My cousin Donna and I grew up in worlds about as far apart as you can imagine.  I grew up in New York, Donna in Texas.  As you can imagine, my liberal leanings don’t always sit well with her but she’s a good counterpoint for me.  When she asked in an e-mail what I thought about Sarah Palin I told her I just couldn’t bring myself to blog about her because my mother always taught me, “If you can’t say anything nice…”.  This was her response:

Now, now, now.  You can’t ignore a fellow female who is just trying to walk that thin pink line…whether she is a Democrat OR, dare I say, a Republican! Let me see, governor of the largest state in the union for 2 years versus senator from Illinois for 2 years, but that senator is running for president not v.p. You know, this is going to be the first time in decades that we are going to have a president from the senate. Having 5 kids is a lot of work, but she has a husband. It may keep her more in-tuned to the plight of the average woman, and family for that matter. In other words I think you need to recognize her on your blog, good and bad, because that’s what it’s all about.

Donna’s right.  And the fact is I am glad to see a woman on at least one of the tickets.  But voting for a woman was never as important to me as having the right people in office.  As I walked around my office saying during the democratic campaign, “Obama, Hillary, both are OK to me.  Just no more old white men.”  Then Jessica made a bumper sticker for me with this same phrase.  Now I get lots of honks and thumbs up. The guys at the car wash and the valets tell me they particularly like it.  I also got two flat tires and am still not sure if it’s related.

TAGS: Barack Obama, democrats, republicans, Sarah Palin