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Originally Posted by ocracoke
... I believe ANY woman can do ANY job.
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Not trying to attack you or your general comment here, just had to laugh when I saw that line. I assume you meant that "any woman" as in "regardless of if she's a mom, not a mom, race, etc" but at first pass it sounded like super-ultra-female-empowerment. Like
every and any woman is perfectly qualified for
every and any job. DH and I were laughing last week b/c his mom was the head of a very large and very active state-wide PTA for nearly 20 years and so when we heard the argument that some of Palin's leadership experience was as head of the PTA we were both immediately like "oh my gosh, so does your mom but there's no way we'd ever ever ever ever want her running this country!" That experience most definitely does not qualify my MIL. I'm not saying that's the case with Palin and her ability to lead, just the fact that it really truly should boil down to qualifications and trust in their ability to do the job they would be elected to do (either party), not gender or even necessarily what specific roles they've done so far IF they can demonstrate a reasonable competency to DO THE JOB. All this bickering to establish a resume for both sides is not really answering my questions about what the next 4 years would bring with either party.
Also, I find it funny that even the fairly biased (either way) posts were still to the point of Palin and motherhood or at least parenthood and the thread's intent until Brandy posted her warning which was followed by several strictly political posts attacking either side.