Selective sympathy for moms in public office
Photoshop: David Lunde
In observing the P.D.S.-induced mania about Gov. Sarah Palin’s work/family life, I was reminded of a very sympathetic piece in the Washington Post from last July on female politicians in Congress who have young children.
Let me give you a taste of the long, page one WaPo profile, titled “Mom’s in the House, With Kids at Home For Congresswomen With Young Children, a Tough Balance.”
Before the sun rose over their Florida home, Debbie Wasserman Schultz pulled the thermometer from the mouth of her 8-year-old daughter, Rebecca, and checked the mercury: 103 degrees.
Stay home? Or go to work? It’s a dilemma familiar to millions of working mothers. But her situation is complex: The job is 1,037 miles away, in Washington.
She got on the plane and flew to a New York fundraiser and then on to Washington for her workweek as a Democratic congresswoman. She knew her husband could handle Rebecca’s fever.
Still, the guilt traveled with her. “It feels like someone’s ripping my heart out,” she said. “No matter how good your spouse is, kids want their mom when they’re sick.”
Wasserman Schultz, who also has a son, Rebecca’s twin, and a 3-year-old daughter, is part of a select group, the 10 women in Congress raising children under 13. It’s probably a congressional record, although no one has kept this particular statistic.
They reside on a shaky high wire, balancing motherhood with politicking, lawmaking, fundraising and the constant shuttle between Washington and their home states.
Most of the House members live apart from their children during the week, parenting by phone, e-mail and faxes and relying on husbands, family or nannies to fill the gaps. It’s a lifestyle dictated by election cycle. The four senators live with their families in Washington but wake to the daily frenzy of integrating children into unpredictable workdays that can exceed 16 hours and fray relationships.
And they all live with a reality possibly even more difficult: The public will scrutinize and judge the mothering choices these politicians make. It is this that sets them apart from other professional women and their male counterparts in Congress, and the 10 in the group are keenly sensitive to it.
Wasserman Schultz is a Democrat, by the way. So are most of the other working moms profiles, though a few Republicans are tossed in for the semblance of balance:
Several are determined to show that a woman can raise a family while serving in Congress. Nearly all say they feel compelled to use their own perspective as the tiny minority of working mothers in Congress to represent the 70 percent of mothers who have school-age children and jobs outside the home.
“In the Senate Finance Committee, we were talking about higher education and I looked around the room and thought, ‘I’m the only one saving for college,’ ” said Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), whose twin boys are 11. “I’m not professing that my colleagues with grown children are any less compassionate. They’re just not going through it.”
Often, motherhood colors the legislation they propose. Wasserman Schultz has introduced a bill to improve swimming pool safety, because accidental drownings account for the second-highest number of injury-related deaths of children under 14. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) is pushing a bill to ensure the rights of women to breast-feed in public. And Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) is trying to increase federal money for childhood cancer research.
The response from lefty and feminist blogs was positive and sympathetic. Here’s an example from a liberal female blogger at Tapped:
So where are the husbands? I read the entire article, looking for husbands who had given up their careers to stay home to support the kids, but alas. In fact, there wasn’t a single quote from the husbands of these women or even an indicator they were doing more to pitch in and help with the family.
…It seems that women can’t choose to focus on their career in public office totally or they risk being ousted by voters for being a bad mom. In many ways, the story of these congressional mothers isn’t any different than the lives of regular working women. They’re still the ones pulling the majority of the family responsibility, even though they have demanding and prestigious jobs. Instead of women having to do it all exceptionally well, when will partners start making the sacrifices that women have been making for their husbands for years? Those kinds of stories are few and far between.
Well, Gov. Sarah Palin’s story is one of those stories. Her husband took a leave of absence as a North Slope oil field production operator to support his wife. But instead of extolling their choice, the leftists have morphed into ultra-social conservative “women belong at home” caricatures. And they are going after Palin’s husband now — digging up dirt on a two decade-old DUI arrest and reportedly offering money to bottom-feeders for damaging info:
As Obama operatives scour records in Alaska for dirt on Gov. Sarah Palin, they are also seeking embarrassing materials about her husband. And it isn’t just the Obama campaign. Several left-wing groups with ties to MoveOn.org have used their network to offer as to $5,000 for damaging employment or personal information about him.
If a Democrat mom chooses public office, she’s a patriot Wonder Woman imbued with Absolute Moral Authority on children’s, health, and social welfare issues.
If a Republican mom chooses public office, she’s the child-neglecting spawn of Satan who has no business debating any domestic public policy because of alleged hypocrisy.
Ain’t feminism grand?
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More: There is now a Fight the Palin Smears website.
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How many live ones?
Ah, I love the acrid smell of the rabid fear coming from the left. Eh, ya gotta little spittle on yer chin as well.
Snort
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Great minds! The ‘49 version or the ‘06 version? I prefer the former in large part because Sean Penn’s Southern accent is so bad. But neither of them really capture the extraordinary depth of the book.
Why all the hating on arugula? It’s a perfectly tasty leafy green with lots of nutrition and a fine, crisp texture. In Italy, peasants eat it all the time. Nothing against iceberg, mind you, but a change is nice, as well.
Right. And FOX called her his “Baby Momma” (note the lack of a possessive in the phrase). The difference between the two was not lost on FOX.
It wouldn’t make a difference no matter who McCain had picked for VP. Obummer is going to win. The libs will do anything, & I do mean ANYTHING to see that he does. It will get uglier. And to think my liberal cousin said Dems don’t attack people, only the Repubs do.
I haven’t read all of the comments, but it seems to me that if this is the best they can do to discredit Gov Palin, she must be the right choice. And as hard as they are all working on digging up dirt on her, they must be afraid of her being on the ticket.
Why can’t they just discuss the issues? You know, “Senator Biden thinks Israel needs to just face the fact that Iran will be bombing them with nukes in a few years, what do you think Gov Palin?” Or perhaps, “Gov Palin, what do you think of Congresswoman Pelosi’s plan to convert all of our cars, trucks, trains and ships to solar and/or wind power to save the planet?”
BemusedLib:
You’re deflecting my argument. You will provide specific and rational facts that uphold this statement and this statement alone. That’t the only question I want answered; please stay on the topic. Thanks.
Oh goodness. I didn’t say FOX was right; however, MO opened the door and FOX walked right in. Why would MO use the term to describe Barack?
All these lib trolls, so little time…
Still trying to rain on the Parade….
They Know:
Their in trouble..
That were in charge now..
That the Palin BUMP is huge..
The RNC BUMP will actually be a BUMP..
The Math with, the base + more women + evangelicals = DOOM..
That they Pooped out at the DNC..
They know their VP pick is a Poor choice..
They know the NRA is BIG, POOF! GONE..
Some know that attacking Gov. Sarah is not wise..
They all need depends.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Wah Dems.
It will! I have no doubt about that. One of the liberals on TV today was admonished by a conservative and this liberal actually seemed to look a bit foolish. A lot of them don’t think they are being hypocrits but there are some who are clearly embarrassed by this whole smear.
First — before we air our political differences, welcome back 30!
As for the link, it goes to an Anchorage Daily News archive page from February 11, 1997 and says:
A recall of Mayor Sarah Palin is off the table, at least for now, according to a group calling itself Concerned Citizens for Wasilla. The group of about 60 residents was formed Friday in response to Palin’s controversial firing of Police Chief Irl Stambaugh. Members say they’re concerned about the direction taken by Palin since her election last fall, and discussed a recall. (There’s also a link to the full article)
My prediction: Sarah Palin’s speech Wednesday night with be one of the great “beat downs” that The Left has ever experienced.
I am sure the Dems are looking at Obama’s “dead cat bounce” in the polls and wondering what’s appened.
P.S. I used the term “dead cat bounce” in loving remeberance of Tony Snow, who first used that expresssion. We miss you Tony.
This is the most awesome thing I have read in a long time! I hope you won’t mind if I share it with my friends??
I think there’s been some misinterpretation…In general, Dems and libs are happy Palin was selected. The emails I’ve received from like-minded friends since the Palin announcement have been increasingly gleeful — not concerned.
I wonder how come Obama’s $800,000 illegal donation to ACORN isn’t being investigated and reported by the MSM?
Congrats to you too!
I also have relative whose ex decided she would rather be with a sex offender than with her family. He and his daughter have been perfectly fine without her for several years now.
Hey liberals: You know how you guys wanted to stick to issues? Please point out the issue involved in accusing the VP pick of incest, covering for her daughters pregnancy, attacking that daughter for being pregnant, accusing her husband of being gay, attacking her for firing a corrupt cop, etc etc etc….
So did I (not that I count), and I asked them first why there are three stories about a 17 year old on the front page, and wasn’t it rather excessive considering she’s not the one running for office?
Question – if Paulin’s husband’s DUI is an issue, what about Barry O’s admitted use of illegal drugs?
How dare she fire a corrupt cop!!!
Thank you!
Methinks not much will come of this. Sarah was vetted. There’s nothing here to my knowledge.
Howzabout Obama?… a number of shady dealings and nothing. Not a peep about any of that.
Yes. Today alone 3,000 human beings will be selectively murdered for no other reason than they pose an inconvenience to someone. That’s unthinkable. And it needs to be stopped.
Will Obama do that? No.
Darwin Akbar said:
Right, I mean he only snorted copious amounts of coke and walked around in a daze for two years. Him and Cindy McCain should start their own support group. But then again, Cindy McCain’s position is a little less important than POTUS.
Rusty wrote:
It’s all clear to me now! Thanks for the info!
Especially one who uses a Taser on his own son.
Move along, nothing to see here.
nyk, your not fooling anyone and 3 e mails does not add up to MILLIONS of voters. lmao…
your just afraid to face facts…
D.E.N.I.A.L.
oh, and have a great day.
This is just one of the many reasons we hate the left. They can spend days smearing a swell dame with bogus allegations of illegitimacy, incest, corruption, and being a bad mother… then deny that they’re making any sort of personal attacks.
The left are like a bunch of freakin’ middle school girl cheerleaders.
Yeah, riiight.
An excellent example of what has become a salient characteristic of the social and political Left today: the easy substitution of principles for expediency.
When everything you “believe” boils down to purely tactical considerations, then it’s easy to do 180-degree reversals on a dime. Self-styled “feminists” are perhaps the worst offenders in this regard:
– When Republican Senator Bob Packwood was accused of sexually harassing some of his women staffers, the “feminists” demanded — and got — his political head on a plate. But when Bill Clinton was sued for sexual harassment (and committed and suborned perjury to try to get away with it), the same “feminists” either developed laryngitis or formed a chorus line singing “Stand By Your Man.”
– “Feminists” have nothing to say about the rampant misogyny encouraged by the islamists we are engaged against, because — as a purely tactical matter — to criticize them might be seen as indirectly lending justification to a conflict being led by a Republican president. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” trumps whatever supposed “principles” they may have about things like female circumcision, forced marriages, house-slavery, denial of the franchise and “honor killings.”
– And naturally the (R) behind Sarah Palin’s name disqualifies her from the “victim/protected” status she’d otherwise receive from the “feminists,” in the same way that being openly conservative automatically means that a racial minority isn’t “authentic.”
To a Leftist — including most “feminists” — core values and principles are useful only in their potential to beat others over the head with when they or someone close to them slips. Other than that practicality, principles are like clothes to these people: something to be worn, yet which can also be quickly changed depending on the demands of fashion.
Another example of how the Left values tactics over principles. They’re easy to find all over the place.
You mean -
if the Presidential canidate John McCains, VP running mate, husband’s DUI is an issue, what about Presidential canidate Barry O’s admitted use of illegal drugs?
Should have said, “Write what you want, you will anyway.”
About “Trooper-gate”:
Nice guy, huh? I can totally see why liberals don’t want him fired.
I think we’re writing past each other. I suggested that Obama’s casual association with Ayers was not that big a deal because, among other things, Ayers has renounced terrorism and spoke strongly against the 9/11 attacks. That quote is from a letter Ayers wrote to the Chicago Tribune denouncing terrorism.
That quote is an anti-9/11 quote. If you need convincing that 9/11 was a crime against humanity, you have a problem.
Because the arrest was after Gore ran for president. And the DUI thing is minor and would have come out regardless of party, and will be forgotten in a day, except by, grudge-nursing conservatives. It’s not like Laura Bush’s fatal accident was treated like a big deal in 2000.
It doesnt matter. Anybody who hasnt figured out yet who to vote for is not going to be swayed one way or the other by this type of double standard BS. This information does however chronicle for the 4 trillionth time the fact that democrats have not an ounce of shame, scruples, class, morals or honesty. I expect nothing but the lowest behavior from scumbag democrats, and they never disappoint.
I bet he’s a BHO supporter…might even make it on a board with BHO one day.
So as long a Tim McVeigh renounces his bombings (if he were still alive) and said 9/11 was bad; that would make it OK for you if he were associated with a politician running for high office.
I question the logic behind your reasoning.
Real actual breathing people, living at the real address they wrote on the form? 18 or older on Election Day? U.S. citizens?
Of course Obamanations people did its hard for dead people to hold a pen.
SuzyQ;
Um, I think that’s because we are downwind from Michael Moore(who has biohazard, weapon’s grade body odor).
There was a hilarious account of when Moore invaded K-Mart years ago, demanding that they stop selling guns and ammo. Unfortunately the link is no longer found on Google.
This was the article: K-Mart Caves In to Michael Moore’s Demands
“The stench was just too much,”
Corporate Executive Explains
by Kyle Lohmeier, Houston Review
I copied the article but it is too long to post. Basically they had to fumigate the office after he left with his bags of Doritos.
I’m just telling you how my friends and other people have reacted in the overwhelmingly Democratic town I live in. People were worried McCain would choose a running mate that would take heat off him. Believe it or not, the general consensus here is that Palin will be nothing but good for the Dems.
I have no problem with it. Unfortunately, many on the left see 9/11 as comeuppance for “American arrogance” and our foreign policy. And most have done their darnedest to make it possible for jihadists to attack us again and again and again.
I’m late to the party, and I don’t know if any one else has posted it, but THIS is an absolutely stunning video.
Just another nail in the coffin of militant feminism. Still, feminism has a place but NOT the one these current hypocritial zealots have defined for themselves.
I guess we need to just take it down to their level…
Neener neeener neeeeeeeeeeener your guys suuuuuuuuuuck… lmao
Not to defend him too much but….
You mean –
the DUI from 22 years ago in 1986 when it was almost a badge of honor to rack up DUI’s? If I remember correctly in those days, the driver could still have an open container in the front seat and seatbelts were still stored UNDER the seat until about 1990.
O/T but just how many of us rode in the window above the back seat of the car when we were toddlers? Or rode in smoke filled cars with the windows up?
When are people going to be looked at as people . Not a female, male, black, or white person. But just a person. That is the ignorance of some of our laws saying you have to hire or have qoutas. People are all the same. They should be judged by actions not color of their skin or the type of sex they are.
Ayers 1) never killed anyone; 2) turned himself into the police 3) has been living peacefully and productively for many many years 4) has renounced terrorism.
If the American justice system says that Bill Ayers is free, then I don’t have a problem with Obama — or anyone — having a casual association with him.
Your problem is that you’re still fighting battles that are now 40 years old. It’s like you’re trying to drive a car while only looking in the rear-view mirror. You can’t win if you engage on what’s happening today — the disaster in Iraq, the stumbling economy, the massive deficits — so you trot out a fading hippie pinata and whack it with a stick a few times.
Have fun.
Bemused Lib:
I embellished you a bit on the last post (#132) and I’m looking for the reason why you keep dodging the question. I want to know what this statement means to you and why you stand by it. It’s that hard to defend and provide me with the facts that validate this statement?
Yep.
The courts threw the case out of court because of an illegal wire tap. Please don’t make it sound like he was found innocent by a jury of his peers.
Bemused, better check the latest from Iraq. We are winning there. Obama has had to shift his positions on it and sanitize his website so as not to look stupid.
RabbidSquirrel said:
Not to defend him too much but….
Zogby: Palin Gives McCain Big Boost
Ayer’s closest associates shot and killed police officers as members of the Weathermen. It’s one thing to try and taunt me with garrulity but defending your “logic” with facts is quite another.
So, I’m gathering you hold all candidates to higher office to the same exact standards of perfection right?
For some reason, it’s lookin’ like you’re trying to hold the Republican candidates to a higher standard if I’m not wrong here.
A running mate’s husband has a DUI and that counts, but a candidate running for the highest office in the country who has admitted to doing drugs, including cocaine doesn’t count.
Can you explain this discrepancy problem for me?
On September 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm, BemusedLib said:
The past is how we judge the present and forecast the future. Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist; he has no place teaching at a university and B. Hussein Obama is wrong to have ever been associated with him. GK is right on all counts.
BemusedLib, are you going to answert his question or continue to pretend you don’t see it?
Well, of course you wouldn’t. Ayers and the Weather Underground just wanted to install a Maoist-style Marxist regime in the United States, built around a cult of personality, where dissenters were violently eliminated. Why would any Obama supporter have a problem with that?
You mean like allowing people to live in a Chicago style renovated by democrats housing. Surely one of BO’s great accomplishments wouldn’t you say nyk?
Uh…I think you’re confusing posts and posters, because you’re not responding to anything I’ve written.
So, Obama is disqualified because an associate of an associate is a criminal? I am emphatically not defending the Weather Underground, but really, that a ridiculous conclusion.
Yeah, a trillion dollars and thousands of American lives — and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives later, we’re finally getting things under control. In the mean time, bin-Laden remains at large, Afghanistan is deteriorating, Iran and Syria have more influence than ever (an Iran knows that we’re too tied up in Iraq to seriously threaten it), terrorist organizations are running Palestine and Lebanon, Putin is thumbing his nose at us, and we’ve lost friends and moral standing with a systematic kidnap and torture effort (not to mention going to war on the basis of lies in the first place).
Big success, that.
Confusedlib wrote:
What a dope.
He exploded bombs resulting in massive destructive of public property, and terroized thousands. His group killed serveral people, making him part of a criminal conspiracy.
On Sept. 11, 2001 Ayers wrote a column in the New York Times in which he bragged about what he did , and lamented that he hadn’t done it more.
”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”
“So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ”I don’t want to discount the possibility,” he said. ”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63
So he has NEVER renounced terrorism.
Casual association? Obama launched his political career in Ayers’ apartment. he served as Board Chairman of the Annenberg Project, which Ayers managed.
Casual association? Obama has been hanging FOR YEARS with an unrepentant terrorist. YOU guys try to tar republicans for being associated with Falwell and Robertson, yet you think you can skate away from Ayers? Good freakin luck!
Not even Obama is bringing that up anymore, because we’ve essentially WON.
McCain will remind America of that, so no one on the right’s running away from the issue.
,
3.3% growth in the last quarter, and it’s “stumbling”? That’s not working as an issue with independents. Only the GOP has energy policies that offer the prospect of reducing oil prices in the short term. House foreclosures? The Dems created that problem.
As a percentage of the GDP, they are not historically high. Barack will raise them by a few trillion with his massive spending proposals. NO Democrat has a meaningful plan for reducing deficits w/o imposing massive tax increases, and that’s not gonna fly with an electorate already sick of Big Government.
Come November YOU will understand that the Dems are running not just on the past, but “on empty”.
And when Barack’s fllowers set fire to the cities in their rage, YOU can ponder the morals and intelligence of your party.
I have. Twice.
Let me break this to you gently: It’s not 1972. There is no Weather Underground. Ayers is a college professor. Even the Chinese aren’t Maoists. And Obama is running for president, not leading an insurrection.
Remember when Pres. Bush nominated Harriet Meyer for SCOTUS? ALL the Dems immediately said what a wonderful choice it was! If in doubt about something, take the contrarian view to whatever the prevailing Democrat opinion is and you will have chosen wisely. Palin is the correct choice here as well. Obama/Biden are defeated, they just don’t know it yet.
…and BO is going to fix it all with humility and possibly 200 million dollars (Biden). Thanks guys. I feel safer already.
Yes, we are getting things under control. We are seeing a more stable Iraq, we’ve tossed out a dictator, and we’ve decimated Al Quada.
But Obama said Iran was too small to be a threat.
What party said that they would impeach the president if he attacked Iran? What party has made it harder for us to use force to get rid of Iran’s nuclear program?
You can thank Pelosi for that one. She went over there and practically bent over backwards for them. They’re also hoping for an Obama win because they know he’ll be just like Pelosi.
So, you would support military action to free the occupied territories in Georgia?
What friends?
Speaking on Iraq, yes, it is a success. Even though you libs try to make it look like a huge failure, we are winning and will win.
From an intellectually honest liberal:
Sarah Palin has energized the GOP base with her optimism, her record of reform, and her “hyper Americanism” (to paraphrase Mark Steyn).
I’m fed up with the sleazy, vicious attacks from the left, and as I have stated elsewhere, I would rather eat dirt than see these scumbags win their campaign.
I’m volunteering my time to help the McCain-Palin ticket win this election, and I urge all here of good will to do the same.
Let’s defeat evil. Let’s roll.
So was Ward Churchill.
I guess I’ll just sit back and reap the benefits from this statement.
Wait… did I fail to mention that Ayer’s himself blew up the Pentagon? Have you ever seen the forensic photos of the damage?
Oh and… Ayers looks real sorry for being a terrorist as seen in this recent photo of him.
But waite, there’s more Bemused:
You still have not defended your original statement with logical facts one Iota:
Where is the mass Holocaust in America?
Frisco perhaps?
Ha. Anyone who has ever taken a class on Camille Paglia or been forced to read her books would never call her a liberal, and would snicker at the idea that she’s an “intellectual.”
BemusedLib: Old adage, which is a truism, “You can judge a person by who their friends are.” I observe Barack Obama’s “friends” and what Obama says about them.
Based on that observation I want no part of him in my life.
P.S. If you think Bill Ayers is a kindly old middle-aged professor, guess again. He’s a life-long subversive who does as much as he’s allowed to get away with.
*I* can answer that question, Goldwater Knight.
Those crimes are going on right this very minute against a seventeen year old pregnant girl who did nothing more than be the daughter of someone the left obviously is sent into bowel wrenching fear of.
This is actually more of a comment on the depraved state of left-wing academia than it says about Mr. Ayers. One would expect being an unrepentant terrorist who openly regrets that he didn’t kill more people ought to disqualify one from respectability. But on the left, it’s a resume enhancer.
After all, Mumia Jamal has an honorary degree. If we live long enough, we’ll see John Walker Lindh and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad teaching side-by-side at Columbia.
However, there still are traitors and Marxists who still want to dismantle America. Ayers is a professor because he was given the job by sympathetic Leftists in the school’s administration. His main skill: securing education grants and wasting the money on crap like “Juneteenth”. By the way: Maoists still rule China, they just acknowledge that capitalism is the only way to run a serious economy.
As far as Obama is concerned, given the way the TV networks are shilling for him, we may well be watching an insurrection underway – outside any legitimate “democratic” process. Hillary should have been your candidate, but the party’s Marxists, ever disdainful of “democracy”, hijacked the candidacy. Hopefully, mainstream Democrats will repudiate it come November. Either way Obama goes down.
On September 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm, BemusedLib said:
It’s hard to say that Ayers renounced terrorism when in the September 11, 2001 New York Times he said:
Some of you may have already visited this link, but I’ve added even more TRUTHs:
BemusedLib, I’d like to see you provide a rebuttal to any of the TRUTH: statements.
Or, will you be a typical liberal and only have ad hominem attacks to offer in response?
Did you major in Woman’s Studies?
BemusedLib – pretty good handle. Most libs seem puzzled or confused.
Whatever you do, DON’T push the “BemutedLib” button!
I’m absolutely sure that Daily Kos droids like BemusedLib are helping to convert & reform liberals into Conservatives every time they open their mouths.
Keep those weak arguments coming BL!
Not only is she intellectually superior to us inferior Americans, she is a card carrying member of the URHA….”UNITED RACE HUSTLERS of AMERICA” founded by Rev J Jackson
I’m sorry, let me say it again using small words: that quote refers to 9/11. It is an expression of disgust about an act of mass murder committed on American soil. Is that OK with you?
These infantile morons do not deserve to live in this country.
In addition to the fact that Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist, the real issues are:
- Barry O’s bald-faced lie about the extent of their associations;
- The manner in which the Annenberg money was spent:
The facts are that the Ayers/Obama foundation took between $50 and $100 million dollars earmarked for education and squandered it on left-wing causes that produced NO BENEFIT WHATSOEVER for the schoolchildren of Chicago.
One of the recipients of at least $1,000,000 was the Woods Foundation, run by….William Ayers.
ACORN also got a bunch of cash (and $800 K from the Obama campaign in recent months for “advance work”).
Therefore, we know how what Obama will do with the money that he will steal from us and all other working people when he raises taxes like he promises to do:
- Give to left-wing causes;
- Give it to cronies like Ayers; and
- Piss it away.
Spare change you can believe in!
Nope.
No, just you, rooster. You.
I know it’s ok with me! But what do you think about the fact that Ayers won’t apologize for bombings that could very well have killed people, & the fact that his group’s ideologies eventually led to the deaths of Police officers?
Does that disgust you?
Atheling – I love that quote and she’s not the only intellectually honest liberal who’s a bit concerned about Palin.
Can’t wait to hear the reasons why Ms. Paglia’s opinions are disqualified from our friends on the left.
Like may here have said, she’s taking flak because she’s over the target. The concern is not that she’s stealing the spotlight from McCain, but Obama.
Palin will not be portrayed sympathetically by the MSM. Their hatred of her value system will cause them to attack her and her families’ failure to measure up.
The MSM bestows sympathy on their liberal darlings who devote their lives to public service in spite of personal hardship. But the MSM seems to be blind to the fact that attacking Palin will make her a sympathetic figure as well, at least for reasonable folks.
OK great, Now juxtapose that against the statement: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
Those two statements don’t compliment each other. Do they in your mind?
Not only are the left a venomous band of vipers who’ll quickly spew their poison, attempting to abort whatever gets in their way, they’re insanely mean towards those they consider counter to their wanton ideals.
Sickening.
Rocket Science?
Yes. Rocket science. You must be a seer!
No, I just know you like to set people off.
lol. pretty sure your closer with the first guess. It couldn’t be computer science because that wasn’t required reading in my major.