A few of the many messages received from women friends regarding Sarah Palin

One thing that is so heartening is the huge and immediate response to Sarah Palin. I am aware that Obama's campaign received ten million dollars within the first 24 hours after Ms. Palin spoke at the RNC. While the corporate owned American media paints a picture of a strong woman who speaks to the concerns of women, a picture which many obviously do believe in, it is also clear that growing numbers of us can see through this illusion. Below are more messages I have recently received which clearly speak to the great concerns of so many. I give thanks to the many voices which are coming forward to speak to why it is that Ms. Palin is such a frightening prospect for any position of leadership in our country. My prayer is that veils will continue to be lifted to empower increasing numbers of Americans with clarity, vision, and actions which represent integrity and compassion and which are grounded in our highest values and caring for all...

Deepak Chopra: Obama and the Palin Effect:
http://www.chopra.com/node/1064
Chopra writes: "Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that... Palin’s pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper. She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and turning negativity into a cause for pride. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of 'the other.' For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don’t want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind."

Susan J. Douglas: Pit Bull Feminism: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3898/feminism_without_feminism/
Douglas writes: "Pit Bull Feminism is about looking stylish and pretty so you can get away with attacking the accomplishments of those who have actually fought for women’s issues, like authoring the Violence against Women Act, as Joe Biden did. It is about using your status as a 'hockey mom' (and now they’re better than other mothers?) to immunize you and your party against charges that you are, in fact, deeply anti-family when it comes to public policies."

Gloria Steinem: Wrong Woman, Wrong Message: http://womenagainstsarahpalin.blogspot.com/2008/09/gloria-steinem-wrong-woman-wrong.html
Steinem writes: "Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves 'abstinence-only' programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger."

Arianna Huffington:
Sarah Palin: A Trojan Moose Concealing Four More Years of George Bush: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/sarah-palin-a-trojan-moos_b_124867.html.
Arianna writes: "Her critics like to say that Palin hasn't accomplished anything. I disagree: in the space of ten days she's succeeded in distracting the entire country from the horrific Bush record -- and McCain's complicity in it."