Oh hey look. I got the comments working. Lol?

In order to preserve all that has been said about the previous Palin post, I'll stick them here:

Chun Wui: Wah.... hard hitting political blogger... very aggressive... lol. How how, mend your words lest you may incur the wrath of others... hahaha

Malcolm: First and foremost, the prolife/prochoice stance is something that will be forever contended - Palin's nomination to the office would not be the be all and end all of the pro-life argument.

Malcolm: Subsequent candidates can and will contradict with this. However you can argue that it could be a political move as well since a large portion of America is comprised either of christian fundementalis

Malcolm: Subsequent candidates can and will contradict with this. However you can argue that it could be a political move as well since a large portion of America is comprised either of christian fundementalis

Malcolm: her background, would it not make it all the more impressive that she chooses to adopt a prolife stance in spite of her premature pregnancy and downs syndrome kid? In some sense she does conform to

Malcolm: the "superwoman" tag entrusted upon her as she - at least in her personal life - shows that it is possible to triumph over the baby-vector role. Thus it is still a step forward for femminism - it's a

Malcolm: highly publicised example of a strong woman. In addition, you can hardly blame her for running, after all it was Mccain who elected her - she didn't campaign on the basis that she's an emblem of

Malcolm: female empowerment. So while the motivation behind her nomination is suspect, you should blame the system and not the candidate. To wrap this up, I have absolutely no idea about Palin's background and

Malcolm: constructed this based solely off the content of your post and the sentiments that i formed as a result. Probably for the purpose of playing the devil's advocate. Either ways, take it into

Malcolm: consideration, and have fun reading it off your chatbox. In an unrelated vein, where the heck did you find time to do this?!

daryl (who wins an award for being most succinct): Yeah, Palin is a scourge

daryl: Palin is a political gimmick. Obama picked Biden because he was weak on foreign policy. McCain picked Palin because...? He was weak on being young, probably.

Nic: Mong, you do realize that anyone caught in the situation of pregnancy via rape is not going to be able to be apathetic about pro-life issues, yes? It's not some hypothetical game - if Palin's veep,

Nic: there is a high likelihood of women in that situation who will be essentially forced to become 'superwomen' like Palin, juggling careers with unwanted additions to the family.

Nic: Okay, the grammar is that last tag was ****ed, but whatever you get my point. Palin

Nic: *in

Nic: goddamn.

Nic: Mel can you just enable comments

daryl: Heh, Palin's pick is not advancement for women. It's a step behind because McCain doesn't respect her for anything but her gimmick value.

daryl: *the Palin pick -- It's quite insulting, in fact, "I'm choosing you because you can attract disenchanted Hillary supporters simply because of your biological traits"

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Lol? First off I think the main point of my writing that was missed - which is that women wanting to elect Palin on the basis of obtaining gender equality are misguided and that Palin's own policies would make gender equality worse off. Also, I'm not going to bother to respond to all that has been said because 1) no time, 2) my brain is fried from econs.

Oh God Econs.