LTTE and my response RE: Palin

[searchingforlight]

This is the letter I read in todays paper which made my blood boil.

http://rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080911/OPINION02/809110310/1037/OPINION02

Here is my response:

I am a 60”s woman. I actually grew up in the 50’s when women had few options and were still considered second class citizens. I fought against the flagrant sexism one day at a time while raising a family and fighting the little battles for more rights. I have hoped for a woman president for years and have believed it would happen. I think Hillary would have made a great President. She is intelligent, experienced and fully capable.

I was able to cast my first vote for the first Catholic President of the United States of America -John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I did not vote for him because he was a Catholic. I voted for him because I believed he was a new voice in a sea of tired old ideas. I believed he had been raised to feel the mantle of service and was capable of leading. However, if I had used the fact that he was Catholic why not Tony Bennett - in the past we could have chosen Spencer Tracey or some Mayor from NJ who had been an altar boy.

I once read a book in which the author described women as “thinking with their ovaries”. I was deeply offended by that sexist portrait and felt the attitude towards women during his time was summed up in that one phrase but if a woman would vote for anyone just because she is a woman and vote against all that she says she believes in then I think the phrase applies.

[leftofcool]

1. While I disagree with the article/writer on her voting stance

it appears to me that she is not so much voting "for Palin" but rather voting against a party she feels threw women under the bus. I agree that the MSM with their blatent sexism killed Hillary and the Democratic Party stood by and let it happen, some of the leaders even encouraged it. Personally, I will never forgive our party on that one. It is not, however, enough to get me to vote for Mccain, but you can be damn sure I won't forget it. Having said that for myself, I think may women feel the same way the writer does. The question is, how do we change their minds?

[Green Mountain Dem]

2. Your reply was...

just awesome and I just hope the POS Herald will print it, but I won't hold my breath! I think Lisa's LTTE was sent on paper covered with lipstick!

[Cha]

3. Rec'd~ We have to get our DUers who

take the time to writed LTTE on the Greatest!

Thank you, searchlight!