An interesting article run in the New Republic, by Jonathan Chait.
Sarah Quaylin
"Ever since John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, I've gotten confused about all the reasons I'm supposed to dislike Barack Obama. The previous reasons, in rough chronological order, were his lack of experience, his empty rhetoric, his flip-flopping, and his "celebrity." But Palin has made each one of those critiques moot. The "celebrity" attack on Obama has a particularly Dada quality right now as starstruck Republicans bask in the charisma of their adorable veep. (Coldest state, hottest governor, read signs at her rallies.) With her hunky husband, touching family life and plucky personal story, she is the candidate of the People. And by People, I mean People magazine."
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I have to tell you, those rally signs really bother me. How is the public supposed to take her seriously as a political equal if people at her own rallies refer to her as a sex object? I wish McCain would put a stop to that - it is childish and unproductive.
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