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Some things to like about Sarah Palin
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 02:21 pm |
This is a long thread to read in a short time, so forgive me if I am repeating anyone else, but personally I think this woman is a timebomb! I would not be voting republican with her standing beside Old McCain, and someone who will most probably end up as president if he wins. Pro life she may be, and I believe the choice is a personal one, so what happened to her pro-life ideals when it comes to looking after her mongol son? I guess she has palmed him off on to someone else to look after.
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 04:17 pm |
This is a long thread to read in a short time, so forgive me if I am repeating anyone else, but personally I think this woman is a timebomb! I would not be voting republican with her standing beside Old McCain, and someone who will most probably end up as president if he wins. Pro life she may be, and I believe the choice is a personal one, so what happened to her pro-life ideals when it comes to looking after her mongol son? I guess she has palmed him off on to someone else to look after.
I´m shocked that you think a mother who has a "mongol" which I haven´t heard this term in years.....A mother with a down syndrom baby can´t have a career. So women can´t have a career who have kids? Is it so awful to have daycare? Do you find this palming it off on someone else? Unbelievable!
As far as everyone´s comments here about abortion..your entitled to your views. This doesn´t change my views one bit about pro-life, in fact it just reaffirms why I believe this way in the first place.
Interesting that Hilliary also called out Obama on the fact he voted "present" which means "no" on seven bills introduced. Two bills outlawed the late-term procedure that opponents call partial-birth abortion. Two bills required parental notification for minors seeking abortions. Three bills were for so-called "born alive" legislation, which require doctors to administer medical care to aborted fetuses that survive the abortion process in hopes that the fetuses can survive. Just many of the hundreds of reasons why I don´t want him representing me.
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 04:19 pm |
Wow, apparently I missed alot when I went to work! I think it is good to debate these issues.. not just in our own country but around the world. The original subject was on a politicians views, and how she may or may not change things for the better or worse, but I think Roswitha is right here.. This is a woman who comes from a privaledged family. Not a poor one, or one that has had to work her way through life.. This is not saying that she has not had hard times, Im sure she has, we all do. But this article shouts out the "agenda" that McCain had in seeking a woman in the first place. Kudos!
I´m not sure why you think Palin came from a "privileged" family. Her father was a teacher and her mother was a secretary and she had to enter beauty pagents to earn money for college.
She had her first child barely 8 months after eloping. One has to wonder if her teenage daughter would have gotten pregnant if her mother had educated her on sex rather than hypocritically preaching abstinence.
And speaking of hypocrites....I am loving McCain´s outrage at Obama´s "lipstick on a pig" comment yesterday. It is the EXACT term he used earlier in the campaign when discussing Hillary Clinton´s health care agenda. So it wasn´t sexist when he said it but it is now when Obama uses it????
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 04:25 pm |
I´m shocked that you think a mother who has a "mongol" which I haven´t heard this term in years.....A mother with a down syndrom baby can´t have a career. So women can´t have a career who have kids? Is it so awful to have daycare? Do you find this palming it off on someone else? Unbelievable!
I agree. It was a derogatory and sexist statement!
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 04:31 pm |
As far as everyone´s comments here about abortion..your entitled to your views. This doesn´t change my views one bit about pro-life, in fact it just reaffirms why I believe this way in the first place.
Isn´t that exactly the point of what is being discussed here? Everyone is entiltled to their views?
And women are entitled to do what is right for THEM and not have it legislated/DICTATED to them what to do!!!!!!!!
You are so adamant about the government not stepping on your right to smoke if you choose to but don´t see the parallel here. It is the same thing....government regulating your right to do what you want with your body.
And if you say that it is not the same because smoking doesn´t involve a fetus.......lets talk about second hand smoke.
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 04:41 pm |
I´m not sure why you think Palin came from a "privileged" family. Her father was a teacher and her mother was a secretary and she had to enter beauty pagents to earn money for college.
She had her first child barely 8 months after eloping. One has to wonder if her teenage daughter would have gotten pregnant if her mother had educated her on sex rather than hypocritically preaching abstinence.
And speaking of hypocrites....I am loving McCain´s outrage at Obama´s "lipstick on a pig" comment yesterday. It is the EXACT term he used earlier in the campaign when discussing Hillary Clinton´s health care agenda. So it wasn´t sexist when he said it but it is now when Obama uses it????
Not to mention her husband is a fisherman. No one really cares about Obama´s "lipstick on a pig" and what his intent was no one really knows except for Obama. I just think it´s very sad that they keep trying to use her 17 year old pregnant daughter as a target and grasping for straws. Not to mention Bidens speech yesterday, admitting Hillary would have been a better choice than him. What confidence he is showing his party. Now I´m thinking that he will suddenly have a medical condition so that Hillary could step in. Also not to mention that a new survey shows that only 29% of Obama´s supporterss support the U.S. Constitution..now if that doesn´t send a message.
For the few years that Obama has been "community organizer"...no this doesn´t refer to him being black which is now what his campaign is claiming..he has 18 PAGES of fund raising requests. Give me your money, so I can give it to someone else...18 PAGES
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 04:44 pm |
Isn´t that exactly the point of what is being discussed here? Everyone is entiltled to their views?
And women are entitled to do what is right for THEM and not have it legislated/DICTATED to them what to do!!!!!!!!
You are so adamant about the government not stepping on your right to smoke if you choose to but don´t see the parallel here. It is the same thing....government regulating your right to do what you want with your body.
And if you say that it is not the same because smoking doesn´t involve a fetus.......lets talk about second hand smoke.
This has nothing to do with the goverment but MY moral belief that abortion is WRONG..So now you want to compare smoking with human life?
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 04:59 pm |
This has nothing to do with the goverment but MY moral belief that abortion is WRONG..So now you want to compare smoking with human life?
I´m not comparing smoking to human life I am comparing anti-smoking legislation to anti-abortion legislation. But if you want to go there..........doesn´t smoking take a much larger toll on human life than abortion?
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 05:01 pm |
No one really cares about Obama´s "lipstick on a pig" and what his intent was no one really knows except for Obama.
Then why are all the Republicans so outraged and crying for Obama to apologize to Palin?
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 05:11 pm |
Then why are all the Republicans so outraged and crying for Obama to apologize to Palin?
I don´t know, I think it´s quite idiotic myself The Republicans are using sexism and the Democrats are using the race card. I just wish they would discuss important topics at this point.
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11 Sep 2008 Thu 06:47 pm |
I´m shocked that you think a mother who has a "mongol" which I haven´t heard this term in years.....A mother with a down syndrom baby can´t have a career. So women can´t have a career who have kids? Is it so awful to have daycare? Do you find this palming it off on someone else? Unbelievable!
As far as everyone´s comments here about abortion..your entitled to your views. This doesn´t change my views one bit about pro-life, in fact it just reaffirms why I believe this way in the first place.
Interesting that Hilliary also called out Obama on the fact he voted "present" which means "no" on seven bills introduced. Two bills outlawed the late-term procedure that opponents call partial-birth abortion. Two bills required parental notification for minors seeking abortions. Three bills were for so-called "born alive" legislation, which require doctors to administer medical care to aborted fetuses that survive the abortion process in hopes that the fetuses can survive. Just many of the hundreds of reasons why I don´t want him representing me.
My opinion is "unbelieveable" that a women should bring us her own children! Shock horror!!!!
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