One more thing on Mother Palin
September 5th, 2008 at 01:32pm Linda Grist Cunningham
One more reason I want to know how she’s thinking on the mom-first-job-first front: I could learn from her. Every mother I know — whether they work inside or outside — wants to know “best practices.” We share survival tips. Sarah Palin would be the first working mother to balance a public life and a private life at the top of the most visible pedestal in the world, and she’s going to be doing it with FIVE kids. Anyone who can balance all that I can learn from.
BTW: This column from Don Wycliff, formerly of the Chicago Tribune, is a must-read. This excerpt ought to whet your appetite: “But if Palin and her ardent GOP supporters have a real beef, it is less with the hated “mainstream media” than with the bandits and highwaymen of the information superhighway, the Internet. It was these lone strangers who drove the pregnancy story and whose increasingly lurid speculations created the pressure that, ultimately, led Palin and her husband to make their announcement. The mainstream media, at least, can be appealed to on ethical grounds—even if every member doesn’t always make the best decision. But for the verbal gunslingers of the blogosphere, there are no ethics, no rule of law. It’s the Wild West, a free-fire zone. And Palin’s daughter is just the latest of their victims.“
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1. Chuck Sweeny | September 8th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Hey, Don. Welcome to the free-fire zone. Nancy Pelosi balanced five kids and has been a politician her whole adult life; I guess the bloggers and Mainstream Media just kinda ignored that one.
2. Denny j | September 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
good points on the Blogs…… half of them are really bad and many with statements that are untrue or demeaning. But frankly……Evie and I like Sarah Palin. Like her willingness to take a stand. Not being afraid to say “yes, I have a faith and am not afraid to say it”. Not afraid to clean up the political mess, created by both parties. We like Sarah’s ability to communicate with a smile. We like her experience on the local and state level…. We like her experience with oil, making America independent. ps: My mother had 11 kids in her family. Evie’s mom had 7. Pahlin only 5.
3. jb | October 10th, 2008 at 10:36 am
denny; did your MOTHER work outside your HOME, was she there when you neded HER. Or was your MOTHER some place doing her thing, like Mrs Sarah PALIN, when her FAMILEY neaded her.
4. jb | October 10th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Chuck SWEENY; i HAD TO. Mrs S. PALIN, ignored her DEAUGHTER
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