She wasn't talking to me

Published: September 4, 2008, 10:32 pm

Last night I watched the RNC and the previous week I watched the DNC. Both times I asked my children to watch along with me and yet it was last night's speech by Sarah Palin that made me ill. There's no bone in my body that wants to beat up on a woman so I should plainly state that McCain isn't off limits either. What is off limits is poking fun at Palin's pregnant teenage daughter no matter how many times she trots her out there as a show pony. There is something very bizarre to me about how when teen couples decide to marry after getting pregnant it all somehow becomes OK in everyone's eyes. That's a story for another day and a post about religion (which I also steer clear of for good reason). While I don't give much credence to people who can read a teleprompter or pronounce nuclear correctly because it was phonetically spelled out for them or even for people who feel they must rid libraries of books, I have to state here that neither McCain nor Palin speak for me.

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