Wednesday, September 03, 2008
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Mommy Palin's Double Standard
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Posted by:
Amanda Carpenter at
3:00 PM
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This was my post over at Glamocracy today:
Hillary Clinton's Style section cleavage controversy is nothing compared to the sexist, savage attacks being waged on Sarah Palin. On CNN, John Roberts openly wondered if Palin would neglect her child with Down's Syndrome if she took the VP job, saying "Children with Down's syndrome require an awful lot of attention," and "The role of Vice President, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?" His fellow anchor Campbell Brown put it to to a McCain spokesman that Palin was putting "Bristol Palin smack in the media spotlight at what's already got to be a very challenging time in her life," implying that Palin was damaging her daughter by accepting the nomination. Over on MSNBC, "Some Voters Concerned if Palin, a Mother of Five Has Time to be VP," crawled across the screen. The underlying assumption of these statements is that Palin will be a bad mother if she became the first female vice president. She can't do both well, and maybe she should just stay barefoot in her Alaskan kitchen cooking mooseburgers till her kids are grown. On top of that, there have been many "news" stories raising doubts about the McCain campaign's vetting process in regard to the news of Bristol's pregnancy. They want you to think that McCain didn't know about it because if he did, he would have picked Romney or Pawlenty instead. They're using Palin's unborn grandchild to pressure McCain to drop her. There's a double standard at work and it's a blend of both gender and party politics. Do you remember anyone questioning Joe Biden's decision to keep his job in the U.S. Senate after his wife and daughter were killed in a tragic car accident? The media thought it was distasteful to find out if John Edwards fathered an illegitimate child, but has no problem adopting National Enquirer-like tactics to go after Sarah Palin. Have you seen one glossy magazine cover yet lauding Palin's "historic" candidacy? Let's face it. If Sarah Palin was a liberal Democrat all the media would be salivating over the "woman who has it all." Since she's not, they're using her status as a mother to disqualify her from breaking the hardest, highest of glass ceilings.
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"There are levels to which Democrats are willing to sink, but Republican (for the most part) are not."
That's because Republicans would have to RISE to get to those same levels.
(OK, I don't normally do insults, but that was too soft a pitch.) |
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There are levels to which Democrats are willing to sink, but Republican (for the most part) are not. |
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I guess that post has been withdrawn, eh? Never mind, here it is again:
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Hunter Biden's Baby?
Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 3:25 PM
I am reluctant to post a blog about this, but with all the fervor placed on Sarah Palin over her daughter’s child, I believe this question is worth answering and I simply cannot answer it myself.
I got a tip this morning familiar with the Biden family that Joe Biden is unhappy with all the “Babygate” coverage because he has been through a similar situation with his son Robert Hunter Biden. The source said he believed Joe’s granddaughter, Robert Hunters’s daughter, Naomi, was conceived prior to his marriage with wife Kathleen. Much like Bristol’s situation with boyfriend Levi.
Hours of Nexis searches and online database mining only revealed that the Bidens were married in 1993 and that Naomi is now 14. That means they were married and Naomi was born in the same year. Without the exact date of birth and wedding date it’s impossible to tell for sure what happened.
Given the intense media attention to family matters the previous week, where many fair and unfair questions have been asked of Palin, I think this a fair question for Joe Biden to answer.
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I have the comments, too, if you're interested. Of course, they're probably the reason it was withdrawn. |
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They're just being exactly who they are. Of course there's a double standard and hypocrisy coming from the left!!!
What we need to do is get back on offense and stop throwing a fit over every word they say. We're allowing them to frame the conversation.
Palin was a risky pick, and now we've got to get a better strategy to deal with her. Of course they're going to call her committment to her children into question! I do it, it's a completely legitimate criticism. If everyone would simply stop calling her a wonderful wife and mom (SUPERMOM TO THE RESCUE) and just let her be the politically ambitious woman she is, we could move on. Hillary doesn't ever have to prove her motherhood because the left doesn't set her up that way.
No, we had to turn Palin into an icon like Reagan and Thatcher. Sheesh! |
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Fox News' Chris Wallace, responding to McCain campaign charges, asked [Meg Whitman, McCain's national campaign co-chair and the former CEO of e-Bay], "Is it fair to call it 'sexism'? I mean, sometimes there are legitimate questions."
Whitman responded, "I actually think it's completely fair for the media to vet Sarah Palin, just as they did Barack Obama and John McCain and everyone else who's running for office. I mean, you are running for the second highest office in the land, so I think it's the right thing to do."
Wallace followed up, asking about possible sexism in the reaction to Palin's candidacy. "I wouldn't say there really has" been sexism, Whitman replied. |
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But, don't you'll understand something here
HILLARY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE QUEEN.
But, the DNC wanted wonderboy. So they ousted her.
"Oh my god Joe, John boy picked a women VP, what'll we do, she likes guns"
"I don't know Barry"
Don't stand in front of the elephant stampede. |
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LOL!!!! What a joke the GOP VP choice has become, especially for McCain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTbsbeY5k5k
To quote Pat Buchanan:
"You mention the word Commander-in-Chief, and it is hard to see this Sarah Palin as Commander-in-Chief..."
"She could be eaten alive in a debate with Joe Biden."
Or to quote Joe Scarborough:
"She has only been a governor for a year? That will not work ... I just find it hard to believe that with the problems that we have across the world ... that you are going to have a Governor that has been there for one and a half years as the vice president."
Not a Left/Liberal/Democratic. Straight from respected commentators on the right.
Sad, so sad for McCain, to have such poor judgment. |
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"If the ceiling was broken a 25 years ago, name the woman who was elected VP."
Palin hasn't been elected VP. |
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I have to completely disagree: I personally have not heard any of my liberal/feminist/democrat female friends criticizing Palin for running for office when she has children. I've heard understandable criticism and disgust about her anti-feminist conservative views, but nothing at all suggesting that Palin should not run for office because she is a *mother*. Can you cite actual quotes from actual female democrats who have criticized Palin for this reason please instead of just stirring up muck? It seems important to be accurate in being accurate about all this. |
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I'll tell all you conservative idiots what's a double standard....- I saw Palin in a pants suit; did you or the right make any comments like you mercilessly did with Hillary. No because for Palin it's ok because she cares about unborn babies -that's all you on the right care about- unborn babies- you don't care about 19+ year olds dying in Iraq and Afghanastan, as long as the fetus is saved, god be praised. You're fanatical like the islamic jiihaad. And you think it's moral to say an unwed mom in high school is to be praised and Palin's example to be praised because they're 'keeping the baby' no abortion is all you care about- not family values- if you did or the hippocrit mccain and lieberman and all the repubs and christian right you'd be slamming her as an unfit mother as you did jamie lynn spears mom for raising her promiscuous teenager. And to bring this teenage brat boyfriend to the convention is an insult to Americans. Sends the right signals to America's youth. Mom also was pregnant before she got married (first son born 8 months after wedding)- well like mother like daughter. You're all hippocritical phonies. she's experienced in foriegn affairs becuase she lives near Russia GIVE ME A BREAK, and I'm president of the US because I work near the white house. Palin is an abomination and an insult- inexperienced and unprepared and a poor poor role model as a mother and parent. |
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If you have a big 'ol D next to your name!
I think it is more appalling that John Edwards cheated on his ailing wife and has an illegitimate child and his excuse is "I felt powerful and that I could get away with it."
And we accept that? But we cannot accept that a teen wasn't careful while having sex? Maybe she was. Maybe the condom broke. We don't know. It's not our business. Bristol Palin is not running for office.
John Edwards was though.
Obama was out snorting coke 20 years ago. No one is condemning his mother (whom had him at 18) and the grandmother that raised him for his poor decisions.
But alas...the big D is next to their names so all is well in Oz! |
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If the ceiling was broken a 25 years ago, name the woman who was elected VP. The whole reason liberals are Borking Palin is they will be afraid that their template of what it means to be a conservative will be destroyed. We don't hate women and are happy to have strong women lead us. |
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"Do you remember anyone questioning Joe Biden's decision to keep his job in the U.S. Senate after his wife and daughter were killed in a tragic car accident?"
JOE BIDEN questioned it. In fact, he had to be talked into staying in Congress, and took the oath of office at the bedsides of his badly-injured sons. When he did start going in to his Senate office, he went home to Delaware every single night (and still does).
"disqualify her from breaking the hardest, highest of glass ceilings."
That ceiling was broken a quarter century ago. H. Clinton put 18 million cracks in the next one up. |
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On...The left just cannot stand it. Hence, the frothing is out of control! |
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Didn't Campbel Brown just give birth to a child as well? Why did she come back to work so soon instead of staying home with her baby. |
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