Yes, this may be the year the glass ceiling comes tumbling down. I will admit that I wasn't a Clinton supporter and I was skeptical of Palin in the beginning but the more I learn about her the more I think she would compliment McCain in the White House. Her arrival on the scene does seem to have shocked the Obama people. They are launching negative TV ads and Democrats are conducting 'investigations' and digging frantically for something to shoot down her star. I dislike that kind of campaign so I hope they are left with mud on their faces.

To see this in my lifetime will be something!

McCain-Palin!! Shatter that glass ceiling, then kick some ass in Washington!!

Will someone explain to me why, during his interviews with Obama and Palin, Charles Gibson asked Obama a lot of questions focused on the positive aspects of his being a champion and breaking a glass ceiling for African Americans, yet he didn’t ask Palin about her potential of breaking the infamous glass ceiling and the benefits that would create for women (who make up a much larger percentage of the U.S. population than African Americans)?

And why did he question Palin’s ability to lead, but never Obama’s?

And why did he ask Palin if it was conceited of her to accept the vice presidential nomination, yet he did not insult Obama with that question even though Obama is applying for a much more powerful job?

If she becomes VP, I hope some shards of glass fall on Gibson and the rest of the biased main stream media.

Go Sarah!!!

Because she's a woman!!

Rather than thinking of a glass ceiling as the product of a male conspiracy, I tend to think of it more as the societal status quo, and the talk of breaking through it as a challenge to that status quo. Are men more routinely in positions of power because they collude to keep out women, or because that's what we're all used to and comfortable with? I tend to think it's more the latter.

It was Hillary Clinton who put the cracks in the glass ceiling and I personally think she would have crashed trough had not Obama fatally trashed her with his shit-slinging campaign. She might even have made a decent president.

Since Hillary Clinton's political trajectory has so obviously depended on her husband, she would have reinforced the sexist notion that a woman needs a man to rise. She would merely have extended the height of the ceiling rather than shatter it, thereby perpetuating the foggy conspiracy-idea behind the glass ceiling metaphor. Which is probably just how she would have liked it because she could have gloried in herself all the more against the background of such a supposed conspiracy.

What glass ceiling?