I still have yet to see a rational, sensible or believable explanation for for a woman, pregnant at 44 (which is considered advanced maternal age/high risk pregnancy), with a Down syndrome baby (also considered a high risk pregnancy and delivery), who goes into labor a month prematurely (even more high-risk), has her water break (which introduces a risk of infection and imminent labor, and usually warrants immediate hospitalization), but does NOT go to the hospital, but instead, chooses to get on an airplane for an 8-hour trip from Texas to Alaska, arrives in Alaska, then bypasses major medical centers to drive another hour to a small clinic (which does not have a neo-natal intensive care unit/NICU, or perinatologists or neonatologists) to have a family doctor (not an ob-gyn) deliver a premature child with Down syndrome?

I would really love to hear a medical professional explain how Saint Sarah, the perfect mother, wasn't utterly negligent in the way she handled the birth of Trig.

Frankly, I'm surprised she didn't also parachute out of the plane and land in the tundra, and go snowmobiling for a few more hours, before shooting a moose, skinning it, coming back and cooking it up for dinner, and then squatting in the outhouse to deliver the kid herself, for goodness sake.

Truth is...as far as I see it, she may not have had an abortion, but she certainly seems to have been doing her darndest to ensure a poor outcome for the delivery of this baby.

If being such a supposedly great mother is one of her primarily qualifications to be vice president, then why isn't anyone questioning her judgment??????????????????????????????

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

LOVE YOU, Bill!!!!

After chipping away at Obama until the convention, and helping turn the "attacking a woman candidate = sexism" idea into some sort of unquestioned fact all year, it's time -- frankly, it's your last chance -- to step up and do something, Joan, besides whining and moaning.

Ryan Adams has it right, in the comment at:

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/09/06/mean_old_party/permalink/921596307b3c8ecdb738ee0aea4759e3.html

"Don't bemoan, Joan. Do something."

You have investigative reporters. INVESTIGATE AND REPORT!!!! (and no, Alex Koppelman rewriting Huffington Posts gossipy politics posts don't count, nor do Rebecca Traister's Broadsheet posts count, and frankly, Conason's and Shapiro's "I coulda read it at any other politics blog" recaps don't count. Salon broke some significant stories in the past, and has done some amazing investigative reports. Isn't it time you get some people up to Alaska to ferret out the truth? Buy Greenwald a plane ticket to Alaska, and let em rip. Send a team of Salon reporters up there. But INVESTIGATE AND REPORT!!!!!

You are on tv all the time. SAY SOMETHING. Don't just shoot the breeze with Matthews, or look pained and concerned, or shoot the Democrats in the foot with tv concern trolling. SAY SOMETHING!!!

You have a media platform. USE IT!

Time and again, some of us have said that you need to use your platform and visibility to HELP the Democrats win this election. So far, you haven't done that...some of us can't easily forget that you joined right in on the "Elite-gate" Obama-bashing nonsense, or that all along, you equated legitimate criticisms of Hillary as sexism. You have not been much of a friend to the Democrats, Joan, and truthfully, you have contributed to the situation we're in right now.

So again, I ask -- are you going to do something about it?

Or are you going to whine and moan and do nothing for the next two months?

I don't know why I keep hoping that you'll turn around, but I do. We're almost the same age, and we have so many other things in common, that I really want to believe that you and I want the same things, politically.

I want to have my mind changed, and believe that you actually do want to see a Democrat in office in 2009! I keep hoping that you'll prove it to me!

Please Joan. Prove it to me!

Give me a reason to write you the biggest mea culpa you've ever seen for not believing in you.

While I agree entirely that everything about this woman's politics is vile, is this sort of article going to help elect a Democrat in November?

Seriously. Is it?

Because I can tell you, the less enlightened family members I have who think voting McCain/Palin may be a good idea don't give a shit about wolves.

Could Salon do some investigative reporting that will help win the media battle, and/or write some articles that will either help those of us who still care about the election to take some sort of concrete action?

Or if you're going to keep putting as your headlines little potshot pieces about Yukon Barbie, then at least get some psychologists in here to tell us shellshocked Democrats how to stop losing our minds, so that we can get ready for the defeat in November that is inevitable if the only thing progressive newsmagazines like Salon do is continue doing what you're doing.

This is war, Salon, and no matter how many articles you do describing her earmarks, or her dislike for wolves, or the proper method of caribou hunting, or the real story behind the Bridge to Nowhere, it contributes nothing, zippo, nada, squat to the battle.

How about some real investigating? How about some REAL reporting???????????????????