End the Mommy Wars

This is really ridiculous!. I'm a woman who will never ever vote Republican until they change their platform. It's outrageous to me that if Sarah Palin and her Republican buddies have their way, pregnant rape and incest victims would be forced to give birth to the child that was forced upon them. I'm sure Sarah Palin can juggle her job, caring for her family - I just hope she never represents me or my daughters in the WH.
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Yeah, we are being played by the whole McCain Camp on this one. If this is all such a "private" matter, why is the boy father meeting McCain for a very publi photo opp?

Well said. Whether you lean to one side of the political spectrum or the other I think we all expect too much from women and not enough from men when it comes to the daily division of familial responsibilities. Wake up America. We ought to applaud people who are trying to make a difference, not diss them.
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and I'm sure my politics couldn't be further from the author of this piece...moronic is how I would sum up her commentary...."Blackberry in one hand, Red Bull in the other" "seemingly oblivious to her youngest daughter" "it made me LIKE her"? what?? it made me think this woman, like many, want it all, and given the fact that Ms. Palin is in politics, only drives home that obvious fact...as much as I might agree with Ms. Palin's politics, I don't think someone whose been the Governor of Alaska is qualified to be the VP (President), nor do I think the mother of five school-age children should be running for VP...she should be at home as much as possible, not part of the VP job description

MILF/GILF...never heard of those before...how trashy...doesn't this writer have any editors

the fact that the author of this piece is miffed why many people, men and women, from the left and right, don't see how this woman can handle the VP position given all that is going on in her personal life (not including the recent revelations regarding her teenage daughter being pregnant)...and how someone, in this case, this woman, "runs her personal life" is relevant to the debate about her choice as VP...so is her stand on abortion (which I agree with and of course this feminist author surely disagrees with)

"Working mothers face challenges that working fathers don't. Right or wrong, women overall still shoulder an unfair burden when it comes to childcare and household duties"...what a crock! where is this woman living, many men shoulder the majority of their kids care, household upkeep, not to mention still be expected to keep their wives cars, the lawn, coach their kids sports teams, etc.

I oppose her nomination because she is not qualified. I would oppose a man with the same resume'. There is not enough time between now and election day for the electorate to make a sound decision on her qualifications or learn more about her. There are many who say we don't know Obama well enough yet and we've been reading about him in the press for nearly 2 years. Shame on John McCain to throw this curve ball at the electorate and the pandering it implies. It is correct for us (the voters) and the press to completely vet her bewteen now and election day. Maybe we'd rather go softball on her and risk a tragic mistake like all the softballing in the run up to the Iraq war. Heaven help us if we fail so badly again.

"Comment: Palin is not qualified because she has no foreign policy experience.

Wow. Obama has not experience either - yet he is running for President no less. How does that work?"

That is the point, Obama ran for the nomination for the Democratic Party and won. He made his case, based on his experience, adequate or not, to the American people, won the primary and is clearly in the lead in the polls. He was not appointed like Palin was. To say that she is as or has more experience is reductionist reasoning. My aunt Bessie also has not experience so she as as qualified as Obama ergo she should be appointed VP for the GOP?

I think that whats lost in thes preceedings is the fact that while McCain may get a few more GOP aligned voters out in the south, he's going to push Obama a few points ahead in the swing states: He's lost Michigan, plain and simple, Penn. is no longer in play, nor is Minn., or Wis., NMex, not a chance, and Colorado and Nevada are slipping away. Even Iowa has tilted towards Obama. At his rate Ohio and Florida won't even save him, and yes, new Ohio numbers show Obama swinging ahead by a slim margin.
Oh lord he'll take Texas and Utah hard though.

My issues is not that she is a mom with 5 kids, my issue is that fact that she has a 17 year old daughter who is pregnant. Clearly she is not getting it done at home, so what makes me think she is going to get it done as vice president. I also have a problem with the fact that McCain has asked people to back of, then Palin has brought her daughter and boyfriend to the convention. You cannot have it both ways.

While I appreciate the author's acknowledgement of the unfair treatment of Gov. Palin - one line in this piece is so oddly out-of-place that I could barely stomach the rest of the article, even-handed as it seemed to be. It was this: "I have been surprised, however, by the reactions of many women???not to Palin's pro-life views or to the fact that she had asked members of her onetime church to pray for the completion of a $30 billion natural-gas pipeline project..."
It is exactly this sort of secularist elitism that makes the average american roll their eyes and turn off national media. This unabashed disdain for those who actually possess a faith that infuses their everyday lives and decisions is pathetically intolerant and betrays a stark ignorance of life outside those pretentious academies that draw cookie-cutter, affirmation-seeking "progressives" like ants at a picnic. The most pathetic thing is that she seems to expect that "many women" will be equally as repulsed by Gov. Palin's expression of her faith. I wonder if she's ever met a woman that lives outside NY, LA or DC. I suspect that if she has she scoffs at the poor, uneducated little dears that can't share her ivy-league enlightenment.
People's faith is real. Just because you have some barrier that prevents you from acknowledging your own reliance on a higher power doesn't give you the moral or professional justification to belittle others with a more full understanding of the world around them. Treat others with respect first, and then maybe your call for a more respectful discussion of Gov. Palin's credentials will seem more legitimate.

She's made old news out of that Obama guy. Let see if she can become "America's Mom" tonight, gliding on the backlash from the nasty media attacks.

Ms. Palin is being used by the Republican party as a sacrificial lamb in a losing year. They want to be able to state in the future "Look, we nominated a woman!"
Unfortunately, this lamb is being slaughtered. The judgement exhibited by the Repub's and ultimately by McCain who caved to their urging, disqualifies them from holding elected office in this time and place.