Letters of the day
Tons of great e-mail swamping my box. These two stood out:
Michelle,
Being from Massachusetts, something occurred to me today. The feminists have suddenly decided that a mother should be home with her children in lieu of a career. A talk show host in our state today said that there is a “special” bond between “mother” and child (talk show host – Marjorie Eagan, a writer for the Boston Herald).
Since the judiciary in our state legalized gay marriage, may I ask where the “special” bond between “mother” and child is when the parents are two gay men?
I’d love to hear the left address that issue!
Lynne G.
Wilmington, MA
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And from Joseph H:
I have never before written to express a political opinion in my life. I was skeptical but very interested in McCain’s VP pick. I hoped she would turn out to be the real thing and not just knee-jerk expression of gender politics.
I have two special needs children, (boys 4 and 2), and a 2-month-old daughter. I’m a lawyer and my wife is a doctor. This morning we watched Fox News’ recap of Palin’s speech as my wife breast-fed the baby and I fed the boys.
My wife has been appalled at the depths too which the reporters have sunk and the so-called women’s rights advocates who have attacked Palin’s choices.
I was struck by Palin’s Courage. I don’t say that lightly. Here’s what happened: the media attacked a postpartum mother of a DS kid, who also has an unwed teen daughter who is pregnant. Thye attacked her at her weakest in her most vulnerable spot. They tried to humiliate, shame, and intimidate her before she ever took the podium. Palin looked like they never laid a glove on her. Wow. I think the message she sends is “don’t be afraid.”
Don’t be afraid of the media attack machine that has all but called you and your family every name in the book.
Don’t be afraid to face down the challenges that life throws you: Dr. tells you that your baby has DS. Don’t be afraid. When you have a kid with special needs you WILL meet a better class of people - the parents of those special needs kids for one - and the people - therapists, teachers, doctors - who devote their lives/carriers to help those kids. Oh by the way - what’s the bonus that comes with your special needs kid? Lifelong unconditional love. So your kid isn’t going to be perfect. Okay, whose kid is?
Don’t be afraid to be a woman with kids and go to work every day.
Don’t be afraid to be a soccer mom and run for mayor with ZERO support against an incumbent to try and make your town better.
Don’t be afraid to succeed - don’t stop at your town improve your state. Run for Governor and win.
Teenage daughter gets pregnant. What to do now? Erase the mistake? Hide? Get out of politics? Or teach your kids the toughest but most important lesson of all: that decisions have consequences. If you make a bad decision, you don’t run away from it. You face it. You face it. Not alone, but with your family standing right next to you. What do you want to teach your kids: the easy way out or moral courage? You teach your kids what real courage is by example.
(My God, her father must be a very proud man today.)
Michelle, tell your kids that’s what courage looks like. Michelle, you tell America that this is what courage looks like. Between McCain and Palin, these may be the two toughest people we have ever nominated.
I donated to McCain today. For the first time.
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Good point, bansharia, but let’s take it one step further and parse Obamessiah’s own words.
The man has said that he would kill his own grandchild if his daughter got pregnant!
This is how leftists view children. They are punishment. They aren’t really, fully human somehow. They are a problem to be dealt with. This is a glimpse into the “soul” of these despicable people. It should scare us all.
I have three daughters. If any of them should become pregnant outside of wedlock I will do everything I can to help them and take care of my grandchild who, regardless of the circumstances of conception, is fully human at conception and is a gift from God.
On September 4th, 2008 at 6:41 pm, Ilovemycountry said:
I was wondering where hive-mind was. Again trying to make opinions sound like declarations of fact, and attempting to demoralize those who would embrace freedom over collectivism.
You’ve been busy hive mind, very busy. But not persuasive.
My wife and were college students in the sixties. We remember the good feelings that come from knowing we were changing the world. Funny thing. WE GREW UP. What is happening on the power left is obviously coming from those who didn’t. Here is a Bob Dylan song to remind them to change or ………………
Come gather round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you’d better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times, they are a changing
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pens
And keep your eyes open, the chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon, the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no telling who that it’s naming
Oh the loser will be later to win
For the times, they are a changing
Come senators, congressmen, please head the call
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be her that has stalled
The battle outside ragging will soon shake your windows
And rattle your hall
For the times, they are a changing
Come mothers and fathers all over this land
And don’t criticize what you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughter are beyond your command
Your old role is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand
For the times they are a changing
The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast
The slow one will later be fast
And the present now will soon be the past
The order is rapidly fading
The first one now will later be last
For the times, they are a changing
ILoveMyCountryButHateAllofYou wrote:
Sorry, but WE know the term feminazi refers to the hard core inner circle of NOW, not to Hillary. Steinem, e.g. In any case it’s the feminazis who are trying to get Palin to shut up and go home. Ponder the contradiction…if you can.
Dripping with contempt, aren’t you. McCain is old, but he’s obviously not dumb. Ditto Palin: just what state are YOU governor of?
Oh yeah, we battered souls all deserve better. As Homer simpson once said:
“Thank you for your pity.”
We think we’ve’ve already got the answer; who the hell are you to tell us otherwise. And why do we need to ask specifically for a woman in the first place? That’s Democrat talk.
Oh and btw: your party is having flop sweat second thoughts about Biden, wishing he wore a pants suit.
Your contempt for an accomplished and fully actualized woman is simply amazing.
Ilovemycountry
OK…but with an attitude like that, just what country do you love: North Korea, maybe??
Could conservatives please make up their mind?
First you said Barack Obama was unqualified, then you embraced Sarah Palin with open, unquestioning hands. Well, does experience matter or not?
Then you attacked Michelle Obama, but were outraged when people started looking into Palin’s family (don’t play dumb with this either; Michelle is involved in this campaign as much as the Palin family is). It’s either okay to criticise the candidate’s family or it isn’t.
And then you called Hillary a “whiner” for decrying sexism in the media. You derided her as being delusional, claiming there was no sexism. But as people criticise Palin, you are up in arms with yells of “sexism! sexism!”. Is there sexism or isn’t there?
Republican theocrats (and it’s not like there are too many other kinds of Republicans) ought to make up their minds and stop acting like such childish hypocrites!
Did someone hear a liberal get his panties in a bunch in #105?
Beat it Omu. Here’s an assignment for you. Grab your pink crayon and try to stay inside the lines.
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Most of us are not personally acquainted with Sarah Palin, but we know a genuine and warm person when we see one. We’re not acquainted with Barack Obama or Joe Biden, either, but we know a fraud when we see one.
If you do a gut check on who you are pulling the lever for this November, you will not not vote Obama. Our man McCain has caused some of us some angst, but he galvanized us when he brought Mrs. Palin onto his team. She is bright, smart, witty, genuine, pro-life, and a true proud American. Plus, she looks great in heels and lipstick!!
Sarah palin makes me proud to be an American. No Democrat has ever done that for me.
Michelle,
loved your choice of letters to present.
It appears that Sara has energized a great many people. Me included! What a strong, lovely, intelligent woman!
I was going to ignore your absurd and ignorant post but I couldn’t resist at least one fun poke even if I could easily destroy your other lacklaster points as well.
We do value executive experience when a person is vying for the position of President of the United States. And McCain, you know the one actually running for President, has 26 years of experience in Congress alone and another 22 years of military experience. Obama has what, 143 days in the Senate for experience? And Palin, the VP, has almost two years of EXECUTIVE experience running a 6.6 billion dollar budget in a state twice the size of Texas that borders two countries (one of which she negotiated with recently to help secure a 40 billion dollar pipeline) and she’s the head of Alaska’s National Guard which has many troops stationed overseas.
So if you want to compare Obama’s executive experience to the VP Palin that is still a laughable matter.
Liberal fascist morons.
Exactly. I heard Rush today call McCain, McBrilliant for his choice of Sarah “The Arctic Fox” Palin.
On September 4th, 2008 at 7:56 pm, alaskangrizzly said:
Did someone hear a liberal get his panties in a bunch in #105?
So Alaskangrizzly, if the comments in 105 are not true, why don’t you disprove them instead of playing the deflecting game? It’s because Omu is speaking the truth.
You re-puke-akins kept a clock on how many days it had been since Obama was in Iraq. Let’s start a clock on how many days Palin stays in hiding from the press. What’s the campaign afraid of? I agree she is a gifted speaker and can read a teleprompter, but if she’s that great why is she in hiding? Kind of cowardly, don’t you think?
I heard that Obama once organized a community. Can anyone identify the community he organized?
Heh, the truth, can I have some of what your smoking there crack head?
Omu said:
Simple. President and Vice President are two absolutlely different positions.
Q: If we smeared Preparation H over the servers hosting this site, how long would it take for les, Omu, lgm, Rusty, TheOtherSide, RedStateSkeptic, et. al. to disappear?
On September 4th, 2008 at 8:12 pm, Goldwater Knight said:
I present Queen Omu of Non-Sequitur.
On September 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, alaskangrizzly said:
Heh, the truth, can I have some of what your smoking there crack head?
Name calling how mature and predictable.
Pot, meet Kettle. So very mature /sarc
Wow…so what TGC is saying is that he would force, pressure or whatever, his own daughter to get an abortion, therefore removing her “choice”.
Amazing that the Libs have not jumped up and down all over this. After all, their major complaint concerning Palin and her daughter is, “Did she have a choice?”
Whoopie Goldberg yesterday on the view, said that the thing she was most concerned about was that Sarah had not forced her daughter to have the child and that she actually did have a choice.
Where are the Libs to explain why if a mother and daughter together decide to have the daughter’s child, that is equivalent of the mother forcing this child upon the daughter, removing the choice, but if a father comes out and says he would force the daughter to get an abortion, that is making sue the daughter has a choice?
Seems to me yet another HUGE hypocrisy on the pro-deathers.
(I think that was coherent)
#113-St. Louis Blue, the community was that very place where they make styrofoam greek columns for people who “REALLY, REALLY, REALLY need them to make themselves look, uuummmm, somehow majestic.
RetFireman, that is called “planned parenthood.”
Omu stared thoughtfully at his simian crease, then pounded the keyboard with his fists:
We weren’t the first. During the Dem primaries both Hillary and Biden(!!!) said Barack was unqualified.
1. In case you haven’t noticed, lots of conservative blogs and commentators have been debating the qualifications issue. On Fox News Krauthammer and Kondracke, just for starters, say she’s not qualified.
2. Palin isn’t running for President
3. Palin has executive experience, enough to qualify her to be VP. Biden has no such experience.
It sure does, and YOUR candidate for POTUS has NO executive experience. Neither does biden.
Not for her motherhood, or how she raises her kids, but for her leftist, racially-tinged politics, her oft-stated hatred and contempt for America and its institutions, and her whining about victimhood despite her $300k+ salary.
Dull tool! You seem not to understand that the subject matter of the criticism is what’s at issue here, and how double standards are being applied.e.g. Feminism’s goal has been to get women to break glass ceilings, and tell us “it takes a village”, but now Dem “liberals” want Palin to stay at home to take care of the kids!
Then there were the charges that Palin is a bad mom because her daughter got pregnant — whereas liberal moms just “take care of it” by aborting the accident lest they “punish” the girl.
finally: what pubic forums has the “First Dude” spoken at on political issues? You’re not even remotely in command of the facts.
WHo is this univeral YOU you keep speaking of? Rush Limbaugh himself has said that the MSM behaved in a sexist manner toward Hillary. Hillary’s followers think so too!
You continually make the logical error of imputing a host of different and widely contentious views to some mythical,monolithic, and anonymous “you”. You wouldn’t last a day on a high school debating team.
WHO said that? Do you have any idea how stupid you sound making a general claim w/o identifying ANYONE as saying she was delusional?
Sure there is. Joe Biden said so today!! He’s against it. Why can’t YOU see it??
Theocrats? What the EFF you talking about? A theocracy is agovernment ruled by a religious authority. GET GODDAM SPECIFIC and tell us who advocates that.
What a dullard. You need to borrow BemusedLib’s shoehorn, the one he uses to scrape out his shorts after soiling himself in public.
that’s what you’ve done here.
Les:
The woman made her acceptance speech YESTERDAY and les calls her cowardly for hiding from the press?
les: You are stuck on brain-dead!
FYI, Governor Palin has been on CNBC months before she became a candidate. Here’s four clips. Particularly cool is how Palin’s administration negotiated the pipeline deal based upon the value of finite resources (oil, gas) OWNED by all Alaskans. There’s a sophistication here that is completely overlooked, except by CNBC’s reporters.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=836384597&play=1 Governor Sarah Palin interviewed by Maria Bartiromo (before vp announcement)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=836182095&play=1 Mike Hegedus profiles Governor Palin (November 2007)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=809906073&play=1 Larry Kudlow interview of Governor Palin about oil.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=778627350&play=1 Governor Palin advocates drilling for oil (June 2008) with Larry Kudlow
See above posts: president does not equal VP. VP’s have the luxury of learning and being groomed for the job. Just think: Palin will have more experience than Hillary if she is VP!!
Which one of Palin’s children have been making speeches about hating America? I missed that.
Hillary did a fake crying jag. Did Palin? Obama is the only one that criticized her for being a woman, and took advantage of her in debates. I think Hillary agreed that the attacks on Palin were sexist. Funny that.
Hypocrites are the Democrats saying Palin should stay home and raise the kids. Theocrats? I think not. Our “divine law” is the Constitution. If we could get some of the liberal supremes to remember that.
Great stuff Michelle. The expressions above (in those letters) depict an America our Founding Fathers envisioned.
A few days ago we (all of us here) spoke of history being made. We were correct. I predict that 50 years from now there will be 1,000 schools named after her.
Really? Can you please provide a link or any other proof af where or when Todd Palin or any other member of her family has come forward and spoken to any member of the media or anyone else concerning ANYTHING in this election, let alone Sarah Palin as VP.
That is one of the biggest lies I have seen on here yet. Michelle is out there stumping for her husband, making slanderous attacks against McCain, Republicans and this nation in general. She does NOT get a free pass to do or say anything she wants.
Should Todd come forward and begin making statements as MichelleO has done then by all means, feel free to question him and make remarks, but until then, you are…as are all Liberals, WRONG!
I don’t mind liberals shooting themselves in the foot, let them talk. Let them continue to presume to tell us who we are and how we think.
I’m sure that liberals have long since forgotten what they said after the 2004 election, but their vicious, bigoted, ignorant remarks about those of us who don’t live in big cities are still seared into my brain.
I guess they thought the redneck hick rural people were too stupid to correctly interpret phrases like “redneck hick rural people are stupid.” They were wrong.
(This comment may be doubled, if so, I apologize)
Governor Palin’s experience has lately been a tin can that gets kicked along without any real consideration of what she has done.
Here are four video clips from CNBC, all filmed before Palin became McCain’s Vice President candidate.
Particularly telling is how Palin’s administration negotiated the pipeline deal and drilling leases based upon the value of finite resources (oil, gas) OWNED by all Alaskans.
A large portion of her ‘reform’ work in Alaska has been focused on going after crooked politicians who took kickbacks from oil companies to create sweetheart deals. Her administration overturned those deals and negotiated newer, fairer ones with incentives to actually develop the resource. Additionally, there are clauses that change the value of lease based upon the market price of the resource, so at no time do Alaskans sell their finite resource and then stand around with their proverbial $24 of beads.
Her work , i.e experience, has a sophistication that is completely overlooked, except by CNBC’s reporters.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=836182095&play=1 Mike Hegedus profiles Governor Palin (November 2007)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=778627350&play=1 Governor Palin advocates drilling for oil (June 2008) on Larry Kudlow
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=809906073&play=1 Larry Kudlow interview of Governor Palin about oil.
(July 2008)
nb, notice how McCain’s position shifted between these two.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=836384597&play=1 Governor Sarah Palin interviewed by Maria Bartiromo (before vp announcement) Most recent
On September 4th, 2008 at 7:55 pm, Omu said:
Conservatives do not have a single collective hive-mind to make up.
That is why mankind will ultimately destroy your infection, Omu.
Experience in what? Legislating that children be aborted in the 4th trimester?
Gosh, all this hyperventilation over a candidate for a position that a previous officeholder declared to be “ain’t worth a pitcher of warm spit.” If anything, Gov. Palin may be overqualified.
Let’s think about this “experience” thing.
Obama took office in 2005. The Senate is in session 109 days a year. Let’s be generous and assume Obama missed no days at all. And let’s give him credit for all of 2008 even though the year isn’t over. And let’s pretend his three years of campaigning hasn’t taken him away from his duties. That is 4 times 109 or 436 days.
Palin took office in December 2006. Let’s assume she missed no days. Oh, wait, even if she was sick, she still carried the responsiblities of a Governor. But, let’s just say she was never sick. And let’s give her credit for all of 2008. That would be 2 years times 365 plus 27 days for December 2006 which is 757 days.
Gosh, maybe 436 is more than 757 in “Obamamath.” But, for the rest of us it doesn’t work that way.
Didn’t the Dems used to make fun of someone for “fuzzy math?”
At the end of the postings here, MM has a large-type “Leave a comment“, followed by a “Need help“?
May I suggest MM lists some nation-wide “intervention” crisis centers in the latter?
When lgm, rusty, omu and the rest finally understand how disturbed they are, and seek professional assistance, we should give them hotlines to call.
After all, a Phila Enquirer columnist has threatened riots across the country if The One isn’t elected.
Shouldn’t we give Our Trolls one last chance to avoid having their heads busted in, or wrorse, before taking to the streets to “protest” and of course loot [ aka liberate] while they’re at it??
Well, you see…one is running for president. The other is running for vice-president. They’re different positions, and have different amounts of required experience.
That said, Sarah Palin has experience running a state, with a billion-dollar-plus budget, and tens of thousands of employees. Barack? Nope. And he’s running for the top spot. You didn’t make a very good point there. Bonk.
Michelle Obama inserted herself in the debate. She made public speeches. She criticized our country. Michelle Obama is also an adult. Sarah Palin’s daughter made no such public speeches, and is not an adult. Point two…you lose.
Wrong. Nobody said she was whining. When her folks said the media was in the tank for Obama, she was right, and we agreed. It had nothing to do with sexism.
You’re not very good at making points. Maybe you’ll get better.
Dave, I gotta hand it to you. That was supportive and optimistic, yet ironically completely unrealistic. That takes talent.
Barack Hussein Obama has no experience at anything—yet the libs want him as President? I don’t think so! I would not hire him for anything. Except maybe he could negotiate a good real estate deal for me. Biden, a cazillion years in the senate that never ran anything? Give me a break!
Yea, we have McCain that doesn’t really appeal to me but we have a Vice President that really appeals to me. McCain is not Conservative. She is. So I can live with the ticket. And fully support the ticket.
Barack / Biden? What a couple of lost souls. No experience on one hand, no worthwhile experience on the other hand. These two will do their best to destroy this country.
I’m still waiting to hear exactly what a community organizer does. Trolls?
#95 flyover state said,
I want to show you something. Lets see if you see the same thing I do.
Analysis: GOP contradicts self on Palin family
In this AP article the author Ted Anthony uses the flimsy excuse that the Palins brought their kids onto the stage at the RNC, using them as political props, and this makes the kids fair game for political attack.
Of course the first problem with this twisted logic is that Obama and family appeared on the stage at the DNC, and Obama famously called off attacks on the Palin family by his people.
So they needed to get around this by finding a statement from Obama that gives them cover.
In July, he and his wife, Michelle, appeared on a four-part “Access Hollywood” interview with daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. Obama later expressed regret about his decision to put them forward, saying, “I don’t think it’s healthy, and it’s something that we’ll be avoiding in the future.”
There it is. Showing your kids in public is unhealthy as proclaimed by Obama. Thus Palin is an unfit mother by their reckoning and whatever slimy attack dog journalism they do it’s really her fault.
Am I interpeting this the wrong way?
Thank you to both writers for their timeless words of wisdom and thank you, Michelle, for sharing them with us.
bansharia,
Thanks for the advice! I do have good friends, and believe me I have no problem “culling” the ones that don’t make the cut. They do care… as we all care in our small farming community in California, we/they have been frustrated as most with the National/State political stage. Living in the Central Valley of California, we focus our efforts primarily at the local level, where today’s “hot topic” issues in agriculture are being played out. They are school board members, pta presidents, irrigation district board members, farm bureau board members, 4-H leaders, FFA parents, etc. In defense of my friends, they are active members in their community and informed voters… Only now, some are putting alittle more focus on the National level then they have in the past. Again, thanks for your concern.
Spoken like a man who has never had to make a hard choice in his life. Spoken like a person who’s never had to put their kids in childcare so that they could support their families. You’re unbelieveably an idiot and your drivel turns me off as a woman who wants to have children and work at the same time if need be.
Are you going to run this same opinion past active duty military women with children? Are you going to say that they should have had abortions so that they wouldn’t have had to leave their children with their family while deployed? I’ve known many military women who’ve juggled it all with the same kind of grace that you will never understand.
You’re a pig. Please get over yourself. Go plead your case to Gloria Steinem. I’m sure she’ll understand you better than many women who work for a living with children and a husband to boot.
You don’t like Sarah Palin because she’s a conservative woman who doesn’t fit into your simple little liberal box. It takes a special kind of courage to be an idiotic liberal. Thanks for showing me, yet again, how “understanding” and “caring” liberals are for women. Oh, I mean the women who abort their children, and proudly become enslaved to the liberal platform.
No soup for you.