like this "we" become "them." Hysterical, overwrought, hyperbolic and full of innuendo, half-truths, and outright lies. No sense in calling McCain a fear-monger when you prove you can do the mongering just as well, is there?

You do not win a war of words by sinking to your opponent's level, you win it by insisting he join you on your own turf - and then making sure you remain above his reach.

Right now the gutter belongs to the McCain campaign - there's no reason we need to wade into it. Left to their own devices they're not going to be able to climb out of it.

Much better to let them drown all by themselves than it is to join them and sink with them. The fact is, articles such as these do little more than make they look better by comparision.



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[Mike Todd]

Well I never! Wait till Ethel hears about this! Ooo!

[Roy Hamilton]

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