Palin charges sexism: "Obama just couldn't bring himself to pick" Clinton

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/21/politics/fromtheroad/entry4537744.shtml

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Palin called the Democratic ticket “presumptuous” for assuming they would win the women’s vote and questioned Barack Obama for not making Hillary Clinton his running mate.

“When it came time for choosing some how Barack Obama just couldn't bring himself to pick the woman who got 18 million votes in his primary and that seems to be too familiar a story isn't it?” she said. “How it is for so many American women that the qualifications are there, but for some reason the promotion never comes. There is always some long explanation for why they got passed over or some unseen barrier, some excuse and that's just one of the things I so admire about John McCain he is not someone who makes excuses."

Palin said that Obama “talks a good game” about equal pay for women, but his record does not match his rhetoric.

“According to the Senate pay roll records women on his own staff get just 83 cents for every dollar that the men get,” Palin said. “That's $9,000 less every year that he pays the guys.

“Does he think that the women aren’t working as hard? Does he think that they are 17 percent less productive? And Barack Obama cant say that this is just the way that its always been done around the Capitol, because I know one senator who actually does pay equal wages for equal work, Sen. John McCain.”

DNC spokesperson Tommy Vietor issued the following response: “Senator Obama has fought for equal pay for an equal day's work, while Senator McCain has suggested that women don't get equal pay because they need more education and training. While Senator Obama has proposed a plan to help working women, the McCain-Palin campaign offers just more negative attacks and distortions.”

[BlooInBloo]

1. That's nice.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

This twit doesn't understand irony.

She herself was picked over many more qualified Republican women.

[Sannum]

2. Fuck you, Sarah.

[mwei924]

3. Obama doesn't need a woman on the ticket to win women.

Palin's doing it for him.

[Bicoastal]

4. Gender Card. Played.

[SoonerPride]

5. She is a cancer on the republican party.

The party will schism and disintegrate.

[Lex]

6. Ugly desperation.

nt

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[1corona4u]

17. Not soon enough!!

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Shhhh....don't startle her. It's better to just let her little fits run their course.

[abumbyanyothername]

40. Her little WHAT?

:rofl:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

9. Here's a new derogatory term I heard today: "Palin-Stupid"

How about that?

[ErinBerin84]

10. does she really think that she is helping herself when she plays the Hillary card?

I'm pretty sure that Hillary supporters are on to Palin's manipulative BS, and this probably just repulses them even more.


and again, McCain is the only sexist in the equation. He did not pick a qualified female, he picked a Disney movie just bc she WAS a female.

[Liberal Veteran]

13. On the plus side, at least she knocked Joe LIEberman off as the most ill-advised vp pick ever.

[BattyDem]

11. Go away.

Seriously. I've had enough of you for a lifetime. Go back to Alaska ... and stay there!

[Clio the Leo]

12. Yeah, 'cause all the women who are now backing Obama are gonna suddenly change their mind...

... because of that twit's drivel.

Please, my fat pie-eatin' hiney!

[Liberal Veteran]

15. Alaska's probably saying: No deposit. No return.

[RollWithIt]

14. We only have to listen to her for 12 more days.......

Unless they let her on stage during the concession speech. Hopefully she'll be back in Alaska to vote or something.

[Liberal Veteran]

22. Well, gosh golly, we sure did give 'em a run for his money even if we lost.

I'm so proud to have been our party's nominee and the clean, respectful campaign we have run against that fake American, Muslim, terrorist paling around with, socialist that stole this election from real Americans.

-----Sarah Palin, November 4, 2008

Hey Sarah, I checked my Magic 8 ball and it says: Outlook Not So Good (and it ain't talking about Microsoft Outlook even though it would be correct there too)

[Ikonoklast]

16. Sarah Palin Buys More Rope, Thinks She Got A Good Deal

Will Soon Figure Out How It's Used.

[quiet.american]

18. The phrase, "Sarah, shut yer pie hole" comes to mind. She is truly ignorant. nt

[Thrill]

19. McCain actually voted against the Violence against Womens Act

What kind of fucking monster does that

[Zynx]

26. A wife-beater.

[anonymous171]

20. Sarah is a dumbass. If Obama had picked Hillary, McCain would never have picked her.

[RayOfHope]

21. STFU, phalin. You are beyond contempt. n/t

[blogslut]

23. Hey, Sarah

This one's for you:

[yardwork]

24. Palin charged victims of rape to collect evidence of the crime against them.

That's some real woman power, there, Sarah.

[Zynx]

25. Sarah Palin is not fit to wipe Hillary Clinton's ass.

[IndianaGreen]

28. and compared to Hillary, Palin is an intellectual zero

Hillary has substance and gravitas, while Palin makes Dan Quayle look like a genius.

[beachmom]

27. Earth to Palin: the PUMAs have disappeared. At least statistically in the polls:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/sorry-jim-pumas-are-dead.html

[seabeyond]

29. now.... she is just noise. nothing more. time to move on. certainly nothing to see

here

[Cha]

30. Is she Divider

Beotch, yet?

If it weren't so real and tragic it would pathetic and hysterical in a movie.

[neverforget]

31. Sanjaya Palin, there is a village missing its idiot in Alaska. Go home.

Your 15 minutes of fame are up

[Matariki]

39. There's a nice hot SUBPOENA waitin' for ya'

[Jade Fox]

32. Oh god, make her stop!!

That this woman, who doesn't know what the Vice-President does (which hasn't prevented her from claiming she could do the job) dares to criticize........anyone!!!

[chitty]

33. She Is A Despicable Piece Of Shit.

[Chorophyll]

34. Keep talking, Sarah.

The more you talk, the quicker you become an amusing footnote to history.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

35. Jesus H F'ing Christ. Isn't there a rule against trying a lame strategy that ALREADY FAILED

once during the same campaign, again?

:shrug:

[BumRushDaShow]

38. She's gone full circle. They ran out of talking points and are starting over.

:rofl:

[Whisp]

36. mental midget Sarah speaks once more.

o gawd what an idiot.
sure Sarah, women are 'all the same' just like crusty old men keep telling us.

at least that's what I get from that nonsense she spews.

[Left Is Write]

37. There's a problem with your numbers, Sarah...

but don't let the facts worry you. Distorted interpretations of the payroll of Obama's staff serve your smear campaign much better, don't they?

Equal pay for equal work? Why don't you check the job descriptions and seniority levels of Obama's staffers, Sarah? Or would that involve actual reading instead of being spoonfed inaccuracies and repeating them as truths?

Yeah. Thought so.

[Blondiegrrl]

41. GAWD, I hate that bitch.

Election Day cannot come soon enough.

[Life Long Dem]

42. She's thanked for her concern.

[Lord Helmet]

43. McCain record on women's issues stinks

[Metric System]

44. She has a point. THANK YOU SARAH!

JUST KIDDING

Sarah, give it a rest. Hillary Clinton DOES NOT need or want you speaking on her behalf.

[Rocknrule]

45. There goes another irony meter...

[krkaufman]

46. Could somebody please bump the record player, it's stuck again. n/t

[City Lights]

47. Kiss my ass, Sarah.

You're an embarrassment to your gender.

[Mother Of Four]

48. Hey Sarah-

Why do you think it is that no one out of AK knew about you before now?

Oh that's right, you don't matter. Once a washed up second rate beauty queen that couldn't make it in journalism....you know the rest.

[democrattotheend]

49. Does he even get to pick how much he pays his Senate staff?

I'm pretty sure that each office gets a set amount for staffing and I am not sure how much discretion they have about how it's allocated. Probably some, but most offices have one legislative director and several legislative aides, and then several legislative correspondents and/or staff assistants, as well as a press team. So if the LD is a man, that probably skews the breakdown.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

50. Methinks she should not be talking about things

about which she has no apparent inside knowledge nor is qualified to report on (I know she can't help herself, though). This is almost as bad as when she attempted to appropriate Hillary's legacy after being nominated by McCain.

Boy, what I wouldn't give to see Hillary deliver a huge smackdown on this witch!!!!! I know it probably won't happen (and probably shouldn't happen for reasons of campaign strategy) but I imagine that she (and her former supporters) must be seething at her right now. Although I'm not a woman and wasn't a Hillary supporter by the end of the primary campaign I still feel angry everytime Palin attempts to play the "gender card" against Obama as though she is somehow entitled to speak from the same lofty perch that Hillary EARNED through her hard work and which was simply handed to her by McCain.

:grr:

[HughMoran]

51. I can't understand why we even give her bizarre words a forum

She's just saying shit to get out goat - I wonder why we honor her with our words. So much wasted energy on this clown.

[ecstatic]

52. And if he did, Palin would still be shooting moose and wolves in Alaska

and we wouldn't know who the hell SarahFailin was... Sarah just doesn't get it. She's a walking joke. And she needs to keep Senator Clinton's name out her f*cking mouth! :mad:

[youthere]

53. Someone really needs to tap this bobble-head on the shoulder...

and whisper in her ear that the ONLY reason she was picked by McCain was because she looks better than Charlie Crist in a skirt, since we're discussing sexism and all.

[ibegurpard]

54. what a stupid shit she is

Do they really, truly believe that there are actually a significant number of PUMAS out there and, if so, they would gladly substitute her for Hillary just because they are the same sex? What a fucking stupid ass.

[windbreeze]

55. She just needs to shut the hell up...

she sure as hell hasn't got the right to question or challenge Obama...she's running against Biden, isn't she? n/t