N*DIGO: The Magapaper for the Urbane does not archive, so look at the whole of this great editorial by publisher Hermene Hartman before the link is (too sadly, too soon) broken:
The Republicans threw a monkey wrench in the presidential campaign.
Her name is Sarah Palin, the youngest and first female Governor of Alaska. She has upset the democrats so much so that she has become the focus of the presidential campaign...
Let’s put her in perspective.
She won the mayoral election with 616 votes. That’s a good Chicago community. She was the mayor of a town smaller than the average Chicago alderman’s ward. She is against abortion and gun control. She just recently got a passport and has traveled only to Canada and Mexico. On foreign affairs, she commented, she can view Russia from some parts of Alaska.
While some wonder about her foreign travel experiences, I wonder about her big city travel to places like Chicago, New York, Washington and Los Angeles. There is no evidence of urban visits...
Sarah Palin is in the race to do one thing, and that is to throw Barack Obama off his game. The campaign has become Palin vs. Obama.
The democratic vice presidential nominee, Joe Biden, did not take her on. And the voices of reason suggest Hillary Clinton should come forward. Please. Hillary should not be the pitbull for the simple reason that she is not running. Barack has got to get back to the campaign of McCain.
What will serve Palin well, as we have seen in her solo ABC interview, is her great media presence. It doesn’t matter what you say, it matters how you look and how you say it. She will be wild in a debate. She will unnerve. Her substance seems limited, and her experience is not what you are looking for in a V.P. However, she is not to be dismissed; she is to be taken quite seriously. Why? Real simple. She is a B.
That’s right she is the B word.
That is her job. Most people, particularly men, don’t know what to do with the B factor. She will absolutely take you off you mark, make you miss your point and cause an upset.
Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton or Geraldine Ferraro by a long shot. She can be a disaster, a distraction and create havoc for the campaign by changing its direction, which she has done. The senatorial men, Barack and Biden, will have to take their gentlemen kid gloves off and see Sarah the moose killer rather than the lady. She is an attack dog—a pitbull, if you please. She is a tough cookie.
Society has dummied down so much, where five years ago it would have been impossible for Sarah’s name to be placed in the nomination. But for today’s world, she is a likely candidate. Fast-talking (of little substance), cutie pie, media savvy is a winning formula. Think about it: Who we see on TV shows has become the candidate for vice president. Meet the Desperate Housewives, American Idol game show candidate.
I am hoping that the Democratic Obama forces can rise to the occasion to topple the lady of Alaska. The election is not in the bag. There is a dead heat statistical race. Although Barack is raising more money each month, the real question is, can he raise more votes? The crowds are showing up for Sarah. She is becoming a celebrity. Republican women are even angry that she won’t be invited to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show.
I just hope Sarah B campaigns on Chicago’s South Side and in Harlem and Watts. She would be the perfect debater for Lil’ Kim. And if you have to ask what the B stands for, you should go stand in the corner for the rest of the day, because that’s no lady running for vice president. The Republicans went and got a B, and she could win it for them. And then she would be a darling.
It seems like there's this whole philosophy of the bitch behind the editorial, which runs something like this --
Sarah Palin is a B.
Men can't handle a B.
Only a bigger B can handle a B.
Therefore,
Sarah Palin and Lil' Kim should go debate down in Harlem.
I love it, it's so right on and true once it's said and you hear it -- Lil' Kim would got all-out on Palin and call her on all her shit.
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2 comments:
I think this piece spoke a bit more to you than it did to me, although I am in sympathy with its conclusions. But right now it looks as if we won't need a B, and that our own B would be counterproductive. That wasn't quite as clear at the time.
You're right - the piece is already dated.
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