I am appalled. This woman showed up at work 3 DAYS after giving birth to show she had no intention of neglecting her child, or hiding it away because it is less than perfect. Now we have men attacking her for supposed future neglect, or even for having the child in the first place?
Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s wife, went through the same issue shortly after he was elected Prime Minister of the UK; no one attacked her as irresponsible. We know that more downs syndrome babies are born to older moms, but I know two women, a 21 and a 23 year old, who both ended up in the same situation, so it DOES happen and indeed can happen to anyone.
As for neglect, who the hell is any man to talk? If the child is sick and has to stay home from school, who usually does it. Who is generally earning 70% less wages than a man? Who is often the first to suggest abortion as a way to get rid of an unwanted ‘problem’?
She is a Christian who stuck to her principles. She didn’t ditch them just because it was easy. And she certainly has not neglected her son. Rumor mongering about her and her family is as low as anyone has gone here, and let’s just call it what it is , the same blatant SEXISM that pervaded the media and caused Hillary Clinton to lose what was REALLY the historic bid here, the first woman to make a run for the White House.
Jesse Jackson ran for president 24 years ago. Old news, Obama. Sorry. Lyndon Johnson was the one who worked for civil rights legislation and had it put into effect in 1964, long before the ‘movement’. H Clinton pointed that out, you screamed racism. It was acutally a simple fact.
Sarah Palin for VEEP. Old news, sorry, even if on a Republican ticket is a change.
But a woman for president? THAT is what has all these guys panicking,”John McCain is quite senior, will he last 4 years? THAT is what this is REALLY all about.
I don’t see anyone attacking Obama’s decision to sire 2 kids and potentially pass along any genetic health issues to THEM! Or attacking Palin’s husband for impregnating her! They are upset at her choice,”these are the very people who claim they stand for a woman’s right to choose. Hypocrites, the whole lot of them.
It is NO man’s place to criticise any woman for being a mother or even grandmother unless he can be sure he has 100% unimpeachable credentials as a father. To paraphrase Obama, much as I disagree with him about most other things, any fool can impregnate a woman. It’s what the man is prepared to face by way of responsibility after that fact that makes him a father, or simply a sperm donor.
And attacking a teenager is pointless. Even if it WERE true, she would not be the first grannie who ever had to raise a child as their own. It is no one’s business except her family’s, and does not bear in any way upon her ability to do her job, since she has clearly been doing it effectively in Alaska, unlike Obama, who turned up for only 130 votes in 3 YEARS.
It is time to get this campaign out of the gutter. I am not and never have been a Republican, and never will be. But can we please stop talking about background nonsense and deal with real issues?
