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Edited on Tue Sep-02-08 09:29 AM by Mortos
On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, "Did you know there's a White House dog?" Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time and as far as I know had never done any harm to anyone.
-Molly Ivans on Rush Limbaugh
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”
– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998
Amy Carter was the butt of hundreds of jokes about her appearance from right wingers during her early teens.
Al Gore's son was arrested for drugs and became instant verification to the right wingers that liberals spawn drug abusing children.
David Walters, the governor of Oklahoma in 1992, son was hounded by the local right wing media over a false marijuana charge until he killed himself.
Because then the guns turned to my son Shaun, and his mother and I watched helplessly as the media dogged him. Forty-seven T.V. stories in one week, even though he didn’t use drugs and cooperated fully. A single seed nurtured for weeks by the authorities tested negative, but he was still made to endure a humiliating two hour lie detector test only later to read in the newspaper the assistant DA say that yes, he had been treated more severely because of who he was.
Marcy Gardenhire, from Oklahoma City, in a letter to the editor recently said, “The bullet of vengeance veered off course and lodged fatally in the heart of a young man who could not bear the pain.” Ad so, 39 days ago we lost him. He’s buried now in a cemetery on Northwest Highway.
Governor David Walters 1992
Sarah Palin dragged her daughter into the spotlight knowing she would face harsh scrutiny. It is, in my opinion, tantamount to child abuse and suggests that Sarah Palin is more interested in her political career than the mental well being of her children. She could have turned down the request and lived in the blanket of anonymity provided by being the governor of the 47th least populated state, hunting moose and riding snowmobiles to her heart's content.
Right wingers have nothing to stand on when they decry the exposure of political children except their own hypocrisy cobbled together with double standards.
This should hurt McCain, it is a relevant issue on his judgement and Palin's failed ideas about abstinence education.
I wish no ill will on any of the Palin children, but if their mother has lied about this issue, withheld the information from her running mate or misled her constituents (I still think there is more to this story) she has failed the integrity test and so has the republican party that defends her.
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