The Obama Media (MSM) of America Still Showing Gender Prejudice!!

I have seen it on CNN too. For some reason the media thinks women with children can not have meaningful careers or hold public office. It shows how much of a bias we still have in this country against working moms. For some reason they think it makes you less qualified for jobs, and that you are not a good mom if you have a career. This makes me sick. My kids pedatrician has 2 year old twins. I guess according to them, she should not be a doctor because she has young children. Looks like we haven't come as far as we thought we had in the "equal rights" for women thing. You would never hear this BS from a male candidate or a male in the work place. I was asked at a job interview once if I had children. They said women with small children miss too much work due to children's illnesses and activites. I did not have children at the time and got the job. But they were not going to hire any FEMALE for the job that had small children. I bet the same was not asked of the male candidates for the job.

To be fair, there has been blatant prejudiced on both sides. All the times the media and some Republicans have gone on about his MUSLIM ties, called him Hussein, or mispronounced Obama as Osama. Mrs. Palin should know she will face this kind of questioning while running for the VP. Its not like its a tough question. I think alot of people are wondering how does she do it all? Its assumed when a man runs the wife stays home. If she has a nanny why not say she does? If her man helps out why not say so? Why is it such a tough question to answer. When she was asked, at a town hall meeting, about her foreign policy experience, all she kept saying was how ready she was. Maybe if she gave some straight forward answers, it would help people decide. Saying you can see Russia from your house doesnt count as foreign policy experience. Do not mislabel me as an Obama supporter....I havent decided whom I will vote for. I would like to hear more answers from both sides and less rhetoric. Experience to me doesnt mean a lot. George Bush had first term experience and managed to screw up even WORSE the second time! lol

The idea that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be Vice President yet Obama is qualified to be President is laughable at best, hypocritical at worse. The idea that the media would dare to ask Palin this question yet not Obama shows the bias of the media. One could make the argument that Charlie Gibson was with his other media pals are protecting the old liberal boys club.

Palin is far more qualified than 0bama or Biden, because she has the EXECUTIVE experience that they both lack. 0bama is nothing more than a politician, and a bag of empty rhetoric just like the rest of his socialist buddies. As the article pointed out, the questions being asked of Palin about her qualificationas would be illegal in a job interview. Now we find out that 0bama is taking advice from Fannie/Freddie execs as well as heavy campaign contributions, being 2nd only to Dodd in receiving them, he can no longer claim he is not in the pocket of lobbyists and special interests. http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75586 0bama is part of the problem, he is not the solution.

What questions are we talking about here? "Are you qualified"? How is that if you ask that of a candidate that happens to be a woman it's sexist and you're only asking because she's a woman? In my opinion it's the people who are making this accusation who are sexist, THEY are the ones who make an issue of gender, not the one who simply asks the governor of a State with a population smaller than the city of Houston if they are qualified to be President of the United States. It's a perfectly legitimate question if the person being asked happens to be male, but if they happen to female then suddenly you're sexist for asking it. Apparently the media shouldn't ask Sarah Palin anything, they should ignore her entirely, if they ask her anything they are only asking because she is a woman and are being sexist, but if they ignore her and ask her nothing, that would be treating her "fairly" and "equally" I guess? The conservatives are trying to fire up feminists by making them think the left, where most of the feminists are, are treating women unfairly. But it's a ridiculous accusation. Sarah Palin is running for vice president and OF COURSE it's okay to ask her if she's qualified! You don't generally ask this of a John McCain or Joe Biden because they're senior citizens with years of political experience. You ask it of a Sarah Palin or Barack Obama - and yes the country at large has been asking this question of Obama since he announced his candidacy - because they're younger and have much less political experience. Hillary wasn't asked the "are you qualified" question much, she was presumed to be the more experienced one than Obama because of her age and 8 years of being First Lady. Sarah Palin on the other hand is only 44 years old and the governor of a VERY small state population wise. If people aren't asking men "Can he have a career AND be a good father?" it's because we assume men CAN'T. We expect them to have careers and consider the wife and kids lucky if he's a good dad, we don't even entertain the possibility that a mere male can be the primary parent AND have a career, only a woman COULD do that, these days we EXPECT them to be able to, though understand if they choose not to do one or other. But men - imagine the man who would like to stay home with the kids totally while only the wife works. In 2008 men are still laughed at and looked down upon for this. But do BOTH? A man being Superdad and having a career? Unheard of. That's why we don't ask if they can because we already know the answer. Feminists always see the glass half empty for women. I see it half full. We have way more CHOICES than men these days! Usually I just tune feminists out, but when they start threatening to take an election away from a LIBERAL, it worries me. John McCain is a nice, moderate Republican and he wouldn't really make a bad president, but his running mate is one of the most hardline right wing extremists anyone can be. If the media really is liberal (except Fox news!), this is probably really why they ask Sarah Palin "are you qualified" anyway, not because she's female.

I agree that Obama's campaign has been very sexist and am heated about the fact that no one seems to care. I also hate the cult following that he has and hate teh fact that many people are only voting for him becasue of his race. I think that both obama and palin are equally unqualified to run this country. I do not by any means support palin and hate some of the things that she stands for and feel that she is not a good representative of women and women's issues, but the blantent mysogyny on the campaign trail, even when it is against her really irks me.

I think it's stupid to single her out and question whether she's qualified when none of the other canidates or VP canidates were asked. I haven't heard of anyone asking BO if he's qualified even though when he became Senator he stated that he doubted he would run for President in 2008 b/c he didn't think he'd have the experience. If your gonna ask about something like this...ask all of them or none of them. [b]**AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~ [/b]

Thanks for sharing that excellent article. I am amazed at the attitudes towards Governor Palin, not only by the media (who thought that Obama's coronation was proof that he was in as President) or by Obama's team, but by feminists. That disgusts me the most. A woman who has shown her ability to have a "man's job" and to balance career and family and to have such a high approval rating in politics (unheard of!) is quite an accomplishment. But because she believes in the sanctity of life, the feminists join everyone else in questioning her abilities. Amazing. I had a discussion with someone this morning about the supposed "pro-choice" feminists. I told her that it was time to admit that their stand is totally pro-abortion, not pro-choice. Because 1) if abortion is the only choice, it's not a choice at all and 2) if someone else makes the choice to value life over having an abortion, that is also a CHOICE and one that should be honored. Grrr.