Comments on: Funnies

By: Progressive Traditionalist

Progressive Traditionalist — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:25:34 +0000

That should read:
“It was a statement…”

Darn! but I hate it when I misspell a two-letter word.

By: Progressive Traditionalist

Progressive Traditionalist — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:26:31 +0000

Really, I saw someone saying something like that on tv last night.
I was a statement given as concern for this woman’s children, that their mother simply won’t have enough time to both hold a job and attend to their needs.

By: Ames

Ames — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:33:19 +0000

John’s got me covered. I don’t know any dems yelling at Palin for being an active woman; we’re angry about what kind of active woman she is. It’s the right wing that’s imagining the sexism.

BTW, I like being part of the Democratic Attack Machine

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:03:28 +0000

Absolutely agreed that she has credibility on abortion, having made the tough decisions herself. I do give her kudos in my noggin for that.

I’m not going to go any further in talking about abortion, because I don’t have my own thoughts clear yet. It’s a murky enough conversation without me adding UberMurk to the occasion.

Thanks for the link, by the way. I’ve added you as well.

~ John

By: Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:52:05 +0000

Interestingly enough though, a fairly conservative stance on abortion, for example, is not a deal-breaker with much of the middle. Centrist voters tend to be more conservative than Obama, especially on social issues.

And let’s not forget that she has a unique perspective on abortion herself, having become pregnant out of wedlock, later had a child with Downs Syndrome and now with a pregnant teen daughter. It’s not as though she is trying to act morally superior…she’s lived it.

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:01:11 +0000

Exactly. Now, I will happily stipulate that the Dems *know* that a strong religious agenda could irritate fence-sitting voters, so they’re giving her a hard time for something that, as yet, we don’t know she actually supports.

This is why I hate politics.

~ John

By: David Adams

David Adams — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:50:12 +0000

This is a funny and true cartoon. Less funny is the Dems support for the Paycheck Fairness Act, which, if passed, would keep more women out of the workplace.

http://kyprogress.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-keep-palin-barefoot-pregnant.html

By: Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:32:07 +0000

Yeah, Bush’s religion stuff always irked me too. I don’t know how ‘militant’ she is in her faith, though I suspect she’s fairly devout considering her position on abortion.

If she will just help clean up Washington for 4 years and lay off the other stuff, I can vote for her. If she has an religious agenda I can see the concern.

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:36:54 +0000

I agree that she can set a positive role-model for millions of working mothers (Lord, I sound like a politician sometimes…;)). I’m not even sure I buy the Dem’s argument, because I personally don’t know a ton about this Dominionist stuff (I’d never heard the term until a week ago). However, *if* they’re right about Dominion Theology, then she will be annoying me in the same way that Phyllis Schlafly annoys me.

Don’t worry about the partisanship one way or the other. I’ve enjoyed your posts over there for awhile now. I actually have been reading your blog for a few weeks, I just started using RSS yesterday; thus the subscription.

~ John

By: Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:19:30 +0000

Thanks for the subscription John. Hope you enjoy reading ( I promise I’m not so ‘partisan’ the majority of the time). I’ll look into the feed thing, though admittedly it’s not my area of expertise.

As for Palin, I just think it’s disappointing that she is being criticized for trying to be a mother AND a successful politician. Afterall, she has a husband who is helping. That’s more than many women with multiple children have. I think her example is a god one in the sense that it demonstrates how beneficial it is to be in a marriage.