Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will have surgery “in the coming week” to repair a broken below. Clinton was headed to a meeting at the White House when the accident happened. She was walking to her car with Richard Holbrooke (Afghanistan and Pakistan policy coordinator) when she fell in the State Department’s garage. It was about 5 p.m.

Thank goodness someone was with her! I fell by my car once and it was really hard to grab my purse and dial 911. After she fell, Clinton was taken to George Washington University Hospital for an exam. …read more

1. She reminds me of my mother.
2. She kind of reminds me of my mother-in-law.
3. She reminds me of myself actually.
4. She’s ballsy. She stood up to all the mean girls who trashed her and the perverts who made pornography of her and the media who mocked her. She did it with grace, complete sentences (unlike our current resident moron) and with HUMOR and a big wide smile on her face.
5. She refuses to stay in the box society made for her. In fact, she pretends there is no box.
6. She believes in God and she …read more

“‘”There is no one more surprised than I — except, of course, my husband. You know what they say, ‘Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.’” said Ann E. Dunwoody, 55, the first female four-star General in the United States Army.

“I grew up in a family that didn’t know what glass ceilings were,” she said. “This nomination only reaffirms what I have known to be true about the military throughout my career — that the doors continue to open for men and women in uniform.”

Read about her rise to power in a very, very patriarchal profession on MSNBC.com

Salute!

Tomorrow is Election Day.

I’m the Alternate Election Judge in my precinct. I’m can’t wear campaign paraphernalia – but, I will be wearing dog tags bearing the name of a real woman who never had the right to vote. This has been a banner year for women – all women – and I salute both parties and all people for the participation of women we’ve seen in 2008.

Let there NEVER, EVER be another election without the female half of this country being represented on a Presidential Ticket. That’s my fervent prayer.

I’ll be at my polling place to make sure the Republican …read more

It’s not your grandma’s modesty and “don’t do it.” It’s a hotter, sexier, kind of “don’t do it” that Sarah Palin exemplifies.
Had the sexier version of “don’t do it” and the empoweringly hot message of “make him chase you to the alter and then do it wildly,” been the focus of my community’s “don’t do it” message when I was growing up . . . .
Well, I might not have done it. . .
Read the article about the Sexy Puritan type at Slate.
I’m kind of Sexy {Feminist} Puritan aren’t I?

You know what I find fascinating?
The religious conservatives, by which I mean the specific people in my life, who have always been the biggest influences on my own Internal Mommy Wars are in full, unequivocal support of Sarah Palin and have no doubts that can be both an effective mother and vice president.
Then why do you doubt that I can be both a great mom and fulfill my professional ambitions using the gifts and the calling God gave me? I wondered, as I lay sobbing during one yoga practice last week. If there is some distinction between …read more

This just in from The Huffington Post:

“The Palin administration won’t release hundreds of emails from her office, claiming they cover confidential policy matters. Then why do the subject lines refer to a political foe, a journalist, and non-policy topics?”

I can think of at least 100 different emails I wouldn’t want released to the public that I’ve sent or received just in the last week. When I think back to the 1990s, when I first got email, and I was long-distance dating – Dear God, I hope that guy didn’t keep those emails after he got married.

Almost all of them have …read more

You can also read her advice on How to Deal with Internet Trolls.

The nomination of Sarah Palin begs the question – just who is the real feminist in this election?

Barack Obama who talked a lot about how proud he was of Hillary Clinton, but didn’t consider her or another woman for the office of Vice President?

Or John McCain who actually nominated Sarah Palin, a woman, for Vice President?

Before you answer, read Obama’s for Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less than Males that says while Barack Obama has a lot to SAY about equal pay and employee benefits for women, John McCain actually employs more females on his campaign staff and pays …read more