2008 US Election

you're obviously giving modern man far too much credit

Obviously. Which I actually find kinda sad, Jim. Like said: I didn't exactly expect such a comment from you.

or worse, make a public statement on this.

And many women too when you think of it (though certainly less than men).

It's one thing to understand and sincerely believe that men and women are equal when it comes to raising kids. It's another one to draw all the consequences and conclusions from that and make all of these inherent to our natural thinking process.

When Jim made his first statement, I said to myself "dead on". Then you, Spunky, Keeper & Kathleen reacted and I tought "I should have seen this. Good thing I shut up ".


Ponrauil

Sarah Palin... Governor for two years and now a VP pick. I'm wondering if McCain was out of his mind with this pick. I'm happy there is a woman in the race though. It shakes things up. In this case though, I doubt Palin's experience, especially if something happens to McCain and has to be the commander-in-chief. I'm 100% positive that Biden is going to kill her at the Vice Presidential debate. If foreign policy comes up, which I'm sure it will, there are going to be fireworks!

Ryan

Craig Ferguson from the Late Late Show made this good point that as a mother of 5 kids she knows how to change a diapper, which could come in handy with McCain.


Ponrauil

Hahaha. She is going to be the butt-end of every joke for the rest of her life, just because she's associated with John McCan't... I mean McCain.

Ryan

McCain has caused concern by his appalling ignorance of world geography and his tendency to oversimplify complex foreign policy issues. His choice of Palin makes it plain that he is not concerned with the ability of the next vice president to step into the role of commander of chief.

Instead of appointing the running mate he wants, he caved in to the religious right and appointed someone he doesn’t know and barely vetted.

The American people deserve better.

And on the subject of a man not being asked the same family questions as a woman, I love how the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter is, according to McCain’s campaign, “a private family matter.”

That is his stand after the Republican Party has spent 30 years dictating policy on women’s bodies? Why can’t Republicans recognize that reproductive decisions are private for all American women?

Well when you consider that most of the party is made up of bible thumpers and such, it's just the way they think. It almost seems to me that it's how they are supposed to think. I heard Palin as described as a hard-core right wing christian... Weird considering her daughter is pregnant and it's kinda just played off as a "private matter".


Ryan

You're kidding right? You are either kidding, or I am misreading your statement.

*fingers in my ears .... allallalaaalllalalalalaaalla.....*