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Posted on 12/22/2010 7:00:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah, we know you’re an anti-elitist. Is that why you don’t believe in a college education for your kids? It’s so strange: You went to college, five colleges in fact, before you wrapped up your bachelor of communications degree from the University of Idaho. Your father was a science teacher, your mother was the school secretary, and your brother Chuck is a teacher — so why don’t you EVER promote the value of education even in your own family?
You have no problem speaking out against First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign for children. That means you don’t even like the idea of Michelle “educating” parents on the dangers of fattening food.
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And having watched every episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, I’ve heard you repeatedly laud ”family values,” the “work ethic” and the importance of taking individual initiative.
These are all great things BUT I’ve never heard you mention the value of education … once.
And I’m wondering if you are shortchanging your own children by not encouraging and enabling them to go to college. Take Bristol, for example – her dreams of going to college to get a nursing degree were cut short by her teen pregnancy at age 17. Then once she had baby Tripp, now 2, she sadly resigned herself to possibly going to a community college to study real estate instead.
And even that was dependent on getting free babysitting from her father Todd, sister Willow and other family members, she said.
Now Sarah, why should her dreams and opportunities be cut short because she was a teen mom? You can afford to send her to college and help her with babysitting or day care costs! It’s estimated that you’ve earned up to $12 million since resigning from your position as Governor of Alaska.
Your books, your speaking engagements, your FoxNews commentating position and your reality show have all raked in big bucks for you. Plus, Bristol may have earned enough from Dancing with the Stars to have at least paid for her own college tuition.
But have you, Sarah, pushed Bristol to do what only two percent of teen moms are able to do — earn a college degree by the age of 30?
There’s absolutely no evidence that the answer to that question is – yes!
So I’m wondering: Are you just too cheap to help Bristol financially, or do you feel that it’s important that Bristol be “punished” for her pregnancy by having college withheld? OR do you truly believe your own propaganda – that an “elitist” college education offers no value for your daughter?
Sarah you certainly aren’t pushing college for your oldest son Track either. After serving a tour in Iraq, you are encouraging him to take up a career as a salmon fisherman, following in the footsteps of his dad, Todd.
I have nothing against fishing as a career, but what’s wrong with a college degree and then fishing. At least he’ll be equipped to transition to another career should salmon fishing go bust.
“It’s important that parents and youths be aware that there are constraints in not having a higher education. If you’re rolling the dice, there are certainly more career choices,” agrees Reed Larson, a professor of human development at the University of Illinois.
If you Sarah aren’t promoting the value of a college education to your own children, you are denying them HUGE opportunities beyond going camping in the wilds of Alaska or dancing their way into our hearts for a reality show season. ”If parents don’t encourage their kids, there is a large possibility that they won’t go to college,” points out Jeff Gardere, a clinical psychologist and host of Dad Camp on Twist TV.
What I’d hate to think is that you, Sarah, see it as politically detrimental to your folksy, down-home image to have your children go to college.
You’ve slammed President Obama repeatedly for being an elitist and now, horrors, you don’t want to be painted as one in any way.
“If there is a brand to support, it’s possible she’d use all facets of her life to promote that brand,” believes psychologist and attorney Sheila Forman.
I’d hate to say that might be the case. But if it’s not, then Sarah Palin– Why don’t you give Bristol an opportunity to have a bigger and more long-term future than just being a reality star?
I notice nothing there or any othe on-line Fuller biog anything about education. Maybe Ms Fuller should consider learning commercial salmon fishing so she will have something to transition to if magazine publishing goes bust.
...which makes her a masterful manipulator.
Truth is she has a lot in common with Sarah. Both have several children (Sarah has 5, Bonnie has 4), both are happily married, and both are extremely successful.
As a mom, she knows what a sucker punch the education meme is, and how other women (unaware of the facts) will react.
Yes, got to see the clip with Michelle telling us about dessert and how to withhold it from kids on the Lawrence O'Donnel show tonight. She was frightfully statist in her attempt to explain her position.
Before showing Sarah, this pig-socialist O'Donnel introduced her as a former VP candidate "who'd never be elected President".
Believe me, I'm not a violent person, but I wouldn't hesitate to shove a handful of Baked Alaska down this prick's throat- while shouting, "ObamaCare!".
Look, I could understand some dis-like of Sarah or conservatives in general, but these ratholes are begging for a fight as represented by their discourse. I hope they're up to it, really. To quote Dr. Phil McGraw's dad, "Your mouth is writing checks your ass can't cash." Which is typical of the Left- gazillions of checks written and failure on an epic level these last 70+ years.
Well, their asses are about to 'cash' in on all that failure. It started last November and will continue until every last one of these phony elitists are thrown out on their 'ass'.
They're begging for a fight and one is headed their way. Sarah is just a figurehead in what has become a movement to tear down the socialist agenda that has rotted the foundations of this country. America is poised to rid herself of these stinking termites, once and for all.
If it goes to the streets (where I'm certain this administration would love to benefit from a 'crisis'), so be it. Americans fought tyranny before and won, we can do it again. The balance between the Fed and the States is out of whack. Fixing it may take a 'revolution'.
Notice, the one's begging for a fight are unbending in their opposition to changes that might make confrontation unnecessary. Notice, they'll flaunt their 'hate America' agenda in your face as though you have nothing to say. You'll have gays serving openly in the military, like it or not. Can gay marriage be far behind (butt intended)?
Yup, these are first-class pricks we're dealing with here. And are they ever, writing checks. We'll see how many their "asses" can cash these next two years.
"Hey Lawrence, can I interest you in a 'fattening' dessert?"
Excellent points as always, b9. “poor, non-college educated, Bristol writes more professionally on her FaceBook page, than this foolish, “mean-spirited” journ0list...lol.
LOL. Whack.
“Okay, try to imagine anyone writing this article about the Obama girls, Chelsea Clinton, Gore’s kids or a Kennedy.”
Wouldn’t happen, and this is nothing more than PDS.
You go, Sarah!
She’s not “hot”, but the only thing about her that’s ugly, judging by the picture, is her mind.
We use to call that book smart but street ignorant. If you can graduate Harvard and still think that "corps" is pronounced corpse...you are truly ignorant of the world in which you live.
Wow, this Bonnie Fuller knows so much about the Palin family and all of their personal discussions about the future of their children. And of course, she knows what those children want in life. Why wouldn’t she, from a few hours of television and slanted coverage in the tabloids? /s
*rolls eyes*
Seriously, when I saw an article in the Enquirer that basically said Sarah was “jealous” of Bristol and her DWTS appearance ... come on. That’s ridiculous. Sarah was there and was very proud of her daughter.
They are getting desperate.
btw, onyx, thank you for the ping—I missed last Sunday night because there were Christmas movies on that the kids wanted to watch. I think it will be replayed, though.
Yes Track is and he has his GI Bill that he will use if he wants too. He has 15 years to do it once he is DISCHARGED (which I don’t believe he is yet). So I am unsure what this women is talking about especially with regards to Track. Bristol seems like a VERY independent woman who does what she wants. Sarah on Bristol’s back selling college every day is not going to convince Bristol to go to college and could even make her not want to go to college at all. Going to a community college for real estate is not a bad thing even if she does not use it, it will help in purchasing a house someday. Education in any way is not a bad thing and the Palin’s seem to be educating their children in a great way but perhaps not conventional. No big deal in that. In fact, this woman who is complaining about the Palin’s act like we are supporting them or something. That is clearly not the case.
what is a bonnie fuller and why should I care, anyway.
Bristol of course has made more money this year than she would have in years of nursing, and as with so many of her generation celebrity does seem to be her preferred calling.
Also, the Palins are in a sense on the vanguard of those confident enough to recognize how oversold college has become. I remember seeing Gloria Steinem speak in the 70’s when she said the value of a college education was learning how unimportant it was: that is, so as not to be intimidated by those who had one.
But, the strongest fundamental aspiration of millions and millions of middle and upper-middle class Americans is to successfully get their kids through the best college that they can. And so the Palins’ nonchalance about higher ed is a great distancer for many voters at least here in the Northeast.
Also, it taps into the national economic anxiety that we are not raising a well-enough educated workforce to compete with the increasingly educated new economic powerhouses worldwide.
It is something on the mind of many and Palin would do well to have some sort of answer, on some level, to those concerns.
I think you’ve described middle America’s frustration with the attitude of the ‘elite’ perfectly.
But I do think this snarky article does hit a nerve that will be a challenge for Palin. The simple fact of the two oldest Palin kids not moving right on to a full-time college does, in the minds and arguments of too many people I know, give credence to the anti-intellectualism label with which she has been stamped in the MSM.
This is a nasty article, but it articulates a great resistance to Palin among certain demographics.
Parents are wise to question the value of a college education anymore. The quality of education is pathetic.
Now that I look back, if my kid wanted to go to a school full of leftist indoctrinators, I would tell my kid that he would have to find his own way to pay for it.
I would help with a decent school that had a conservative ideology.
The Palin kids, I am sure, are free to go to college if they wish to. Maybe they don’t want to.
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I guess the liberal idiot never once considered that Tripp and Bristol CHOSE to not go to college and Bristol instead devote time to RAISING HER CHILD.
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Exactly! And both of these Palins are legally adults who could easily choose other paths for themselves.
Maybe someday the Palins will hire you as a maid.
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No, that is an honest job, a pursuit this person has probably never experienced.
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