I particularly enjoyed the feminist alternate reality expressed by this journalist:

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k4Lm7lhTwMrhiWKLw0

One moment, working mothers just can’t cut it – then “I’ve been a working mother for 26 years and all my friends are too!”

I am definitely tuning in tonight. It is almost a shame to get entertainment this good for free.

By Eric Holcombe on 09.03.08 6:05 pm

I cannot stand how low and unscrupulous these liberals and their illegitimate Democrat brethren will go. Questioning Gov. Palin’s foreign policy experience is open season and a legitimate issue. When they start in on a 17-year-old girl, then I wonder what species they are.

I remember the likes of Geraldo Rivera telling us to just forget Clinton’s sexual harassment in the Oval Office. We were not to pry into his “private” life even though it happened in his office during his JOB! But these same balls of slime are willing to attack a 17-year-old girl for making a mistake. She was not on MY payroll as president and I am going to bet that she didn’t do it in a federal office either. I wonder what would have happened if this little girl had been a White House Intern and gotten pregnant from Bill? Would these same sorry excuses for humanity still attack her but give Bill a pass? Would they give both a pass since all of this is CLEARLY the result of partisan politics- the politics of destruction and not of issues?

I hope that they all have special places in hell reserved for them for attacking this poor family and not the candidate. I am a man and will gladly stand in the way for any of those slings and arrows, who among you are willing to send one my way? Ok, MoveOn.org and you Kos kids can go back under your rocks now, an adult is done speaking.

By BCB on 09.03.08 6:08 pm

I – like apparently many others that I’ve come across on the Net over the past couple of days – am pissed off enough to completely rally around McCain and Palin. Originally, I was holding my nose to vote for McCain. I’m am now firmly entrenched onto the ticket and am ready to fight for Palin.

This crap has pissed me off to no end. She doesn’t deserve it. I hope to rips the MSM to shreads tonight. I’ve got my fingers crossed.

Palin is a good woman. A good mother. A good Conservative. She does not deserve this kind of treatment.

By Ty on 09.03.08 6:14 pm

Sometimes you guys are downright comical. I have been stuck at home for the past two days and have had TVs and radios on in every room and in the garage where I have been working (both broadcast and XM satellite) all days and most of the evening. I have yet to hear of any serious journalist or commentator attack Ms. Palin’s daughter. On the contrary, the so-called liberals have been as they always are: compassionate and understanding. That is, except for a handful of idiot bloggers who the vast majority of Americans don’t exist, and, worse yet, off-the-rails commenters to those blogs who could easily be opposition troublemakers. It is impossible to tell who is sincerely nuts and who is making mischief.

Here is a question I gave up on at Michael Silence’s blog, since the blowhards on one particular thread can’t figure out how to address it. I know we can get some results here.

The question: This could be a watershed moment for the issue of teen pregnancy. If Ms. Palin was a single mother living in a trailer park, working two jobs with no health insurance, and dealing with a pregnant seventeen year-old, what kind of support and care should she and her daughter be entitled to have?

By SemiPundit on 09.04.08 12:38 am

p.s.- Ty, you know as little about Palin as you do me.

By SemiPundit on 09.04.08 12:40 am

Semi-the last charge I’d make to Ty about his candidate is that he doesn’t know her.

Obama has been given the biggest media pass I’ve ever seen. He’s been allowed to write his own narrative, only releasing what he desires. He is a complete unknown. Unknown, untested.

And your liberal friends in the MSM have carried his arse in their hands.

Palin’s daughter is not even relevant to her candidacy, Semi. And as far as teen pregnancy goes, check into our urban centers. Babies are tickets to freedom–free housing, food, etc. Teaching birth control isn’t what it’s about. Listen to the words of the young women from their very own mouths. Check out the PBS Frontline for a good primer here.

The government dollars you’re talking about have done more to harm actual families than help. State is Daddy=rampant illegitimacy. Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned about it long, long ago.

By Terry on 09.04.08 5:45 am

“I’m am now firmly entrenched onto the ticket and am ready to fight for Palin.”

That’s exactly what you are expected to do. These people are not stupid. This is chess, not checkers. The Dems are just useful idiots in making this plan come together at this point.

I am having a hard time forgetting 22 years in the senate with zilch legislation espousing these “maverick” concepts they keep talking about – assuming of course that censorship and amnesty don’t count.

By Eric Holcombe on 09.04.08 8:50 am

Semi – In the famous words of Walter Mondale’s campaign manager Geraldine Ferraro,

“Estrich came aboard at about 12:15 a.m., and van Susteren started by asking: “Is [Palin] getting an unfair grilling or is this part of the vetting process by the media?” The former Democratic Party strategist answered: “I’ve never seen anything this bad in my life, and, Greta, I was with Geraldine Ferraro in ‘84 – and this is worse. … I don’t agree with Sarah Palin on the issues. I mean, she and I are very far apart, but I have never seen from some of my friends such vicious and mean-spirited attacks on her most personal choices, which is what they are.”

Ferraro said the same thing 2 days ago. I guess Estrich and Ferraro are just in a dream world making stuff up about attacks on Palin. Apparently, I know my VP candidate better than you know how to read or look up the news.

By Ty on 09.04.08 11:13 am

Oh, and to answer your question…

Women’s clinics, welfare, food stamps, WIC, Head Start, Cover Tennessee, TennHelp.com, Families First Programs, etc…

…but that’s only if the trailer park girl you referenced ignoress liberal policies and shuns an abortion.

By Ty on 09.04.08 11:18 am

Semi, first of all, why is any one ENTITLED to anything but what the Constitution and the Lord our God gives them? Nowhere is anyone entitled to that which I have earned. So working from the standpoint of entitlement skews the discussion from the get-go.

But working from there, how much more would the original mother need? Will she eat more? Will she bath more? The pregnant woman, even at 17, will probably need certain things in her life. How much can she afford to do for herself? Is she still in school or has she dropped out? You painted a rather bleak picture so can I assume that she is not a straight A student? (GASP) Maybe she could get a job? How about this? Why can’t she hold the father responsible too? Oh, is he a dirt bag that doesn’t have a job or means to support himself or is in jail? Then why should I enable this woman? Won’t she continue to make poor decisions based on past performance? But lets look at what all is available to her at this point. Food stamps. WIC. Medical care for her and the baby at birth. Housing. Utilities. Vocational training. Legal aid. And the biggest joke: Earned Income Credit. That is just what’s available from Uncle Sam. We won’t go into anything that her family, friends, church or civic organizations will provide. The average unwed “entitled” mother is eligible for an average of just over $24,000 per year in “benefits” (bought votes). To put this into some sort of perspective and dig into libs at the same time, the Knox County Sheriffs Office starts it’s employees at $27,424.44 per year. Is that fair? One person has to work hard and support THEIR children by assuming responsibility for their actions and be taxed so that another can just sit at home and breed?

What would the kind of support and care would you add to that scam? Should my children starve so that a breeder can flourish? Impress the hell out of me people, take responsibility for your own actions and your own lives.

By BCB on 09.04.08 12:48 pm

Do you agree that these programs should continue to be funded and administered?

By SemiPundit on 09.06.08 1:18 pm

Semi-Churches have provided this type of assistance for as long as this country is old and there are mutiple, I mean multiple organizations in addition to “the government” that assist in more ways than you could ever imagine. They compete for grant dollars, cash donations, taxpayer dollars, and bequests not to mention those evil corporation like McDonald’s. I have personally worked with families and served on numerous non-profit boards. I can tell you that there is a list of assistance agencies most definitely longer than your. . . arm that provide for those who are TRULY in need. So get off your high horse. I can attest first hand that many many of these recipients refuse to take responsibility for their own decisions and love to blame somebody else for their predicament. But I assure you they get the assistance anyway, regardless of their “you owe me” attitude! They know better than I do what agencies are around that they can hit up for help. Can’t you see this give-away system isn’t working? We are into third and fourth generation welfare recipients. Time for something new and it ain’t Obama. I’m no McCain fan but Obama’s plans stink. At least McCain has Palin, O’s got that plagiarizing Biden!

By TNOPINION on 09.06.08 3:28 pm

Any idea what the new solutions might be? We’ve tried giving churches taxpayer dollars, both yours, mine, and others’ so that money they would have spent is freed up for proselytizing activities.

By SemiPundit on 09.06.08 3:52 pm

I think that these programs should be cut back by a large percentage. When I drive thru the goverment housing and see all of these people that can’t do for themselves and I see almost 1/10 of the cars with temp tags in the windows (meanign that they just bought them), and Mercedes, Lexus and other luxury cars in the lot or older cars with huge expensive stereos and spinners (that a very expensive wheel for those of you in suburbia) I have to wonder why I am robbed by my government under threat of a gun to give these people this money for these things. Have you ever watched someone in the grocery store pay with foodstamps? They don’t have the faux currency anymore and they buy what they are going to with the govt debit card and then pay cash for the cigarettes and beer. If they have that money, they shouldn’t have mine. Maybe if liberals and the RINOs out there should stop trying to buy their votes with my money.

So to answer your question Semi, yes. Cut most and elminate the bulk of them altogether.

By BCB on 09.06.08 9:26 pm

These people will find a way, they always do. There is nothing shameful about our armed forces families shopping in the PX. Coal miners were paid in scripp that was similar to the Chuckie Cheese tokens and they could only shop in the company store. People will not starve eating good healthy food like beans and peanut butter. I was behind a woman in brand new Reeboks pay for $15 shrimp appetizer w/cocktail sauce with her government card. That is like sticking up their finger to hard working taxpayers!

By TNOPINION on 09.07.08 11:14 am

My wife worked for Head Start for several years before getting her Master’s in ESL. She can probably speak to this in a much better way than I can.

To paraphrase the many conversations that we’ve had over the years…

Most welfare programs create cycles of dependence. They have destroyed families and caused – for lack of a better word – laziness.

Head Start is a good program because it targets the children. It does, in fact, help many thousands of children throughout the country. The problem is that the cycles has already begun and breaking it is extremely difficult to do.

There is no easy answer. If we don’t have the social programs, then people suffer. If we do have social programs, then people suffer.

This is a very broad answer to the question posed by Semi, but, in my mind, TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN AND TO HELL WITH THE ADULTS.

By Ty on 09.08.08 3:00 pm

My wife worked for Head Start for several years before getting her Master’s in ESL. She can probably speak to this in a much better way than I can.

To paraphrase the many conversations that we’ve had over the years…

Most welfare programs create cycles of dependence. They have destroyed families and caused – for lack of a better word – laziness.

Head Start is a good program because it targets the children. It does, in fact, help many thousands of children throughout the country. The problem is that the cycles has already begun and breaking it is extremely difficult to do.

There is no easy answer. If we don’t have the social programs, then people suffer. If we do have social programs, then people suffer.

This is a very broad answer to the question posed by Semi, but, in my mind, TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN AND TO HELL WITH THE ADULTS. Children cannot help whom their parents are. So, take all the money we waste on adults and apply a large percentage to the children. Make Head Start more far-reaching, fund health and dental insurance for all children under 18, give children well-balanced and nutritious meals both in school and to take home and create competition (i.e. school choice) for all school districts throughout the Country.

The specifics would take pages to explain, but that’s my response in a nutshell.

By the way, my wife (Anthropology degree from UT) was extremely liberal when I met her. With my guidance and her experiences at Head Start, she is on the good side now.

By Ty on 09.08.08 3:04 pm