Posts by Deborah
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The full list is on Scoop.
Take note of number 65. A long way down, I know, but there nevertheless. Wouldn't it be great if she got in. If not this time, next time, maybe...
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The PM is not accountable to the leader of the opposition, nor to an immature press gallery.
Well, that would be wrong. I thought that one of the critical features of the Westminster style of parliament is that the job of the opposition is to hold the government to account.
"Immature" press gallery? There's some reporters there who look fairly long in the tooth to me. And some of the younger ones are very impressive indeed.
Of course, the press is another of the fundamental institutions of our democracy, and actually, part of their job is to hold the government to account.
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What Craig said.
Different metaphor, same thought, Kyle. I like the domesticity of teaspoons.
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sadly I think she is about to find out what it's like to have the gloves removed and the ice-picks sharpened
Shakesville has started up a Sarah Palin Sexism Watch and it's up to three within just a few hours.
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Yeah, it's not an unequivocal statement, is it? Listening to what she said, I think she was walkng a tightrope, not wanting to criticise HRC (for being a woman that is - I'm sure a republican governor would have plenty of other criticism to make about Clinton), but at the same time trying to say, well, just live it. I think that word 'perceived' is quite important - she emphasises the perceived. I heard that as Palin saying that HRC was perceived as whining, not that she actually was whining.
Interestingly, Nancy Pelosi said much the same sort of thing, apparently, again lifted from Talk Left.
Yes, there was sexism," Pelosi told a group of reporters over breakfast this morning. . . . Pelosi said Clinton had benefited from the excitement that was generated among women by her candidacy. But that was offset by sexism, she added, stopping short of pinning Clinton's defeat on gender bias. Pelosi said she hadn't studied the question in detail but was merely speaking "instinctively."
Pelosi also said that she has been a victim of sexism, "all the time. But I just think it goes with the territory."
That is, yes, it's there [sexism], it's a fact of life, just suck it up and get on with it.
Not something that I endorse. I'm into teaspoons.
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Dude, that was a totally awesome flameout!
It's so good it makes me feel all warm inside.
Well said, Danielle, and Dyan - fantastic analysis. I'm still giggling, so I haven't had a chance to have a coherent thought about it.
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And there's a transcript here.
Which I'm going to blatantly copy and paste...
PALIN: . . . [F]air or unfair and I do think it is a more concentrated criticism that Hillary gets on so many fronts, and I think that is unfortunate, she does herself a disservice to even mention it. You have to plow through that and you have to know what you are getting into - I say that with all due respect to Hillary Clinton and to her experience and to her passion for changing the status quo - when I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate, with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism, you know a sharper microscope put on her, I think that doesn't do us any good - women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. I do not think it bodes well for her a statement like that because, again, fair or unfair, it is there that's reality I think it is a given - people can just accept the she is going to be under that sharper microscope So be it. Work harder prove yourself to an even greater degree that you are capable that you are going to be the best candidate and that of course is what she wants us to believe at this point. So it bothers me a little bit hearing her bring that attention to herself on that level
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Except that's not what she said.
The clip is here.
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What Danielle said.
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Gay bashing. One way to insult a man is to imply that he's gay. Nice, huh.
I never said you weren't feminist, Suze. Perhaps you could do me the courtesy, and you too, Steve, of not telling me how to do my feminism.