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Outta the park on this one!

People making fun of her son with Down Syndrome?

My bet is that this is just another stab by this drama queen at victimhood, like the alleged hordes demanding that she explain Todd's membership in the AIP.

One does not confront the kind of things this girl is demonstrating with happy-loving-affirmations!

This not a girl who has a sloppy room and forgets that she promised to load the dishwasher.

This is a girl who knowingly lets friends in the house even after they have robbed her parents. A girl who hides her boyfriend and does not understand that she is on an express train to pregnancy, and potentially to jail.

She may not drink or take drugs now [I suspect she does already] but they're in her future.

The hardest part of parenting is usually finding the right balance of rules and respect. **But this situation is not ambiguous at all. It's clear as day.**

Yes, look at her through loving eyes.

Then consider what kind of adult life she is setting herself up for, and put your foot DOWN. Not for your sake. For her sake!

If someone attacks you -- in the abdomen, or anywhere else -- you *already* have a right to defend yourself, even by killing your assailant. Anyone else on the scene already has a right to kill your attacker in your defense.

Yes, pregnant women are at a peculiarly dangerous phase of their lives. Last time I checked, more pregnant women died as a result of homicide than by any other cause of death.

Sure, this might be part of the gradual construction of a bill to outlaw abortion.

As easily, this could be the NRA trying to ease us gradually into their appalling "shoot first" bills that justify any homicide if the perp says he/she even *thought* he/she was in peril. No aggressive act is required in this brain-buster.

Steele was correct in distancing himself from Limbaugh, and a craven fool for making nice to him.

If we are ever to "get our big girl panties on" and deal with the country as it is, we must start by distancing ourselves from this handful of incendiary blowhards.

Obama has raised the civility bar, and the vast majority of the people like it. We must stop fearing the mockery of the media bullies and win our country back with eloquence and with inspiration.

From inside their bubble, our party leaders are cringing like kids who won't go to school because bullies might make fun of them. We need to shout out to our leaders so loudly that they will no longer hear, or at least no longer toady to, the mocking murder of crows who value not the truth, but attention.

I continue to keep my "R" registration in the hopes that we will get our britches together and take back the leadership we have ceded to the Limbaughs and the Coulters.

Feh.

During my kids' formative years, we were in liberal-booze-laws Ohio. This meant that we could emulate our own parents. On a hot summer night, the kids could have (or split) a beer. When we went to the dinner theater, they got either a before dinner or an after dinner sloppy sweet "dessert liqueur," like a brandy alexander or a grasshopper.

They, like me and my sibs before them, didn't think of drinking as something that made them "cool" or "adult," nor did they see any advantage to being fall-down drunk. They are occasional social drinkers. [We're now in PA, where we could be arrested for what we did freely in Ohio.]

I sm appalled that there are places where it's illegal to let kids learn how to drink responsibly, with their parents, before they were loosed on a campus without supervision.

And that pretty much defines my interest in the First-Family-to-Be. Michelle is (or at least seems, through my starry eyes) warmer than Jackie, and more poised and confident than Hillary. Unlike the Bush women, she doesn't hang back with cow-eyes focused on her man.

We want heroes. We need exemplars, people to whom we can turn to remind ourselves of our better angels, our spark divine, and how damn good Gap couture can look if you're built along Mrs. O's lines. They don't have to be perfect; in fact, those little flaws throw their competence into sharper relief.

It always baffled me that people would vote for people like a Bush or a Palin because they are "just like me." Or "the kind of person I'd like to have a beer with." When McCain promised to bring Joe the frickin Plumber to Washington to serve in his administration, my blood ran cold.

We expect more from the person who flies our plane or re-wires our house or operates on our hearts. How could anyone think it's a good idea to turn our governance over to incompetents, or at least mediocrities?

Ack, must dial down the outrage a bit.

As you were.

Not just the obvious, President-elect Obama's triumph.

But also, as I watched Fox (praying to drift in glorious schadenfreude, and much satisfied) I was impressed by Karl Rove's (yes, Karl Rove's, even-handedness and astute observations.

From right here at Salon -

http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2008/10/22/knig/

You touched and helped me understand those weird inner "icky feelings" McCain has given off this election cycle.

For us moderate Republicans, battered as we are by the Bush Boys, the 2008 McCain was like discovering that your favorite aunt manufactures meth when she isn't walking the streets.