"Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman."Who knew? And this person is blogging on a WaPo/Newsweek site. I imagine they are paying her for this. Can you get any more clueless. 3 stooges of liberal cluelessness.
UPDATE: One salient comment on the Professor Wendy Doniger's post:
P.S. This is my second favorite quote from Doniger:From a University of Chicago grad.:September 11, 2008 6:53 PMThere's no right to abortion in the Constitution. It is not a religious issue. And it is NOT about the woman's body. Nobody argues with a woman's right to make decisions about her own body. Abortion hinges solely on whether the unborn child is a human being. If it isn't, then abortion is up to the woman. If it is, the woman has no legitimate right to abortion.
The "pro-choice" movement, in all its arguments and by its very name, obfuscates the true issue by reframing it as a woman's right to her body, all the while accusing pro-lifers of being invasive Nazis. But depending on the humanity of the unborn child, either side could be violating someone's right to decide over their body (in one case deciding to destroy it).
This is why abortion has dominated every political election and why Sarah Palin doesn't even have to utter a peep about it to get feminists and "liberals" (another misnomer) in a tizzy. In my experience, the side that obfuscates an issue is the side that secretly knows it doesn't have a leg to stand on. Roe v. Wade is patently UNconstitutional, it's days are numbered, and the left knows it.
Anyway, for the sake of argument, let's assume Joe Biden's right and it's a person. If he really believes this, is he still doing right, as you put it, by "not imposing his beliefs?" Were complicit Germans that believed Jews were human beings "right" not to "impose their personal beliefs" on the people that perpetrated the Holocaust?
Your argument about Palin's teenage daughter is beyond ludicrous. How does it follow that not believing in abortion, or supporting your own kid's decision to keep a baby, means you therefore can't oppose halfway houses for pregnant teens funded by taxpayers? You contradict this flimsy logic two paragraphs later: Biden is personally pro-life but would never force his views on others as policy and you call this the "right answer." Yet Palin personally supports her teen's decision but, like Biden, wouldn't force her views on taxpayers as policy and you call her a hypocrite. The government isn't supposed to do stuff like this anyway, which you should know as a Constitutional scholar. (Couldn't resist.)
The book-banning rumor has been totally (and widely) discredited. The Harry Potter book she supposedly tried to ban hadn't even been published in 1996 when she supposedly did this.
And no matter what you think a fetus is worth I think it's gotta be worth more than a moose.
You'll have to show me where Palin said global warming is the "work of God." If all your going on is that this "must" be her view, that's beyond silly. There is no scientific certainty or conclusive evidence that global warming is man-made. So in saying she, like the scientific community, is not sure, Palin shows herself to be prudent, rational, and non-prejudiced (not to mention free-thinking and willing to buck establishment views).
These are values they taught me as a student at Chicago. But I guess the tables have turned now, and Palin's little college in Alaska—the one you liberals heap scorn on—is teaching these values better than my ol' alma mater.
The Republican party's cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America...The latest eeevil right wing conspiracy. Who knew driving was a political statement. We righties should hijack a few Volvos for good measure. Ramming speed.
