The press is no longer the constituent of John McCain. Keep this in mind when you read, watch, or hear news about Sarah Palin. If the press, which loved McCain for years, can suddenly turn on him, what do you think the press will try with Palin? Expect her to be the object of the worst smears, lies, and general hate of ANY political process in this nation. She will be Borked. She will Thomased. She will be Bushed. The conventional media will exaggerate any perceived flaw and ignore all strengths. Their blatant partisanship will be their own undoing, however. Finally, average people are starting to see through the crap and realize the mainstream press is not about truth anymore.
Gotta run. Slow posting ahead due to new schedule (dammit - why does this always happen right when election season gets serious?).
Hate monger and rabid left wing blogger Jack Bogdanski has gone off the deep end with his unsubstantiated accusations that Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin either lied about her pregnancy or made a poor decision while flying, WITH HER Dr's ok, while pregnant. Why would Bogdanski go off the deep end like this unless he was doing what left wing hate mongers always do- accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of?
Bogdanski put the lives of his wife and children in danger by deciding to become middle aged father. It is well known that Children fathered by middle-aged men (45 or over) are nearly twice as likely to die before adulthood. This comes from a 2008 study of about 100,000 Danish children born between 1980 and 1996.
Even after adjusting for the mother's age and other factors, researchers found an increased risk of death for children of older fathers. The mortality rate for children of men 45 and older was almost double that of children fathered by men in their late 20s. Children of teenage fathers also had higher mortality rates, but that was blamed on other factors such as poverty and the risks of teen motherhood.
Birth defects and injuries were leading causes of the greater mortality in the older men's children. The researchers speculated that the injuries may be related to conditions such as autism, schizophrenia or epilepsy. The study was published in the European Journal of Epidemiology. (Male Biological Clock Puts Children At Risk)
Recent studies also indicate that children born to older fathers face a higher chance of developing bipolar disorder.
You have to be pretty selfish to expose your wife and future children to birth defects, high mortality rates, bipolar disorder and early death. Bogdanski accuses Palin of the very thing he has actually done- put the health of his children at risk! He's a typical left wing hypocrite and liar. What else would you expect from a lawyer like Bogdansi, who couldn't cut it as a lawyer in the real world, and now hides out as a law professor at the left wing sandbox otherwise known as Lewis& Clark College?
Bogdanski, instead of judging pie contests, should do us all a favor by shutting his pie hole.
Posted by: Oregon Reality | Tuesday, 02 September 2008 at 10:13 AM
Someone just needs to find Jack Bogdanski and punch him in the face. Oh, not for Palin, but for being a jackass.
Frankly, I find all of the attacks against Palin have been actually strengthening my resolve for her. She is a hit among people I know, and many Democrats are seriously reconsidering supporting Obama because of it. This makes me happy.
Posted by: Sakaki | Tuesday, 02 September 2008 at 10:36 AM
What accusations? I haven't been listening. I'm more concerned about the economic fundamentalism that the Republicans are spreading. The belief that two or more ideaologies cannot exist at the same time. You know how they get rid of ideologies they don't like abroad? They torture the people who hold them. They start war. It's all so that the rich can get richer (through the privitization of the "re-building" that they themselves caused)...and what's to stop them from turning on you when they have run out of markets to feed their greed? I'm all for individual service to our country and making things happen to help yourself and others, but privitization of education for our children (McCain/Republican platform) is just another way to divide the nation into rich and poor. Let's appreciate teachers as educators not baby-sitters and do what Obama is calling for, incentive pay for teachers. Good teachers make good money. Increase pay for teachers who decide to educate children in high-crime areas. Don't force vouchers on students who want to learn (and how many students even know they want to learn until faced with certain amazements in the classroom). You're only making them travel an hour to school just because we as a nation decided that we don't want to fund our public school system anymore. It's ridiculous to think that I have to pay a tuition for my kid to go to 6th grade at a charter school. And, it's to a company that's for-profit so that the principal can send their kid to an even better school to which I don't have financial access. What are we doing here? We're competeing ourselves to death and Republicans don't care because they are getting richer every minute of the no-spending on social programs hype.
So, I want to read discussion about something worthwile...wait Obama has already been saying that.
Posted by: gregor | Tuesday, 02 September 2008 at 08:24 PM
Yeah, that's what we are going to do: torture liberals.
Posted by: Gullyborg | Wednesday, 03 September 2008 at 06:10 AM
I already do, Gully.
I SING! IN JAPANESE! J-pop, to be exact.
Posted by: Sakaki | Wednesday, 03 September 2008 at 12:57 PM
I know, Republicans breed hate for others through the guise of hard work and individuality.
Posted by: gregor | Wednesday, 03 September 2008 at 06:20 PM