Comments on: AN ABSENCE OF EMPATHY

By: Concerned About Amnesty

Concerned About Amnesty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:47:14 +0000

How did she do the “aren’t I cute” dance? What are you even talking about? She played the “girlie thing” because she acted as a mother? Doesn’t sound very feminist of you – in fact, it sounds rather sexist. Say what you want about the woman, she stood up in the face of criticism and supported her family.

And don’t hold your breath about “not running for office” – many suspect that she is leaving the governor position to run for office in 2012

By: kgotthardt

kgotthardt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:51:47 +0000

Concerned, yes. I didn’t like Palin’s image as a woman running for the VP seat. I think she played the girlie thing way too much and it was embarrassing. As much as I dislike Hillary, she at least didn’t do the “aren’t I cute?” dance.

I don’t think women in politics should be forced to act or dress like men, but I also think gender DOES get in the way with some people and both genders need to tone down the gender differences to get things done. Mr. Clinton wasn’t very good at that, obviously, and we don’t need to re-live that embarrassing past, either.

I think it’s terrible that people are persecuting this lady now because that’s what it is at this point. There is a difference between fighting or mocking a political opponent and trying to run someone into the ground. She isn’t running for office any more. She has paid back what she owes to Alaska. Unless the courts find she is guilty of some crime, leave her alone, for goodness sakes!

By: Concerned About Amnesty

Concerned About Amnesty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:40:25 +0000

KG, didn’t you once refer to Mrs. Palin as an “embarrassment to any professional with a vagina?” Hardly sounds like you feel bad for her.

By: Citizen Tom

Citizen Tom — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:41:36 +0000

kgotthardt – I seriously suggest you look at the video of Palin’s resignation. The lady is definitely not the idiot the corporate news media has made her out to be. Moreover, unlike the people we elected, Palin does not propose policies that she could never hope to execute well.

Whatever you want to call it (I think socialism adequate.), trying to run a command economy out of Washington D.C. simply is not practical. No one save God has the requisite management skills.

It is a simple, unalterable, inevitable fact of life. The more we ask government to do, the less well it will do the things we need it to do. The more responsibilities we give at a man, the more he must divide his time. The more power we give a man, the we tempt and divert him from the love of his fellow man.

By: kgotthardt

kgotthardt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:29:49 +0000

I didn’t like Palin as a potential VP, and the Russia thing still makes me laugh, but I do feel bad for her. No one deserves an entire world’s overt antipathy except for people like Stalin and Hitler and their ilk.

Even Ted Kennedy doesn’t deserve the entire world mocking him at once.