Signed,
A non-American from a moderately conservative Asian country

Sarah Palin poses for a series of pictures some of which were used in an article by “Runner’s World.”

One picture of her that she posed for, in a provocative way, during the photo shoot, but not used by “Runner’s World” is then used by Newsweek on the cover of their magazine.

Now she says that this was a “sexist” action. How can it be sexist now when Newsweek uses it if it was not sexist when she posed for it?

She posed voluntarily. She certainly could have told the photographer while she was posing the she felt that it was a sexist pose and did not want to pose that way.

That, combined with her winking and flirting during her debate with Biden does not provide me the kind of information that I need when evaluating the intellectual qualifications of someone running for a political office.

And the swipes at Obama, who's been actually in office, for less than 10 months now and who inherited a royal fuckfest courtesy of Dub-ya, that really is telling. If I didn't care about what happens to this country, I would have wished McCain and her in office. Then who would all your fuck-nuts blame then?

I have actually always liked John McCain and consider myself neither a Republican or Democrat so my vote is always up in the air, but, as a woman, I was extremely offended that the boys in the Republican Party thought they could throw any 'ole woman up there and all of us dumb females in the country would just fall in line and vote for McCain because of Palin.

They seriously underestimated the woman of this country (well, at least the intelligent ones).

Palin's whole public existence is based on being attractive to working class white men. Is it sexist to use sex to denigrate a person whose very existence depends on sex? Answer: No.

There is an innate contracdiction in what she's promoting. She doesn't hold the same values as you, she's lying. All the fundies values she claims, has she really lived up to them? No. People are more concerned with her fugly ass than what she really stands for.

We are all morons in this country.

Hilary Clinton did a marevelous job, but reverted to the sexism talk when it was covenient. I thought it was bullshit. She even fucking cried because the media was tough on her. What the fuck, isn't that playing into the hype.

Palin, like Bush, is simply a moron who is utilizing an image to advance her bottom line. Bush used Jesus, Plain, her vagina.

I have do disagree with you. The Washingtonian did, and put "OUR NEIGHBORS ARE HOT" on the front cover. Very controversial cover.

Seriously, we have much more substantive issues to confront, a hyper-partisan hack is not one of them.

That IS sexism. And that is exactly my point.

Oh, and that respectable woman candidate? Her name is Hillary, she DID experience sexism (no ironic quote marks here), and it wasn't so small. And, uh, we did complain.

this article seems to misplace sexism though. a link to playboy?! there IS a playgirl you know. men get naked for cash too. oh, and she NOT hot. so you can ignore that whole sentence about sexism, that it "allows women to earn an insane amount of political power for simply being a hot conservative lady." its not her beauty, its her religion that gives her "insane amounts of political power".

wait for a respectable woman to run for president. when she experiences the small amount of "sexism" she will inevitably experience, then you will have something justifiable to actually complain about.

Only un-evolved Neanderthals find her attractive. She looks and acts like a $20 coke-head hooker on a Seattle street.