Posted on 02/12/2010 9:56:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A hurdle familiar to any mother is learning to view her baby as separate from herself. How many of us have answered questions about our babies in first-person plural?
-- How old is your baby?
-- Oh, we're 22 months now.
Well, no, we're not; he is. Yet we nod in universal understanding of the profound sense of oneness that evolves in part from pregnancy. For nine months, mother and baby are inextricably "we" -- linked in body and spirit, every move and morsel belonging to both.
These thoughts surfaced during Sarah Palin's latest public scolding of someone who spoke disparagingly of the special-needs population. This time, Rahm Emanuel was singled out for using the word "retarded" to describe the behavior of certain out-of-favor Democrats.
Palin's defense of people with special needs is commendable. Her obvious love for -- and pride in -- her Down syndrome child, Trig, is touching. But each time she sallies forth as Mama Bear to America's special-needs citizenry, invoking Trig's name amid demands for her children's privacy, a tiny bit of uneasiness slithers between text and subtext.
At what point do Palin's noble intentions become Trig's exploitation?
The genius of Palin's good-heartedness is that she can't easily be criticized. Her public images as Mother and Politician are so entwined that to question one is to impugn the other. Equally unprofitable is any effort to impose perspective on her condemnations lest one appear to be defending the indefensible.
This is virgin territory for politicos and pundits alike. How does one proceed?
Palin herself has hardly been discreet regarding her youngest child. She has spoken and written about her misgivings upon learning that she carried a Down syndrome baby.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Do they mean the child named Trig that the feminist wanted murdered in the womb?
Give Parker no hits!!
“The genius of Palin’s good-heartedness is that she can’t easily be criticized”
Has this chick been hanging out under a rock ? Palin’s been flamed more than the Hindenburg.
These people never quit. Sarah is an idiot because she had half a dozen keywords on her hand as a note but Zero is a genius who can’t order a glass of water without a teleprompter.
what a c-word Parker is...puredee
my apologies to the ladies here
Nice to see that Parker is also a coward. Click on her name to send her an email and it shows “page not found”.
She just did a “drive-by” on Palin and her child.
What an empty contemptuous bitch.
BTTT
hey, katy......YOU are exploiting Sarah’s son for a cheap hit piece column....you are fixated on him and his mother. time for you to retire.
I wish that Parker and Noonan would go live in a yurt in an isolated, vast wilderness somewhere.
I agree. The lefties of both parties must destroy her.
Oh, y'all have been "proceeding" all over the place, Kathleen. It's just that the results haven't been satisfactory for you.
“How many of us have answered questions about our babies in first-person plural?”
I never responded about my children this way and no one I know ever did. Actually I think it’s kind of creepy. Akin to talking about yourself in the third person. I think these women have lost touch with reality and their obsession with Palin borders on a mental illness.
Oh yuck. I started reading it and then realized the author. Double yuck.
I’ve never heard it either.
I’m guessing an early teen or college abortion has Parker envious and bitter toward Palin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hi0hskUPGg
“Red Eye” interviews Robot Andrew Sullivan
Kathleen forgot her purple pill.
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