Palin looks too swamped with her family to focus the attention she needs on her job

bigtree

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Mon Sep-01-08 01:43 PM
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Palin looks too swamped with her family to focus the attention she needs on her job

. . . and it would be the same for me if it was a man McCain chose.

I think we'd all understand and deal with a sitting vice-president who happened to experience the trauma and drama that Palin is dealing with with her baby and her other baby having a baby. But, I think this is an insult to Americans to offer this obviously swamped woman to assume such an important position. We've had enough of Bush's part-time presidency. I believe we deserve someone who's life is in such order (at least at initially) that we can expect they will be able to devote their full time and energy to the job. Palin just doesn't measure up to that.

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bigtree

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Mon Sep-01-08 02:25 PM
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1. yep

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OneGrassRoot

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Mon Sep-01-08 02:29 PM
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2. This is the viewpoint any rational person...

on both sides of the aisle, would have at this point.

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kcass1954

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Mon Sep-01-08 02:58 PM
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3. And therein lies the problem - these are not rational people. n/t

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Danascot

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Mon Sep-01-08 04:45 PM
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4. In accepting the nomination

she agreed to accept a job that would take up 24/7/365 of her time, leaving none for her family. Leaving the children without a mother to be raised by others. If a woman wants to make this choice, I would ordinarily say it's her business, not mine, but Palin's claiming a different moral and religious standard and in my view her decision is not family, conservative or Christian values.

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jberryhill

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Mon Sep-01-08 04:48 PM
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5. I hate to break this news, but

Women with a lot on their hands hold down full time critical jobs everywhere.

The right is salivating at the prospect of hypocrisy in how this "issue" is discussed.

Obama called for an election about the Big Things. Let's try to do that.

There are some questions about Sarah Palin's judgment and McCain's here.

But saying "Mom's with complicated family situations can't manage tough jobs" is not the correct path here.

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bigtree

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Mon Sep-01-08 04:57 PM
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6. I wouldn't hire her for THIS job

THIS mom, with her difficulties, isn't a candidate choice which respects what we should expect out of someone elevated to this position. We shouldn't advance Palin just to see if she can juggle it all. We can make a reasonable presumption that her full attention would be compromised, because of the particular challenges SHE faces in her family.

I can't believe that so little is expected out those we expect to serve in the highest office in the land. It's a casualty, I suppose, of the bungling Bush administration's insistence that their mediocrity should be the standard.

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jberryhill

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Mon Sep-01-08 05:06 PM
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7. Yup....

The GOP doesn't seem to understand the difference between "Equal Opportunity" and "Idiots Apply Here".

But one assumes that the VP job comes with great daycare - unlike a lot of other jobs.

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