Comments on: Sarah Palin’s Family Values

By: J Porcaro

J Porcaro — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:37:26 +0000

A question. How can Sarah Palin manage our government when she can’t manage her own family? Regardless of what anyone says or thinks, teen-age pregnancy is NOT OK. Children shouldn’t be having children…period. And as far as I’m concerned, it’s the parents’ responsibility to look out for the welfare of their minor children.
I’m shocked that Sarah Palin would even consider accepting nomination. Now, by default, teenage pregnancy has the stamp of approval of the Republican party.
I can only hope that people smarten up before November.

By: Sarah Palin Blog

Sarah Palin Blog — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:17:10 +0000

We can’t afford 4 more years of the same. Grampie McSame and Caribu Barbie have got to go!

By: John Dickerson

John Dickerson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:04:36 +0000

ANOTHER GOOD ONE:
The FundamentaList

This week in the religious right: Special Convention Edition! The religious right loves Sarah Palin and conservatives prepare to get out the vote in November.

by Sarah Posner | September 3, 2008 |

“Last year, she signed a resolution designating an Alaska Christian Heritage Week.”

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_fundamentalist_090308

By: John Dickerson

John Dickerson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:51:26 +0000

NICE ARTICLE:

The Elephant in the Room

Bristol Palin’s pregnancy has been met with widespread acceptance — and even enthusiasm — by women attending the Republican convention.

by Dana Goldstein

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_elephant_in_the_room

By: I am valkyrie

I am valkyrie — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:06:17 +0000

While it is nice to have a (VP) candidate whose values are proven wrong and dysfunctional (and should be mentioned as such again and again), the real problem of this election are different:
1. Comments in The Nation-link did mention the risk of some kind of crisis in early november which will help McCain win (and I cannot jump to an idea how average voters could stop the making of something like that)
2. hired hacks getting access to enough voting machines (Princeton university and a university in the Netherlands have published reports how easy it is to manipulate them) or worse, the central computers where the data are stored (was there not a TV show with Howard Dean where somebody showed this in 2000?)
As the Carter foundation does not watch elections in the US you need lots of election watchers, but there are not too many trained people in Europe either as we are just beginning to see the risk in voting machines!

By: Norman Weinstein

Norman Weinstein — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:04:10 +0000

So now we have a red-meat Valkyrie as a VP candidate, or perhaps she’s a reactionary Barbie doll. Hardly matters what we call this “rose”, she’s pretty damned remarkable, hanging her pregnant kid out there for all the world to ogle. And that, together with all those shots of the hot-shot jock who did the kid in should go a very long way nationally to encourage teen pregnancy, even its desirability, given the exciting center-stage focus and acceptability such love-making seems to bring. Way to go, Sarah! And with your utterly idealistic opposition to abortion even where rape or incest precedes impregnation, might we not logically conclude that you are thus a de facto supporter of the procreation rights of rapists and incest perpetrators? Good God, only in America, even where the candidate’s state isn’t a contiguous one! At least this troglodytic creature is good looking and thus just right, along with her charming all-American family, for endless photo ops in support of her fellow candidate, who never met a bomb he didn’t like. It is truly a strange kind of relief to sense that we could have four years of governance which makes that of the previous eight actually look liberal, because suicide does promise a means of escape.

By: John Dickerson

John Dickerson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:58:09 +0000

ellen said: This “election campaign” looks more and more like a soap opera.

I’m listening to Ms. Palin’s big speech right now and I’m channeling “I Dream of Jeannie”. Go figure!

By: John Dickerson

John Dickerson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:49:45 +0000

Do we know for certain that it was not an immaculate conception? I think they should name the child “Abstinance”!

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:41:29 +0000

@americangoy: I think the boy is 18 yrs old, not 26. He’s in high school so I hope he’s not 26!

By: americangoy

americangoy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:10:43 +0000

“The real issue here is the betrayal of Palin’s own religious values that such a pregnancy represents. I can hear evangelicals across America groan as they read this news or hear it on their TVs. While Christians are supposed to be a forgiving lot”

Let us comment here, shall we?

We shall!

“The real issue here is the betrayal of Palin’s own religious values that such a pregnancy represents.”
This is a poster child for how abstinence edukashon and preying real real hard kinda does not work. The pee pee went into the briar patch…

Oh and by the by, the man was 26, the girl 17… or younger.

Statutory rape?

Naw, not for republikans.

“While Christians are supposed to be a forgiving lot”
What gave you THAT idea?

Not American xtians, that’s for sure.

Somehow the “turn the other cheek” sermon is not very much in use these days.

“Neither is love your neighbor”, come to think of it…