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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Politics or Family; What will Palin give second priority to?
I have yet to come across a discussion of whether Palin can do a good job as a VP [Employee] , and a new mom of a child with challenges, and a mom whose young daughter is pregnant. I'm a father of 2 kids and know how much energy it takes to parent and work. I don't think I could be a good parent and give the attention and energy it takes to hold such high political office.[Job] Ms. Palin has a very full plate. What will she put second?
You've just made the same erroneous argument that has been used against women for decades in the work place - that a women with a child can't work effectively.
Women can raise children and hold the highest offices, whether in business or politics.
Sarah Palin opposes same-sex marriage as well. I don't expect conservative Christians to support LGBT rights, but they really should be teaching tolerance and forgiveness.
Obama also opposes same-sex marriage.
Palin vetoed legislation that would have denied State employeed same-sex partners benefits.
While I'd like to think that Obama really supports gay-marriage and just says he doesn't because that position would make it very hard to get elected, his official position as the same as Palins's.
Only she's actually vetoed bills designed to harm gay and lesbian couples.
I agree that the candidates' kids should never be an issue during the campaign. I did not grow up in the USA and have always wondered why the candidates bring their entire families-- grandmothers, uncles, and preteen children-- to all the rallies and conventions. Why should the public care what their families look like and what illnesses the children have? Sure, we need to know about the candidate's values and positions on social issues, but we should not encourage them to use their families to gain brownie points. We don't need to see the candidate smooch his wife onstage to understand that he loves her. We don't need to see his brood of kids to know he is a "family man." No other public office drags personal life into the spotlight like this. So please, lets just stick to the issues and leave the kids alone. We should be mature enough to make a decision on the next president without needing a picture book to help us.
As the parent of a teenage daughter, I think Bristol Palin's pregnancy is rightly (no pun intended) a matter of great concern. Her mother is publicly a social conservative who preaches abstinence and opposes abortion; it's fair and just that her family should be the walking embodiment of the consequences of those values. I may sound cruel, but I'm supporting their right to make such choices, which is more than they would do for me or my daughter. Give them a chance to show us how graciously they handle it! But let's not forget how much their access to resources exceeds that of the average Americans to whom they'd like to deny the right to make their own choices. If Bristol ends up with a full-time nanny, well the rest of us can just go eat cake!
Not as strange as the media coverage.
As a Democrat, I am so glad the hypocritical bumbling of the Republicans, which they have gotten by with for 30 years--yes, I include good old Ron, who started the entire show--is out in the open and they are paying. Of course, the bumbling was also accompanied by tremendous corruption and venality, the real problem.
Sure, the evangelicals will forget these minor moral slights of Sarah ,or better, slights in parenting by super-ambitious and cannon-loose on the deck Sarah-Mom. No,teenage pregnancy is not inevitable and usually it requires some egregious inattention or plain bad parenting by the so-called adults.
I am sorry for Sarah´s daughter. Whether you have the child, or
have an abortion, the experience cuts short childhood and creates emotional difficulties that sometimes take many years to overcome.
I am a man, but I know a little. My step-daughter started going off the tracks at 15 and the next two years were very difficult for me, my then wife and my step-daughter. We avoided an early pregnancy and more important dissolution by a lot of love and hard work, by making my stepdaughter Job I. I was the bad guy for my stepdaughter for awhile but 8 years later my stepdaughter is an achieving and successful grown-up, still adventurous, with a clear vision. We share a lot of love and I am grateful.
In any normal campaign, this family mess, which deserves our sympathy, would immediately disqualify the Mom from any consideration as the leader of our land because of its proof of thoughtlessness and lack of care on the part of the Mom. Not that this could not be overcome through time and proof of constancy over time. But this cannot be kicked under the rug.
If John McCain knew about this and still chose Sarah as his running mate, this is clear proof of his defective judgment.
You tabloid trash-mongers are the reason America detests liberals. You are a stain on what was once a decent cause, its unworthy bastard children. Pure human filth far below anything Rove could dream up. You got no bounce from the DNC so you'll drag a 17 year old girl through the mud to make up a story and pretend it means something. The same young women you hypocrites pretend to stand up for. You stand for nothing. You cry like babies about what "would" happen the other way around to justify the fact that you _stand_for_nothing. Obama is a decent guy, far above this filth... maybe you should heed what he said about staying away from children. But instead, you will make America hate you with this illegitimate garbage, and dismantle his campaign, and cry foul.
... you're not an Obamatron, you're an ignorant fool. Nothing independent at all. Keep spoutin' off your empty nonsense though, and pretend that means you care about something, while dragging a 17y.o. girl through the mud. To accomplish what exactly? Aside from proving you stand for nothing.
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