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Old 01-22-2009, 09:58 AM
 
Location: In the sunshine on a ship with a plank
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The kids need to be kept out of media stories as long as they are not breaking the law.

However, Palin making these statements at this time- two months after the election when interest in her is fading fast- makes it clear she is just looking for attention.

And she is worse than any media outlet for using her kids to gain the spotlight once again.

Keeping your mouth shut often works better than running it.
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:02 AM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC
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So because she appeared with her children, a common practice among political candidates, that makes her children fair game for the press and internet bloggers to attack? By that logic we should be digging up dirt on Obama's daughters or Clinton's daughter. The press took a hands off approach on Carter and Clinton's daughter but went after Bush's daughters as if they held public office. The children of politicians should be hands off no matter what their political party. Just because you hate a politician doesn't make it right to go after their children and the fact that some of you are justifying such behavior is sickening.
Exactly. Rep.
Maybe the liberals can tell me why it is so bad to stand up for her children? And why they are free targets yet anything said about Obama's family and you are suddenly racist and they are off-limits?
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:06 AM
 
Location: Dorchester
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After she paraded them around the country during the campaign, she doesn't have a leg to stand on, she is the one that thrust them at the media. She is a sorry sorry excuse for a mother.

Then when she got boo'ed at a Philly hockey game, she blamed the boo's on her 7 year old daughter.
Just because she had them on stage with her means thay are fodder for attack?
Is it safe to say that, from now on, it's open season on Obama's little girls? Can we blog about their bad grades or the character of their grade school friends?
You're twisted!
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:08 AM
 
Location: Dorchester
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Palin = Worthless Skin
Her skin is wayyy prettier than yours!
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Dorchester
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The kids need to be kept out of media stories as long as they are not breaking the law.

However, Palin making these statements at this time- two months after the election when interest in her is fading fast- makes it clear she is just looking for attention.

And she is worse than any media outlet for using her kids to gain the spotlight once again.

Keeping your mouth shut often works better than running it.
The fact that at any given time there are at least one or two threads about her on this forum leads me to believe that she is not the problem.
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:24 AM
 
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So because she appeared with her children, a common practice among political candidates, that makes her children fair game for the press and internet bloggers to attack? By that logic we should be digging up dirt on Obama's daughters or Clinton's daughter. The press took a hands off approach on Carter and Clinton's daughter but went after Bush's daughters as if they held public office. The children of politicians should be hands off no matter what their political party. Just because you hate a politician doesn't make it right to go after their children and the fact that some of you are justifying such behavior is sickening.
The media didn't go after Carter or Clinton's daughters because they didn't do anything to draw media attention unlike the Bush Twins. It wasn't for a lack of trying though, on the media's part, to find dirt on Carter's and Clinton's kids, the Bush twins made it easy for the media. The media did do a few spot lights on Chelsea Clinton when she did stupid things, but only a few times because for the most part she was a good kid and she rarely gave the media a story. So it had nothing to do with the press or media being hands off with Carter's and Clinton's daughters, it had more to do with the fact there were never any major stories to report on.
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:29 AM
 
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Exactly. Rep.
Maybe the liberals can tell me why it is so bad to stand up for her children? And why they are free targets yet anything said about Obama's family and you are suddenly racist and they are off-limits?
The point is, it's January 2009 now. No one is saying anything about her children except SP herself. Bristol had her baby around Christmas and that was the last any attention was paid to any of them. Her children are a complete non-issue, but she's still using them to make her special whiny, self-centered brand of press.

So the question comes up, legitimately I think - why is she doing this? The article speculates she's trying to keep her name in the news.

Two weeks ago she put out the "There they go again" tabloid-y press release (from the Governor's office) - on and on, blaming others for the mistakes she herself made months ago. Now it's "Leave my kids alone!" - more whining about a long-dead horse. Sympathetically you could say it's like someone who was traumatized and can't get past it.

Those were really her only two big cards and she's played them, both from a victim angle.

What will she come up with two weeks from now? Something positive, maybe? She wishes the new President well? She's going to law school to prepare for 2010 or 2012? Alaska's doing well, come visit us on your next vacation?

I'm putting my chips on, she says something victim-y about John McCain saying he wouldnt vote for her. Or Mike Huckabee's observation that Katie Couric actually handled her quite gently.
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:38 AM
 
Location: Democratic Peoples Republic of Redneckistan
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Palin to media: Leave my kids alone

US BACK TO PALIN......"LEAVE US ALONE YOU DINGBAT" Stay your dumbass up there where you were voted in and quit trying to attract media attention and you will be forgotten within the week as will your kids, you glory hog moron .
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Old 01-22-2009, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Hangin' with the bears.
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Of course the media is going to be: Awwww lookie how cute Obams kids are compared to the trailer trash ho that Palins kid is.
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Old 01-22-2009, 11:45 AM
 
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Palin to media: Leave my kids alone

US BACK TO PALIN......"LEAVE US ALONE YOU DINGBAT" Stay your dumbass up there where you were voted in and quit trying to attract media attention and you will be forgotten within the week as will your kids, you glory hog moron .
In a nutshell, you are so right! It's so funny that she compars herself to a pit bull. She's a lot more like a chihuahua that acts brave and loud when you turn your back, nips at your heels incessantly and acts hurt and maligned when it gets kicked. God she's irritating!
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