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• Tuesday, September 9, 2008 10:35 AM

  doesn't this make anyone else tired?

  I'll take old "zzzzz" Biden, and I was a Hillary supporter. Still am. Maybe, just maybe, she didn't think that VP was what she wanted. Maybe powerful Kennedy-esque senator's her favorite alternative. Whatever. I kind of LIKE the fact that no big personality issues swirl around Biden. He is smart and knowledgeable and liberal. A "happy" guy. Good enough for boring me. I simply want to get the Republicans the bleep out of the mess altogether. I thought Clinton had the best plans, given the choice of Obama and her. Her being a woman over forty was an added bonus to me. It's her mind I wanted in the office. Silly me. Maybe that makes me not a true feminist? We have a world of sexism and misogyny to address, but for now we have to deal with an election and our children's futures.

  This article I don't think does anyone any good. It begs for more of the vitriolic nonsense. But people have the right to say what they choose. It beats screaming at one another and having fist fights.

  I loathe Palin because of what she stands for--the Evangelical, ideologically rigid right. As if "small town" values are the only "values" that count? As if every small town is like another??? Republicans' tout America and the fight together. Democrats tout AmeriCANS and work together. At least in this election, there seems to be a clear difference between the two approaches. If anything, Palin clarifies the difference between the two parties. I don't CARE whether or not Obama should have chosen Clinton or whether she WANTED to be chosen. We are where we are and what I care about now is having the person in the oval office who seems to me to have a commitment to issues from a perspective I can support, who has a temperament I can more or less respect and who seems capable of learning and choosing wise counsel. Biden IS wise counsel whether or not he is everyone's preferred choice. I don't know whether he was the most electable choice.

  Oh. But he isn't Obama's "Soul mate" so maybe that's a problem. EEEEWWW. The more print space we give to the psychology of the choice of Palin, the more we succomb to the Republican agenda--throw us off what counts.

  Maybe it's time we simply stopped worrying about Sarah's womanness and look at her LIFE choices, her POLITICS, her two-faced agendas in Alaska-- which do NOT, by the way, reflect all Alaskans any more than they reflect ALL Republicans or ALL women's. Everybody, as my kids used to say, take a chill pill, and start thinking using our BRAINS.

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