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Anonymous
Here is a recent quote from Sarah Palin back in Alaska:
The answer to that is that the press was asking for her records for a month or two and got nothing more than a note from her doctor saying she's in good health. I wonder whether anyone will take her up on her offer now, or whether she's too much yesterday's news to be worth the trouble. |
Anonymous
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She nay be history, but she's still great to make fun of!
www.palindeception.com |
Anonymous
Oh please, did we need a blow by blow of her prenatal visits, her labor history, etc. or did we just need the summary. Get over yourselves - this woman has been trashed and, qualified or not, we should be ashamed to send the message to our daughters that this is how pioneering female politicians will be treated. Her hair, glasses, clothes, BF or not, none of these things matter in the end, do they? |
Anonymous
Pioneering? only in the sense that she can live off the land When stupid women - who think they can walk on water (literally in her case) - are referred to as role models and "pioneers," then I ashamed to call myself a female. You need to get over yourself. Simply because she's a female doesn't mean that she should be treated as some sort of pioneer b/c she's a public figure. My friend allowed her daughter to stay up to watch Palin's speech to teach her that not all women are condescending idiots. She put herself on the stage; she should expect criticism. And if she can't handle it, then she's in the wrong profession. Stop being a Pollyanna. We need to support STRONG, INTELLIGENT women - not just any woman who's supposedly "made it." |
Anonymous
| Then criticize her policies and her experience, not her pregnancy. |
Anonymous
According to her conservative views, pregnancy and politics go hand in hand. |
Anonymous
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This all boils down to Sexism.
If she were a Man, this thread wouldn't have even of been started. |
Anonymous
| And are some of you, perhaps, just a teensy bit jealous of her hair? And her looks? I thought so.... |
Anonymous
| As OP my point was not about the pregnancy, but the hypocrisy of that comment about her records. Was my comment confusing, or is misdirection an instinctive response? |
Anonymous
OP, the letter from her doctor described her pregnancy and birth with Trig. It spoke to a bit more than just being in good health; it was actually more detailed than Obama's letter from his doctor. But why do you care? The election is over, OP. Surely you have more to think about than Sarah Palin. |
Anonymous
Now and then I (OP) think of things other than Palin. But I saw an article this morning and was struck by the comment about the supposed availability of her records. I had thought the doctor's letter was very brief; I did not realize it explicitly referred to the Trig pregnancy. |
Anonymous
OK - then allow me to level the playing field. "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." - Dan Quayle Dan was not pregnant, but he was just as dumb. How's that for fair treatment? |
Anonymous
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Didn't mean to snark, OP. (I'm 17:27.) As ADN said, "the bulk of the letter described Palin's most recent pregnancy and Trig's health." I read the letter and there was nothing particularly interesting or revealing in it, but it did discuss all her pregnancies, especially the last one. It included the timing of the prenatal testing that revealed Trig's Down syndrome and added some other details about his birth and the fact that he was able to go home 2 days afterwards.
Sorry to have been snarky. |
Anonymous
No. But it seemed relevant to the anti-Obama crowd that Obama did not release more than a summary statement from his doctors. Those same people were boasting about how much disclosure John McCain had produced. And she released nothing until the evening before the election. We do have some right to know that the people we elect are going to be healthy enough to serve. The Trig's Mom thing is a deflection. Obviously she is Trig's mom and early and quick disclosure would have exposed that rumor (about Bristol being Trig's mom) as false and hideous. |
Anonymous
OP again. I agree that it would have saved everyone a lot of trouble if the doctor's statement had come immediately. However, I don't see the rumor as "hideous". Thinking that a mother would try to protect her pregnant daughter is certainly not an insult to the mother, and thinking that a seventeen year old girl might be pregnant is just a recognition of a reality that has been proved countless times before Bristol's example. Between Sarah's weird night-before journey and Bristol's withdrawal from school, though, I confess I'm still a bit befuddled. |