Posted on 09/02/2008 6:59:26 AM PDT by flyfree
The first political convention I ever attended was when my mom was pregnant with me in 1984 and the Republican Party nominated Ronald Reagan for a second term as President. I have been on political stages and in campaigns since before I could walk or talk. If there is one thing I have learned, it is that it is difficult to establish your identity and independence as the son or daughter of a politician. When I was 14 years old, a reporter questioned my father about me having a hypothetical abortion, had I been pregnant at 14. This reporter's question single-handedly changed my life. This story comes up in almost every profile written about me and in almost every interview. It's a rough go being the son or daughter of a politician. I have not known Bristol Palin very long, but there is a certain kinship I feel to her as I do other political daughters such as Chelsea Clinton, Jenna and Barbara Bush and Mary Cheney. You can't fully understand it unless you have lived it. So I just wanted to let it be known that I support Bristol and the entire Palin family.
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Proverbs 16:18: "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."
I'm sorry; I would rather that our elected officials, especially at the Federal level, actually act like public servants instead of prancing about and jaunting around, pretending to be public servants.
They might actually empathize with the rest of us normal people for once, instead of believing the lies that more Government is the be-all solution to every tiny ill.
This election really is opening up to the world how what a racist and sexist garbage dump the left really is. There, fixed it.
Never say never. My daughter was in her late 20’s when the same thing happened to her.
They really blew it here. It seems to be that a big backlash is starting to happen. The conservatives are closing ranks. I am glad to see it.
Go McCain/Palin
Will do thanks
So, you want them to do more, but you also want them to do less?
Ordinarily, I would, but the fact that she passed away in 2005 kinda prevents that, and I'm not a big fan of talking to dead people.
But hey, we always had enough money to pay for the Congress critters' health care and for the health care of tens of millions of "God's children"! /sarc
Good fix.
I think we are starting to see through you.. you are jealous that the government didn’t take care of you and yours like they seem, in your mind, to do to the McCain/Palin family..
No, I want them to do their Constitutionally-prescribed duties, to actually pay attention to such antiquated things as the existence of the Tenth Amendment, and at the end of the day to just go home and leave the citizens and taxpayers be.
And, of course, get paid for services rendered. Not for wearing the title and jaunting about the country conducting personal business (electioneering).
OK. You've shown us how stupid you can be. Now go on back over to DU and play with the kiddies.
No, I am not jealous, but I am pissed that the government takes money for needless excrement from my family and from the families of millions around the country because it believes that it knows how to spend that money better than the taxpayers do. I am pissed because for over twenty years, McCain has been part of the problem and only starts pretending otherwise when he needs conservative votes.
And then for one of McCain's family members to whine about how "it's so hard" is just the icing on the cake.
Yep, jealousy.. guess what, the government has no power we don't give them. There is a little part about the Tenth Amendment you referred to that most often ignore.. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
We the people choose who we want to represent us. We the people give them the power. We the people need to quit passing the buck of where the problem lies.
...And then for one of McCain's family members to whine about how "it's so hard"
Most of the whining doesn't seem to be coming from McCain's daughter here.
Sounds to me like your mom raised a spoiled, jealous little brat. Bitch about McCain all you like, but you've got a real shortage of class to denigrate his kid.
As in... pregnant?
Well let's hope not! ;-)
Freepers who have trash talked me on my Bristol Palin comment, please note that I am a male human.
Consequently, unless I choose to live at the Lake Anna nuclear reactor in Richmond until Election Day, it's highly unlikely that I as a male human will get pregnant and thus end up in Ms. Palin's particular situation.
Of course, someone could argue that I could get a girl pregnant, but I see that as highly unlikely due to the fact that such sayings as "keep your hands in your pockets" and "you can have sex AFTER marriage" drummed into my head by my parents and my high school teachers and the fact that I like to think with my brain instead of my balls.
Now, are there any additional Freepers that would like to criticize me for effectively saying that I as a male human will not get pregnant (an indisputable fact)?
I knew that, hence my joking comment.
Sorry... I didn't mean to stir stuff up.
So you're saying that I can get pregnant, eh?
Well, I'm a guy, so that's physically impossible.
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