By Alexis Garrett Stodghill, BlackVoices.com
Everybody is eager to discuss "playing the race card," especially if any serious attempt at analyzing how race is affecting the election is made by a person of color. But nobody seems to notice when certain women play the gender card. It didn't seem to help Hillary Clinton when she did it. Will it help Sarah Palin get through her debate against an exponentially more seasoned candidate? Watch how Ferraro played it above. She was the champ! Palin may be a close second. We'll see after Thursday.
Let's face it. There may be a difference between airing legitimate grievances based on real inequalities, and stirring up guilt around perceived inequalities to distract people from real issues. But it seems like certain persons are expert at doing the latter, while making people believe that they are doing the former. I think Sarah Palin is one of them.
Thanks, Jeff, for the video.
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By: BETTYEJ on 10/01/2008 2:27PM
I am a woman and would like to say that before this debate get under way we should not be thinking about sex. These two Vice President candidates are running for a chance to be on their party's Political ticket. Palin should be able to hold her own just as well as Biden.
She didn't have a problem running off her mouth at the Republican Convention or at all the soft interviews they let her have. She has talk about Biden's age and took countless pot shots at Obama. If she can dish it out, then she should be able to stand the heat and not act like a whiner, as she her self called Hillary Clinton.
I am sick of all these women that play the sex card when things get hot for them. We don't need no cry baby holding any public office!
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By: CAJones on 10/02/2008 2:24PM
Earlier this week, we learned that the McCain campaign had barred New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from traveling on their plane, stranding her at an airport hotel in Pittsburgh as McCain's pool of reporters wended their way on without her...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/maureen-dowd-reacts-to-be_n_130863.html
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