Sarah Palin is no Susan B. Anthony

[no_hypocrisy]

Naming this lobby for Susan B. Anthony doesn't change her views any more than clicking your heels three times gets you back to Kansas. But here's Palin again, in her Friday morning keynote: "Organizations like the Susan B. Anthony list are returning the woman's movement back to its original roots, back to what it was all about in the beginning. You remind us of the earliest leaders of the woman's rights movement: They were pro-life."

Our argument here is not over abortion rights. Rather it is about the erosion of accuracy in history and journalism. If Republicans want to claim Susan B. Anthony, they can certainly boast that she supported the 1872 Republican candidate - Ulysses S. Grant - the one and only time she cast her ballot in a presidential election. It was, of course, against the law and got her convicted as a felon, but that is a story for another time. Still, you have to be careful about your history. In a shout-out to the Tea Party Friday, Sarah Palin said, "That's enough, federal government, enough of your overreach, and we're going to do something about it!" This in the name of a leader who, in her lifetime, was one of America's most consistent advocates of federal power, with its promise of overriding ill-conceived and discriminatory state laws.

Susan B. Anthony, a lifelong Quaker, included Mormons, Catholics, Christians, Jews and atheists in her movement. But she firmly believed that religion had no place in politics. "I dislike those who know so well what God wants them to do," she said, "because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." On Friday, Sarah Palin called Susan B. Anthony "one of my heroes." And well she should be - as long as Palin understands who Anthony was. And wasn't.


http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/05/sarah_palin_is_no_susan_b_anthony.html?hpid=talkbox1

[LeftinOH]

1. She's more like Carry Nation: "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He

doesn't like", as she described herself. And, a complete kook.

[Flashmann]

2. Palin understands ....

......Those words don't fit together......

[Bert]

3. Palin is an opportunist

Palin is an example of someone who is against feminisim but who profits from it and at the same time tries to minimize it. She is concerned about her own powern but has no principles or ideals except lust for power and wealth and status. She is what I have been waiting for, an example of someone who is a female but is a mouthpiece against feminisim. She is like an example of free speech that you have to defend out of principle but her speech itself is nothing but pandering to the lowest common denominator. There is nothing noble or even decent about her.

[JohnWxy]

4. Palin teh feminist..

[Myrina]

6. photoshop warning, please ... owwww, my eyes!!

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Old Troop]

5. She might look great on a dollar though

[madamesilverspurs]

7. Susan B. Anthony

would have removed her snood, wadded it into a ball and shoved it into Palin's mouth.

Were she able to visit today she would be horrified by the appropriation and misuse of her name by the likes of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Virginia Foxx and Marilyn Musgrave. She's not a hero to those silly sows, she's an advertising trick.


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[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Palin is a member of the new right wing party

The RLP (Raving Loony Party)

She is just a pawn.