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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
First of all, Mrs. Palin's lack of cultural and international nouse is exposed when she allowed her daughter to be named Bristol, showing that she was unaware that Bristols is British rhyming slang for 'breasts'. (Bristol cities = titties). Of course, she may just have named her daughter after that fair city which built its wealth largely on the slave trade.
Second of all, it is the Republican party and its religious toadies, such Rick Warren who have striven mightily to make the General Election a referendum on abortion.
Now we have an opportunity to see that the Palin family is right in the thick of experiencing those typical American family dramas, like the pregnant women in her forties deciding whether to bear a child with Down syndrome, and the teenage daughter who gets knocked up just when she should be filing college applications.
The Palins have made their decisions based on their beliefs, and have stuck to their guns, shotgun wedding and all.
This is good. It is healthy for the nation to discuss these subjects and for Mrs Palin to take the lead. Many Republicans wanted a referendum on abortion. They can have one. Maybe they will win, maybe they won't, but the result may help to start the process of laying this topic to rest.
Now that she has started the process, Mrs. Palin may as well publish her medical records. We the people have a right to know about the health of the woman who may be the next President but one, and Trig has the potential to be the first Down Syndrome child to grow up in the White House which would raise the profile of the condition exponentially.
[It seems likely to me that the child Trig is her natural child, as Down syndrome births are statistically much commoner for older mothers.]
The Republican party could not have hoped for anything better than Bristol's pregnancy. This is the party of stupid. Dan Quayle. George Bush & Dick (dumb & dumber). Sarah Palin. McCain (ranked 894/899 at the Naval Academy). By definition, the mentally challenged are a demographic majority, so any party that can play into that also obtains a democratic majority. Hey, we've all fallen short before (talk about a softball for evangelical talking points) - so instead of trying to rise above our shortcomings, let's embrace them!
The earliest great thinkers on the topic of democracy were rightly concerned about the possibility of mob rule. That is why we do not live in a direct democracy. However, since congress appears to have completely capitulated to the notion of an imperial presidency, we're right back where we started from: a titular emperor ensconced by feudal (corporate) power mongers chosen to appease the (stupid) masses.
I was incredulous that a Republican would actually try to give credibility to Palin's foreign policy experience by saying she was the governor of Alaska, the state most proximate to Russia. Such arguments are both insulting and stupid and an example, once again, of the proximity of the McCain campaign to the Bush administration.
The "pro lifers" have no business using the word choice when they praise how Sarah Palin "chose" to give birth to a child with Down's syndrome and now how her 17 year old daughter is "choosing" to continue her pregnancy. Palin, and others with her point of view, don't believe that abortion should ever be allowed, even when the mother was raped or the victim of incest. So how can they proudly say that Palin made a choice when continuing a pregnancy was supposedly never an issue for her. Or is it only other women who should never have a choice whether or not to have a baby?
I'm so glad the Republicans have decided not to politicize the hurricane. I'm sure McSame was a BIG HELP at the relief center. With all the hurricanes on the horizon, I suggest they cancel the convention and STFU.
Why are the two kids waiting to get married? Is the idea of marriage somehow better after she has the baby? Makes me think that we still don’t know the true story. LOL
Non-Republicans know that Republicans spell the word “elitist” - h y p o c r i t e. There is one standard for conservative elitists and another for the rest of us.
The reason Republicans are best described as elephants is because they have very short memories. Republicans crying foul now should recall what one of their own did to McCain. Remember, how the Bush campaign in 2004 circulated a despicable lie that McCain fathered a black child (their adopted child) at a critical time in the South Carolina primary? McCain lost the state and it ended his primary run courtesy. But, we all could go on and on with examples of how the Republican political machine thrives on destroying families and careers.
Right-wing conservatives pose the greatest threat to our personal freedoms and security. Their insidious tactics may prove to be harder to defeat than the Taliban. Personally, I won't rest easy until the Republican Party (the Anti-American Party) is destroyed. A good start would be to demand that Palin be dropped off the Republican ticket. AMERICA FIRST!!!
Respectfully yours,
...just like millions of other women. (Nancy Reagan and several of my cousins spring to mind.) According to Wikipedia, Palin's first child, Track, was born eight months after Palin and her husband eloped. That could be a big story, but I hope it isn't. These things happen. It's LIFE. Personally, I don't think it's any big deal, as long as the children are well cared for.
In my opinion, the only issue worth discussing in light of Bristol's pregnancy is that "abstinence-only" sex education clearly does not work. Even Republicans (and their children) have sex before marriage, and they are fools to insist otherwise. Anyone who does not use proper birth control methods runs a serious risk of becoming pregnant. This is just another example of why we need better sex education.
By the way, when Bristol was holding Trig on stage while her mother was giving her acceptance speech, the thought crossed my mind that Bristol looked very comfortable holding a baby, and I wondered if she had helped her mother take care of young Piper. Yesterday, when I was at a store, I saw a young girl who was probably between eight and ten years old pushing a stroller with two "babies" (dolls) in it, which made me smile. I think some young women are meant to be mothers, and they will probably be very good mothers.
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