Posted by
Corlis Carroll on Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:00:00 AM
You can do it in the privacy of your own room, your own home, but the mouth is home to millions of bacteria and I would have preferred not to see that. But then I thought, well, that poor baby had been bopped around from lap to lap, photo op after photo op, and maybe his hair got a little messed up...and then I thought, well, we're like little monkeys, we model behavior for one another and someone must have shown the little girl that this is how you fix a baby's hair. And then I thought, well, maybe a little saliva on a fingertip in a pinch, but the whole palm of the hand and the entire surface of the tongue...twice. And then I thought, maybe no one modeled that behavior for that child and she was just making it up all by herself, and then I thought, would I leave my children to become Vice President of the United States, leave them to making things up or having other people teach them and then I said, no, I wouldn't...but that's me...I struggled to finish my BA and only did that after they went to school and I was home before they got home from school, but that's a personal choice that I made, and the Governor gets to make her own personal choices...who am I to judge her...and then I thought, I only had two...could I have done it with five?...and then I thought, she must be a truly amazing woman to have all those children and be a Governor, and then I wondered, do they miss their Mommy....and then I thought, they do, they definitely do and I know this because I would have missed my Mom and I know there were times whem my girls missed me and I wasn't the governor...and then I thought, there is no substitute for a Mother's love, not even the Dad, and then I remembered some people who I know who grew up without their Mother's love, and I remembered how needy they were when they got to be adults...looking for love in places when they should have been looking inward, growing without the need of other people, and developing as adults, but the Mother love need had not been met and so they went looking for love where they shouldn't have been looking for love, and then I remembered Bristol Palin. God Bless Bristol Palin...and then I thought of my girls, both are highly educated (thanks to the college loan program), both have great jobs, do great work in the world, make great money, have great pets and great partners, and no one is pregnant, by choice, and no one has a sexually transmitted disease because I taught them about protection and never taught them about abstinence because humans have animal like instincts and they would find out how good it feels to have physical contact with a person that you love, and then I thought about a woman in Ireland who once asked me how I felt about telling my girls about birth control and I said that "information was not a bad thing and I made sure my daughters were informed", and then I thought about how this topic should not even be an aspect of the debate and WOW, do I agree with that because it is all personal stuff and personal stuff should never be part of the presidential or vice presidential debate, and then I thought, isn't sexual preference personal?...what could be more personal than who you partner with...and if that is personal, why are we still talking about that, and for that matter, Abortion is just about the most personal thing I can think of....so if we are removing personal family issues with regard to the issue of teen pregnancy and teaching birth control in our schools and in the home off of the plate, then let's stop talking about sexual preference and abortion...can you imagine anything more personal than this...you are 13, your father rapes you and you get pregnant and you have to carry and birth the baby of your father...that's what Governor Palin thinks is the right course of action. I am praying for that little girl who is forced to have sex with her daddy and gets pregnant while Sarah Palin is Vice President. I am praying for all of us if Sarah Palin gets to be a breath away from being the President of the United States. I am praying that little Trig will have his Mother's love in buckets and only time can make that happen....lots and lots of time together, snuggling, being read to, being held and sung to...lots and lots of time, uninterrupted time alone with Mommy. There is no substitute for Mommy but there is a substitute for the Vice Presidential slot. But I am sure she can handle it...she has done a great job of balancing career and being a Mother to her five children. Right?
I was just thinking....