The New York imes made some interesting observations regarding the selection of a woman for Vice-President:
“Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President?… Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial?… Presidential candidates have always chosen their running mates for reasons of practical demography, not idealized democracy…. What a splendid system, we say to ourselves, that takes little-known men, tests them in high office and permits them to grow into statesmen…. Why shouldn’t a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow?… [T]he indispensable credential for a Woman Who [sic] is the same as for a Man Who [sic] – one who helps the ticket.”
Lest you should think that the New York Times is defending Governor Palin, the editorial was actually written in defense of three term congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic party in 1984.
I wonder what the liberal media would have said if Governor Tim Keane of Virginia was nominated to run with Obama this year.
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