The Genial Warrior Versus The Ivy League Messiah

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
October 3, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/355/the-genial-warrior-versus-the-ivy-league-messiah

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I’m your average iconoclast. I try to think for myself, I am no party loyalist, I care deeply about seemingly opposite issues and about very diverse kinds of people, I’ve been burned by ideolologues and am wary of party lines, both left and right.

Thus, there are things I like and dislike about both Presidential tickets. I do not like it one bit that Senator McCain voted not once but twice against the Violence Against Women Act; I despair over this and over his party’s opposition to abortion. I find Sarah Palin bright, zesty, charming, and admirably tough–and yet her anti-abortion stance and deep silence, at least so far, about other equality-for-women issues pains me as does her lack of experience on the national and international stage.

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