Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: A 17 year old is not a political talking point
Politics is no a tea party. Sharp elbows are thrown and words are meant to inflict as much rhetorical and political damage as possible. All fair and predictable when a pol dips his/her toe in election waters; however, that same rule is not transferable to the families of politicians, especially underage children.
The media feeding frenzy over Gov. Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter’s pregnancy is unseemly. I would use more colorful language but we have rules here at 365. The young girl was not picked by John McCain to be the Republican vice president nominee and her story adds nothing to what voter need to know about Palin. How does this story inform on Palin’s stands on the Iraq War, the economy, terrorism, Afghanistan, and the multiple other issues a new administration will face come January.
Sure politicians put their families out there as props for why they deserve our vote; however, we as voters are not required to pay attention when pols scrub the family for the photo opp. No need to take the bait just because it’s offered.
I’ll give the last word to Democratic nominee Barack Obama who says it perfectly.:
“I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits and people’s children are especially off limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.”
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As progressives woman’s issues should be one of our top goals. I would think that dragging a 17 year old pregnant girl through public shame and judgment would be against everything we believe in.
Does a woman stop being a woman when her mothers a republican?
To do this seams to me equally slimy as making political points promising a Constitutional Admendment that I know will go nowhere.
What kind of equality do we want?
ReplyMichael,
Uneducated?
Enjoy your week-end.
Sincerely,
James
ReplyWe need to start a campaign at Logo to replace the boring, tired, uneducated, and uninteresting James Withers with the brilliant VICTORIA. Her comments are always spot on!
ReplyI am so tired of hearing about this woman I could puke!
But, I read somewhere, she stated out loud and I won’t use quotes, those people (gays %lesbians) don’t make a family and not to refer to those people as family in her presence.
ReplyI guess I should have watched all those rousing speeches so I would be more current. Well I don’t need to waste time with all that crap. I can see very well what those a holes are doing. Patting themselves on the backs for being so clever and feeling so great about how they’ll all deliver us from the bad homosexuals. We can be cured, pandered, l;ied to, spit on, beat up and killed and no one will really miss us. Because we’re a threat to their sanctity of marriage and families. Oh really! 50% divorce rate {1 in 2}, dead beat parents, horrible child abuse, drunken spousal cheating, single parent homes, kids left to their own wills who commit terrible crimes, drugs, guns, irresponsible breeding abandonment and on and on and on. Sure a lot of relationships are fine in the str8 world, but Ithink lots of folks will lie about their’s because they don’t want to look bad to friends and family. Yes Iwant equal rights for everyone. Iam a gay man with a man I’ve been with for 32 years, I’m a lucky guy. We look at whats going on with heavy hearts, it hurts me to see and hear so much inequality all around us. Ijust have to say, I read one comment that states Palin sponsored an aerial kill of wolves. Well as an animal lover this just sickens me to death. How dare she approve of such meaningless cruelty. Maybe if she had been concentrating on her own family she wouldn’t have time to come up with what we are now beginning to learn. She is not vp material Neither is McCain. Both bigots of the worst ilk. We don’t need trash like them in power. You decide. Enough of you don’t want them that’s obvious. Vote for Obama and I see a better way to go. Peace to all, Doug and Phil…
ReplyVictoria, you are my Hero! Well said!
ReplyThe notion that families are “off limits” is utterly detached from reality. Republicans have repeatedly made private sexual conduct an electoral issue, especially by denigrating and dehumanizing the LGBT community. This is about exposing hypocrisy in Palin and the general absurdity of conservative positions on sex education.
Ultimately Mr. Withers you are simply using this editorial for some shallow moral posturing which shows a painful lack of analytical rigor.
ReplyRalph Said:”…Einstein said a definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over hoping for a different result.” No! No! No!- it’s the Heisenberg’s “no condom” -uncertainty principle- which only results if you don’t pray real hard enough and click your red ruby slippers together just right: She’s only little bit pregnant.
Reply– It goes along with:
There is WMDs in IRAQ, There is WMDs in IRAQ, There’s is WMDs in IRAQ.
This from a Person who is under Indightment for Wrong Doings in teh Alaska Gov. not to mention she is against any Wildlife Sanctions AKA the Arial Wolf Hunts she pushed through the legeslature. “Abstenance” where? Rumors abound about teh Legitimacy of her Son as her own and Not her Daughters. Yeah Yeah ok, so when tHEY DO IT ITS OH Poo Poo. When the Dem’s make a blunder , GOD FORBID Break out eh Baptist revivalists and hit them over the head with a Pan, Indight , Impeach what ever it takes to get them Out of Office so the GOp can Control Completely. Abraham Lincols once said” Ya can fool some of the People some of the time,Most of the People all of the time , but you cannt Fool all of the People All of the Time.”
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