Bad news from the midwest

[lolaraincoat]

For people who don't read blacksquirrel's journal, you should pop over there right now and look at her last couple of posts. Her not-especially-political brother was arrested as he walked to his car from a sold-out concert in Minneapolis a couple of nights ago by police who thought he might be an anarchist, held overnight, and treated ... not so well. It's

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[florahart]

I don't see hypocrisy, just evidence

[lolaraincoat]

Well, yeah, I think we agree here more or less: there's much to be said - oh, so very much! - about Governor Palin as a parent and politician, but it's hard to say that she's hypocritical. I agree , too,that if abstinence-only sex ed was intended to prevent teens from having sex or having babies, it's a complete failure. But I am not so sure that was the intention. I think it was intended to link having babies, having sex, and marriage. So you could see the Palin Family Circus as evidence that abstinence-only education worked just as planned.

This is why I want Palin and her ilk as far away from administrative power on any level from the local to the national as they can possibly be kept: I think they're not stupid, and they're quite good at getting what they want.

[aubrem]

I have no idea if you were being serious up there or not but I too am loving Sarah Palin. As you say, the butchest republican since Teddy Roosevelt. Of course she'd be a horrendous president or VP but she is one hell of a character. Her very existence makes the country take women more seriously - hell, they'd better or Palin will shoot them - or maybe just fire them if they're lucky.

Did you see this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc

[lolaraincoat]

Oh, I am totally serious. God forbid anyone should ever vote for her for any office whatsofuckingever, but I love her and am very glad to have made her media acquaintance.

Thanks you for the link here and the links you posted in your journal. Great stuff!

[cordelia_v]

Yes, I'd noticed the fact that the oldest daughter seemed to be providing a TON of childcare for the baby. She stayed out of last year's schooling do to an 8 month case of mono (!!!) and apparently cared for her brother since his birth.

It crossed my mind that she might have been getting pregnant/marrying in order to get out of her mother's household. That is a traditional escape route for older daughters who are being used to do childcare/household management, after all. She'll have to stay in Alaska, one hopes and assumes, and perhaps the First Dude will finally do childcare. OR they'll take the mother-in-law with them to Washington.

She's a piece of work, relying on her mother-in-law for baby care after foiling the woman's attempt to run for office. And yes, I'd never ask my oldest to that much childcare, either. I'm thinking that she might be a bit . . . narcissistic. Which is common among all politicians, of course.

[cordelia_v]

ps---just wanted to add that I am ADORING these Palin posts. I'm too overloaded this week (nigh on overwhelmed, but that's another story) by RL to do this research myself. So, I'm deeply grateful that YOU'RE doing it, and posting the results in such amusing prose.

[lolaraincoat]

Aw, thank you. I'm a bit overwhelmed myself - and that's another story! - but am happily distracting myself with the Palin Family Circus when I can. It's just so good, you know?

Did I even mention that her church in Wasilla isn't fundamentalist at all, it's ASSEMBLY OF GOD, a.k.a. Pentacostal? Somewhere, somebody has a photo of a Palin handling snakes. And then - these are Palins, after all! - shooting them.

[winterthunder]

Thought- it doesn't say much about her family values that she accepted the VP post knowing the scrutiny it would bring to her oldest daughter during her pregnancy. Whether or not you think the scrutiny is justified, she had to know it was coming. If I were that girl I would be so pissed at Momma for exposing me to the media like that...

[fishwhistle]

Yeah, I love how she asked the media to respect the young couple's privacy, and then two days later dragged daughter and teenage boyfriend out on the campaign trail.

Seems to me there's more than one layer of people getting used here.