Its not over untill the cute white lady with square glasses cries... Blog 8

As the days draw near the questions begin to rapidly arise about each candidate and their ideas. I am pretty sure that almost every person in American can agree on one thing, that this election has been one of the most controversial and flat out weird elections in Americas History. Both candidates are very interesting characters. You have an old white conservative man, partnered up with a Woman for VP and then on the other hand you have a less conservative, more liberal Black man partnered up with a white man who is older. These generalizations in themselves are interesting. The main point that I would like to bring up for this week’s blog is how the media is still scrutinizing Governor Palin with a very fine magnifying glass. This week CNN.com posed that “Palin’s Future causes Republican Rift”. The article highlighted the fact that many republicans believe that Palin has hindered John McCain’s voter status, thus causing him to eventually lose the race. It also touched on the point that many people could see her running for the President independent from McCain in 2012 this idea has caused many people to think that if the GOP loses, it will face a huge identity crises. As I read through the article I found that people are questioning Palin’s ability to be in the White house. For example Peggy Noonan wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal column ,in regards to Palin, that, "She is a person of great ambition, but the question remains: What is the purpose of the ambition? She wants to rise, but what for? It's unclear whether she is Bushian or Reaganite. She doesn't think aloud. She just ... says things (cnn.com), what a clear cut opinion about one aspect of the GOP’s current situation. In addition, CNN.com stated that, it’s an argument that has been echoed by a string of conservatives -- including David Brooks, George Will, Kathleen Parker, and David Frum -- who believe Palin exhibits a poisonous anti-intellectual instinct of the party that threatens to ultimately destroy its foundations. All in all, the real concern that I have is that all of the clutter that is discussed about Palin has taken away from the main messages that the GOP should be sending to the people which has caused even more problems for the GOP. In regards to my ideals over the CNN comments, I feel that throughout the campaign Palin has clearly tried to do a good job in dealing the crazy and overwhelming political world, but through many of the conversations that I have watched her have with interviewers and such she has demonstrated that at this current moment she is not ready to be in office. But, I am not saying that she does not have the potential to someday be in office, all I am saying is that she has quite a ways to go.

Women, why do they have to be so catty Blog # 7

Some times I wonder how women can have women friends. Ok, so this is a stretch but, I can’t help but look around me and see so many catty women. It is crazy. I always thought that when I grew up and got out of grade school I would not see this kind of behavior any more because the women would be older have more self esteem and be more respectful of others. Unfortunately, I am in college now and this is not the case. I have found that the queen bees of my grade school are even more demanding, dramatic, that they have more followers, and they have accumulated more malicious ways to belittle other women. It is quite a shame. Even the christianly women, who think that they are not gossipers, really are in reality. For example, I was at a golf tournament, practicing for the next day of tournament play, when a girl from another team came up to me and started talking maliciously about a girl that she had played with from the previous day. I was in shock. I am one to who carefully chooses my words before I speak in order to be kind and not offend any one. My ideals go back to the fundaments of what most mother’s say to their children, “if you don’t have anything nice to say than don’t say any thing at all”, what a great quote. This quote if followed properly could save a lot of people from being hurt. In addition to my personal example, women in the media are eating Sarah Pailn up again for her spending 15, 000 on her wardrobe. The, latimesblogs.com stated that, “it seems you can take the girl out of the beauty pageant, but you can’t take the beauty pageant out of the girl… voters must find it unfathomable for Palin, who has been presented as a woman “like us,” to spend that kind of money on clothes in these difficult financial times, to see her speaking so passionately about Joe the Plumber while plumbing campaign coffers for Valentino jackets and pencil skirts… In Palin’s defense, being a woman in the public eye has its own kind of pressures.”(Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times Fashion Critic)These quotes are an example to a degree of cattiness that is being pushed upon Palin.
One must wonder what it must be like being in the public eye and being constantly spoken about from women in the media and the general public. Any ways, my point is that women can be catty and can hurt the feelings of other women. If we as women could just follow the golden rule that many of our mothers taught us society might not me so crazy!

Why does Food get such a Bad rap?Blog 6

In keeping with the body image theme, I wanted to bring up a hidden factor that many women commonly tend to forget, "Food is Good for the body". I mean when did food start getting such a bad rap? Women these days complain about how many calories are in their food and they complain about how much they eat, or how much they should not eat, and the weight that they lost from not eating. So, when did people begin to forget that food is great for your bod. Perhaps as society has evolved and has become faster- faster- and more rushed-rushed health and eating well slowly slipped onto the back burner. The more rushed one’s lifestyle became the faster people needed to eat. Convenience foods were brought into the lime light, and sooner than later Valhalla eating quick mass produced meals was easier than ever! This fast food created people to gain weight and forget about good foods that would nourish one’s body. According to Shape magazine, "Americans spend just 67 minutes a day (that's 20 minutes per meal!) eating". (October 2008) Geez isn’t that crazy. With women rushing around multi tasking eating has become an annoying necessity. Also it has become an emotional crutch. Women eat when stressed, lonely, tired, exc. Which is no good for ones waist line? Ultimately, when it comes to food women especially need to revamp their eating style. We can start by taking time( through a little bit of planning) to savor the right food( which is fresh, not fat laden convienience foods). The key is to slow down and be mindful of each bite, and hey while you’re at it BREATH it does the body and mind good!
Good Luck

Oh Ellen I heart you! Blog 5

Now days there are some pretty controversial shows on day time television. One in which I take a particular likening to is The View. This show is great because there are five completely different talk show personalities that reign on the show. The five co-hosts are, Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Sherri Shepherd. These women wake up go to their job and talk about the main issues that are hot topics in the media and in society in general. For instance today they got in a 15 minute argument over how each of them predicted Gov. Palin might do during Thursday’s debate. I mean if you want to get anyone heated up over a topic POLITICS would be it. Now Whoopi is a strong feminist and she was concerned about Palin representing the Republican Party because of how Palin responded to Katie Couric's interview questions a few days ago. Just for the record that interview was quite a blunder in my opinion and many other people’s opinions as well. It was a blunder because Palin was not answering with clear or concise answers. Actually, her answers did not even make much since. I know I shouldn’t but I feel for the woman, she is being scrutinized for her every move and if she were to get elected in to the white house with Mc Cain it would only get worse for her. But that is the card you receive for accepting the nomination. Any way back to the view… so today the co- hosts got very fiery about Palin’s previous interview with Mrs. Coric and also they were slightly yelling in disagreement over how they thought Palin would do on Thursday’s debate against Biden. Every host on the show seemed to be a democrat except for Elisabeth who is the youngest woman on the show this caused for major arguments. In the end Elisabeth had no chance in winning because she could not provide enough background information in support of the Republicans.
In my house hold (which consist of just two people (my roomy and I) we have arguments over politics and it can get pretty heated. For instance, I was speaking with my roomy and she stated that she was not going to vote during this election and I looked at her in shock, then I replied WHY? She stated that she felt that she should not have the right to vote in this election because she did not know enough about each candidate, thus showing me that she did not want to put in the effort to research them out. I looked at her and said; look I would highly recommend that you put in 20 minutes of research and vote for a candidate because the women who fought for your right to vote would not be pleased if they heard you neglecting you right as a woman to vote. I mean c’mon take advantage of your rights and vote wisely. Like Ellen DeGeneres said “Laugh, dance, vote”. At the end of the voting day I feel that in order to make our ancestors who fought for our rights proud all women who are able to should vote. It just makes sense.