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Amanda --On Thursday night, August 28th, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. More than 80,000 people joined him in Denver to be part of the moment, and tens of millions more shared the experience across the country. Watch Barack's historic speech and share it with your friends and family today:http://my.barackobama.com/barackspeechThis campaign belongs to supporters like you who have built a nationwide movement for change. Thank you for everything you're doing, Obama for America
Amanda --On Thursday night, August 28th, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. More than 80,000 people joined him in Denver to be part of the moment, and tens of millions more shared the experience across the country. Watch Barack's historic speech and share it with your friends and family today:
http://my.barackobama.com/barackspeech
This campaign belongs to supporters like you who have built a nationwide movement for change. Thank you for everything you're doing, Obama for America
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Criticizing, ridiculing, and/or condemning GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for her slavish devotion to oil company destruction of the natural environment, for her efforts to criminalize abortion, for her crusade to force schoolchildren learn creationism as "science," for her record in public office (which is only now coming into focus), for her support of Pat Buchanan for president in 2000 (at a time when Buchanan's anti-semitism was no secret), for her lack of knowledge of foreign policy (or even much domestic policy as it applies to the mainland states), for her unpreparedness to be commander-in-chief, is all well and good. Mocking her "celebrity" status in the coming weeks as she'll be on the cover of every glossy magazine on earth, and having good fun with her other her evident eccentricities - she seems very much a weirdo freakazoid (not that it's a bad thing, I find it endearing) - all seem to me to be within the bounds of fair political discourse. But here's what this blog won't do, and asks its commenters to follow suit: Attacks on a mother for working when she has kids at home are a misogynist attack on every working mother, and, yes, including when one of those kids has special needs. Attacks on her personal decisions of how many children to have, and at what age to have them, are as anti-choice in sentiment as are her policies. Such attacks are also politically stupid, because they can only generate deserved sympathy among single moms and their kids who are otherwise- if you don't screw it up - already voting for Obama in big numbers. (We've just lived through a season where Obama was blamed for every act of sexism in the media or by anybody else for the past 5,000 years, let's not get that Rock-o-la spinning its tune again.) Oh, and although it might be meant in good fun, don't ask her if she knows how many igloos she owns... Or why she named her kids Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Sunoco and BP!
