Posted on 02/01/2014 6:55:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Am I the only reader who talks to her newspaper? Who chokes on her steaming cup of café con leche and wonders out loud about fundamental issues of decency and fairness?
Why, oh, why do we continue reading that Wendy Davis, a state senator who wants to be the first Democratic governor of Texas in 20 years, left her daughters, then 2 and 8, with her then-husband, Jeff Davis, while she pursued a law degree at Harvard University?
Given that he is the father of one of those daughters and the stepfather of the other, it would make more sense to write that he stayed with their children, or that the children stayed home with their father.
And, given that no one disputes that fact or seems damaged by it, what is the big deal? What does it say about our society, about us, that we continue to penalize women, but not men, for pursuing their dreams?
Some say the issue is not what Davis did or didn’t do, as a mother and as a wife, but that she fudged on the details as she runs a campaign that heavily relies on the narrative of her private life: teenage bride, early divorce, single mother of one, brief stay in a trailer, married again, another child, law school, a husband who helped pay for her education, divorce after a long marriage....
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She defended botched abortions when she railed against legislation to protect patients’ safety.
Stupid author..... the rules are no different. If a man had done this he would have been skewered for being a dead beat dad.
Wendy Davis and her supports.... the only words that come to mind aren’t fit for mixed company
bump
Not all. I respect conservative women highly. I also believe they are a majority -- it's just that the liberal minority are very loud.
Thank you.
She is a butcher. An enemy of the institution of the family. Beautiful to look at, as the enemy would design it, and does so, when necessary.
Please include a (Barf Alert) in the next thread title that you post relating to this Professor.
The ramblings of Prof. Mirta had little to do with the title she had on her(?) article, and much to do with nothing.
Abortion Barbie must be in one heap of electoral trouble if a Columbia University Professor Bag Lady has to boil down all Barbie’s lies into a nondescript, compact sentence that omits the twist pack of lies surrounding every compacted detail.
Good luck, stick a fork in her - she’s done.
Davis just had several very late term abortions.
As the”0”ne stated no woman should be punished with a child.
Call a waaaambulance for that whiner! Abortion Barbie is castigated for advertising herself as a single mom struggling against great odds to fulfill her dreams. That she found a sugar daddy to pay for her education and watch her kids for her was NOT part of her biography. She’s paying the price for lying.
Bleached and packaged. She doesn’t look like she did in law school.
The logic displayed by this author is as leaky as an unstanched wench.
Wendy Davis isn’t about Dems winning Texas and turning the state Commie/Socialist/Libtard (or “Blue” as they’d say these days but RED was once the color of Rat victories and it is more fitting socialist revolutionaries).
The Wendy Davis campaign is about a getting national spotlight on “The War on Women”. Let her draw some lightning strikes. Let her be the poster child of the woman who stands up to those who want to restrict (late term and unsafe) abortions. She’ll get national funding. She’ll be good for the War on Women meme. Her actual history, politics, or state campaign means nothing in the big picture. No other reason for libs from coast to coast to be trumpeting her name.
Maybe she’ll use her war chest in a few years to win some office (maybe a Congress seat in Travis County where Austin is).
I find it really hard to keep reading when some pretentious individual finds it necessary to broadcast the fact she drinks “steaming cafe con leche” instead of plain old coffee.
Stanne, I think you’ll note that there aren’t any supporters of abortion in these parts. People make loose comments that don’t mean much in jest. Don’t take them to heart.
Yeah, ‘all women are miserable, and that explains this defense of an abortionist’ is always good for a laugh.
They have half the money and all the p****. You think that wold be enough for them.
If someone was defending an abortionist, I missed it.
As for other loose comments that don’t clearly state my beliefs, I’m not going to pounce on each of them when it’s clear the vast majority of folks here are able to judge them on their own.
Sometimes you just lighten up, and cars don’t swerve off streets into homes, nobody hangs the neighbor lady, cats and dogs don’t go at each others throats, and people in public don’t have to take others to task because they got a little of track.
Life goes on. You’ll see...
I get your point. Heh heh heh... We’re in trouble now...
“the natural state of women is unhappiness. if you ever need to know what’s wrong in your relationship, house, car, etc just ask and a list of stuff will be uttered.
it’s why God made Eve last. didn’t want someone over His shoulder saying “it’s nice, but what about...” for every single thing.”
“LOL, I hear ya”
“They have half the money and all the p****. You think that wold [sic] be enough for them.”
This doesn’t take over the conversation about a late term abortion legislator, and move it into condemning all women?
Oh. OK. Lighten up.
Problem is, it’s not funny. Men who aren’t gentlemen don’t have respectable women in their lives about whom they could imagine people talking this way about. So they can’t relate to the view that it is obnoxious.
By referring to all women, the category the writer places herself becomes all women, abortionists or not, and abortion proponents are not as bad as all women in general.
If you don’t know that, I’ll bet there won’t be any self respecting ladies at any of your all’s super bowl parties this evening. Just a bet.
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