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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 12:00 AM

The dominatrix

Sarah Palin is trying to seduce independent voters. But she comes across like a whip-wielding mistress who wants to discipline a naughty America.

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  • Tuesday, September 9, 2008 07:52 AM

    The toughest thing she said was her baby lives

    This kind of article not only harms you, it harms the woman's movement (although it's difficult to pinpoint exactly what that means, now), and it certainly harms woman -- as distinguished from your phony baloney movement. It's like third rate African Americans calling other African Americans hoes and niggers. You are doing more damage to your movement (whatever it is you are moving toward), than Rush Limbaugh. I'm glad, though, frankly, because it exposes the "feminists" of the world for all to see. They are femiNAZIs indeed. And the world is seeing it in living color. It's as though you are drunk with rage-- but it's going on too long -- it's like a multi-day drunken group binge. But it's not Palin you are mad at. You are not mad at those who demean women or try to keep them down (obviously to all, now). She didn't say anything verbally that was real tough. Maybe it was her body language. Her body language, to you, was screaming "my baby was born alive", and your insane little minds heard her say, though she didn't say it, "and yours wasn't." It wasn't. Her baby lives.

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