And Our Next Vice President Is....Lynne Spears?
Okay, first off, let me say that I never agreed with the public evisceration of Britney and Jamie Lynn's mom for the misdeeds of her daughters. Granted, I didn't feel she should be running web forums on parenting, but far as I know, she wasn't. But the conservative media sure had a field day, blaming her with impunity for the out-of-control status of BOTH her children, as evidenced by the obviously unplanned, and factually unwed, pregnancy of the sixteen-year-old star of Nickeldeon's "Zoey 101." A book Lynne had planned with a Christian publisher was delayed (it will finally release later this month) and she feuded publicly with Dr. Phil, who despite calling her a "great parent," violated Brittany's patient-doctor confidentiality with nary a pause. And Jamie Lynn herself was called any number of those so-charming epithets reserved for unwed teenage moms. So I wonder whether we will hear from those same voices now that Sarah Palin's seventeen-year-old daughter is sporting a baby bump?
I kinda think we won't. Bristol Palin, despite the attention, will doubtless get a free pass (at least in regards to right-wing publicity....her personal life being another matter altogether). I can already hear pro-lifers praising her for her "courageous" decision in keeping the baby. And Sarah Palin will be portrayed as an emotionally wounded hero, bearing those internet rumors about Trig and the real truth of her daughter's "tragic" pregnancy with grace and poise. And I say.....please. Let's get real. The fact is, if Sarah Palin was a Democrat, the religious right would not be focusing on the pro-life issue, but rather on the premarital sex issue. And Sarah Palin advocates abstinence-only sex education--despite making a seemingly gratuitous nod to contraception, she is about as religiously rigid as they come on the whole subject of premarital sex and teen pregnancy.
So here we are. Her daughter is a living example of how well such abstinence-only programs and parental attitudes work, even when you are raising a daughter in the sleepy hamlet of Wasilla, Alaska. But perhaps, as Lynne Spears said in the famous statement she was so condemned for, Bristol, like Jamie Lynn, "always made curfew." So how is a mother to know, right? Maybe she can't. Maybe the best Sarah Palin, or any other mother, can do, is arm her children with the knowledge of how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. And if she had, maybe things would have gone a little differently. Maybe then Sarah's daughter's life would have been a little less Jamie-Lynn Spears, and little more Chelsea Clinton.
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to me this article illustrates another contradiction put forth by the mccain camp. who is really trying to create celebrity? i just hope mccain will have to answer for these.
Well this is what we been waiting for, Mccain after all of this time he has miss one of the most importain chance to make a better choice and he screw it up, well that his tried and true experince; lol, if after all this time all these months and years this man have to pick a runing mate, that have five kids and a 17 year old with child?, it really make you wonder where his head and mind is at; soundly, Mccain just don't get it, the evidence has clearly shown that this woman need to be home with her kids, Borack has miss a chance to reenforce his speech about teenage pregnancy the other nite at the convention, there a way to talk about anything he should have capitalized on that, if you going to be the president ever family is going to be your business.He could have shown how this teenage pregnancy cut across all level of socity. It is what it is. There is some thing about politics that you just can not put on a higher playing field, Barrack you have to get your hand s dirty. it is what it is.
My follow american, if our leaders does not have the hubleness to step down after they have screw up we have to hit the reset bottom for the american government, it is out of sync with it's peoples we need to hit the reset bottom by electing Barrack Obama.it is what it is.
My follow american, if our leaders does not have the humbleness to step down after they have screw up we have to hit the reset bottom for the american government, it is out of sync with it's peoples we need to hit the reset bottom by electing Barrack Obama.it is what it is.
For those of you who have gotten a tast of the republican experince team you may want to push home the short coming of the Bush team of experince, they have gotten 2 wars; and the cold war =3 whole sale loosing of homes, know health care, recession I could go on and on. it is what it is.
American borders not secure, when you got this type of situation any body can walk in, with that you have citizens who do not feel safe an secure and they do not have a feeling of belonging to a special club. When a country border is wide open, it's cheapen itself,as a country, peoples and citizens become divided, against the known and the unknown citizens. it is what it is
Any government should invest in it's peoples to get more return on it's dollare and it's socity. When you invest in them you make them more valuable. With that they get better jobs and pay more into taxes into the system. When a government can send you off to war at the blink of an eye,They should also be able to spend money and invest in you for the good of the country to live. When you got a country that has health care for it's congrass and senators and non for it's masses of citizens you got grave situations, there have to be a balance with what the government do and don't do for it's peoples. If you can send them to war you can also send them to the hospital for care. Anytime you have government power couple with impunity you have the recipe for absolute wide scale abuse of power dereliction of duty to it's peoples. it is what it is.
Sarah palin was pick by Mccain, unlike obama who pick himself for president, there is know comparison, obama is light years ahead of her, you may compare her to bush I really get sick to my stocmach when they talk about comparison to Obama and sarah, they pick sarah for a number of reason, first to get interest and jazz up the republican party, this is party before country, never thinking what will happen if the did have to go to the white housew and they don't care.> they will try to get this white house at all cost, what is this woman going to ido if Mccain hit the dust, and some country make a move on the us, some general will take her completely out of the loop. Obama put himself on the national front by his own booth strap, so he deserved to be in the white house not by default. It is time for the dem's attack dog to come out in force now, before this election slip away it is what it is.
Yup, yup. The joke's on the pundits yet again, because Palin knows Middle America, and they don't.
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