Please read to the end. That is the punchline, I think.
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Sarah Palin: A pain of a woman
Published on 11/10/2008
By Tony M
The Lady who would be vice president — but will never be because Mr Barrack Obama is gonna win this one hands down, wapende wasipende — is called Sarah Palin. She’s a so-called ‘hockey mom’ and is part of a brave new world of ‘soccer moms’ and other models of aggressive new models of women in the world who want to identify with hardcore traditional ‘Men Only’ sports like football and hockey to make a point that they’re all that, and quarter past tougher than their male counterparts.
Well, I may admire some qualities about Palin (like the tough decision to go ahead and have a Down syndrome baby) but I do not like what she represents — both to man and country. Let’s begin with the fact that she’s happy being the bread winner of her rather large family, while her hubby Todd plays second fiddle, errand boy and care-giver and taker to the kids. Now, while I agree that these roles in households must be shared, only a half woose would let his woman do the bulk of the ‘bread and bacon’ hunting role, while just rolling along for the ride in the background. I far prefer the Clintons — if your wife is competitive, be even more so. She’s a senator, you are the president. My editor made me laugh the other day. She said that as her hubby picked her up, he mentioned that John Corgi, that red faced abomination of a writer, had a right to express his freedom of expression and oughtn’t have been deported. My editor then expressed the exact opposite — and may I add correct — opinion, and her and her hubby spent a happy half hour discoursing on the same before they could drive on off. Now, that’s what I call a smart and equal couple — and I amn’t surprised that their little girl who is soon to be six is one smart tsarinavich.
Palin, brought up in Alaska, shoots poor moose just for the sport of it, and thinks being called ‘Sara Barracuda’ is a marvellous thing. Me, I think it is just uncouth. Whatever happened to the America of charming southern belles with soft voices, coy manners and all those lovely other things that made a woman? Since when did the girls start to fight men’s battles. "Obama is a terrorist," Palin shrieks, as infirm, old power-hungry men like McCain — with his eye twitch and therictus grin of a delighted skull — cower behind her aprons; in the face of Obama.
Victor versus Victoria
Yet during the Joe Biden vs Sara Palin debates, it was plain to see that like a lot of self-proclaimed barracudas, people like Palin shrivel in the heat of real "Victor versus Victoria" battle. Already at the start, it was said that Biden had to ‘go easy’ on Palin lest he seem like an aggressive feller going ruthlessly after the lady. If she is truly a ‘hockey mom’, why, then should she skate as fast and take as much hockey stick as a man!
Then it was clear that for all her accomplishments, Palin was singularly ill-informed, and that did not bode well, pardon the puns, in her bid to take on Senator Biden. She’s like one of those corporate barracudas who talk tough and even wear ‘smart’ glasses to look the part but, when it comes down to hard facts, as it did in the debates, they are left cold in the water by cooler chaps.
Every time she did not know what she was talking about, Sara Palin brought up the ‘great McCain,’ nuancing the stereo-type that even tough women like to hide behind a man when cornered. And when she spoke about the pain of women with children, like one with a monopoly on tragedy, Joe Biden got off his sharpest shot. Near a tear, he said, "I too know the pain of losing loved ones, and caring for a hurt child."
When Biden was 33, you see, his wife and two daughters died in a car carnage, leaving him with a seriously injured infant son — who today, at 22, is fighting in Afghanistan. Now, that’s a man — and a hard boy.
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