Palin’s Place

The initial rumor-mongering at Kos was not a “Kos piece” (a term which can only rightly be applied to the Front Page stories in the large left column), it was in a diary/blog written by a fairly new member of that community, which is open to the general public.

Why do we never see pictures of Todd holding this baby? Why does she carry him around like this wherever she goes. Where is the father? It makes me feel like he is uninvolved. He has to be the man to raise this kid, and their kids, while she goes on her political tract. They had better show him stepping up to the plate soon or the world will see her as overworked and unqualified to do both the jobs of mother and vice-president.

One thing for sure, she is using her children as props.

ref : “It would be presumptuous, as well as sexist of me. . .”
Well now, don’t let that stop you {grin}

. . .for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women’s oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism, Simone de Beauvoir sets out a “French Feminism” which prescribes a moral revolution. As an existentialist, she accepted Jean-Paul Sartre’s precept that existence precedes essence; hence “one is not born a woman, but becomes one“.

ie., nous sommes celui qui nous feignons pour être => “we are that which we pretend to be”

Her analysis focuses on the social construction of ‘Woman’ as ‘the Other’… This de Beauvoir identifies as fundamental to women’s oppression. She argues that women have historically been considered deviant and abnormal, and contends that even Mary Wollstonecraft considered men to be the ideal toward which women should aspire. De Beauvoir argues that for feminism to move forward, this attitude must be set aside.

( or, in your case, BAGman => “i am that which i presume my self not to be”
THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS : “Just Win It, Baby!”
BAG NEWS NOTE: the Right will invent Big Brother; but it is the righteous Left who will use it, “rightly so”.

IMHO, Palin is GOP flame bait.

• http://www.andrewhalcro.com/shadow_governor A lot of talk that Todd Palin has his hands a lot more on the Governor’s job than we’d normally expect from a spouse. Were he a wife, we’d probably already be hearing the “Lady McBeth” line trotted out. “The stories started last year when Representative Ralph Samuels told me about going into a meeting, he thought would be private, with Governor Sarah Palin. Much to his surprise, Todd Palin was there and proceeded to sit through the entire meeting. “Other lawmakers have shared similar stories and were shocked at how inappropriate Todd’s presence was at meetings with the governor. Yesterday on the Dan Fagan Show, Representative Jay Ramras mentioned that Todd was working lawmakers offices during the ACES debate.”
I think Stefani raises some interesting questions about ‘Todd’. In this quote from an Alaskan blog, he certainly has his nose into everything, which poses the question about his role in his wife’s elected position. This is different, I think than the normal spousal interest. HRC possibly played a similar role, but with less nefarious intentions. See the notes on the rest of Andrew Holcro’s blog regarding Mr Palin.
The more I read the Alaskan blogs the more I worry about this WHOLE family being anywhere NEAR the White House.

FYI – Dennis Zaki (http://www.denniszaki.com/) of AlaskaReport.com is a good source of images for Palin and Alaska politicians in general.

One of the patterns in Down’s Syndromw is hypotonia, that is low muscle tone, or “floppy baby” syndrome. From the pictures and the consistently quiet behavior, Trig seems to have it in spades. The problem is the baby’s lack of muscle tone makes the baby very passive and non-reactive which in turn leads to a lack of interaction with his or her environment including intrapersonal interaction with the caretakers which in turn leads to a lack of intellectual stimulation. Early intervention to strenghten the muscles, require social interaction, and provide that intellectual stimulation is vital for the baby to realize his or her full potential. This is not something you can do part time.

Don’t know if this has been touched upon, and I haven’t seen the other pictures in the set. But are there any other parents here who see something a little off about the way she’s holding the baby? She probably is just distracted by the cameras in her face, but to me the first thing that hit me about these pics is that she looks like someone holding a baby for the first time. A baby could wiggle out of those holds. Parents know this. (and I’m not suggesting it’s not her kid)

The crazies posting here and their crazy posts..is this the left? I would say..deranged is quite appropriate.