[Rhodes22-list] political - sort of

[brad haslett]

Herb,

First, congratulations to both you and your daughter.  Sometimes good things in life come in difficult and unexpected ways.

Second, we need to give credit where credit is due.  Sen. Obama issued a personal statement on the issue that everyone on his campaign was to "back-off" on the Palin family issues and would be fired if they didn't.  He also reminded everyone that he was born under similar circumstances and the candidate's children were "off limits"  Kudos to Obama!

Third, everyone who has children, especially a daughter, can empathize with the Palin family.  If they can't, well, they have no class. Mother and Father Palin seem to be made of "pretty tough stock" and let's hope the daughter is as well.

Brad


--- On Mon, 9/1/08, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:

> From: Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] political - sort of
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 3:30 PM
> Why does that add to the drama? Actually, I think it
> exemplifies EXACTLY 
> what she stands for.
> 
> I'm the father of a daughter that was in much the same
> situation, 16, 
> pregnant, unmarried. Do I feel that I somehow failed as a
> parent? Not 
> really. At some emotional level I probably felt that, but
> in reality I 
> knew that all of my children failed to meet my standards of
> what they 
> should do in some areas (hell, I fail in that myself), and
> far far 
> exceeded them in others.
> 
> Katie did both.
> 
> She continued with school (in a different school) while she
> had her 
> baby. I held him in my arms as she gave her valedictorian
> speech. One of 
> her goals in her speech (with the help and enthusiastic
> encouragement 
> from her older sisters) was to see if she could make me cry
> (a good 
> cry). She did.
> 
> FWIW, my child married the baby's father, now has
> another beautiful 
> daughter with him, and life goes on. We love that child as
> much as we 
> love the other grandchildren our kids have given us.  All
> parents can 
> really do is their very best, send the kids on their way,
> and pray for 
> them. I firmly believe that as I watch my girls grow,
> I'll seem them 
> make mistakes, bad judgement, and just flat out do some
> things wrong. At 
> the same time, I believe that each one of them will make
> better 
> decisions overall than I, and be better women than I was a
> man. If they 
> do, I'll feel I succeeded.
> 
> Here's the facts in Palin's case. She raised a
> family, and did her best 
> to impart her family values on to them. That's what all
> good parents do.
> 
> She personally believes abortion is wrong. She stood by her
> beliefs when 
> she became pregnant with a downs baby, and decided not to
> abort the child.
> 
> Now her daughter has disappointed her in some of her own
> choices, but 
> not in keeping the child. Hooray for the daughter, but why
> would the 
> choices of a 16/17 year old daughter be "political
> fodder"? Because 
> there are those that will use any issue as political fodder
> when they 
> want to tear down others.
> 
> I think it says a lot about that person, and little about
> the candidate. 
> And yes, I'm including the author who is salivating
> over this as being 
> "better than the soaps". These are real people,
> and her daughter has 
> nothing to do with the election.
> 
> But, I'm not surprised at the sentiment....
> 
> john Belanger wrote:
> > and now to ad even more drama, her daughter (17)is
> pregnant. who's the father? this is better than the
> soaps!!
> > john b
> > s/v 1969 venture 21
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 9/1/08, stan <stan at rhodes22.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: stan <stan at rhodes22.com>
> >> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] political - sort of
> >> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >> Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 3:00 PM
> >> If I knew they wanted a state beauty contest
> winner I would
> >> have offered Rose who was Mrs. Virginia in the
> Mrs. America
> >> finals back in 2000BC so has lots more experience
> plus would
> >> make John the younger. 
> >>
> >> I just don't get any political respect -
> Hillary
> >> ignored my Hail Mary call on 4 and 10 midway
> through the
> >> game and lost being a contender and now we are
> going to have
> >> Mrs. congeniality a heart beat away - but what the
> hell,
> >> it's a step in the right direction from our
> current
> >> pres. and vp.....I agree, you've got to love
> this
> >> country.    
> >>
> >> ss
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