[IWE] Maggie Thatcher - what a democracy looks like

[Peter Whysall]

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?