Obama punished his mama…
Recently, we got a Wii, and some of us (not me though…) became what Linda calls (lovingly of course) a wii tard. The fraccy boy has enjoyed creating many characters to battle it out on the ballfield or against him boxing.
I’ve asked him to create a character called Sarah Palin, and a character called Barack Obama, and guess what?
Even at Wii Sports, she kicks his ass.
I shouldn’t have expected anything less, after reading the difference between she and he, who, confronted with the same reality as the rest of us regular folk might be forced to confront when our child makes a mistake in life and comes to us with the dreaded, “I might be/I am pregnant,” gave opposing viewpoints.
She (Sarah Palin) has acknowledged that neither she nor her child are perfect, and that her family is prepared to stand behind 17 year old Bristol as she keeps and raises the child.
Contrast that to Obama’s admission that “If one of his daughters made a mistake and got pregnant out of wedlock, he wouldn’t want her to be punished with a child.”
Indeed. Punished with a child?
Given that he, himself, was born to an 18 year old mother… would that mean that he was actually a punishment?
In my fraccy world, I have to question how someone who aspires to be President of the United States could not have more sense than that. I stand in agreement that children are not a punishment.
We may be Wii tards in the fraccy home, but we do understand the simple things in life.
Round 1 goes to Palin.
And P.S. Obama… I’m kinda offended. Once done, it takes a lot to undo it for me. Good thing for you, that I’m a Canadian and can’t vote anyway.
Since the Obama’s consider their own children to be blessings in their lives, I think this might well be a bit of semantics.
I’m sure it is a harsh burden to be a single mother at age 17 or 18. Kind of steals away a big part of one’s youth to have that kind of responsibility as the result of one mistaken sexual adventure. This is the downside of teaching “abstinence only” rather than also including some safe sex information. Just say Know!
But, considering that Mrs. Palin herself was already pregnant when she got married, I guess this is a family value. You know, marriage is only between a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation so it is necessary to prove their fertility with a successful pregnancy to be eligible for a marriage license.
Considering their own kids blessings doesn’t change what he said. If children are only blessings when they’re conceived intentionally, and if unintentionally conceived children are punishments, his words affect a whole lot of people walking this earth today who, while not being conceived intentionally, are nonetheless, a blessing to someone…. even if they don’t know it.
A man who wants to be President, and who holds himself up to be ‘change’ from what so many believe to be 8 years of stupidity… should try harder not to show his own stupidity.
And regarding the abstinence education…. it’s proven that (I won’t call it safe sex because there is no such thing) teaching teens about using some form of pregnancy protection doesn’t exactly work either. Just say ‘Know’ is a good slogan, but when you’re dealing with teens who ‘know’ but think it won’t happen to them anyway… it falls short too.
Teens ‘know’ the dangers of using street drugs and yet they still do it. Why? Its part of being a teen to think that the unfortunate consequences of something might happen to other kids… but not to ‘them’.
I’ve been making these arguments for about 12 years now… and I have teens of my own. I know whereof I speak. I just usually don’t speak about it all that much anymore.
All of this doesn’t change the fact that Obama said something incredibly stupid and demeaning to a lot of people.
Obama also said:
“Let me be as clear as possible,” Obama said. “I think people’s families are off-limits, and people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”
Obama said reporters should “back off these kinds of stories” and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.
“How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics…”
On a lighter note, I could see how ANYONE who has teenagers in their home might sometimes feel like children are a punishment… and it doesn’t really matter if they were planned or not. Teenagers can test the patience of a saint.
I think if people in the media want to judge politicians by their family life and their teenagers, then those same people should have their homes examined to see if *they* are competent to hold a job, too.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones… judge not, lest ye be judged and all that hoo-ha.
I must agree with Linda and with Obama on this one…
Everyone, especially children sorting through adolescence, has what is known as “free will” and often, before solid judgement is formed, that “free will” takes over. Right or wrong, as we have all learned and continue to learn, there are “consequences” to be learned from the choices we make. Often at times when our “free will” / judgement takes over, those “consequences”/punishments are bigger than we can imgaine….
Having said that, I also think these types of stories have no place in the politics of politics. I personally could care less who is having a baby to whose political mam or daddy. Sad thing is, this would not really be news if the media did not make it news. The media is really tacky Fraccy (lol) for embelishing these types of stories just to get press… no matter the “response” from the other candidates. It’s sad to see the media is well being the asses they are. I wonder what has happened in their lives that would make food for fodder?????
People just shouldn’t go there lest they are perrrrrfect themselves.
Have a good one
I agree, which is why the part of this whole story that bugs me, isn’t whether or not he had an 18 year old mother, whether she has a pregnant daughter, or whether or not one of the Obama kids has eight toes.
The part I think is relevant, is this:
“His words affect a whole lot of people walking this earth today who, while not being conceived intentionally, are nonetheless, a blessing to someone…. even if they don’t know it.
Obama said something incredibly stupid and demeaning to a lot of people.”
His campaign paints him as ‘change’ from a President who has the reputation of being stupid. If he want people to believe that he isn’t stupid and is more than his campaign and his PR efforts, he should be careful not to say such blatantly stupid things. They show what the real Obama believes.
His public statement about media making stories of family has no real impact on me. Anyone with good advisors would come out and make that statement too. What matters is what comes out of his mouth when it’s not scripted. Bush has been held to the mat for everything unscripted that came out of his mouth and it seems fair to me to do the same for everyone else.
Linda –
“On a lighter note, I could see how ANYONE who has teenagers in their home might sometimes feel like children are a punishment… and it doesn’t really matter if they were planned or not. Teenagers can test the patience of a saint.”
As everyone knows, I have one who is technically just past being a teenager, one who is the epitome of every teenage behaviour out there, and one who is only a few months away from being a teenager and who has suddenly decided to start acting like one. Most who know me know the extremes of what at least one of the fraccy children has been through
All at the same time….
I may as you say, have days where I have been tested to the very limits… and I may have days where I joke about how if we knew what we were in for we might not have chosen to have kids…. laugh at that “teenagers are the best birth control there is” joke, etc. etc.
But I have never felt my children were a punishment. Not one of them.
Never.
That type of thing bothers me to the point where, as I said… Obama cannot gain any respect back from me. Making a statement like that shows a person’s true personality… what’s really there when you take away all the “staging” of people that goes on when they become a public figure.
Personally, I think the fact that Palin has all these so-called “skeletons” in her closet and, knowing how the media WILL find them and hold them up for the world to see, and she still accepted that nomination… tells me she’s a good person who is confident in herself, her beliefs and her family regardless of the fact none of that is perfect, and that means she’s a good choice for the job. She obviously has what it takes to stick up for what she believes no matter how tough that becomes. Isn’t that the kind of person who should have a job like VP?
I find it all refreshing. I’m so sick and tired of that old “only perfect people with perfect families” can become anything idea.
Some of the best people with the greatest ideas and who are most loyal, are people who have not come from “perfection”. I’d vote for that… if I could.
But I have never felt my children were a punishment. Not one of them.
Never.
But this is you, speaking for yourself. And, of course, that is the only person you *can* speak for, I realize.
Just because you, or I, or zillions of other people have never felt that a child is a punishment, I cannot say that there aren’t people who do or would feel that way.
And if someone out there *does* feel that a child is or would be a punishment, then that person has just as much right to their feelings as I have to mine.
If someone out there *does* feel that a child would be a punishment, then it would be better for that person not to have said child.
The *how* of not having said child is another matter entirely. Birth control, abortion, abstinence, adoption – those are a separate topic. Many separate topics.
But the point is that some people would never feel a child is a punishment… others may feel so. They are feelings, not facts, therefore they are neither right nor wrong, but simply different.
I have always taught my daughter that if she wants the “right” to her opinions and feelings, she must extend that right to other people as well.
Linda
P.S. I don’t know any perfect people. Is there such a thing? (just pulling your chain… so to speak… lol)
P.S. I don’t know any perfect people.
Silly… you do so.
Me.
Rotflmbopmpaktd
I have always taught my daughter that if she wants the “right” to her opinions and feelings, she must extend that right to other people as well.
Oh, I’m not saying that Obama is not entitled to *have* his own opinions and feelings; that he is for certain.
I am saying that as a Presidential Candidate, he has a responsibility to convey those feelings in a way that is not derogatory or demeaning to some of the people he would like to represent and be the leader of.
His choice of words was stupid and has nothing to do with whether or not I’m trying to deprive him or anyone else of their feelings. When one aspires to greatness (as the desire to be a President is) then one should understand that everything they think, opine and feel should not necessarily be blurted out if it will accomplish nothing and in the process, possibly hurt someone.
That might be behaviour the regular bloke can ‘excuse’ but the man wanting to be the leader of the most influential country in the free world?
He should know better.
Bush has always been held up as an idiot for his failings in that department. If we expect that of one leader, we must expect it of all.
Something *I* have always taught my kids, is that just because they think something, doesn’t mean they have to say it. Sometimes saying things one feels, will do nothing but hurt someone else. In those cases, the decent thing to do is have your opinion, but keep it to yourself. I have lots of opinions and feelings I keep to myself because when I hold them up to the light and ask if saying it would help or hurt someone else, I decide to have and keep the opinion or feeling… but keep it to myself. I don’t think that’s such a bad social skill to have… and I’d like to think someone who wants to be President has that skill.
Dang… you must be wondering how on earth you ever got such an opinionated and pushy broad for a sister. LOL.
That might be behaviour the regular bloke can ‘excuse’ but the man wanting to be the leader of the most influential country in the free world?
Oh my freaking gawd….. he wants to run JAPAN now, too?
Cripes. I really gotta watch the news better.
*thumps forehead on desk*
Rofl.
How can you tell you’re related to me?
You know darn well what I mean.
(She does folks… honest… she really does. She just has to tease me because I’m the little sister and every big sister relishes the times she gets to tease the little sister back.)
And he’s still a dumbass for saying what he said.
Nyah nyah
And he’s still a dumbass for saying what he said
At least he’s not named after french fries and frozen pizza…. which we *all* know aren’t good for the heart.
Be heart smart…. Abstain from McCain.
So then everyone who doesn’t like Bush should abstain from…..
ROTFL
I crack myself up sometimes.
So then everyone who doesn’t like Bush should abstain from…..
They shouldn’t go hunting in the bushes and shoot their friend in the face??
Ummm, that was Cheney, not Bush.
I know, silly. lol. bush – the place – not Bush the person. You must have missed the lower case as opposed to upper case? Common noun, not proper noun. Not that Bush the person is proper or anything… but gramatically speaking.
P.S. I’m trying to confuse you… has it worked yet?
Well, no, see… I had a one-track mind, is all. We were talking about people… so I thought you meant Bush the person not bush the place, and I thought you thought it was Bush that shot someone when it was really Cheney.
And I don’t think it was in the bush where that happened either.
lol