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Gov. Palin represents a bad choice for White House potential. Not because she’s a woman. Not for lack of experience (I champion that actually, experience has us where we are. Inexperience is a happy change)
She’s a bad choice because she has “actual responsibilities” (to quote from her speech tonight). She has a baby and other small children. If McCain dies in office (or even not) she’ll be juggling dirty diapers and back seat arguments while making an attempt at remaining focused on dying soldiers or starving, drowning citizens on whom befalls a Katrina-esque disaster.
I can hear it now: “Don’t make me stop this limo! You two stop fighting! Can Mom get a break? I am dealing with some VERY complicated world issues and all you two are worried about is who gets the toy from the cereal box!” Oh, and this one, "Sweetie, I know you're only 17 but that is YOUR baby not MINE! I have other 'actual responsibilities'. I have no time to help you learn to be a mom before you are done being a kid!"
Nope! It ain’t fair to the US; it is LESS fair to those kids. She has 5 kids and a grandchild on the way. As a parent, I know that my kids come first. For a President, the country has to come first.
Come back in 18 years or so Mrs. Palin. I’m sure you’ll make a fine executive but can't that wait until after the high school graduation party when your little one will walk with your daughter's little one? Do the right thing. Raise those kids yourself. Don’t let the Federal Day Care Center do it!
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Don't get me wrong. I have an issue with Obama and his very young girls, too! But new borns at least one with special needs?
It just sounds like she'll have a little trouble focusing on her job while she struggles with focus on her "actual responsibilities".
Very interesting. I am glad I read it. I wouldn't have thought about your arguement and think you are right. Would she (if something bad happened to McCain) be able to be President when/if the country needs her and put family second?
Luffy
bluto
i have been thinking alot about this myself but why obviously president clinton was a horable father and i think the last time we had kids this age in the white house would be JFK and i kind of like the idea of her little girl playing peekaboo out from the desk
so why dont we ask this about fathers as well. im not saying this from the femenist ideolagy iether more from the self searching of myself lately i have been working 20 hour days and i have been asking myself what actuly is best for me and my family and what is more important in my life (hence my recent post on if i should go fight in Georgia or not) but i agree to some things but also think damn do we need her as well with the options we have this election and the critical point are country is in palin has been the one thing i have had to suport sence Paul stoped. I love what she has done in alaska i love alaska and have family there and so i am one of the few who actuly knew who she was more then a month ago
I dunno PK,
Women tend to be the nurturers in the human race. We don't question fathers in the White House because we're used to seeing men go off a'huntin' and gatherin' and men are pretty much used to doing this. I think women might just hold certain instincts that men do not. Hers might kick in at the wrong time.
I keep thinking she is just a front for the ticket and that something might come along in her personal life that causes her to lend resignation some consideration. Then McCain would appoint someone else VP.
On the other hand, I think Bush has secured defeat for the Republicans and they knew this a long time ago. I think they've conceded and have put McCain out there because he deserves a shot but will be too old next time around. They have nothing to lose with him. Everyone else who might have a legitimate shot in 4 years is simply laying low while McCain and Palin make a go of it. They're planting seeds of prediction now that might flourish into "I-told-you-so" arguments in 2012.
i realy would like to see how she handles her son being at war or god forbid his death at war why she would be in office
Bluto,
My friend, I disagree with you. In fact, I believe your argument is lame and your comments are sexist.
If this were a man with five kids, would you still have the same stance? I believe it would be a non-story. I don’t believe governing the State of Alaska is exactly a part-time job. I have a feeling it probably takes more time than being vice-president of the US. Historically, the vice-president has been a do nothing job. I’m sure if Sarah Palin ends up occupying that mansion on Massachusetts Avenue she will have plenty of support for her family and special needs child.
There are plenty of working mothers out there and in most cases their kids end up doing just fine. Palin is no doubt an intelligent woman. Why don’t we give her the benefit of the doubt instead of pre-judging whether she may or may not be capable of raising a family?
Fric Mon buddy,
You're right, I don't think she should have accepted the position of Governor of any state while pregnant. During that pregnancy she may have robbed that state of valuable and needed leadership. She also robbed her children of much needed mothering as evidenced by her 17-year-old's pregnancy. Where was mom when daughter was 13,14, 15 or 16?
Sorry to disappoint. The truth is, men and women are different. There is nothing new about this truth. Mankind has evolved the way it has evolved. Women carry those babies for 9 months before they give birth. The attachment a woman has to a child is different from the bond a man shares with that child. You're right, it's easy for Americans to accept that a first lady will raise the children while dad governs the nation. Mr. Moms are rare in our society for sure.
I said nothing negative of her capabilities. In fact I stated she might make a great leader in decade or two. Now she has a young baby and a grand baby on the way. Her young baby demands even MORE attention than your average baby considering its Downs Syndrome condition.
Casting that baby into the hands of a nanny or other outside care provider may be a great example of her stance against abortion and I applaud that, (I am pro choice but think most everyone should choose life) but it's a very poor example of how to go about raising children. The conservative position that you should raise your own children by staying home (usually mom, but dad can do it) is slowly dying.
As for the position that the VP is not a very demanding job, it's irrelevant. The main purpose of the VP is to take over when the P dies. We have to consider any would-be VP's capabilities as president, first. I wonder why she didn't run this year. I wonder why McCain didn't select someone who has already spent millions presenting themselves as a worthy candidate for the position.
Besides, in this case we have perhaps the highest likelihood of a president dying in office that we've seen in a long time with McCain's age and the red necks down south who might harbor some disdain for dark skin.
Women carry and traditionally nurture children in a way men cannot. I think it a bad example of Christian conservatives to parade as potential leaders a married couple who for some reason could not succeed in instilling virtues of safe sex or celibacy in their teen daughter. It presents: "Well they couldn't do it, so I guess it can happen to anyone. Why bother trying. Kids these days are just on their own."
Rather than a shining example of a conservative lifestyle of parenthood and family unity, they represent the two-job working family with a nanny or over reliance on day care provision. This is part of what I believe is tearing down our society and its virtues.
Her family is standing up and saying, "See everyone, you can do it too! Have a lot of children and don't let that get in the way of your career. Don't worry about raising them. Someone will step up and do it for you. What matters is career. Not family." I think that is a poorly chosen message for McCain to expect the Right to recieve openly.
And of course I recognize that the Obama's are sending a similar message of two-job working families and such but this traditionally conservative message I'm spouting tends to come from the right rather than the left.
It adds to my belief that they are going after liberal voters who vowed they'd not vote for Obama if he beat out Clinton. They slap their own movement in the face in order to do so methinks.
I believe Ms. Palin is very well qualified for the job of VP. I also think that if her kids and family life have not been able to take her away from her career up to this point, it's probably not likely to happen in the next four years either.
Now...I am pretty concerned that ANY mom would put their career before their kids. And in that same vein, some stay-at-home moms have lifestyles that also come before the attention they give to raising their kids. Now, I'm not trying to justify working moms by saying that. I didn't have a stay-at-home mom, but I wish I had. Because of the ill effects of her decision to work, I decided as a teenager that I would be a stay-at-home mom as long as I had kids at home, and I eventually found a wonderful man who felt the same way. Because of my experiences, I truly believe that staying home (as a mom) and directing your time, energy, and efforts toward raising your children is the very BEST way to contribute to society.
That being said, I don't think that Sarah Palin is slowing down anytime soon, VP or not. There is no "perfect" candidate, so we are ultimately going to have to look past something in each person. But since I'm so closely aligned with everything else Palin and the Republican party stand for, I will definitely be voting McCain-Palin.
I don't really think that Bush has "secured defeat" for the Republican party. I do know who I would've chosen for VP if I were McCain, but no matter who the candidate is, there will be plenty of fault finding. I wish Mrs. Palin would stay home and pay more attention to her kids, but she's not going to no matter what happens. The best case scenario at this point would be for her husband to be a full-time dad.
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