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Where the hell is Hillary Clinton? She should be the strongest weapon the democrats have right now to pour water on this grotesque love affair that white working class women are having with Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is touted as a a hero for having 5 kids, one of which she is using as a ploy today , September 11th no less, by exploiting his deployment to Iraq. Another who is the pregnant teenage girlfriend of a self described “redneck”, and a down syndrome baby she had at 42. Are you serious! Her 5 year old spit on the head of the challenged baby at the convention and everybody thought it was the cutest thing since Shirley Temple. Not only are the Republicans turning their own anti- woman platform on it’s ear and then twisting it into the scariest example of double speak since the argument for the Iraq War, but nobody in the Democrat-IC (yes it is still Democratic) party is really saying ANYTHING.
I know there is a fringe element that will fall lock step into whatever absurdity the GOP comes up with, but I also believe that most of the new Sarah Palin fan club are women that do not follow politics and in these last 2 months, they suddenly see a woman who they believe represents some of their current struggles. Problem is she is NOT their gal!!! Her problems may be similar but her solutions are extreme, everybody has had a brother in law that they dislike very much, but how many of us have followed him from job to job getting him fired until finally a judge said that the Palin families attacks on this guy were so extreme and so damaging to his children that it bordered on child abuse!!!
Yeah, many of us have had teenagers come home knocked up. But only in places where mistakenly girls feel like their ONLY option to get love, purpose, and respect is to “keep my baby” do they choose not to end the pregnancy. Most parents want to protect their teenage daughters from a future that results in a loss of education, a loss of youth and the very good chance of a life in poverty. Girls that plan on college do not have babies in 11th grade. Why aren’t the mothers that stood up and said NO to their own daughters, standing up and saying NO to Palin? Everybody knows that a vast number of young girls get pregnant in high school, but most get abortions. YES abortion!!! Oh my god I said it. The word nobody wants to say, but everybody knows someone who has either had one or knows that their mom, sister or daughter has. This is insane. What are we so ashamed of? Why do we let this stand? I don’t know if Chelsea Clinton has ever been pregnant, but I know damn right well that is she was at 15, the Clintons would have never advised their beautiful and brilliant daughter to have her life derailed at that young age. That is CHOICE that is what we fought so hard for, now as liberal’s we would never be so mean as to fault a girl for having a baby at such a young age. Look at Barack Obama’s mom, she was 18 when he was born. But let’s not forget who has been that mean, and not just in words. The Republicans! The entire reason that a young girls life is derailed if she gets pregnant in high school, the entire reason I would advise my teenage daughter, sister, niece to have an abortion is because of the Republican attitudes and policies that have made it nearly impossible to raise a child as a young, working class, single mom. These are the people that want to segregate pregnant teens from the rest of the public school population because they set a bad example. But now they parade Sarah Palin’s daughter around like the prize pig at the fair I couldn’t resist using a pig analogy. These are the people that vote against the Children’s Health Care Bill, state sponsored day care, and the list goes on and on.
And then there is the BABY! Ohhhh the baby, look at the baby, see the baby, yeah look at the baby he has down syndrome! Not to long ago years ago you saw tons of Down Syndrome and other mentally challenged kids running around . Not so much anymore. Why?For the reason that we now have early detection, that’s why! But in this take no mercy, every man for himself, Republican Utopia, where is this challenged Palin kid gonna in 50 years? Who is gonna wipe him then, when she is long dead and he ain’t so cute anymore?
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