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Except for the president, vice president, most of Congress and God, women are currently the ones leading our nation. _ Elliot Kalan (Boston Metro, July 17, 2009)
Other highlights from his editorial:
In fact, in what's certainly not a forced linking of two unrelated people coincidentally in the news, a pair of women -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and ex-governor Sarah Palin -- recently presented competing visions of America's future. Sotomayor is Hispanic; her name is actually Spanish for "Mayor of Sarasota." Palin, too, represents a minority group, Alaskans, who compose fewer than 0.2 percent of the population... More important than their myriad of similarities, though, are their few differences. Sotomayor believes in government by an autocratic system we'll call, for lack of a better word, the "judicial branch"... In essence, Sotomayor's become part of the mainstream culture of repression that gives a poor girl from the Bronx with no choice but life-long drudgery barely enough money to clothe herself in dark, joyless robes. Palin on the other hand, bravely stood up to a power structure dominated by men and Kodiak bears. She recently showed the fat cats she's boss by resigning from her job as boss... Think about it. How much better would American history have been if instead of fighting a civil war, the South had merely quit the U.S. and started its own country?... Whatever the job the two of them might conceivably someday compete for, Sarah Palin is the woman for it. Until she quits.
Have major media sources have been drawing parallels and perpendiculars on the two women recently?
Other highlights from his editorial:
In fact, in what's certainly not a forced linking of two unrelated people coincidentally in the news, a pair of women -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and ex-governor Sarah Palin -- recently presented competing visions of America's future. Sotomayor is Hispanic; her name is actually Spanish for "Mayor of Sarasota." Palin, too, represents a minority group, Alaskans, who compose fewer than 0.2 percent of the population... More important than their myriad of similarities, though, are their few differences. Sotomayor believes in government by an autocratic system we'll call, for lack of a better word, the "judicial branch"... In essence, Sotomayor's become part of the mainstream culture of repression that gives a poor girl from the Bronx with no choice but life-long drudgery barely enough money to clothe herself in dark, joyless robes. Palin on the other hand, bravely stood up to a power structure dominated by men and Kodiak bears. She recently showed the fat cats she's boss by resigning from her job as boss... Think about it. How much better would American history have been if instead of fighting a civil war, the South had merely quit the U.S. and started its own country?... Whatever the job the two of them might conceivably someday compete for, Sarah Palin is the woman for it. Until she quits.
Have major media sources have been drawing parallels and perpendiculars on the two women recently?