Newsweek was for her before they were against her, Sarah Palin that is...

That is correct sir.... a few months ago while she was safely ensconced in Alaska and no threat to their planned anointment Of Hussein Obama thwy had nothing but effusive unblunted praise for the VP candidate of the new millennium who then was just a highly qualified and extraordinary woman doing a mans job and doing it better, even better than Hillary Clinton in many ways was their assessment.

What's changed since then? She singlehandedly changed the race for president and will be responsible for sending the dreaming community organizer Hussein Obama back to Kenya for some soul searching and other learning experiences he's terribly short on.

Now This Is Woman’s Work |

Newsweek Women and Leadership | Newsweek.com: "In 1998, voters in a focus group were asked to close their eyes and imagine what a governor should look like. 'They automatically pictured a man,' says Barbara Lee, whose foundation promoting women's political advancement sponsored the survey. 'The kind you see in those portraits hanging in statehouse hallways.' They most certainly didn't visualize Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a former beauty-pageant winner, avid hunter, snowmobiler and mother of four who was elected to her state's highest office last November. Or Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a badge-wielding former federal prosecutor and onetime attorney for Anita Hill who has redefined the debate over illegal immigration in her state."

While this year's political buzz has been about Hillary Clinton's run for the White House and Nancy Pelosi's ascension to Speaker of the House, women leaders like Palin, a Republican, and Napolitano, a Democrat, have gained significant power in the lives of millions of Americans at the state level. In addition to Alaska and Arizona, Michigan, Kansas, Washington, Hawaii, Connecticut, Louisiana and Delaware elected or re-elected women governors in the last year. That's a total of nine, the highest number to serve simultaneously. And next year women candidates will run for the statehouse in North Carolina and Indiana. A decade ago only 16 women in U.S. history had served as governor (four of them were appointed to replace their dead husbands or other ill-fated male predecessors). Today that number stands at 29. "The best way for people to believe in women as competent executives is by actually watching them govern," says Lee. "They find them likable, strong and effective."

New research shows that voters give female governors significantly higher marks than their male counterparts on such qualities as honesty, cooperation and caring—as well as toughness. And at a time when the national debate has become poisonously partisan, governors like Napolitano, 49, and Palin, 43, are making their mark with a pragmatic, postpartisan approach to solving problems, a style that works especially well with the large numbers of independent voters in their respective states.  continued

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