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September 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
excellent piece.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
The problem is that Gov. Palin would like us to respect her daughter’s choice to have a baby, while having no respect for the choices of other women.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Dear CJP, I invite you to watch a hockey game. In it you will observe “minor penalties,” “major penalties,” “game misconducts” and a whole host of other rule infractions. What you won’t find are “personal fouls.” Those are only found on a basketball court. For the hockey literate, your headline is deserving of a red card.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Loved this, commented at foxnews, love Sarah Palin. She’s our neighbor, our kind, good for Alaska and good for America. This is a leader, a Mayor, a Governor, a Mother of five, who pushes her own shopping cart and goes from ‘baby mode’ to shackling big oil and presiding over the imprisonment of those in her own party and back to ‘baby mode’ in the blink of an eye. You haven’t seen multitaskin yet!
GO PALIN WE LOVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY LIKE OUR OWN!
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Lance,
Fox actually write the headlines, but thanks for the correction. I am completely hockey illiterate, so I’ll take the red card. (A red card is bad, right?)
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Yes. A red card is bad, but in soccer, not hockey. My attempt at humor.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I feel for Bristol but lets be honest: if it weren’t for Sarah Palin’s own personal views on pregnancy/abortion/sex-education, etc, this would not be the issue that it has become.
Let no one forget that what her daughter is going through now, thousands of other young ladies go through as well. The difference is that there are many out there who do not have the support, emotional or financial, that Bristol will. Another difference is that if Sarah Palin had her way, life would be much more difficult for young ladies in this situation. Even today the WP had an article on how Palin cut funding for shelters trying help young ladies in the same situation as Bristol but without means:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_slashed_funding_to_help.html?hpid=artslot
CJP asks “Does it really matter to the country what the Alaska governor’s children do in their own time?” In this particular case it does because it underscores Sarah Palin’s political worldview. It is unfortunate that she felt the need to put her own daughter through this.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:28 am
People who pretend to “feel” for Bristol but need to use her to attack her mom are the biggest hypocrites. They don’t feel for her not in the least bit. They resort to the same sanctimonious posturing and puerile high school clique mentality that should be abhorred when either the left or the right stand on their elitist soapbox.
If they were really sincere about fighting for their issues and Palin’s hypocrisy, they could have argued about how wrong it is for her to cut funding for shelters and how that doesn’t support the Pro-Life movement if it makes life difficult for girls to actually decide to keep their babies.
Don’t put it on the mother that you are willing to engage in the most puerile and nasty attacks on a teenager. You chose to go after a teenager instead of the policies and issues made by adults which there is plenty to attack. You went after teenagers and beating them up for their decisions. Not the decisions or actions of the adults and policy makers.
YOU went after a teenager; that’s your decision. Palin didn’t make you do it.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
To Jean:
It’s ok not to agree with my post but isn’t the launching of ad hominem attacks at least in part what you were arguing against? This comes under the heading of practicing what one preaches. A fair reading of my post would show no such “puerile and nasty attacks on a teenager” as you say.
Regardless, I will give you a chance to prove your point: find one quote from my original post that you think qualifies as a “nasty” and “puerile” attack against Bristol. I will be checking this post over the next few days for your response.
I would also remark that I did exactly what you said I should be doing i.e. speak to the policies and positions of Sarah Palin and despite your naked cynicism, I do really feel badly for Bristol. But what can I say to someone who is convinced they know the truth about other people’s motives?
Now, I think your comment that cutting funding for shelters does not benefit the anti-choice movement in their efforts to convince teens to keep their babies is an excellent one. It points up a glaring inconsistency for a person of Palin’s belief system and builds upon my larger point. But to infer a lack of sincerity on my part because I didn’t make your particular argument is tortured logic and rather self-indulgent. I am very sincere and very concerned about this issue and that if Palin and McCain were to win the election, they would criminalize the right of women to make choices concerning their bodies and their lives.
In the end, you should aim your vitriol at Sarah Palin who decided to put her family and Bristol in the national spotlight. What did she expect would happen when running for the second highest office in the country touting anti-choice, anti-sex education, etc and then her own daughters gets pregnant? If she did not anticipate a storm of controversy, that alone should disqualify her from being VP and in the end, Sarah Palin only has herself to blame.
September 15th, 2008 at 11:50 am
The only reason that Bristol’s pregnancy needs to be brought up at all is because it demonstrates quite concretely the problem with the “asbstinence only” position.