Posted on 09/06/2008 11:19:37 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Gov. Sarah Palin's commando muscle-flex in St. Paul Wednesday night eviscerated the argument that she might not be capable of handling the vice presidency and five children at the same time. Indeed, we were left with the distinct impression that on a slow day, she could clean up America, balance our budget with a little help from eBay, and win the Iditarod -- all with 10 kids tied to her back.
What Sarah Palin did not do, however, is put an end to the latest national conversation about "trying to have it all." Because the question we're all asking isn't can she do it, but why is she doing it? Mrs. Palin, you see, happens to be bucking a new national trend. Even as most mothers across America chuckle appreciatively about pit bulls and lipstick and applaud her bravado, they are making choices that look very un-Palinesque....
...Fed up with 50- and 60-hour weeks and a career ladder we didn't build and don't want to climb, women are looking for jobs that demand fewer and freer hours. We want to work but we also want quantity time, as well as quality time, with our children. Most of us no longer buy the onwards-and-upwards drive to the corner office (or in Mrs. Palin's case, the West Wing) at the cost of a fragmented family life....
...This isn't really about whether Mrs. Palin can do the job with five children. Will she do it all well? That depends on your yardstick, at least on the home front. How much time is "enough" with your children, or at work, is an extremely personal decision. The point is we now have reasonable options -- it's not all or nothing....
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Work is bad. Ambition is too hard. Blah, blah, blah.
It is up to every individual woman to either succeed in the world outside her family or not. Some people are lazy, others find it difficult no to be better than everyone around them.
The Vice Presidency has always been touted as a ‘do nothing’ type exercise— now all of a sudden it’s so overbearing, only a man can do it? WTF?
Maybe the line should be - if Cheney can do it, Sarah should handle it quite easily. HAHA!
One thing liberal women don’t understand about conservative women is their ability to multi-task. Liberal women can’t even grasp the concept. They have to wait until Oprah is over before they are able to put down the bon bons, get off the couch and go out to the mailbox to get the welfare check.
“It is not sexist to have this conversation. It is sexist not to.”
Crap! If it doesn’t apply to men as well, it is by definition sexist.
Maybe it comes down to not having fathers in the household and partnerships in family that all pitch in to make the household work.
This may be an alien idea to these people and might explain why they just don’t get it.
“Let’s Talk About Palin’s Family Challenges”
No, let’s not. We only have 58 days to discuss real issues.
What will Obama do as President if war breaks out between Israel and Iran? Especially if that event occurs at the same time Russian troops advance on Tbilisi Georgia, some units maneuver into position to invade Ukraine and also enter Syria as military advisors.
Back to you Claire.
They are acting as if she was a single mom, though, and discounting the fact that Todd has stepped into the role of stay-at-home parent. Let’s get some stay-at-home-dad backlash going here!
Clair, you sexist dip, you could say the same thing about men. Not many aspire to be president, but they admire the heroes who are willing to make that kind of sacrifice and effort.
Whoa, you beat me to it. See #9. These people have taken leave of their senses. The synapses are short-circuiting.
Lets not talk about others family challenges. Why? Because it ain’t none of our business, nor is it Claire’s.
This family most likely sat down and discussed their own challenges regarding Mom Sarah’s great opportunity and figured they are up to it as a family.
Now, let’s beat Barry, and Claire and her crew can go suck an egg.
Go away media folks. You are the asses with eggs on your silly faces. We are laughing at you.
WOW....it must be funny to EAT CROW!!!
All women wanted from the beginning (most women, not the crazed feminazis) was the opportunity to decide what they wanted, be it a career, a family, some combination. Now that we have the opportunity to decide, the left suddenly thinks we should head back to the kitchen? I don’t get it.
susie
If only Nancy Pelosi had taken this advice, all those years ago ...
Translation: If a pro-life, pro-gun, pro-defense ticket wins *again*, we will just DIIIIIIIEEEEEEE. (Only they won’t, of course. They’ll just b*tch.)
< smacks forehead > Oh, now I get it! It’s all about being FASHIONABLE and SETTING TRENDS! Thanks for clearing that up, Claire. Now you can go back to knee-jerk opposition to anything Republican.
Everyone especially the DBM tends to forgot these children have a father. He certainly can help and I'm sure he does.
Also two seem to have actually grown up. It's not like all five are under ten years old
I believe it is all about validation of their own choices to hang up the full-time career and masters degree and raise children as an advocation as the biological time clock ticked. Then they get bored when the kids go back to school, so they want a part time job to feel significant, yet assuage their guilt by being home to drive children to their scheduled multiple activities after school. These are the “I gave up everything for you” martyr Moms. (I know, I had one.) From the left, it is most likely an upper middle class guilt dialogue.
From the far fundamentalist right, it is still a validation dialogue. These are the Mom’s that home school with a religious righteousness about the Biblical woman’s role as nurturer. They are the soil from which their child draws and flowers. They tolerate no opposing view under threat of Biblical judgement. According to them, it is simply wrong for a Mom to work.
Then there are the poor Mom’s who have no other choice trying to walk the gambit between guilt stones thrown by the two columns, carrying their need to economically support their children and their hope for a better life.
God bless those among us like Sarah Palin who appear to make a mentally and emotionally balanced decision on career and family supported by their immediate family as an individual and family member. This is what the feminist movement was supposed to be all about.
Every post on this thread leaves an appropriate mark.
1) We will not get off target on personal family matters.
2) The left wants a woman president, but now they are qualifying the personal matters. Number of children etc.
3) Had Gov. Palin answered the question about children, the left would have thrown out another question. There is no end.
4) the left had better hang on to their shorts, it is gonna be a bumpy ride.
5) We have Road Runner and they have Wylie Coyote and the Acme Company.
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