aparently you can't be a mom and a leader at the same time...

one of yahoo's headlines got my attention today... it was an article supposedly comparing palin to obama. not that i really care at this point, but i clicked anyway just to see. it was hardly a comparison article. it was more an article stating several liberal spins of palin, comparing her eligibility as a vice president/presidental candidate to the way she is a mother (among other things). now let me just state here that this blog is in NO way a stance on who to vote for, nor am i trying to sway anyone because i, myself, do not even know who i will vote for IF i even vote. this simply is a blog about how crazy our media is!

• CNN's JOHN ROBERTS: "There's also this issue that on April 18th, she gave birth to a baby with Down Syndrome. The baby is just slightly more than 4 months old now. Children with Down Syndrome require an awful lot of attention. The role of vice president, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of, how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?" BASH: "That's a very good question, and I guess my guess is that perhaps the line inside the McCain campaign would be, if it were a man being picked who also had a baby 4 months ago with Down Syndrome, would you ask the same question? And that might be another way to kind of, you know, close the gender gap in trying to make the point that, yes, she not only has unfortunately a baby with Down Syndrome, but she has five children, the oldest of whom is apparently in the Army and is apparently going to head off to Iraq in the fall."

really. has any man (running for office) ever been questioned as his role as a father? seems most "political" men have not only a wife and children, but also a mistress... in this day when an african american and a woman nearly tie for the democratic nomination, i wonder why the role of a woman in her family is being questioned! do "they" think a woman can't do the job because she is a mother? i bet she has more time management and organizational skills than any man in any office anywhere, even our past, present, and future presidents!

• The Washington Post's Sally Quinn Questioned Whether A Woman With Five Children And One Having Down Syndrome Would Be Able To Make Her Family A Priority If She Were Vice President. SALLY QUINN: "And I do think, too, that you have to weigh the situation. It's one thing to have one or two or three children, especially if they are healthy children. And everyone knows that women and men are different and that moms and dads are different and that women -- the burden of child care almost always falls on the woman. But I think, when you have five children, one a 4-month-old Down syndrome baby, and a daughter who is 17, who is also a child and who is going to need her mother very much in the next few months and years with her own baby coming, that I don't see how you cannot make your family your first priority. And I think if you are going to be president of the United States, which she may well be, I think that's going to be a real stretch for her."

again. it isn't only a mothers role to make her family the priority. and maybe she does have a baby, but i can tell you for sure (with experience) that a great nanny goes a long ways for allowing you time to work - and having a nanny does not lessen your ablitity to mother your child, either.

• On MSNBC, Headlines Beneath The Live Coverage Included "SOME WORKING MOTHERS WORRY THAT PALIN IS TAKING ON TOO MUCH" And "SOME VOTERS CONCERNED IF PALIN, A MOTHER OF FIVE HAS TIME TO BE VP."

well if a soccer mom has time to juggle 4 kids, boxed lunches, HOA, PTA, sports, gymnastics, church, laundry, an aging mother, doctor appts, cooking dinner every night AND making her kids brush their teeth before bed, then i can assure you that she can do the job as a high-office political figure. know why? most of those things can be handled by either a nanny or a maid. all she really needs to do is love her children and spend time with them! just like any MAN/FATHER should be doing if he was in office!