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Bristol Palin.....Political pawn

9/2/2008

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      What a tawdry affair, this has become. A 17 year old is pregnant and rather than thinking of the consequences for her, she is exploited by religious and political expediency, robbed of the best years of her life, forced to grow up and raise a child, rather than preparing for graduation and the prom, probably giving up on her dreams of following her mother as a beauty queen and going to college,  Bristol Palin ,is the latest sacrificial lamb on the altar of bigotry, narrow-mindedness and ambition.

      Her mother, driven by the thouights  of high office, is using her child to accentuate her credentials as a conservative, Christian fundamentalist." Look at me ", she is saying," I taught my child that pre-marital sex is a sin, that sex out of marriage is a sin, that contraception is a sin, I do not believe in sex education, I believe in abstinence, but now that my 17 year old daughter is pregnant, I forgive her  and will stand by her and support her and her decision to marry the father of the child ". There is something very wrong here. Is any one thinking about the welfare of this child who is about to have a child?

      She has to face the feeding frenzy of the media and the blogs. The rumour mill is runnimg overtime. She is going to be subjected to all manner of direct scrutiny and indirect insinuations. Her pregnancy became public only after questions were raised about her mother's 4 month baby,.......that it was her baby and not her mother's. It was in order to squelch this, that it was disclosed that she is 5 months pregnant.

      Barak Obama, must be commended  for his forceful statement that " family is off limits", " children are off limits " and that he will immediately fire anyone on his staff who does not respect this.

      Let us hope that Bristol will be spared any extra grief. She has enough to deal with.          

     


 

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Melissa Dimitriadis
9/8/2008 05:11:04 am

I was actually very surprised to see that McCain had chosen Palin (besides that she was a woman) considering her daughter's preganancy mainly because it is a run for the presidency and the last thing you want is a "scandle" to start off the annoucement of the vice president.
Good for Obama for not making it personal but I would think that it would be hard for voters to forget about that.
And on a side note...She taught her daughter about sex being a sin and all that and she still got pregnant...how can you not beleive in sex ed! HELLO??? your daughter is pregnant probably because she didnt know that condoms exsist or that there is birth control!! Obviously her talks about abstinence didnt work..it is just stupidity!! argg....

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Ishwar Prashad link
9/9/2008 04:35:18 am

Yes Melissa, aarrgh indeed. When will they ever learn?

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     Ishwar R. Prashad recently retired from over 47 years of teaching.

    He taught Political Science variously at Dawson College, Loyola College, Algoma University College, Sir George Williams University, Concordia University and Vanier College.

    Previously, he taught for nine years in Port Mourant, Guyana.


    He became Principal of Corentyne Comprehensive High School at the tender age of 21. During this time he turned down Scholarship offers to study overseas in England and the U.S.S.R.

    He chose Canada and after graduating from Sir George Williams with a B.A Honours with Distinction, he accepted a Fellowship to complete his graduate work at McMaster University. He completed his first two degrees-Bachelors and Masters- in three years.  

    His last position was as Co-Ordinator of Political Science and Economics at Vanier College and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Concordia University.

    He is married to the former Juliet Ramcharan (Library Supervisor, McGill University) and together they have three children – Indra R. Prashad, P.Eng. ,McGill (Presently Manager, Ontario Safe Water Drinking Agency), Ishwar R. Prashad Jr., B.A ,McGill (Presently, President, Kismit Gear Inc.) and Rabindra Y. Prashad, (Presently, Artist and Chef).They are the proud Grandparents of eight grandchildren-Miranda, Kamal, Ayesha, Élan, Anĵa , Étienne, Chloé, and Jasmine.

     

     

     





     



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