Sarah Palin’s views make me fear that the Republican party has finally lost its mind.
As for sex, the hypocrisy of her outing her pregnant daughter in front of millions of people, hard on the heels of her concealing her own pregnancy (her faith in abstinence applying, apparently, only to non-Palins), is nicely balanced by her hypocrisy in gushing with loving support of her teenage daughter after using a line-item veto to cut funding for a transitional home for teenage mothers in Alaska.
Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican party’s cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts and their votes, has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage. She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working class women.
Read More of Vile Politics:Dogma from U of C off-site...Olivier says:
Regardless of the content of the article, it's interesting that the commenters chose to directly insult both the write and obama without actually talking about the artcile. you guys must work for the mccain campaign ?
Bill Baar says:
Oliver,
When the core of the piece is this: "Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman." there really isn't much arguement to take apart.
We're only left with deconstructing the sad soul behind the thought.
Caioneach Caimbeul says:
I thought I knew the difference between men and women in kindergarten. Perhaps in this age of confusion a male is dominant and the female submissive - thereby making Palin a male even though she has female genitalia and has mothered children?? It appears God made some women men and some men women and some .... oh, god!
Dr. John Steichen says:
What an ugly excuse for a elete Christian professor. She needs to humbly submit herself and her arogance to the feet of her Savior. Her partisan and cruel comments about a fellow Christian ( Sarah Palin) are self condemming. What a disappointment.
DK says:
What an absolute lunatic!
This imbecile is what passes for a divinity school leader at the University of Chicago?
The greatest hypocrisy of the political season is Obama's pretense that he is entitled to the presidency on the basis of divine right.