Sally Quinn apologizes for Sarah Palin remarks

Governor Palin need not apologize for her quip until Senator Obama apologizes for his campaigns belittling of small town mayors.

You might recall that the morning after she was revealed to be Senator McCain's running mate the Obama campaign said that she was utterly unqualified...having only the experience of being a mayor of what..a city of 9000?

If Senator Obama's skin is this thin then he should not be President. He's going to get a lot more heat than this should he be elected. Governor Palin was just exchanging tit-for-tat (an equivalent exchange)to Senator Obama's remarks. Her point is simply that her role as a Mayor is a more realistic qualification for President than that of being a community organizer. She was not belittling community organizers and only liberals looking for anything at all to gripe about her about would even have taken it this way. Lead the way Senator Obama! You apologize first!

Sally Quinn just set womens' rights back 50 years today. She said in a tv interview this morning, in reference to Palin, that women cannot handle both a career and a family unless the children are "older" and that men with a career and a family aren't the same as women with a career and a family.

After seeing how sexist she sounded when confronted by a male panelist, she then put the reason on the inexperience of Palin as to why she was concerned with her being the next VP. I thought it quite interesting that on Wikipedia this quote is used in referring to Quinn herself, [edit]

Newspaper journalism
Quinn began the Washington Post with very little experience: reportedly called by Ben Bradlee after a report of her pajama party in celebration of the election to congress of Barry Goldwater, Jr., the job interview included the following exchange.

"Can you show me something you've written?" asked Managing Editor Benjamin Bradlee. "I've never written anything," admitted Quinn. Pause. "Well," said Bradlee, "nobody's perfect." [1]

Perhaps should she be as open to newcomers as someone was to her at the beginning of her career. At least Palin has experience, albeit, not the kind that Quinn thinks will help her.

I am not a member of NOW, but I do believe that women can successfully handle a career and motherhood at the same time. To use that reason as an excuse to not seriously consider Palin's nomination is an affront to all women regardless of their political leanings.

Apologize . . . . acknowledge that she might have been wrong in her initial assessment of Palin? Whatever it was, Ms. Quinn insulted millions of American women by her comment that "as an American citizen, I just want to know if she is going to put her country first or her children first." Did I miss something? I haven't heard anyone concerned about Barack Obama's ability to choose his country or his children first. As a mother of a special needs daughter, as well as five other children, I found this remark highly offensive. I'm not impressed with her apology or anything else.