Here is how the Glass Ceiling for woman stays in place. When a woman and a man compete for a job with basically equivalent experience (no two people have identical experiences or talents) then the game begins. What were two equal competitors turns into special, unwritten cases of supposedly superior experience. So the woman has 13 years in elected office, but the man as 4 years in state wide legislative experience. But the woman has nearly 2 years state wide executive experience? The man has 2 years on the campaign trail.

It is this game of defining different bars for the men and women to reach that IS today’s glass ceiling. Ask any professional woman who has had to fight this insidious double standard in their career. She could be, on the merits of the job description, much better qualified. But her male competitor as some surprising other experience (never before listed as a requirement) which trumps her resume.

And so it goes with Obama and Palin. Obama wants to be President on the thinnest of resumes. And Palin wants to be VP on a resume just about as thin as Obama’s, but actually better in many key areas (for instance she IS commander-in-chief of military forces today). This double standard for a woman on the ticket is destroying the myth liberals and Democrats are for the woman – they are doing all they can to shore up the glass ceiling which is on the verge of being shattered in this country.

Obama even had the audacity today to pretend he was for equal pay for equal work (aka, equal experience):

Obama, while ticking off a list of promises to an excited crowd in Toledo, Ohio, committed to closing the income gap between genders, and then turned sharply to Palin, the first woman named to a Republican ticket.

She “seems like a very nice person,” he began, repeating remarks he’s made often since McCain announced her selection on Friday. “But I’ve got to say she’s opposed, like John McCain is, to equal pay for equal work. That doesn’t make sense to me.”

Equal pay comes with equal recognition of accomplishments. As this man’s campaign and mentally deranged followers try and say Obama’s lack of experience is better than Palin’s (laughable), he is trying to establish a different standard for VP experience than that established for neophyte and inexperienced Senator Edwards 4 short years ago! Palin is more experienced than Edwards – so why now the new definition for a woman?

And what about Obama’s sewer dogs out there making all sorts of accusations. Why has the great Obama not come out and put a stop to this ugliness? Because he hopes it will work. You cannot talk about his family, but if a woman shows up on the scene he has no problem if his followers trash her and her family with the most vile and fantasy claims around. Barack wants that uppity Republican woman put back in her place.

And who does Obama blame for these attacks on Palin – his staff of course. The buck stops where Obama points the finger, which is never at the top of the campaign. Someone attacked Palin? Oh my, must be someone on my staff.

Classic old-boy network crap. Denigrate the woman personally because you can’t take her on up-front on the issues or merits. There are days where being a male can be a complete embarrassment. Right now all I want to see is the Barracuda unleashed and some manners being taught to these liberal male toads.

Gerard Baker has done a comparison of experience between Obama and Palin – and it shows anyone trying to claim there is a significant difference in the readiness of either one to lead is just making things up. There are differences, but nothing that would say either one is more ready than the other on experience alone. It must come down to judgement on the issues. I mean, how can we hold Obama at fault for never bringing a life into this world? Is that fair?

Addendum: The crap being spewed by the emotionally stunted liberal males on Palin needs to be addressed. I wrote a note to the Anchoress which I want to post partially here as well:

It is time to end this, and while men like me may be of some use in this battle, if women don’t stand up to this PR beating and whack some heads this will be the example for how to treat women for decades. Are sons and daughters are watching this, wondering what we will do about it.

I seriously think this has crossed so many lines it is time to call out the exterminator. This public beating of a decent woman must end, and now.

 

Tags: 2008 Election, Sarah Palin