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They are more than "my idea" but they are, in reality a wonderful family. Remember....soon as McCain introduced Palin as the VP candidate, over 30 individual Private Eyes swooped into Wasilla like a swarm of flies, looking, anticipating finding what they were confident existed! HA!
Every dang one of 'em left her state empty-handed. Palin was then proven to be as squeaky clean as she "acts."
It ain't an act, but then people change, right? They failed to even find 30 yr. old dirt on her. Can't say that for oh, let's say OBAMA or BIDEN, had those private eyes instead bothered to dig up dirt on THOSE two.
...and how does any of that say 'wonderful' to you? Palin is not a criminal, but that says nothing about her bad mothering. Most bad mothers are not criminals- just rotten Moms.
I would call hauling a pregnant teenager and her reluctant boyfriend out in the spotlight, at a time when Bristol was surely sensitive to her condition and her failing romance, nothing but bad mothering.
I know as the father of a daughter, I would never subject my girl to that kind of scrutiny, no matter how badly I wanted to be Someone Important. To do so is both stupid and very cruel to the child.
Now a woman can't help being stupid, but they don't have to be cruel needlessly to their kids. Stupidity is no excuse for that kind of behavior.
And a husband and the father of their kids can forbid such a display. Todd's a bully, but he went along with that mess we all saw on TV. If that's your notion of a wonderful family, so be it.
Oh please...surely you don't believe that BS, do you? Look for the man behind the curtain. Of course the campaign, through the vile Left, was behind the attacks.
I most certainly do believe it. Obama nor Michelle has said ONE WORD about Bristol Palin and her antics.
I'm kind of surprised that Team Obama is this dumb. Little more than a week after self-righteously calling out Limbaugh over the word '****,' palling around with David Letterman, who gratutiously referred to Palin as 'slutty.' They surely know how this makes them look. Image management is the one thing at which Team Obama excels. Could this mean that Obama has given up on re-election???
I'm kind of surprised that Team Obama is this dumb. Little more than a week after self-righteously calling out Limbaugh over the word '****,' palling around with David Letterman, who gratutiously referred to Palin as 'slutty.' They surely know how this makes them look. Image management is the one thing at which Team Obama excels. Could this mean that Obama has given up on re-election???
Well, they need that $1 million from Maher and if he were to call Palin and console her, like he did fluke, that would not sit well with his frothing left-wing base.
Less than a month after the president called a law student insulted by Rush Limbaugh to offer his personal support, Bristol Palin says she is still waiting for Obama to call her about derogatory remarks liberal comedian Bill Maher has made about her and her family.
Asked about Maher’s comments and whether the president should ask his PAC to return his donation, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters. “We are not, and cannot be, the arbitrator of every statement that everybody makes in the policy and political arena.”
No? Why'd you call fluke? Obviously a political STUNT, trying to continue this narrative he's all for women. Just leftist hags are good enough for him to call?
At the end of her post, she calls on Obama to take a stand against "the denigration of all women" because he's the President "of all Americans, not just the liberals."
Well, they need that $1 million from Maher and if he were to call Palin and console her, like he did fluke, that would not sit well with his frothing left-wing base.
Why should he call her now for something that happened three years ago, and that he loudly condemned then?
Excellent call out the hypocrisy and double standard.
Well, until Obamas daughters are adults, like Bristol was and is, the two scenarios aren't comparable. Or are you guys still pushing that bulls*** about Letterman talking about Palins underage daughter, and not Bristol herself?
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These denials of contraceptive coverage impact real people. In the worst cases, women who need this medication for other medical reasons suffer very dire consequences. A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and she has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown's insurance, because it's not intended to prevent pregnancy. Unfortunately, under many religious institutions' insurance plans, it wouldn't be. There would be no exception for other medical needs. And under Senator Blunt's amendment, Senator Rubio's bill or Representative Fortenberry's bill, there's no requirement that such an exception be made for these medical needs.
When this exception does exist, these exceptions don't accomplish their well-intended goals, because when you let university administrators or other employers, rather than women and their doctors, dictate whose medical needs are legitimate and whose are not, a woman's health takes a backseat to a bureaucracy focused on policing her body. In 65 percent of the cases at our school, our female students were interrogated by insurance representatives and university medical staff about why they needed prescriptions and whether they were lying about their symptoms. For my friend, and 20 percent of the women in her situation, she never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verification of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy. She's gay -- so clearly, polycystic ovarian syndrome was a much more urgent concern than accidental pregnancy for her.
After months of paying over $100 out of pocket, she just couldn't afford her medication anymore, and she had to stop taking it. I learned about all of this when I walked out of a test and got a message from her that, in the middle of the night in her final-exam period, she'd been in the emergency room. She'd been there all night in just terrible, excruciating pain. She wrote to me: "It was so painful I woke up thinking I'd been shot." Without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis ball had grown on her ovary. She had to have surgery to remove her entire ovary as a result. On the morning I was originally scheduled to give this testimony, she was sitting in a doctor's office trying to cope with the consequences of this medical catastrophe.
Since last year's surgery, she's been experiencing night sweats and awaking and other symptoms of early menopause as a result of the removal of her ovary. She's 32 years old. As she put it: If my body indeed does enter early menopause, no fertility specialist in the world will be able to help me have my own children. I will have no choice at giving my mother her desperately desired grandbabies, simply because the insurance policy -- that I paid for, totally unsubsidized by my school -- wouldn't cover my prescription for birth control when I needed it. Now, in addition to potentially facing the health complications that come with having menopause at such an early age -- increased risk of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis -- she may never be able to conceive a child.
Some may say that my friend's tragic story is rare. It's not. I wish it were. One woman told us doctors believe she has endometriosis, but that can't be proven without surgery. So the insurance has not been willing to cover her medication, the contraception she needs to treat her endometriosis. Recently, another woman told me that she also has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and she's struggling to pay for her medication and is terrified not to have access to it. Due to the barriers erected by Georgetown's policy, she hasn't been reimbursed for her medication since last August. I sincerely pray that we don't have to wait until she loses an ovary or is diagnosed with cancer before her needs and the needs of all of these women are taken seriously, because this is the message that not requiring coverage of contraception sends: A woman's reproductive health care isn't a necessity, isn't a priority.
One woman told us that she knew birth control wasn't covered on the insurance, and she assumed that that's how Georgetown's insurance handled all of women's reproductive and sexual health care. So when she was raped, she didn't go to the doctor, even to be examined or tested for sexually transmitted infections, because she thought insurance wasn't going to cover something like that, something that was related to a woman's reproductive health.
That's what she said. Quit going to FOX to be told your view on matter, and read it.
Sandra Fluke went to the Democratic Congressional Panel, and presented a well thought out case for a cause she believed in, that has been in the public eye for a long time. She gave legitimate medical reasons for why some women need contraceptives, and brought up the logical scenario that if coverage can be denied, even under said medical reasons, there WILL be a fight to not provide. Full coverage eliminates that possibility. This woman said she didn't want the well being of woman across the country, to hang the balance of some greedy bureaucracy...
...and because of that, because Rush Limbaugh didn't like what she had to say, he slandered her name, and misled millions. All legitimate talk has gone straight out the window. This woman who went to her elected officials for a legitimate reason, and was insulted by some fat over indulged fool, which in turn, led to his delusional audience insulting her over something she never said, or wanted. It's wrong, and I'm glad one of our elected officials would consul her and let her know he didn't think this is the way things should be handled, opportunism or not.
There's nothing to compare it to with Maher. That's a bunch of manufactured outrage. The guys been a comedian for 33 years. He has a weekly show pretty much 50/50 in terms of comedy and political commentary. A throwaway joke in a monologue, or bit, can't be compared to the legitimate damage people like Rush Limbaugh can, and are causing idealogy wise in this country. Palin/Bachmann say and do all the stupid s*** they get insulted for. Fluke didn't...
Bristol honey, why would Pres Obama call you? You don't stand for anything except for something you lost all credibility on: getting knocked up out of wedlock. Ms. Fluke was representing the 99% of women who know contraceptives are a routine part of maintaining their health.
So quit acting like your mom, it's not a good look anymore.
Miss "Fluke " IS a prostitute and ****.... Rush is correct....
She was taken on a vacation by some guy and had sex with him as a result of this
Sex for monetary gain (money, shopping, vacation) = prostitute. Nothing wrong with that except... uhhhh... lets call it as it is bristol, while not a beacon of virtue, standds for more than Fluke does any day
Time for you to get out a dictionary there honey
By the way, the selective outrage by the dems is really indicative of mental illness
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Bristol Palin to obama: When Should I Expect Your Call?
It's now cross-generational. So, the Palin paranoia is apparently carried on the maternal X chromosome.
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bristol, while not a beacon of virtue, standds for more than Fluke does any day
Bristol Palin to obama: When Should I Expect Your Call?
