Apparently, John McCain has selected Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska as his Vice Presidential running mate.
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Did I mention “in Old Town Manassas”?
Sara Palin on the Iraq War…
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/08/29/palin_iraq/index.html
Marie,
🙂 glad you liked and to keep up with songs that come to mind, this one is for Poor Richard 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpkitLUbeEg
Poor Richard,
I drove by the parking lot yesterday, and wondered it the garage would open. I will have to check out the views. That sounds beautiful. Thanks for the info, and I’ll be passing on the information. What if any is the cost for parking at the lot?
Where is the parking garage?
It’s right next to the parking lot of the train station.
There is no cost to park in the Old Town parking garage, so far! But there are levels that require permit parking.
A couple quick notes.
#1. I’m pro-life and killing an unborn child is a bad choice.
#2. I don’t know a whole lot about Sarah Palin but she sure as heck beats Huckabee or Romney.
I’m not that concerned about McCain’s selection because Obama is going to win 🙂
When Obama gets in, we will continue the heat and makes sure he lives up to his ideals.
Hi Alanna, I am curious why you believe she is preferable to Romney or Huckabee. Is it on a policy difference? Where is the difference? Or is it on a beating Obama/Biden difference?
PS: Also Alanna, as a pro-life Republican, I was wondering if you thought it would be good to state in the platform an exception for the life of the mother?
There was also a battle about immigration language in the platform this year as well.
Leila,
I devoped an extreme dislike for Huckabee after he signed the ‘contract’ with the Minutemen. Romney too was dispicable on the ‘illegal’ immigration issue especially considering his previous position and the 180 that he did. I have not seen any clear policy position from her concerning this issue, so I’ll hold out hope that she is less anti-immigrant than those previously mentioned.
Reply to anon, & A PW County Resident
In answer to both notes. I am sorry if you felt it was a sexism remark. It wasn’t meant to sound like that at all. Just because someone disagrees doesn’t mean it has to be a sexism comment.
No one is claiming that a woman or a man with children or with a special needs child shouldn’t work at anytime if they wanted to do that or go to the top of there career. That isn’t true.
As far as if I would say this to a man. If a man wanted to be Vice President in such a critical time as we are in now & he stated on tv he considers himself as being just a soccer dad it states to me he is an active parent with his children & if his child was as young as 4 months old with special needs I would ask that same question if I thought it might affect him having the time at that time in his life to do a job as big as this one is going to be in this next election.
As far as rejecting Gov. Sara Palin goes for being a mom I would never reject anyone for being a parent. I am not, that is just ridiculous. Mom’s have done remarkable things & have come a long way & still have more work left to do no one is disputing that either, Gov. Sara Palin has accomplished another remarkable step for women. No one is debating that for a moment.
Senator McCains judgement of picking someone regardless if they were a man or a woman at this time with an investigation still pending & being caught lying on tape does concerns me deeply that his choices where made so lightly.
As far as thinking I am an expert on Gov Sara Palins Family goes of course I don’t think that. It was more of a remark from a working mom’s experience who raised her children with medical needs knowing that ages 1-5 can require even more from both parents then what you may expect before you can get them into school & it can affect how big of a job is too big to take on before you have that kind of time. Even thou Mom’s work they don’t suddenly become invisible to the needs of there children. Mom’s have been & will always be very important.
As far as someone posting that the Miss Buffalo Chip was a joke. That is good if it’s true because not everyone I know took it that way & that is also not what the news media reported a few times.
Reply to anon, & A PW County Resident
Correction in my third paragraph. It wasn’t soccer it was hockey.
“Palen was glamorous enough to have entered beauty contest to earn money for
college. She was crowned Miss Wasilla in her hometown and was runner-up in the
1984 Miss Alaska contest. ‘ They made us line up in our bathing suits and turn our
backs so the male judges could look at our butts. I couldn’t believe it.’ she told
Vogue, more amused than outraged.”
London Times (8-30-2008)
No doubt she then went out and shot a moose.
“Ever her mother-in-law, Faye Palin, who said she was still thinking about voting
for Obama, sounded skeptical, wondering why Sarah was selected except for
being a woman and a conservative.” London Times (8-31-2008)
Yes, the good old mother-in-law. How sweet.
Wow, that is just NOT nice of her mom-in-law. The least she could have done is stay silent.
A gentle reminder that being pro-choice means a belief that we, as women, are capable of making our own morally appropriate choices and that the government should have minimal input into this decision.
Too many people want to define pro -choice as pro-abortion. Nothing could be further from the truth.
MH,
Right you are. Pro-choice is just that. It means one believes in a womens right to choose. I just do NOT accept that pro-lifers value the life of an unborn baby more than the mother could possibly die, and leave her other children motherless. What about valuing the living?
More tidbits from the mother in law
“She said people doubted Sarah Palin when she ran for City Council, but that her daughter-in-law had a “singular focus.” “She was out there with [then-young son] Track, pulling him around from house to house in a wagon,” she said. ”
Isn’t that just like a mother-in-law to deliver the back handed complement “singular focus”! What she really meant is that Sarah shouldn’t have been pulling that poor baby around in the wagon campaigning, she should have been “focused” on her hubby and son instead. And like the typical MIL, she is already blaming Palin for taking her precious son completely across the continent from dear old mom. Can’t you imagine the conversation about “mom” that Palin and her hubby are having tonight! I’m sure it starts with “Your mother…”
Even if you don’t like Palin, it is funny that her appeal is that she is a “real person” and now it turns out that she even has a “real mother-in-law” …something many of us can empathize with. I’m guessing MIL won’t be invited to the Lincoln bedroom if the McCain Palin ticket wins.
Not to mention a real problem ex brother-in-law and “Toopergate”.
Well, it looks like Palin’s teen daughter is pregnant. Real nice example for the first daughter of Alaska to be setting.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/01/palins-17-year-old-daughter-is-pregnant/
Chris,
I just saw that on CNN, too. My sense is that people are going to have a field day with this one.
Posted this elsewhere… can you imagine if it was Obama’s 17 year old…????
While her political views and actions are “open season”, I trust people of good
will, no matter their politics, will leave Gov. Palin’s children out of the line of fire.
Obama noted his own mother was 18 when he was born and he has strongly requested
his staff and supporters respect the privacy of the Palin children.
Yes, the far right often shows a lack of basic civility, but it doesn’t mean the
rest of us should behave that way.
Poor Richard,
I agree with your sentiment.
Juturna,
If this were Obama, I can only imgaine the racial undertones the attack would take.
PR I agree. My point was I think it would have been different if it were Obama’s daughter. My extremist Republican friend is all gaga that she is keeping the baby. Give me a break. That wouldn’t even cross her mind if the girl was anything but McCains pick. It certainly hasn’t before.
I admit it I am losing it over this type of hypocritical mentality!!!
Juturna,
Good question about if it were Obama’s daughter. How about one more, how different would it be if instead it were a son in the same situation?
They are talking about this way to much. The real controversy would be did they force her to keep the baby and will they sign permission to get married? Did they give HER the choice? I wish the daughter the best, but no need to rush into marriage. Two wrongs don’t make a right, just more complicated.
Guess the question now is “how old was your mommy when you were born”. This is just nuts. If the girl were black, stones would be flying…. big stones.
Or in the Bob Marshall world the REAL religious family values situation, he’d throw her out of the house.
I will stop….. I will TRY to stop….. I am going to stop NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“I will stop….. I will TRY to stop….. I am going to stop NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
LOL, me too! Well, maybe ONE more, perhaps a person like BM would throw the daughter out of the house to avoid the damage from the stone toss? OKay…..stopping.
Regardless, it is none of our business and each situation is different. Monetarily and morally.
And nothing should ever be more valuable than your child.
Not my point RedDawn. I’m a firm believer in 6degrees of separation.
No, no, I agree and share your point. Kids first no matter what. I should have ELABORATED my thoughts to say they have money ( just like Jamie Lynn Spears and her family) and morally we should all have the FREEDOM to choose as each situation is different. In looking at BM, was that moral? Not in my book.
Juturna,
Even further, speaking of Bob Marshall throwing his daughter out, the same thing was done to my grandmother when my great grandfather was running for senate. She was 14! ( so I left the sarcasm button of which may have confused where I was coming from)when speaking of :”Well, maybe ONE more, perhaps a person like BM would throw the daughter out of the house to avoid the damage from the stone toss?”
And the real shame of all of this discussion is that some 17 year old girl has been thrust unkindly into the national spotlight. Whatever happened to children being hands-off in a presidential campaign like was shown to Chelsea and others? People didn’t even know much about her until she was in her middle 20’s and had gone on the campaign trail.
I guess we have come into the new politics that I have heard so much about.
Oh, and don’t tell me that Mr. Obama called off the dogs. If the positions were reversed and McCain did that, people would still cuss him out just because they expect him to be able to control everything.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/01/palin.evangelicals/index.html
OK, this is what I was talking about earlier in the thread. This makes the third child on this ticket that people have tried to use as a human advertisement for a pro-life stance. I fully support the idea that the Palin family should be allowed to deal with this family situation without criticism; I know they must be going through a lot. If it’s off limits, it should mean just that; no criticism of their personal family decision AND no promotion of it as a big issue-advertisement. This kind of thing makes me want to vomit.
Agreed DG, can’t have it both ways, I think that is called hypocrisy.
James Dobson weighs in with support. How consistant of him
I know there aren’t many Michael Moore fans out there, but he brings up the following interesting point on this recent situation:
“I do feel very sorry that this minor, this child, now has to have her privacy sacrificed because her mother accepted an offer to run for VP. Obama’s right — the children are off limits. I remember when John McCain cruelly trashed Chelsea Clinton when she was a child in the White House. He told reporters that she was “ugly” “because Janet Reno is her father.” Of course, McCain would like us now to accord Palin’s daughter the respect he wouldn’t give Chelsea.”
Well this Mommy would have passed on McCains offer thinking her daughter needed her more. Wild horses couldn’t make me put my 17 year old child in this spotlight.
Family first.
Juturna, give me a break… really. It’s none of your business, why hasn’t anyone talked about John Edwards having an affair on his dying wife but this woman’s child is the talk of the town? If anything I think that it will make more women be able to identify with her because (unfortunately) this is pretty common in the US.
This is for everyone here that has a young daughter, one (or more – depending on the number of people with young daughters) of you will be in this same situation so just chose your words carefully when talking bad about this.
Here are some teen pregnancy numbers by the women’s health channel site:
http://www.womenshealthchannel.com/teenpregnancy/index.shtml
For some reason I can’t find any 2008 numbers but still looking.
I know this is way off topic, but I found this interesting article on John McCain’s behavior at Newsmax.com . I know that we shouldn’t believe everything we read, but there are enough incidents and people interviewed here to cause concern. Also, I remember reading an article on this in Time or Newsweek about a year or two ago.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/5/00548.shtml
Hello,
One of my papers in grad school was sex ed and pregnancy rates. Straight talk vs abstinence only is not the best method to prevent teen pregnancy. It is clear, with a mountain of evidence to support it, that providing some form of both creates the best results. I have a daughter, I hope that we will have the type of relationship that she will have enough trust in me to talk about such major decisions.
Saw the speech. Ew. She’s got one nasty sneer to go with her mean spirited, even hateful dissembling. Can I ask if others felt a little creeped out by the hoards of sneering cheering white people at that convention? Most of the posters here are white I imagine. No offense but ew. People of my generation are not comfortable with such a homogenous gathering, especially with the hate in the air I saw tonight.
Yes, I was uncomfortable with it, too. I was amused how the cameras kept finding and focusing occasionally on any people of color they could find.
Actually, I think one of the worst times last night was during Giuliani’s speech. He made some really nasty remarks. I hated how dismissive he was of Barack Obama. He kept laughing this maniacal Penguin-like (think Batman) laugh along with the crowd when stating Obama’s credentials. Then the crowd repeatedly chanted “zero” whenever Obama’s name was mentioned (a continuation of an earlier comment about his experience that took on new meaning when repeated), as if he meant nothing and was just laughable. All this after so many, including Obama, kissed McCain’s a** for the most part during the DNC.
I wasn’t especially impressed with Palin’s speech, and I can’t think that lots were moved by it…that is, unless, you were already leaning in that direction. I actually didn’t buy a lot of what she said.
I also felt weird because the camera was continually fixed on Bristol and Trig Palin, as it was during previous events. I started to wonder, “Why them, and not the other kids as much?” Cindy McCain had the baby in her arms again, as well.
All in all, a strange and mild creepy evening for this Democrat (I have to admit my bias, here). Agreed, ewwwww!
I have to admit, that I did not watch the entire speech. But I did see most of it and I thought it was void of policy, void of hope, and void of substance. Her belittling Barak turning a community around from unemployment to work was outrageous. Also, I heard from a commentator that as mayor she left her town in debt, is that true I wonder? Maybe this is odd, but it seemed like there was an uncomfortable exchange when John McCain came up on stage after her speech and leaned in to hug/kiss her on the cheek. It just looked like an awkward moment on her part. the hug was fine, but I think the idea that you kiss your VP on the cheek seemed out of place. I am not insinuating improper behavior on John McCains part, but that if his VP were a man, he would never have kissed her on the cheek. It almost struck me as fatherly as opposed to a professional exchange.
I was thinking some more about her speech today. Remember back when John McCain introduced her to the public, and she said something like, “Hillary Clinton made cracks in the glass ceiling, and together we can shatter it.”? Basically, that’s like saying, “Hillary is a woman and so am I, thus vote for moi.”
Her speech last night hit some similar points. She mentioned how she had a special needs child, and people out there with special needs (or a loved one with special needs) should rest assured that they have a friend in the White House (if they vote for her). In the next couple of sentences, she proceded to give a laundry list of her husband’s background. She said:
“He’s a lifelong commercial fisherman … a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope … a proud member of the United Steel Workers’ Union … and world champion snow machine racer. Throw in his Yup’ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.”
Why not just beat us all over the head with the special groups from which you hope to garner some votes? Not that I think the McCain campaign is really trying for the Eskimo vote, but I do think someone thought it would be great to point out that Todd Palin has minority ancestry. Everything just seemed very heavy-handed and weird.
It’s so funny to me that people want to compare her with Barack Obama, when she is NOT the presidential candidate. Her own party is doing a LOT of that right now. Is McCain not good enough for them to put in the forefront? What gives?
If we are going to compare speeches, though, I think that Barack Obama blows everyone out of the water. There are people who will tell you that Sara Palin was very powerful last night; I just don’t see it. However, let’s remember who wrote his own speech (a rarity) and who had a speech written for her. I respect the job of speech writers, but you have to hand it to a leader who can put his own thoughts together and move the nation, rather than always delivering the lines of an advisor.