Just like women want men who can fit multiple roles: (career, sport, lover, fighter, macho, metro, etc.), I respect a woman who can both be sexy and quaint as well as one who can get her hands dirty. And any woman who can hold her own, throw a punch, exert dominance around men in business situations, and use a weapon, earns extra credit. I love them IDF girls!

I love the liberal mentality though. Respect of third world cultures, yet a disdain for them when every more or norm is on the table. In the undeveloped world, it’s mainly women that have to butcher or at least skin and treat the kill, including breaking chicken necks, slicing lambs heads off, pulling the intestines out of a pig, etc.. What makes you think people who hunt do it for fun and hobby? My relatives from Alaska just sent me a care package with the following items (all caught or killed by them, with the exception of the shellfish): moose, bear, goat, king salmon, red salmon, Halibut, and king crab legs. Very tasty food. Half of those were killed or caught by wife’s cousin while pregnant, who just had her first baby boy 1 month ago. She’s actually pretty attractive as well. Nothing scary about her. But, I assume that stereotype (liberals claim never to stereotype too, hehe) will stick in your head nonetheless, while chasing shoes at Barney’s, which mind you, are my wife’s favorites.

I hate to break this to you, but not all women are the same, nor should be. I don’t think Palin is a feminist, nor should she be. Why should she dislike men, always act like a victim, ignore the differences between the genders, and think she can do everything without help from her husband? Those are feminist values to me, and why I relate that word to every other victimized group.

What I think I see from a lot of women and men ever since they announced Palin, is projection, jealousy, and condescension. Total feminist values, if you ask me.

Alex, we all know Jews going around telling other Jews they are not real Jews every day and most frequently on this very blog. The “who is a Jew” debate rages alive and well.

The “who is a feminist” debate rages on as well. Feminism represents different things in each generation. During the battle for Sufferage, feminism was equated with giving the woman the right to vote. Feminism today is about choices without judgment.

You can call Palin a feminist and you could probably even call her a good Governor of Alaska and an expert the needs of Alaska’s small towns. However, you can not call her a friend to working mother’s or someone who understands the needs of single mothers in large urban cities.

Does anyone know if she’s ever been to New York or seen the footprint of the World Trade Center, because I can tell you she’s never been to a sale at Barney’s . Show me a woman who can hunt and capture the items she wants there and then I’ll show you a pitbull in lipstick.

Does this woman believe that 3 day stays in hospitals after giving birth are too long? It seems she would prefer woman give birth on the job or at the hockey games of their other 9 kids.

Do you prefer they kill them with a knife or their bare hands?

Many slaves on the Pre-Civil War plantations got more maternity leave than that from their masters, although many birthed in the field while leaking amniotic fluid and then kept right on working the field.

This woman may be a friend to special needs children but SHE IS NO FRIEND OF WORKING MOTHERS!

I am truly scared for what is expected for the next generation of young women if this is what people call “FEMINISM”.

Feminism is when the husband wakes up in the middle of the night to do a feeding so the “kempator” can sleep. Feminism is when the husband hires a baby nurse for a full 3 months with the paycheck he brought home.

Feminism is when a working mother’s job is at the same pay level of her male peer AND her job is still there for her when she CHOOSES to come back to work, whether she is a single mother, an adoptive mother, a lesbian mother, or a surrogate mother.

Holy Freakin’ Gloria Steinem Batman, this woman is the Joker!

There is something so disconnected about her, I’d swear she was made by the same men who made the Stepford Robots if that wasn’t fiction. Women who can kill animals with a gun are just freakin’ scary.

At least Hillary is open about her lust for power and her ambition. Palin tries to make herself out to be a humble servant of the small town that needed her and then goes on to say her family has problems like all others…

RFK had a spouse handling the children. Working father’s seeing very little of their children was the norm in his time. In our generation new Father’s take time off when a baby is born or adopted into their family. They like to participate on an equal level. And they LOVE suing for Child Support and Custody if their relationship fails.

Palin’s spouse can handle their children and it’s her CHOICE if she never sees them. If that Down’s baby need’s heart surgery in the next 4 years as many of them do, she will have to make a choice…be with the baby or help the President govern. Voters have to consider that, whether it sounds “sexist” or not.

Edwards made a choice to run for President rather than help take care of a very ill spouse. I thought that was disgusting. It revealed the nature of his character at the time and he proved himself to be even more of a weasel later on.

When a job is at a level that is above the glass ceiling for both sexes, I would expect a women to put her job above baking cookies for the PTA and not even think about taking time off to go to every hockey game wearing lipstick. WORKING MOTHERS in the U.S. miss an awful lot of hockey games, ballet recitals, and PTA fundraisers because their bosses won’t let them take time off.

I said it once and I’ll say it again: Feminism means giving a woman the CHOICE to do what she wants with her career, her family and her body. Palin wants to limit women’s choices with what they do with their body, that’s bad enough. I hope she aleast realizes that the County, not her children, come first if McCain.

The 80′s and 90′s feminist proved that you CAN NOT have it all at the same time. Something’s gotta give.

As Jackie Kennedy said “if you bungle raising your children, nothing else you do really matters”…that is the feminist ideology of 2008 and of Jewish tradition.

And here’s a goose/gander question for you: when RFK ran for president, he had 10 children and a pregnant spouse. Your analysis apply to him?

I wouldn’t want any woman with an infant as V.P., much less a woman with a special needs baby and a grandchild from a teen daughter.

Palin is the antithesis of today’s feminist role model. Her message is “you need a high-powered, high-profile career but don’t enjoy sex or use birth control while trying to achieve that career unless you are married and then make sure you get your figure back within 3 months post-partum” YIKES!

What happens when she’s pregnant again? Is her househusband going to get a vasectomy or are they just going to abstain?
Talk about a nervous breakdown waiting to happen. Only “Superwoman” could handle all that and we know that the Superwoman model of Feminism is soooo 1980′s.

Any woman who is in the #1 or #2 most powerful position in the free world during wartime better be damned ready to fulfill all the responsibilities of that position at the expense of her family.

Palin does seem ready to dump her family for that power…how sad for them.

So I guess that means that you think entitlements to Chareidim and funding for their schools in Israel should be done away with? Because that’s socialism, too. Oh, the hypocrisy!!!!

The most important thing for me is that Republicans understand keeping markets free and taxing businesses and people as little as possible, since they aren’t nanny-staters like your precious Democrats/socialists. And I f****** hate socialism and will never support entitlements and a looter mentality like Obama supports. The world is full of two kinds of people: producers and looters. Your party is for the looters. It’s really that plain and simple, believe it or not. You can take Elizabeth Hasslebeck with you. The republicans don’t need her. The other idiots on the show, are a perfect example of the leftist brainwashed mentality.

It seems your definition of “blatant anti-semitism” or at least your tolerance of it is dependent upon the side of the political spectrum spewing it. It was a guest speaker by the way, from Jews for Jesus that said that, not her preacher, and while despicable and anti-semitic, it’s standard fare for the Messianic crowd. The difference is, evangelicals goal is for Jews to become Christians, while Barack’s church welcomed Farakhan with open arms, and as you know, the Nation of Islam wants us dead. So if you want to start measuring evil or even intentions for that matter, I’d be much obliged to make a matrix comparing the two tickets, heck, the two parties for that matter. I’ll trade you a Pat Robertson for a Cynthia McKinney, Robert Bird, Wesley Clark, Jesse Jackson, Sharpton, etc., any day.

McCain’s choice of Palin completely marginalizes him on the experience meme. If experience is important, than a 72-year old nominee would have chosen someone with it to run with him. End of story. And that’s exactly the way the narrative is running right now.

As for “outflanking” Obama on change, as I said, his speech made a valiant effort to try to do that, but we’ll see if it sticks. For now, it’s just an attempt, nothing more. McCain’s previous history of bucking party-line ideology says a lot. But it says even more that for now he has decided to throw that reputation away and capitulated to the Talibangelicals with his VP selection. As does voting with Bush the overwhelming majority of the time.

I honestly don’t see why you seem so intent on taking everything the McCain campaign throws out there at face value, Middle. More conservative intellectuals have taken him to task and criticized (the WISDOM! of) his choices at this point than you would have us believe. Does it have to do with some soft spot you have for Palin and her religious creds? Do you feel intimidated by her standing on those things? Does it have to do with Obama getting some kind of well-deserved comeuppance? I’m just trying to understand where you’re coming from…

MUL, I actually had a bunch of voting stats ready for you, but I think Blip makes the point briefly and succinctly. Stop focusing on the detail of the accusation and try to understand the spirit. McCain has taken Obama and outflanked him on “change” and “experience.” Obama may have co-authored a couple of laws, but would you like to compare how many laws McCain has written, never mind proposed?

Well, you can bash a political cartoonist all you want, Alex. But you don’t seem very capable of bashing the fact that The Republicans are so bereft of any of their own ideas to articulate for America’s woes (other than war, religion and nationalism as The Answer to all things for all time) that they stole every line in the book from the Democrats. Which was exactly the message in the cartoon. You’re just upset because it illustrates that they don’t have any credibility because of it.

Granted I’m not a huge O fan, I actually worked for Hillary, but he’s growing on me, while McCain’s continued pandering to the super evangelicals frightens me more each day.

While the Rev. Wright issues bugged me, don’t forget that Palin said nothing while a preacher at her church stated terrorism in Isreal is punishment for Jews continuing to refuse the truth that Jesus is their Messiah. While O wasn’t even present for Wright’s crazy comments, Palin was in the front row and it was only a few weeks ago…

Maybe McCain didn’t know she was at the very least accepting of blatant anti-semitism, or maybe he did knew that would help with the right wing he had issues with. Either way, too scary for me.