Y otra vez...una mujer, pero por qué esa?

Susan Reimer se queja:
A Woman, but why this woman?
So. This is what being pandered to feels like.
John McCain picked Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and mother of five, to be his running mate to woo women like me.
He seems to think that my girlfriends and I are so disappointed that an utterly qualified woman is not going to be president that we will jump at the chance to vote for an utterly unqualified woman for vice president.
You gotta love a guy who thinks things are that simple.
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If you are going to pick a woman for the sake of picking a woman, can you at least make it a credible choice?
Can you at least make a choice that doesn't give the gag writers for Jay Leno and Jon Stewart the month off?(The jokes started immediately: She won't be able to hold her own against Joe Biden in a vice presidential debate. But wait until the swimsuit portion of the competition.)
Can you at least make a choice that doesn't have Rush Limbaugh panting? (He called Palin a "babe." It was another memorable moment in the ascent of women in this country.)
Barack Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review, for heaven's sake. And the best McCain can do is a woman who minored in poly-sci at the University of Idaho?
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**El punto de Palin y lo que molesta es que la eligieron por mujer y no por sus capacidades, pues no se trató de su experiencia -o falta de ella- cuando McCain la presentó el viernes pasado. Ella misma puso el género en el centro de la campaña, su primer discurso fué "por las mujeres para las mujeres", no hay marcha atrás. Si se le hubiera presentado como la gobernadora de Alaska con sus virtudes y cualidades pro-fe-sio-na-les, la crítica de género estaría fuera de lugar, sin embargo, ella, McCain y el partido republicano quisieron atraer el voto y la reflexión de las mujeres, y aquí estamos.

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