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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
As much as I cannot stand the smug, morally superior, do as I say, not as I do religious zealots that seem to fill the ranks of the GOP these days telling the parents of a pregnant 17 year old that the pregnancy is their fault is asinine. Clearly you don't have a seventeen year old or where never 17 yourself.
Bristol is responsible for her pregnancy as is the man she had sex with. Now one could argue that this might be a case of teenage rebellion against some overly protective parents who preached the abstinence bit too strongly. However, you'd have to ask Bristol if that was her intent.
Her daughter's pregnancy should only be used to shine a light on how abstinence only programs fail more than they succeed and endanger kids to STD's and unwanted pregnancies by not educating them. We should look at it in the larger context of will VP Palin unduly influence Prez McCain to withhold federal funding for schools which have a rounded sex education program and only fund those who have a singular abstinence only one? In what other areas will she try to press her personal religious views on the rest of us?
I would have hoped the failed Bush administration would have shown the people the failings of pseudo-theocracies in America but clearly the religious monster is a hydra and it will take more than the chopping off of one head to defeat it.
So Obama asking his supporters to send money for Hurricane Gustav relief is less a political prop than a out-of-wedlock young woman's baby? Neither Party should have done anything other than demonstrate that they were ready to act with the government in power v. suggesting that there were not just one, not two, but three competing governments in power. Both parties milked the hurricane for what it could give them.
The best thing Clinton supporters could do would be to write her name in on Nov. 4 as their Presidential pick. And, if so led, vote for the best man or woman (including Greens or Libertarians) running for lesser offices, so that the Democrats know that there are x number of Democrats who have just had it with trying to get Ultra Liberals elected. And that the Party treated Clinton as some kind of pariah v. the woman most likely to become the first woman President. Considering there has always been more women in our country than men, and considering all the previous presidents have been men, her success would have been more significant than another man.
Coalition government -- with at least one Socialist; an African-American Muslim in the House; and perhaps a Libertarian or Green house member, plus the normal twit and twat of the Dems and Republicans will be one way to ensure that a McCain Presidency wouldn't stray into Right Wing American politics again. This politicial season, I'd suggest that any and all scenarios should be considered. I've personally reached the point a million or more people had reached in 2000, when that many voted for Nader and lesser candidates.
And the teen pregnancy of Sarah Palin's daughter isn't that big a deal. There are probably millions of American families (my own included) where pregnancies have happened before any natural plans for marriage were made. And in the case of my two sisters, both consider themselves now religious. And, in my own case, having been involved with three separate women over time, who got pregnant, and who elected, on their own, to have abortions, I must say that each case has given me a real v. theoretical choice on abortion. In each case, I felt it was the woman's choice, even one who had to go to New York State in 1970, to get an abortion because they weren't legal in Indiana.
That option should remain in place so that the person who has the greatest right to that choice -- the woman -- continues to have it. But, there are other choices and so no, voting for McCain's not an option to me, either. I don't want to become a victim, though, and suggest I HAVE to vote for one or the other if I want my vote to "count."
I'll write in Clinton's name because if Obama fails, with all the media help he has, and political hit men and women trying to destroy and humiliaite her, I want the Party to know they goofed big time. I know I won't see her get into the White House, but I also know I won't have anything to do with either of the two guys get there, either.
your not saying jack shit except "i wanna help mccain"
That's right zenhead you just keep sitting there on your little stool gathering wool and mumbling to yourself how you won't have anything to do with electing "those two guys".
Go on, please, because if you won't help us rid this country of the terrible blight that finds human form in our Current Administration, then you're worse than useless, you're like...a Democrat!
It's 2 months to the election. Get with the program or get out of the way.
And what the hell is an "ultra liberal" anyway?!
I smell fish, I do.
Argh.
i know im gonna get hated on for saying this but im getting sick of people chanting "hillary hillary hillary" yeah she has some perks ...but she also voted with bush to invade iraq...barry had that over on her... hence his nomination
While it would normally appear to be "off limits" to discuss a candidates family, Sarah Palin has made her family a public issue and their values and choices have very real public policy implications and give rise to legitimate questions. There are many, but here are a few:
Does Gov Palin believe that abstinence only birth control educations is effective?
Does Gov Palin intend to continue to have high risk pregnancies into her late forties? If woman with less economic means act in the same manner, who should pay for the care of the offspring if they are unable to do so?
Has the father of Bristol's child agreed to marry her? (if not, then they're lying in saying that they intend to get married).
Does Gov Palin believe that Bristol's right to privacy is Constitutionally protected?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
