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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
from some right wing pundit, or even those who used to be enamored by the right (Chris Matthews who adored W before he hated him, Gregory and the rest of NBC who played the right was right about white trash Clinton game)that the regular folks love Palin, I will kick in my television.
I came from working class, poor working class....immigrants who despite not being able to graduate high school sent their children to college because they valued education. My mother's English was never great because it was not her first language. She mispronounced words and we kids remember those words with fondness. But my mother made damn sure her children were well spoken, well educated, as well as proud of their heritage. There is no conflict between being well spoken and well educated and still admiring, remembering and cherishing your roots.
But the right has distorted this. George W had the best education money could buy and still he sounded like some backwoods dufus, and had no intellectual curiosity. Sarah Palin's claim to being a regular person and her attempt to make sounding well educated and intelligent and bad thing sickens me.
The pundit class insulted Al Gore daily for his "intellectualism." They allowed George W's alcoholic past, AWOL past be ignored and hidden while pushing the "Kerry is an elitist" meme. And some have pushed the Obama, a man whom Harvard can be proud of, is an elitist and McCain, who graduated at the bottom of his class, is cool.
I have come to the conclusion that the pundit class loves the status quo, the plutocracy which benefits so many of them. The Matthews, the Russerts, the Williams, and so many others live in the gated communities of the ultra rich and the policies of Reagan, Bush and son benefitted them. They feared that Bill Clinton's successful economy, the one that benefitted middle class would continue with another democrat and perhaps undo some of the damage of the "Reagan trickle down" farce....and so they had a hand in electing W. If I had a nickle for everytime the pundits told us how W is a regular guy, someone to have a beer with, someone we could relate to, I would have a saving account. Even sadder is how the public fell for such garbage.
We cannot let these people do it again.
We cannot allow the pundit class to put into office another dolt administration that will benefit them.
Brooks is the elitist......and so are most republican pundits and leaders...but they are GREEDY elitists who would love nothing more than to remain the landed gentry while the rest of us barely make ends meet.
I blame the MSM for a lot of this, along with an ignorant electorate whose own greed has turned their ignorance at the ballot box into a disaster.
Firstly, birth control fails. I have defied three very good methods, myself; although, my ovaries should probably be inducted into the Ovarian Hall of Fame. -- Retzilian
As I mentioned in the other post; some cases are hard. But this one is not so hard.
You are saying "girl has accident" and decides to have baby killed. I am not on board with that; especially since she only has 9 months of "slavery" and then can give baby up for adoption.
I like government to stay completely out of these things and would vote in my state to keep the option open for women who decide to kill the baby. I would let karma dish out the punishment; but I would never call it a mere "choice" as if you were picking out a restaurant.
Speaking of which, I must leave and take my own aged mother to lunch. She gave me life at an early age and it would have been better for her personally to not do it. (the jokers out there are thinking "better for all of us")
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In response to your courteous comment, allow me to point out yet more short-sightedness on your part:
In this country only the girl gets to decide if the baby lives or dies. Legally the boy has no say; so I did not mention him other than to point out that everyone seems surprised at where babies come from.
Well, that's not really the issue. The issue is whether or not we as a government can force that decision one way or the other. If your experience is that the boy doesn't have any say in the matter, I can counter that with much experience with the boy wanting the abortion and the girl having the baby anyway. I don't think any of us are surprised at where babies come from - what I'm surprised at is that you don't mention that the BOY has a choice of having sex or not or using protection or not or being "fixed" or not. Why do you put all the burden on the girl?
I never see anyone mention that the girl could take the baby to term and then turn it over for adoption to the many couples (and singles) that would love to take an American baby rather than have to go overseas for a child.
Nonsense. Adoption happens all the time. Lots of healthy, ethnically preferred girls have babies and give them up. I have close personal experience with that as well. However, there are more unwanted babies than willing couples to adopt. What if there were no abortion? Who would adopt all those babies? Get serious. Now you're going to get racist on me as well? Sheesh.
I have females in my own family who have faced this decision. I need not be female to understand as long as the babies being killed are male as well as female.We will just have to disagree about this "murder" and "killing" definition. But, I wonder if you were alluding to what goes on in China?
I think that adoption would be a better solution if the god damn government would stay out of it. I know several well-off women who would pay the girls expenses and take very good care of the baby; perhaps even pay her a profit. The government will send folks to jail that try that scheme.There are not nearly enough "well off women" to pay the tab; surrogate mothers are still legal, I think. Most of the time, however, babies are born to girls who can't afford them and in circumstances less than ideal. Even in good environments, kids are born to parents who throw them to the wolves. Take Sarah Palin, for example. heh
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