[IWE] Maggie Thatcher - what a democracy looks like
Peter Whysall
iwe@warhead.org.uk
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:30:41 +0100
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:58:24 -0700, Ashton Brown wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan offers this video clip, to remind us how unutterably
> Stupid the US has become - on basic shit like ... debate itself.
>
>
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/what-real-accou.html
>
> /The exchange above was one of her lowest points, and she had many
> high ones. The reason I'm posting this is to remind American voters
> what a real democracy sounds like.
>
> The horrifying sequestering of Sarah Palin from a press conference
> and anything like this kind of public interrogation is a scandal.
> Thatcher was already prime minister, about to be re-elected in a
> landslide when this debate happened. And she was happy to be
> subjected to this from an average citizen. This is what feminism
> looks like in action - from citizen to leader. It's important to
> remember how deep a decline in female political equality Sarah Palin
> represents./
Heh.
Can you imagine the brutal outcome of a Thatcher/Palin debate?