Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] DailyKos on Pailin

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Jonathan King wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>> On 8/30/08, Jerry Gamblin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>>> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/9336/15731/279/579413
>>>
>>> I normally keep all the Obama is a Muslim, terrorist, Anti-Christ
>>> emails that I get to myself in a nutjar folder but if this is the kind
>>> of rumors that the DailyKos is going to "print" I think I will be
>>> doing a lot more forwarding of the *OMG OBAMA IS A SECRET MUSLIM
>>> ANTICHRIST* emails.
>>
>> Did you read this part:
>>
>> http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/8/30/9336/15731/142#c142
>>
>> I never read the crazy anonymous comments. You never know who wrote them.
>>
>> I don't believe the story because the child had Down syndrome, which
>> is 20 times more likely in a woman of her age than in a girl of her
>> daughter's age.
>
> Yes. This story makes no sense and probably deserves to die in the 
> bloggy sewers from which it sprung.

But here is an interesting twist:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/01/palin.daughter/index.html

Palin's daughter is pregnant *now*.  I assume this means she wasn't the 
mother of the other kid, but she's a pregnant unmarried teenager right now 
and everyone is talking about how wonderful it is that she won't have an 
abortion.


>> She just had a baby in May, huh?  And now she's running for VP.  Well, 
>> I don't think that's a great idea.  Sorry.
>
> Screw you, Mike. Sorry.
>
> Seriously, we have a politician whose personal life has now been 
> complicated by the birth of a developmentally disabled child. In the 
> 21st century, do we really expect this person to be completely without 
> the resources that are required to be a responsible parent and continue 
> along a normal career path?

Let her have a "normal career path."  Becoming VP or President is a highly 
non-normal career path.


> (Which is not to say I support McCain or Palin, because I don't; this is 
> just a really objectionable argument against the ticket.)

I don't really mean it as an argument against the ticket so much as an 
additional minor argument against choosing Palin as a running mate.

Mike

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