So, here’s the link to my Barack Obama post, if you’re interested!

http://amomtwoboys.com/2008/09/why-im-voting-for-barack-obama/

I love this post. I wrote an anti-Palin post a few weeks ago and listed completely different reasons. This cracked me up.

I also wrote a post about <a href=”http://amomtwoboys.com/2008/09/why-im-voting-for-barack-obama/”<Why I’m Voting for Barack Obama…which breaks down his tax plan by income range. It was VERY enlightening. :0) (The Palin post was up the day ahead, if you’re interested!)

And don’t worry about the haters. I’ve had a few of my own (including my MIL) and they just make me THAT much more firm in my beliefs!

Oh, and one last thing, everyone who is saying that we should “fact check” before we think she is worthy of running our country, I don’t think anyone will ever really know all of the facts of every situation of any of our candidates. I think a healthy view that the media will skew things any way they want is important. Also, for those concerned about McCain being older and his likelihood of “dropping dead” – look at his 96-year-old mother!

Please, also, tell me how it came to be that Governor Palin is running against Senator Obama? Why has she been elevated to the level of scrutiny of Presidential nominees?

I have not heard a lot of bashing of Palin. I have heard a lot of praise for her multitasking. If we have not questioned how men have been able to raise big families with their high powered careers, then maybe we should start. We are NOT talking about a 40 or even 50 hour a week job. We are NOT talking about a woman with 2 or 3 kids. We are NOT talking about a woman with older children. It is arrogant to think you can run this great country while you are bringing up very young and special needs children. Yes, she could become our commander in chief. I will not be voting to take more family time from these children. NO WE CANNOT HAVE IT ALL! Having it “all” is selfish. I thought we had this figured out.

Family commitments aside, I would not vote for this ticket because of Palin’s far left politics. McCain would have had my vote if he had picked a less controversial, more experieinced running mate.

I love your reference to abstinence in #8. Well said.

I, unlike you, am REALLY into politics and read it all the time – almost as an obsession outside of mothering, working full-time etc. And for someone who is self-proclaimed not that into politics, I think you’ve done Anderson Cooper proud.

I am offended by McCain’s choice for Veep for other reasons, namely because if he keels over, I DON’T TRUST having Sarah Palin represent my progressive views in the White House. Ultra right wing conservatives like her and Huckabee and others scare the shit out of me, really. But even more importantly, if McCain thinks he can win over Hillary’s old supporters (I was one of them), then I am just appalled. We are not just a bunch of wingnuts who vote because the candidate has a vagina. We vote based on our understanding of the candidate’s points of view on issues that matter.

Anyway, good luck to you as you get closer to a decision over the next 56 days. I for one, decided a LONG time ago who I would be voting for…this decision of McCains to appoint Palin solidified it even more for me. I am running as far as I can the other way!

1. I was planning on voting for McCain-until he chose Palin. I never wanted Obama. But now I have to- just to vote against Palin!

2. I have never labeled myself a liberal feminist-so I am not really being hypocritical.

3. I plan to vote the issues and not just gender.

4. No I am not an idiot. And yes, I have had a successful career while raising children. That is from where I speak.

5. Yes I like gun control.

6. I do not think teaching your toddlers to kill innocent animals is appropriate. I don’t care if you do live in Alaska. And posing for photos with dead, bleeding carcas of a beautiful buck is horrible. “Here honey-love nature-now KILL IT”

7. I think trying to bully the head of Alaskan Libraries to remove books and then when she refuses trying to get her fired is DISGUSTING.

8. 87% of all Down Syndrome children are born to mothers over the age of 40. If you have NO children-hey go for it. But when you have not 1, not 2 but 4 healthy kids? It is irresponsible. Don’t want to use birth control? Then don’t have sex. Ya know- like you told your daughter. Oh-but wait Palin was pregnant when she got married too I learned. So like mother, like daughter.

9. Palin tried desperately to get her preggers daughter to marry her boyfriend before her VP candicacy was announced. Daughter refused. Nice Palin. Bully your daughter to cover your rep.

10. No to the commenter who said ‘are you the devil?”. Nope I am not. I am a blogger. I am a mother. I am a woman. And I am not going to vote for a woman OR a man who shows poor judgement time and time again. Nope sorry.

That is all folks.
Now I mean it. NO more politics for me.
This has been a great learning experience for me.
But now- back to the FUNNY. I promise!

Maybe election votes should be based on how well you raise kids, or make cookies, or sell insurance, or balance corporate accounts. At least with that method, those who spend a little bit of time educating themselves so they can make a somewhat intelligent decision, their vote isn’t wasted off setting someone who flips a coin.

The brilliance begins right around 2:55…
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=183521&title=john-mccain-chooses-a-running

I, too, hope that her son enlisted out of desire and not pressure to make mom look good. We need a military even more during times of war. If anyone wants to serve their country then I am grateful.

And the real sticking point is blasting her for having child number 5 at age 44. No one has the right to tell another person to stop having children. There are many women of advanced maternal age that feel their family is incomplete. That there is a hole in their family that can only be filled by the love of another child. Telling another woman that she is too old or her family is big enough is rude, pretentious… you get my drift. That was the hot button for me.

I’ll step off my little soap box now and we’ll just pretend this whole thing didn’t happen tomorrow. Right?

I totally disagree.

With love, Carrie

If a Democrat picked a woman for VP with Palin’s background and family situation, the Republicans would be falling all over themselves to say she should stay home and sort out her family. What a joke that they now are calling “sexist” on anyone who questions this pitiful decision of McCain’s.

He is 72 and has had multiple bouts of cancer. He could drop dead in office (well, any of us could, but he is more likely). And we will have Sarah fucking Palin as President? It makes me want to build a bomb shelter and crawl into it until it’s all over.

In Marcy’s defense, it would be ridiculous to criticize her for her stance on motherhood, especially working motherhood. She’s talked about her own challenges in her blog, but I was able to pick her brain further on the subject when she helped me out with a college paper I wrote on the Mommy Wars. Her personal choices, and therefor her opinions, all stem from her experience as a working mother. She’s not preaching to us from her sofa during a commercial break of her favorite soap-opera between bites of bon-bons. She’s been there, (she’s STILL there) and had one of the most sympathetic, least-judgemental approaches to the topic.

To some extent, people who put themselves in the public eye, be it through politics or entertainment, understand that they are opening themselves up for criticism. Marcy is just talking us through her thought process as the election, a major election, draws near. I appreciate that, whether or not I agree with every word, because at least I know she’s giving it thought. Personally, I want to know as much as possible, including reactions to candidates that I might not automatically think of myself. Every pro and con I hear from someone else is welcome, because I know Marcy isn’t insisting that we all agree with her.