tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post396453870984557599..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: AP/ Jesse Jackson post follow-up suggestionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-56886160878452632132008-11-22T09:47:00.000-05:002008-11-22T09:47:00.000-05:00Unfortunately, Jackson's behavior is just another ...Unfortunately, Jackson's behavior is just another example of the inequality that exists regarding parenting issues - I would posit that this inequality exists beyond the US borders. The media felt jsutified in questioning Palin's mothering because her teenage daughter engaged in pre-marital sex. Yet look at the treatment accorded Al Gore's parenting in so far as his only son was (is?) a drug addict who has been in and out of trouble over the years. There were also problems with one of the Biden children as well - yet no commentary on that. It seems that men are given a pass in the area of child reading (or in Jackson's case the lack thereof) while a women politicain is held to a higher standard....but then that reflects the overall attitude that child rearing (and becomming pregnant) is the domain of the female and the male is of little merit - I will agree that the feminist creed has only made this more of the case than less.<BR/>Men like Jackson and Edwards who father children and then discard them as collateral damage yet ask for forgiveness and prayers/privacy for their families as they "heal" are hypocrites of the first order. If Obama does anything at all, I hope that he keeps both of these men away from any part of his administration and sets the example that men have a responsibility towards their wives and children. This responsibility first and formost is fidelity. With so many African-American households headed by females who have either been abandoned by their spouses (boyfriends) or who choose to engage in sexual relations with men who have little regard for the possible outcome of such encounters, Obama has the bully pulpit to speak out against such behaviors and to point out that poverty, lack of education, social misbehavior all are a part of the failure of men to take their responsibilities as fathers seriously. Society will not change as long as such beheaviors are allowed to be the norm rather than the exception. <BR/>I will grant that no mother or father (who is present) looks upon their newborn and wishes tha they will grow up in poverty, be a drug addict, and a burden to society. However, the lack of good examples and consistent parenting by two parents more often than not produces such a person. Parenting is hard work. It means not being your child's friend (though hopefully, when they reach adulthood there will be that relationship as well), it means being strong enough to tell your children no, set boundaries, remain strong when those boundaries are challenged, and to learn which battles are important to fight and which are not (from experience I have learned that the battles one chooses to fight change as one's children get older). It is difficult enough raising children when there are two adults in the household - when one is single, the children feel abandoned, or see the absent parent as the proverbial "grass is greener" option then the result is not what we as a society need or desire.<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-11637540437000390502008-11-22T09:31:00.000-05:002008-11-22T09:31:00.000-05:00My two cents' worth:The very basis of the race hus...My two cents' worth:<BR/>The very basis of the race hustlers' strength is that they have succeeded in establishing white guilt about something for which no living white person is responsible. Leftwing politicians have joined the race hustlers in keeping the black population in a modern-day version of slavery. Any person, any publication, any author who dares to question Jackson, Sharpton, Wright, Maxine Waters, et. al. is immediately accused of being racist and is effectively silenced; thus it is foolhardy to try to debate on their terms. Even St. Barack found himself on the receiving end of Jackson's viciousness when he attempted to discuss one of the biggest problems of the black community--just as Bill Cosby found when he wanted to talk about civic responsibility. <BR/> Until reasonable people can discuss such things openly and honestly, the race hustlers will continue to win and the black community will never rise above itself. And Jesse Jackson will continue to threaten castration of any black man who thinks differently.<BR/>Tarheel HawkeyeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-18188090303217585872008-11-22T07:51:00.000-05:002008-11-22T07:51:00.000-05:00What I'd find interesting is to see the unexpurgat...What I'd find interesting is to see the unexpurgated version of the good Rev.'s statements, followed by, in brackets, each time the MSM dished up a sanitized version, the more polite but false version.<BR/><BR/>I recall the reporting of Dick Cheney's exhortation that Harry Reid perform an anatomically impossible act upon himself. In that case, asterisks were used so that gentle persons would not be offended by seeing the word in print, yet, MSM hoped we would conclude that Cheney was a foul-mouthed lout.<BR/><BR/>I expect the differing treatments were because MSM hoped that VP Cheney would be shamed by the revealing of of his utterance of a four-letter word, which I'm sure he wasn't, and their desire not to let us know that Rev. Jackson was the foul-mouthed hypocrite we all know he is.Ex-prosecutorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02452419035924029993noreply@blogger.com