Posted on 09/07/2008 2:53:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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He admired the educated citizenry and the spirit of freedom and independence they exuded. He observed:
"The words of a strong-minded man (substitute here, woman), which penetrate amidst the passions of a listening assembly, have more power than the vociferations of a thousand orators; and if it be allowed to speak freely in any public place, the consequence is the same as if free speaking was allowed in every village."
Guess he must have met an authentic citizen from a small village like Wasilla!
“In fact, while we’re on the subject, I also know what it means to have two grandchildren born out of wedlock, a son struggling with alcohol, two grandchildren with serious disabilities, putting myself through graduate school while simultaneously caring for a husband and children and teaching full time—and a whole lot more. This is the stuff of real human love; this is the raw material of family life. And those who think that Palin’s beliefs and family struggles are funny or worth jeering at, simply reveal the venality of their own hearts.”
Wow, except that I have only one grandchild and she is not disabled, this describes me! I started crying when I read this. Just wow!
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Wonderful!
My daughters attend a very conservative private Catholic school and they played the Palin and McCain speaches from the convention for the 6-8th graders. (No Obama speach was shown) I just pray everyday that todays youth live by her (Sara’s) example.
As are devout Jews to me.
Suann Therese Maier Bump!
Beautiful. Thank You.
That was absolutely fantastic!
Good stuff. I wish an article would someday run in a major paper or media outlet.
great find
btt
Is this for real?
“I know what it means to have a son with Down syndrome.”
See??? The McCain campaign is using Sarah Palin to pander to the parents-with-disabled-children vote! (Here, I am mocking libs who said Palin was a pander to women.)
Actually, I think recognizing the difficulties of parents with special-needs children would be a nice initiative for a VP or first lady (or first dude) to talk about.
I’d much rather hear a president asking for community (i.e. neighbor, not big-govt) support for Down’s Syndrome, autistic and disabled children so they can have a happy, open life, than Michelle Obama complaining about how hard it is to afford healthy kids’ activities on a senator’s salary.
“In the late 1970s, during a two-year break from teaching to raise our second son, an adopted child, I found myself at a Los Angeles dinner party filled with DINKs, the “double income, no kids” crowd who were just emerging as a self-aware and upwardly mobile social group. I fell to talking—or more accurately, listening—to a chatty young female attorney who said she was putting in eighty hours a week as a junior associate on a variety of important cases.
“After twenty minutes or so, she finally noticed my silence and asked me what I did with my own time. So I told her. I told her about the young couple that had asked my husband and me to adopt their baby if we covered their hospital expenses. I told her about waiting outside the delivery room for our son to be born. I told her about the bureaucratic maze that came with finalizing the adoption of a newborn. I told her about borrowing money from friends so we’d look more solvent than we actually were to Social Service inspectors who checked our accounts.
““That’s wonderful dear,” she said. “You’re so lucky not to have a real job.”
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THIS is a perfect example of a snObama supporter. It is a perfect description of snObama and his wonderful AmericaHating wife.
It is so heartening to see the breakthrough Sarah is helping some people make. This is a tremendous read.
She’s about 40 years later than that “dunce” Ronald Reagan in coming to the realization that the Democrat party has left her and others like her, but at least she finally realized it.
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