tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post2347155614565358751..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Re: Low moaning Dems & MSM this morning commentsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-29951835193164254882008-09-07T13:22:00.000-04:002008-09-07T13:22:00.000-04:00I wouldn't mind sitting next to Obama/Gore/Kerry o...I wouldn't mind sitting next to Obama/Gore/Kerry on a long flight. I've always wanted to ride in a Gulfstream.BoonDoggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11472197145758638551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-69473536677947706372008-09-07T11:56:00.000-04:002008-09-07T11:56:00.000-04:00Reade Clark Hoyt's piece in the Sunday NY Times wh...Reade Clark Hoyt's piece in the Sunday NY Times where he defends Elizabeth Bumiller's savage reporting not on the issues (which are a legitimate source of inquiry) but on her family and their particular beliefs and values. The press cannot have it both ways - Palin is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. After the vitrolic claims that Palin was not the mother of her son, they announced something that was common knowledge in Wasilla that her daughter was five months pregnant. This then raised the claim that she was trying to hide her daughter's pregnancy. That a "good mother" who stayed home with her children would not have that happen (my mother was a good mother who stayed home but my sister found herself a pregnant teenager- who eventually married her baby's father and they are still married some six years later) then became the rallying cry with the bit thrown in that a "special needs" child would need his mother more and that should be her focus. Then, she is accused of using her family as props - she has her young son with her (the unsaid is that how dare she - he should be at home in a crib) and then when her daughter's fiance comes out to be with his girldfriend at the convention (does anyone even consider that he might want to be at his intended's side as she goes through what must be a horrendous time) Palin is criticised once again as either 1' trumpting her daughter's pregnancy and teenage pregnancies in general or 2. trying to show that it is some lovey -dovey family when the critics would like nothing more than to see some dirt or cat-fighting. <BR/>Now the attention is on the fact that she attended several undergraduate institutions - started out in Hawaii and missed the cold of the mainland so transferred several times before she found the right "college fit". Her experience mirrors more the average these days as students transfer colleges for many reasons. There are also the snide elitist comments about the fact that she graduated from an Idaho University rather than from an Ivy League school when in fact the vast majority of college graduates graduate from state institutions or small liberak arts colleges rather from the Ivies.<BR/>Obama and Biden may very well win this election - if they win it because they have a better vision for America and they make that case then that is one thing (personally, their vision is not mine). However, if they (or their surrogates - Bob Shrum was just decrying Palin's educational background on the tv just a few minutes ago)persist in their demeaning comments and personal attacks and win through that means - then the division that will enuse in this country will be a class vision that will make the racial divide seem minor in comparison.<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-77601101628546754102008-09-06T21:57:00.000-04:002008-09-06T21:57:00.000-04:00John -Here is a link to a blogger who has compiled...John -<BR/><BR/>Here is a link to a blogger who has compiled all the current rumors about Sarah Palin, with most being untrue:<BR/><BR/>http://explorations.chasrmartin.com<BR/>/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/<BR/><BR/>Jack in Silver SpringAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-43488414005394813882008-09-06T18:34:00.000-04:002008-09-06T18:34:00.000-04:00John,There is another wild card that has not shown...John,<BR/><BR/>There is another wild card that has not shown up just yet. Obama has made what I think is a principled effort to reach out to evangelical voters.<BR/><BR/>However, now that Palin is on the ticket and the Democrats have been absolutely savaging her for things like her faith and the fact that she has five children, Obama can forget about the evangelicals. I believe that the attacks on Sarah Palin are going to be even more vicious than they have been, and that will bring more evangelicals and small-town and rural people to her camp.<BR/><BR/>Obama really is in a hard place right now. I do believe he would want to bring evangelical and Catholic voters in, and as an evangelical, I appreciate the fact that he has not been dismissive like John Kerry was. However, given that his supporters on Daily Kos, Pandagon, and other blogs and people like Bill Maher are going to be openly mocking her faith and her family, you can bet that they will drive away any evangelicals that might have leaned toward Obama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com