Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
Here´s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.
But here is even better news: It won´t work. This isn´t the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It´s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It´s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It´s about baking a new pie.
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters.
Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton´s candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama´s still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I´ll amputate my legs."
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,1290251.story
Please include me in these if they arent full already! I am going to Turkey in 4 days!!! 
I think it is good to debate these issues.. not just in our own country but around the world. The original subject was on a politicians views, and how she may or may not change things for the better or worse, but I think Roswitha is right here.. This is a woman who comes from a privaledged family. Not a poor one, or one that has had to work her way through life.. This is not saying that she has not had hard times, Im sure she has, we all do. But this article shouts out the "agenda" that McCain had in seeking a woman in the first place. Kudos!
