I'm about to stick my neck out...
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figmo...and make a prediction re: the Presidential election.
I have been saying for months that if McCain were to select a female VP candidate, he'd win the election.
I stand by that statement.
This has nothing to do with anyone's political preferences, including mine. I am making this prediction as a journalist.
My logic: Barack Obama's VP, Joe Biden, is male, thus alienating the folks who voted for Hillary Clinton because they wanted a woman President. Many of Hillary Clinton's supporters felt alienated by Obama's choice.
Many of these Hillary Clinton supporters are so desperate to see the "glass ceiling" shattered they'd vote for anything female on a ticket, no matter what her viewpoints were. Now that they have their female on a ticket, many of these former Clinton supporters will vote for the Republican slate, mostly to have a woman only "a heartbeat away" from the oldest Presidential candidate ever, exclusively because of her gender even though Sarah Palin's viewpoints are very different from Hillary Clinton's.
I have been saying for months that if McCain were to select a female VP candidate, he'd win the election.
I stand by that statement.
This has nothing to do with anyone's political preferences, including mine. I am making this prediction as a journalist.
My logic: Barack Obama's VP, Joe Biden, is male, thus alienating the folks who voted for Hillary Clinton because they wanted a woman President. Many of Hillary Clinton's supporters felt alienated by Obama's choice.
Many of these Hillary Clinton supporters are so desperate to see the "glass ceiling" shattered they'd vote for anything female on a ticket, no matter what her viewpoints were. Now that they have their female on a ticket, many of these former Clinton supporters will vote for the Republican slate, mostly to have a woman only "a heartbeat away" from the oldest Presidential candidate ever, exclusively because of her gender even though Sarah Palin's viewpoints are very different from Hillary Clinton's.
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Date: 2008-08-30 10:29 pm (UTC)i have never been pregnant- thanks to the fact that condoms have been legal and available in my lifetime, and i had sex education so i knew that you could get pregnant even if it was"just your first time" or the guy promised to "pull out."
when you refuse to allow sex ed to be taught, and try to make birth control (and i mean pills, not abortion) illegal, you are taking away people's choices.
i hope i would never have an abortion. i always hoped that i would choose to bear the child and give it away, if i did not want it. but making it illegal to abort- i'm just not sure i can make the decision for every woman out there who are in circumstances i don't know or understand. we're talking about *overturning* a decision that was fought over long and hard, and given much debate, decades ago.
and while it is a valid topic of discussion, it is being used as a distraction from the fact that our jobs are being shipped overseas, our country has lost over 4000 soldiers in this pointless war, and our education adn health care systems are in a complete shambles.
how can you truly be pro-life if you don't allow your citizens to get their basic needs met once they are out of the womb? how can you be pro-life if you are willing to send them to a war that *we* started, while you threaten iran with starting another war, and then when the soldiers come home, you deny them health care and benefits? shame shame shame on us.
the abortion issue is not our biggest issue right now.