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Palin too busy to be VP and mom/grandma
Alex Sanders
Issue date: 9/4/08 Section: Commentary
Bristol, Palin's daughter, will have a difficult time raising her own child at 17. She is going to need her mother's support or her child will suffer as well. The situation at hand creates an unstable family and potential sloppy work in the White House.
It also is unjust that the vice-presidential candidate should have to choose between spending time on her work or with her family. No mother should be in that position. McCain should have thought about her family situation ahead of time and, if he had actually known about Bristol's pregnancy, he shouldn't - and probably wouldn't - have made Palin the vice presidential candidate.
McCain may have won over some conservative women by choosing Palin, but he has angered mothers who know how difficult it is to manage five kids, or fewer for that matter, as a stay-at-home mom or as a working woman. He may have used her to shake up the campaign but if McCain and Palin get elected, her family will suffer - along with the rest of America.
It also is unjust that the vice-presidential candidate should have to choose between spending time on her work or with her family. No mother should be in that position. McCain should have thought about her family situation ahead of time and, if he had actually known about Bristol's pregnancy, he shouldn't - and probably wouldn't - have made Palin the vice presidential candidate.
McCain may have won over some conservative women by choosing Palin, but he has angered mothers who know how difficult it is to manage five kids, or fewer for that matter, as a stay-at-home mom or as a working woman. He may have used her to shake up the campaign but if McCain and Palin get elected, her family will suffer - along with the rest of America.
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David Gill
posted 9/04/08 @ 5:51 AM EST
Wow how offensive. How long have you hated women? Is this editorial out of the 1950's? Let me be the first to welcome you to the 21st century. You give the Geico cavemen a bad name. (Continued…)
Taylor
posted 9/04/08 @ 7:41 AM EST
This premise is so ridiculous it's almost laughable. To in any way suggest that Palin would be overhwhelmed by her jobs as a vice president and mother is to discredit the work she had done as a governor and a mother in becoming a powerful enough woman that she was qualified as a potential vice presidential candidate. (Continued…)
Mirror Lake
posted 9/04/08 @ 10:34 AM EST
True it is hard to take care of a family, but it's this way for both men and women with large families. Not just women.
What I find shameful is how they forced a seventeen year old girl into the spotlight just so they can. (Continued…)
KMK
posted 9/04/08 @ 11:13 AM EST
Obviously, we should not apply a double standard here. Male politicians are never faced with questions of who will raise the kids. But I think the difference is when you offer up a candidate's motherhood as a qualification for the job, then you have to answer those questions. (Continued…)
rayf
posted 9/04/08 @ 4:41 PM EST
Sarah Palin offered more insight into what this nation needs from it governmental leaders in the last 5 days than any of the unterm limited congressional membership has ever!
Michael
posted 9/04/08 @ 5:07 PM EST
I was literally speechless when I read this article. To suggest that Sarah Palin should not run for Vice President because she has a family implies that any woman who wants to raise a family should not have any kind of demanding job. (Continued…)
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Sam
posted 9/04/08 @ 7:28 PM EST
To discredit Palin on the basis of this article is ludacris. I wonder if the author listened to what she had to say at the RNC, what she has accomplished as a politician, what she will bring to the country, and thought about it, instead of listening to the un-backed stupid facts of the liberal media. (Continued…)
Johnny
posted 9/05/08 @ 8:15 AM EST
I might be wrong, but isnt the author of this piece a girl? Alex is an unisex name.
but yeah...this article is pretty sexist..i think that about sums it up. (Continued…)
Sandy
posted 9/05/08 @ 2:34 PM EST
I agree with the author. I have been thinking exactly the same. I am a 46 year old mom of 6 and I can tell you the teen pregnancy is a red flag that Sarah Palin has already not been present enough in her children's lives. (Continued…)
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posted 9/19/08 @ 7:29 PM EST
I agree wholeheartedly with the opinions expressed.
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