Sarah Palin and Sexism

I have accused people of being racist for not supporting Barack Obama. I have, in turn, been accused of being a sexist because I don’t support Sarah Palin and John McCain.

Here’s the difference.

If you know someone who either typically supports progressive candidates, or who is sick and tired of the current administration, but is NOT voting for Barack Obama, listen for the following answers… they all equal “Because he is black”…

1) “Er… um… ahhhh… yeah… um…”
2) “He’s a Muslim.” (He’s not.)
3) “His middle name is “Hussein””. (Yeah? And my middle name is “Hucares”?)
4) “There’s just something about him that bothers me.” (Like you wouldn’t want him sleeping with your daughter, living in your neighborhood or being promoted over you.)
5) “He wants to take away my gun.” (For the record, he doesn’t. He supports the assault rifle ban, he supports registration for gun owners and waiting periods for buying a gun. Frankly, pal, if you need an unregistered assault rifle RIGHT THE FUCK NOW then I don’t want you anywhere NEAR my neighborhood.)

All right. Now, ask me the same question about Palin/McCain. No, I didn’t put Biden on the chopping block, because frankly, barring assassination, Obama will make it through a term or two. The main assassin that McCain has to worry about is God – he’s seventy-two years old, for crying out loud. So go ahead – ask me – let’s see if my answers are vague enough to qualify as “I don’t like her because she’s a woman.”

1) McCain would be perfectly happy if we keep funneling money through Iraq to Halliburton for another hundred years.

2) McCain supports keeping taxes on the middle class right where they’re at and cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy. Obama supports decreasing taxes on the middle class and increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

3) Sarah Palin refuses to recognize that a woman’s right to a safe and clean abortion is a basic human rights issue.

4) I’ve seen video of Sarah Palin being exorcized of witches by an African Witch Doctor, and it fucking creeps me out. Can you imagine what would happen if a video like that existed of Obama?

5) She seems to be almost entirely ignorant of world affairs.

6) As evidenced by her pregnant, unmarried (then) sixteen year old daughter, she obviously doesn’t practice what she preaches in her own family. Hypocrisy PISSES me off.

Here’s the final evidence that I’m not a sexist…

Good candidates for president or vice-president: Condoleeza Rice. Donna Brazielle. Katie Couric. Naomi Klein. Elizabeth Edwards. I can’t remember her name, but the woman who has been reviled by the Bush administration for protesting the Iraq war after her son was killed in Iraq. Hillary Clinton used to be on the list until she got in the senate and got in touch with her inner neo-con.

So you see? I don’t have a problem with a woman in the highest or second-highest office in the land. I have a problem with the thought of THIS woman in that role. If she was a penis-dragger instead of a vagina-carrier, I’d feel exactly the same way.

Peace.

Randal