As regards November, we seem to have a choice between Dems, who are pretty clear about wanting more spending and bigger government, on the one hand, and Reps, who claim they are for the opposite but who have lied about that in the past, on the other hand. Again, am I making any of that up? I’ve heard Glenn Beck say pretty much the same thing.

Don’t believe everything you read on the daily KOS…You wouldn’t appreciated Palin no matter what she does. Unfortunately, she has no power any more. Only the power the Left gives her thru their incessant whining..

That is NOT what I said. Please don’t lie.

I said that when politicians use their children as political props, as Palin did, they and their supporters lose the right to demand privacy on the kids’ behalf. It reminds me of the time Cheney yelled at Wolf Blitzer for bringing up his lesbian daughter’s pregnancy – after Cheney’s office had put out a press release on it.

A teenage pregnancy is far from a “minor crisis,” since it changes at least two human lives forever. I don’t know that it says anything about Palin – except that if she thinks teaching kids abstinence works, then her own experience shows she is wrong.

What does say something about Palin is the recent revelation that this opponent of excessive government spending demanded that Alaska spend $3500 to do electrical work in the governor’s mansion so that her personal tanning bed could be used there. It says that like many of her ilk she is a hypocrite.

Like you say, minor children should be excluded from the political discussion of their parents no matter how the pol parents try to use them.
I will always like Sarah Palin because she agrees with me on every issue.
The fact that an offspring has a minor crisis in her life, does not dissuade me from that opinion, but if she chose to end the pregnancy at the local PlannedParenthood death center, I would run the other way from her.

Yes, I am sure every Democrat who is a parent is envious of a mother whose daughter gets pregnant at 17 by a jerk who then walks out on her. Isn’t that what every parent wants for his or her child?

Normally I don’t think that a politician’s kid should be a target for the opposition. Unless the politician uses the kid as a political prop in her campaign, the way Palin did. I’m not sure why Palin thought it necessary to fly Levi to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis and parade him in front of the media, but when she did that she and her supporters gave up any claim to privacy in this matter.

Good assessment of the political minefield Obama finds himself in. He seems to me to be very ideologically driven, so he cannot change course and do what the Republicans are suggesting. That would be a sure admission of his perceived ineptitude. Bill Clinton he is not..
So with this bad economy, that’s getting worse, Mr O is in a box. Can’t change course and he can’t do the things he wants to do to help the poor, downtrodden and the unions. But he seems to be very tight with Jamie Dimon, perhaps Jamie can give him some advice.
It’s a real shame.

As for November, what do you imagine is going to change? The Dems are opposed by – guess who? – the same people who promised less spending and, when they had control of Congress and the WH, increased spending instead. Why do you think we should believe Republicans this time when they didn’t tell the truth on this issue the last time?

I could be wrong, but I believe Mr O and many Dims voted for the TARP program and bail-outs initiated Fall’08..It seems to be a bi-partisan clusterf**k..
And Mr O is continuing down the same irresponsible path…But Nov ’10 will be here before you know it…