[Rhodes22-list] political - sort of

David Bradley dwbrad at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 01:09:34 EDT 2008


Amazing story, Herb.  Thanks for sharing it, and welcome back.

Dave


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
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