Sarah Palin -- good lord, where do I start? 17-year-old unwed daughter... should've announced the pregnancy weeks ago locally so as to make it "old news". Instead, she was apparently shunted off and not seen in public until she had to. Do we need anymore proof that abstinence education doesn't work? Hello Mrs. Palin?
She's a rabid pro-lifer... but she has no trouble going back to work three days after giving birth to a special needs child.
OK so I was reading the NY Times online today and I read
the following comment, written by a reader, and my eyebrows went WAY high:
Quote:
Sue Williams, an Alaska Republican who has a blog called Mudflats, posted some very interesting reflections recently on Palin and how she is handling the pressures of parenting 5 children including a recent special needs infant, while working as a governor and now campaigning as a Vice Presidential candidate:
"But it is the same vein - this lack of judgement - Sarah showed, on the campaign trail for governor, when asked who would raise her children should she win, she promptly stated that Todd would quit his job and stay at home with the kids (Todd works a "Slope" week on/week off schedule).
Sarah was elected and then - whoops. Todd didn't like the stay at home gig - so Sarah, citing they needed money for the kid's college (even though Track enlisted in the military) said Todd was returning to work. When asked about her statements on the campaign trail about how Todd would quit his job, Sarah said she'd actually never talked to him about what they would do if she was elected (in terms of his employment) and that she'd spoken out of turn when she spoke for him stating he'd quit his job.
Again, call me picky, but this is the kind of bizarre judgement Sarah routinely displays. Are you kidding me that she would run for governor and she and her husband would somehow not think to have a conversation about what to do with their four school aged kids? That's insane. So, either her judgement is super goofy, or she wasn't telling the truth. Either way, it's not reassuring to now think this is someone who would be one 72 year old heartbeat away from having to call shots for the country/world.
So Todd trots himself back to work and Sarah is busy traipsing around the state and the nation. The kids are "farmed out" (this is the word used by thier associates in "the Valley") to family and friends to raise while Todd and Sarah are off having their respective careers (Sarah is famously quoted as saying, "My mom does whatever I need her to").
During this period is when Bristol, Sarah's sixteen year old daughter, turns up pregnant. So, it's kind of interesting to note that the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee and her sixteen year old junior in high school unwed daughter were carrying babies at the same time. Once Bristol's condition became more obvious this summer, she was whisked out of sight and hasn't been seen in public until yesterday in Ohio. This is why Trig's blanket was strung across her entire abdomen and torso, but, when she walked down the stairs from the stage, in a profile shot, it was very clear to see she is well into her third trimester of her pregnancy.
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For me, once again it speaks to judgement. We all - every single one of us - even Sarah's closest friends in the Valley (I know, I've been speaking to them) know she is in no way qualified for this position. At all.
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How does one dash about the country for the next 66 days trying to pull off an image of the devoted mother of five when she, by and large, isn't the one raising them?
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Whoa nelly!!
So I went to go look for this Mudflats blog. It's
here. Holy moly -- interesting stuff from a local!! I'm adding her to my RSS feed!