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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Her son is in the army
Her oldest daughter is getting married
Her other two are near obama’s kids age
Her baby is unique
Her Husband is a stay at home dad
Both Obama and Michelle work
case closed
One of the most normal families ever to enter public life and the media want to keep them under a microscope while doing their best to ignore the serious character flaws of favorite lefties.
Like the Obamas, who have spent their lives getting free rides, writting racist screeds, cursing out America, blowing dope and hanging out with racists and terrorists.
Or the Clintons, who run around the country stiffing small town diner and restaurant owners, stealing the table silver from their hostesses and boinking anything in sight.
Not to mention those media darlings; the Kennedy Klan, who get a media pass for drunken whoremongering, wife beating, secretary drowning, and treason.
I am puzzled at why the media have failed to be equally concerned with Michell Obama. An attorney, prior to the campaign in 2005, she was a $150,000-a-year vice-president of external affairs at the University of Chicago hospital. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-517824/Mrs-O-The-truth-Michelle-Obamas-working-class-credentials.html How does she ever make time for her small children (aged 9 and 7?) sarcasm/
The difference has got to be (1) Palin has been openly placed in the public spotlight, while Obama’s role as an attorney has been played down; and (2) many people in America are afraid or uncomfortable with a woman holding that much power. The later is about as close to sexism as one can get. Why are they uncomfortable? - (1) Doesn’t fit the traditional gender role model and division of labor?; (2) Women are inherently not capable of managing that power (unless they are old widows with grown children )?; (3) A married woman with children can’t focus her attention on a job with great responsibility? or (4) It challenges the male hegemony on power?
What a dumbf$%k this author is. If I were married to a woman who had the opportunity to be the Vice President of this country I’d be more than happy to stay home with the kids to make it work.
I know a few families that have 5 or more kids and the one thing I notice about them is that Mom is Organized. Actually the other thing I notice about them is that the older kids HELP out with the younger ones. You can't have that many kids and let them run wild, "expressing" themselves. Big families have to function as a unit - no room for selfishness.
Anyway, VP has always been touted as a "do nothing" job. Sarah will probably have more time with her little ones over at the big house by the Naval Observatory than she did as Governor. That will give the whole family a few years to get used to their new environment - as well as our typical Northern Virginia summers!
Funny, they didn’t care so much this when America got its first female Speaker of The House, their power chihuahua, Nancy Pelosi.
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