You will like this a lot, I bet — I sure did:
Jay,
You were talking about Palin’s brand of American speech. I noticed during her performance today — and in an interview posted online — that she doesn’t change “-man” words to “-woman” or “-person.” She refers to herself as a former “chairman” of something or other, and as a former “commercial fisherman.” What a refreshing contrast to the PC trend that gives us ear-cringing neologisms like “fisherpersons” and “snowpersons,” and phrases like “to a person” rather than “to a man.” Obama recently said he wasn’t looking for a VP who would be a “yes person.”
He should be disqualified from the presidency for that phrase alone. By the way, I knew a lady who referred to herself as a “Reagan man,” or a “Mozart man” — and you never knew a more feminine woman.
P.S. You will recall that Howard Dean called McCain a “yes man” (to George W. Bush). (Senator Casey called him a “sidekick.”) Well, at least the Vermont colossus didn’t say “yes person.”