Scarborough’s Threat

This is bullcrap….all of them, from Obama himself to Scarborough and Andrea Mitchell saying they’re all “offended” by this talk about her daughter. I can just imagine, if Obama had a pregnant teenage daughter….please, it would not be hands off! Was there an uproar and were all these people offended when whoever it was made a joke about Chelsea Clinton being ugly? What kind of parent you are reflects on what kind of leader you are…I don’t care, it does. Of course, the fact that she is pregnant should not be an issue as they say, but tell the goddamned truth….it would be if it were the other way around. I just want someone to ask Pat Buchanan’s stupid ass that one questions….but they would all just lie through their teeth anyway and say it wouldn’t be an issue.

And no one blames the person responsible for this being a big bomb shell – Sarah Palin. On Friday, when she was introducing her family, she could have easily said “And this is my lovely daughter Bristol, who is carrying our first grandchild – YEAHHHHHH”. Instead they thought they would try to hide this – like people wouldn’t notice the big baby bump on Bristol.So why did Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign, on her first introduction to the American people, feel the need to exclude this little fact? Is she just not really proud of Bristol and her future grand child?

OT/ If any of you watch Link TV Democracy Now!..Amy Goodman was arrested last night outside the RNC while trying to come to the assistance of two of her producers…see videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

This is bullcrap….all of them, from Obama himself to Scarborough and Andrea Mitchell saying they’re all “offended” by this talk about her daughter. I can just imagine, if Obama had a pregnant teenage daughter….please, it would not be hands off! Was there an uproar and were all these people offended when whoever it was made a joke about Chelsea Clinton being ugly? What kind of parent you are reflects on what kind of leader you are…I don’t care, it does. Of course, the fact that she is pregnant should not be an issue as they say, but tell the goddamned truth….it would be if it were the other way around.Posted by: Kelso75______________Obama has 2 daughters, and I do believe he has every right to be sensitive to DAUGHTERS, and to MOTHERS, without regard to political parties. Maybe you’re right, that shoe on the other foot, Obama’s family would be slimed. Doesn’t make it right, and I find it beyond my comprehension to think that anyone could be upset with Obama for refusing to go down that road.QT

Whatever Scarborough thinks he knows is almost certainly irrelevant. Most in the Democratic Party have not made their bread and butter off of legislating other peoples morality.They just don’t get it! it’s not the pregnant teenage daughter, it’s the POLICIES. What a striking national display on the efficacy of Abstinence Only education.It’s the Fundies that McCain (& Scarborough) have to worry about, and they were never going to vote for Obama anyway!

No, it’s not the teenage pregnancy, and I’m not mad at Obama for standing up for what is right, he is classy and on point as usual…I’m just enraged at the hypocrasy of it all by the republicans, how they can always manage to get away with this.

I simply can’t imagine a vetting process that shrugged this off and said, “Eh, what the hell, you’re so qualified in every other way!” It’s becoming painfully, embarrassingly clear that John “Vetty McVetterton” McCain spent absolutely no serious vetting cycles on this woman and that he’ll be trapped in a Harriet Miers meltdown as his shills are forced to defend this “Put The Country First!” mother that can’t even command-and-chief her own family.Watching Republicans song-and-dance the Palin nomination is my new favorite sport. They just don’t have their hearts in it.

midad:I used to believe that people who think as I’m starting to lately were delusional paranoids.Now, I’m starting to understand that there is nothing delusional about it, and in these times, paranoia is more of a healthy mindset:http://www.salon.com:80/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/index.html

Yeah Packy, scary huh? Watching Democracy Now! right now and listening to Amy and her producers talking about the arrests. Unbelievable.

@ Elvis: Vetting process?

Should we worry about threats from Lumpy Rutheford, hell no !

Kelso, it was McBush himself who slimed Chelsea:”Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998Just an all-around, classy, family values kinda guy. I say, hit ‘em with both barrels.

Oh, sorry, Bob … didn’t see you had posted McCain’s “joke” earlier

I’m so sick to death of this “You wouldn’t ask that question of a man” argument when it comes to avoiding the serious issue of being Vice President with a newborn and now a daughter that’s pregnant. To my mind — being a working father, and a good one, if I do say so myself — this is reverse sexism. The problem isn’t that we’re asking the question of a woman, it’s that no one does think to ask it of the man.More than any other organization in this country, the Republican Party has been responsible for keeping women in a box, barefoot and pregnant, while demonizing the Feminist Movement and any behavior that threatens their Fat White Way of Life. Pay equity? Fuck ‘em, stay at home with the kids! Reproductive freedom? Not with MY sperm, bitches! Back in the box! Paid family leave? Hey, that baby was your choice, you stupid breeder, NO PAID LEAVE FOR YOU! All of these things, ostensibly, to protect the nookler family and the sanctity of marriage and home and keeping women seen and not heard. Unless it’s a “strong woman” that serves their own expedient political purposes — Corporate Shill Carly Fiorina, for example, and now Sarah Palin — and then it’s all about how she’s able to succeed wildly in the workplace despite everything they’ve done to keep her down, and she’s raised a family at the same time! Isn’t she precious!So where’s that same recognition for the father? Why shouldn’t we ask the same question of a husband and father running for office that would have to Be There for the Down Syndrome Baby or the 17 year-old struggling with an unexpected pregnancy? Because that’s how the Republicans like it; the father works, toils in anonymity and suffers silently, while the mother mops the floors and cooks the meals and deals with the family crises the way a good woman should. These are all precepts beaten into us by the Conservative Values crowd, so why are Republicans now so incensed when we dare put the Wife and Mother back in the corner they’ve worked so hard to paint her into? Why is it that Palin’s About Page on JohnMcCain.com has a picture of her with one of her darling children, while McCain’s page can hardly be bothered to mention he has children? If it isn’t relevant, why mention Palin’s a mother at all? Perish the thought, as the fact that she’s done everything she has while still being the Perfect Republican Super-Mom is 7/10ths of the appeal.Reverse sexism, bred deep into the American psyche by years and years of Republican reminders that the Good Old Days meant women stayed at home, shut their mouths, and earned $0.30 on the man’s dollar.

What secret info would he have? One of Joe Biden’s kids is gay? We’re Democrats. We’d collectively shrug, and ask “So what?”It’s the Republicans who are obsessed with who is and isn’t having sex… The Dems live in the 21st century, and have more sensible thing to think about..If the Republican’s had something truly damaging, they’d have had it out there immediately after Obama’s convention speech.

Cheney’s daughter’s gay. No one cared, although during the debate, when Edwards brought it up, he got accused of attacking Cheney’s daughter. Same thing here – no one’s (well, no one with a brain) is attacking Palin’s daughter – we’re attacking Palin’s policies in sofaras they affect her daughter AND our daughters! Cheney’s policies were attacked for the way they affected ALL gays.Seems like people in the GOP never took Logic and can’t differentiate between the particular & the general.

Whoa Elvis!Right on! I grew up in Colorado Springs. I left it 30 freaking years ago after high school (I shouldn’t be saying this because my identity is best kept secret as I have a few death threats in my inbox that I haven’t even told my wife about cuz she has enough on her plate as it is) for the very reason you mention. The hypocrisy is a mind-fuck to the nth degree.The Good Old Days weren’t very good at all. Then, as now, the GOP is an easily spooked bunch of reptiles, wired to lash out, wired to deny anything and everything to justify their shame and fear.