Mice, Elephants and Dung.

post sent to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/12/sarahpalin.feminism

Dear Mrs. Valenti,

I could not agree more with your assessment of the perverse place feminism has found itself in since Sen. Palin's anointment as McCain's Veep.

Here in Canada we too are being bombarded by the uneven news coverage surrounding her contrived selection as the "war hero's" running mate. From the mundane, to the absurd, the stories keep coming. Problem is, 5 days ago our opportunistic and predatory Prime-Minister decided to dissolve his minority government and called an election!

Now, just when we should be worried about the fate of our own polity, we find ourselves adrift in the flotsam attached to the US election. More of us are probably aware of the spurious issues surrounding Mrs. Palin than we are of the real policy differences between our two major party's.

To paraphrase a former Canadian PM; "When you are a Mouse living next to an Elephant" the dung of the pachyderm often obscures your path to enlightenment. Such is the situation we now face, our own political process is being adversely effected and subsumed by events south of our border.

Pray for us.
And pray for Obama.
Because if the Republicans win and our PM gets a the parliamentary majority he is seeking we are going to be awash on this continent in reactionary (and anti-feminist)dung!