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Re: Thin, thin community skin

bilge rat — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:40:28 -0000

What I find interesting is the speculation on whether or not Mrs. Palin SHOULD be the vp nominee because she is the mother of five children.

For years women have been told "you can have it all" from N.O.W. and other feminist organizations. The hypocrisy of the left only proves "you can only have it all" if you're a democrat or liberal.

If you're a conservative woman, you're called names and accused of abandoning your children for the sake of your career.

I know this has been mentioned around other media outlets, but why is this question never asked of any male candidates? Why is no one asking Michelle or Barack Obama to stay home and raise their kids? Mrs. Obama works, full time, as a "diversity coordinator" for a large hospital in Chicago, if I'm not mistaken. Unless she's working out of her home, then she is just as guilty of putting her career in front of her family and children.
Mrs. Obama is portrayed by the media as a stylish, well-spoken, educated woman who has it all. Yet Mrs. Palin is being projected as a lax parent, uneducated, unqualified redneck. If you don't believe me, or feel that I'm "whining" check out the blatant smear on Mrs. Palin versus the unadulated fawning over Mrs. Obama issued by the rag, US magazine...

No media bias there /sarc off/

Re: Thin, thin community skin

jacrlsn — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:01:03 -0000

Thank you Jason for confirming what i said in my first post on this statement. Wow didn't take you long to throw the personal arrow.

Re: Thin, thin community skin

JasonW — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:25:55 -0000

Both sides are firing. Both sides are taking it and firing back.

The only ones doing the whining are half-baked commentators and bloggers who can't come up with some real substance.

The last two Soapbox (the semimonthly-at-best blog that newspaper promos encourage us to read daily) blog posts were nothing but whining. Not even accurate whining - the August 27 "Ooops, she said it again …" post whined about how partisan Hillary Clinton's speech was at her party's national convention -- sounding very much like complaining about snow at a ski tournament -- and how that type of speech would not be tolerated by the Republicans. (Psst, anyone listen to the RNC speeches?)

At least Jim Carlson was first in line as usual to give his "Amen, Brother!" praise.

Re: Thin, thin community skin

jacrlsn — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:33:52 -0000

Mr. Amerding, It won't be long before the liberal bell-ringers start their chorus. It is their way apparently to think they can throw all the barbs they want, but they refuse to accept anyone's right to throw any back. They are the first to call names (and avoid facts) but anyone who calls names back are "Bushies" or "Neo=cons"
I've said it before but God bless us all everyone.