All Entries in the "A Heartbeat Away" Category
Why Tina Fey is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency—Diana Winston
Since Tina Fey looks just like Sarah Palin, can do the accent and hand gestures to a tee, and is an excellent impersonator, let’s just swap the two. Besides, Sarah clearly stole the glasses idea from Tina.
Here are the 10 reasons Tina should be the next VP:
1. Tina is funny, Sarah is distinctly not. Times are scary and depressing; we need a comedienne in the White House.
The danger of being a heartbeat away & not knowing what you don’t know - Seth Greenland
What makes Sarah Palin so dangerous is that, despite her right wing, Christianist positions, she reminds me of Ralph Kramden, Jackie Gleason’s eminently likeable character from The Honeymooners. Like Ralph, Palin’s level of knowledge exists in inverse proportion to her level of confidence. This is a classic comic archetype with roots that go back thousands of years (There ya go again, lookin’ at the past!). They both say the most idiotic things, and you just want to pinch their cheeks. Sarah Palin believes a girl who is impregnated by her father should be forced to have the baby. And she’s so darn cute when she’s sayin’ it! It’s totalitarianism with a wink and a shimmy.
I am Sarah Palin — Colleen Wainwright a/k/a the Communicatrix
Mindful moms are jumping with joy today because the Communicatrix is guest blogging! Here she goes:
As an ardent supporter of feminism, I feel the same uneasiness about bashing Palin’s feminist choices (how dare the good, Christian mom abandon her beloved spawn!) as I do about the knee-jerk assumption that questioning her fitness on other grounds (experience, tolerance, conduct) calls into question my own. It ain’t a buffet, kids; it’s all or nothing. Let your objections be on true neutral ground or let them go: they’re not real objections.
A heartbeat away — Susan Kaiser Greenland
I hadn’t held her to a higher standard because she was a woman, nor did she accuse me of doing so: her claim was that for the sake of the greater good I should have held her to a lower one. I should have covered for her. No doubt this executive did have to fight dirty to break through the glass ceiling and as a younger member of the sisterhood I had benefited. In her view it had been my opportunity to give back.