To: i-node who wrote (614956 ) 6/7/2011 4:16:23 PM From: tejek Read Replies (3) | Respond to > So by the above comment you think Paul Revere was intent upon warning the Brits. So in other words, you are saying that Paul Revere was an imbecile who had a suicide wish. Is that what you and Palin are telling us? The implication from her statement was that the Brits were put on notice that it would not be given up without a fight. Which seems to be precisely what was said. I think the Left has a lot of apologizing to do. Of course, nobody but Fox will call them out on it. But it seems Palin knows more history than any of her critics on this matter. "Here we go again. It is hard to tell whether Sarah Palin is really going to run for president in 2012, or she just wants to be in the limelight. But it really is tiresome. It is also embarrassing. It is embarrassing for our country, and especially embarrassing for all of us women, out working hard to prove that we are just as smart, just as qualified, and just as vital to the working and political world as men. Why can’t we have a strong, smart woman run for office? Oh yeah, we did, and then poor Hillary got crushed for being too opinionated and too hard (or maybe just too bitchy), which seemed to be code words for “too smart.” Hillary was criticized for trying to be like “the boys” while Sarah Palin was celebrated for being “every woman.”But can’t she represent women better? To act like the silly girl who can just smile and laugh off the “real” questions does harm to the work all women do every day to get away from the stereotypes that have followed women in the workplace. Women in the workplace are too often the ditsy blond, or the crazy bitch. Or, if you are really successful, you might be “one of the boys.” If women want to move beyond these stereotypes we ourselves have to not play into them. But Sarah Palin gets more press and more publicity when she plays the ditsy blond. But with her charm, and media savvy, wouldn’t she get a lot farther is she just tried a little bit to play it smarter?Take this craziness over Paul Revere. Clearly she was unclear on what happened that infamous night. But instead of staying away from saying something that might not be correct, she goes ahead and blabs her mouth, incorrectly citing what happened on Paul Revere’s ride. I can’t believe that she is completely oblivious and willing to make herself look that incompetent and dumb. I really do believe that there is a savvy woman behind the ditz that understands how to play the media. And whether she is actually thinking she can run for POTUS, or she understands that this is the time to cash in on publicity and stay in the limelight in order to get her next book deal, or reality TV show, is very hard to tell. It’s hard to understand where she wants to get with her ridiculous One Nation Tour Bus, and whether she really expects America to believe that she isn’t telling the media where she is going from one stop to the next, but surprisingly the media is always at the next stop, ready to go. But as much as I dislike her political persona, and don’t understand her rise to popularity, I do have to hand it to the woman- she knows how to get PR and she knows how to steal the spotlight. Is she running or is she just fueling her own fame in order to keep making money as an entertainer?But meanwhile, motivated career-focused women all over the U.S. cringe, and realize the damage she does to us with her silly shenanigans. She is harming the work that we all do every day to be taken seriously and to be considered equal in the working world. Every day I actively do the best job that I can, and prove that, despite being a woman, I can run a technology company as well (or better) than anyone else. Sarah seems to be actively out there showing everyone that she can make a clown show out of a political campaign better than anyone else. And clearly she can. But is this what we want for women in America? A woman who makes a clown show out of a serious and exciting political career? blogs.forbes.com
