combining a Star Wars reference with feminism

Do you ever think you REALLY know someone, and then they say something like "McCain 08!" or "Go-Bama!" or "I hate puppies!" and it totally turns your world upside down?

These past few months ago have been SO saturated with election news, that even I'm almost tired of it. Well, really, I'm way tired of silly allegations - like being friends with a well-known Palestinian some how means that you (and you alone!) are going to destroy the state of Israel. I'm also way tired of Joe the Plummer. I'm fairly certain McCain has to be really desperate if he has Joe the Plummer on the campaign trail for him.

Then there is Sarah Palin. Her existence has caused a great disturbance in my feminist force. I think that a lot of what she does only reinforces that glass ceiling that she claimed to bust through (well, and Hillary loosened it for her, right?), but then I can't help but be disgusted when I hear comments about her clothes or her as a mother. I completely disagree on every one of her policies, but I can not escape the fact that Sarah Palin is being subjected to the same sort of sexist nasties that Hillary experienced (and probably was part of Hillary's failure to obtain the Democratic nomination).

Sucks for her, but I'm still voting Obama. There's no way that I'd vote for someone because I feel she's getting the raw end of a sexist argument.