Blog 1

I read an article in Newsweek today about Sarah Palin. I chose to read it because I am very interested in the upcoming election and I am curious about John McCain's VP choice. The article talked about the similarities and differences between McCain's choice and Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro in1984, something I hadn't thought about before. Ferraro ended up being a bad choice for Mondale- they only won one state. (This happened to be Minnesota) At first though, people were very intrigued by Ferraro and it was believed that she could really help Mondale win the race to the White House. But the craze died down shortly, and women started to get intimidated by Ferraro, afraid that their husbands would think them less worthy now that there were women going out and being Vice President. I think that’s really interesting that women would be that worried, because it’s not like Ferraro was just going to swoop in and steal there husband. The article suggests that the 'Palin Effect’ will die down- and I sure do hope it does. Another major thing that this article talks about is how so many people are only supporting Palin because of her gender and they want to get rid of sexism. I think this is really stupid because the whole point of getting rid of sexism is so everyone’s treated equally. Not voting for someone just because they are a girl is just as stupid as voting for someone just because they are a girl, in my opinion. And why didn’t these feminists stick with Hillary Clinton, someone who is both a woman and is a good politician. A thing that I liked about this article was that they did a really good job of showing both sides of the story. Newsweek is usually pretty left wing, but this article gave Palin a pretty fair chance which, although I do not agree with Palin one bit, made it more interesting to read. Overall, the article was really well written, and was 6 pages just packed with information.