Saddened

Called To Be (Rev Kim): Saddened (HT: Quotidian Grace)

I've not yet posted anything of a political nature on my blog - either church politics or national politics. While I consider myself informed, I don't consider myself informed enough to deeply address the issues. But on this day, when we now know the tickets for both major political parties, there is much that saddens me.

I'm saddened that smart, accomplished people are criticizing so vehemently the choice of a smart, accomplished woman for the second-highest office in the land.

I'm saddened that smart, accomplished people are presuming that this woman was chosen only because she is a woman.

I'm saddened that smart, accomplished people are presuming that this smart, accomplished woman is being exploited. I'm saddened ...

Comments

[Peggy]

The Abbess is saddened by the exact same things. Thanks for sharing your saddness....

[Michael W. Kruse]

Not my words but Rev Kim's. But like you, I resonate with them.

[VanSkaamper]

The media double-standard being revealed in this case is shameful. This woman represents everything that feminism should be. She's a successful mom, business owner, mayor, and now governor. She's been a genuine reformer in Alaska. Her crime is being a conservative who thinks abortion is morally wrong.

[Michael W. Kruse]

The single biggest thing the Democrats have had going for them in this race is the lukewarm passion of conservatives. I suspect that many hard leftist have seen the pregnancy of Palin's daughter as something that will discredit Palin in the eyes of conservatives when in fact conservatives find her response inspiring. The attacks are energizing the very people the left would like to keep sidelined. I think their strategy has a big backfire potential.

[VanSkaamper]

I think you're right. It's far easier for most of America to relate to Palin than to the other 3 candidates who are career politicians and live a rather rarefied existence. Attacks on her for giving birth to a Down's Syndrome child and for her daughter's pregnancy will have the opposite affect on voters who live in the real world and are otherwise sympathetic to Palin's politics. They respect both her decision to give birth, as well as the way she and her husband have handled the situation with her daughter. No one has questioned Obama's ability to be a good parent if he's elected, and the media doesn't think there's anything untoward about his comment that he wouldn't want to see either of his daughters "punished" with a child.

So, as per the original post, it's saddening to see the depths to which politics will sink in the name of the acquisition of power.

I'm interested to watch how Gov. Palin responds to these blatantly unfair attacks that have victimized her children as much as her.