Hostage To Abortion Politics

At usual you hit the nail on the head. I felt insulted by the nomination. And I thought it seemed like a desperate move that would back fire for sure. I may get frustrated with the Dems at time, but I can at least be proud of our integrity. I thought you would like the following information sent to me today.

BTW, on the trip across Nebraska I listened to an interview of a fellow who did research on “dirty politics” and presidential elections and wrote a book about this findings. I believe his name is Cummins or Cummings but he claims it is a non-partisan approach. His findings were that the party in power is the one most likely to rely up stretching the truth and playing dirty (no surprise) and the party who at the time has strong “philosophical beliefs” that they believe everyone should share will also be the most likely to play dirty. The commentator simply made the statement.. “That sounds like conservative Republicans.” The guy’s response was “exactly.” Not a surprise but it is nice to have it supported by research.

I’m stunned and feel that this is an insult to America. This seems like a woman selected out of the hat as a female puppet. There is nothing in this VP candidate selection that strives to move us toward the middle, toward a place of conversation and healing, toward a place where a woman can be powerful on all fronts, for her knowledge, experience and family values that are values that can be upheld by all — respect, choice, voice, collaboration and balanced decision making.

I’ve been completely confused by the conservative approval of her. They traditionally criticize working mothers and now they’re on board with her. Then I read from feminists that they don’t think she can work and be VP (I wonder who has more negotiating power with her work hours than the VP?)

I’m so confused.

So, maybe it is about abortion - or at least sex. Pro-lifers say it’s about the babies. But, I don’t believe them. I believe it’s about the fact that women have sex and our social disapproval of that. Original sin. And Sarah Palin seems to be one who thinks believes it’s appropriate to make her own daughter “pay for her sins.” Though it’s ineffective - as evidenced by her own daughter’s teenage pregnancy - she’s also against educating our kids about sex and believes in abstinence-only education.

I have supported the idea of The White House Project since Marie first started presenting the possibility of forming this organization. Of course, it is not about partisanship, but I also know that it also is not just about getting a woman into the White House — it is also about putting a woman there who is a champion for all women, and that first means that all women should be able to make choices about their lives.

There will likely be some charges that TWHP is showing partisanship if it is not whole-heartedly supporting Palin’s nomination, but as Marie has written, it is not about “any woman.”

At first I was dumb struck by McCain’s veep choice. I listened to Palin’s televised acceptance speech on Friday. Everyone heard she was a first governor of Alaska, and then her qualifications seemed to diminish as if being governor for 20 months were all the laurels needed. But as I listed her “credentials” in my head (married, mom, anti-choice, NRA- toting, Alaskan- drilling, Christian) I finally realized what bugged me. Obviously the woman is no Hillary Clinton. But really, most of the Republican women fit the bill and Sarah is replaceable by thousands - just change the name and the face. Where are the really qualified Republican women? Is the party to bereft that Sarah really is the cream of the crop? I”m not a Republican so I’m not sure. If I were Republican, I’d probably know the answer. Elizabeth Dole comes to my mind but she was in the forefront 20 years ago. I think I’d be insulted by the apparent lack of intelligence that McCain and co. put into the choice. Did McCain have a woman on his search committee? I think not but if I’m wrong I’d like to know.

It seems that many of the women commenting are assuming ALL women disapprove of her because she is Pro-Life, or that many women are against this view, or do not support her candidacy. I definitely believe in choices; every human should do whatever they want with their bodies, but I think many women are overlooking the larger picture here. I don’t feel like Gov. Palin is or is not representing me. She is there because there are MANY women, like her in America, who have chosen to have children, and take care of them. Some are homeschoolers, and churchgoers. It doesn’t mean she is just “any” woman, it means she represents those women. So, I hate to say it, but these blog comments imply one side of the politcal spectrum, and of cultural norms.

There is much diversity among women, in terms of ideas, lifestyles and marital status. This woman might not represent you, but she certainly comes closer to representing me.

Though McCain may be seeking to “score” against Obama with Palin, women might consider that McCain’s choice may be an opportunity for women to “score” against the historical glass ceiling that has prevented them from being full participants in the political parties, and in socially responsible positions that concern public policy.

Palin’s reference to Hillary and the glass ceiling shows the impact Hillary had, and women would be very foolish to dismiss the symbolic torch passing that was on review at Palin’s nomination speech.

Given Obama’s reference to “sweeties,” it’s doubtful that women will get that endowment from Obama or the Democrats who submarined her campaign. Palin as a choice is a second chance for women to score. They ought not to blow it this time.

I am a registered independent, pro-choice, and a confirmed women’s rights
advocate. As such, I cannot comprehend how so many women, after
blaming glass ceilings throughout the last four decades, can now have
the audacity to attack Governor Palin for entrusting the primary care
of their children to her husband in order to serve her country. Shame
on them. And while I would certainly rather the governor were pro-choice, Hillary
is certainly pro-choice, yet millions of women found reasons not to
vote for her, either. Until women start supporting each other all the way into the White
House, they will never earn the respect they seek. When women
wonder why more women don’t run for office, they need only look in their mirrors.

I’m disappointed to learn that the White House Project is not truly “A nonpartisan …organization working to advance women’s leadership…” but instead it is an organization aimed at advancing only women who share “Pro-Choice” views. Like J.O., I know that Governor Palin represents many women’s views. Women don’t all share the political views of Marie Wilson or of Governor Palin or of Hillary Clinton for that matter. I thought that The White House Project was dedicated to advancing a “richly diverse” group of women in the world of politics. It’s ashame that Ms. WIlson has used this platform to disparage Governor Palin’s candidacy and the bold, brave choice of Senator McCain. So much for your stated mission.

I could not believe my ears when I first heard about Sarah Palin. How could she be considered a serious candidate, one 72 year old heart beat away from the presidency with so very little experience? How can someone who is in the learning stages of being a governor in a state that is so wealthy it does not have state taxes but instead pays dividends to its citizens, have the administrative experience to overcome the largest federal deficit we have ever experienced?

It is frightening to me to think of the possibility of having a president who would make such an impulsive decision, with apparently little or no vetting, choosing someone with so little experience. Did he make this choice merely because she is a woman who reflects his “maverick” tendencies? What an insult to the qualified women of the Republican party!

On this blog, someone said that Palin’s husband was the primary caretaker in the family. Sorry, but I see no evidence of that. Sarah Palin’s husband has never been a full time, stay-at-home father and has never made any real sacrifices for her career. Indeed, during the People magazine interview, Sarah Palin was the one who changed all the diapers. So the feminists who wonder how a woman can have five children and be a VP are probably doing so because Mr. Palin is not a progressive, pro-feminist father. At best, he’s probably just a helper.

The Palin nomination is one more example of how complex our modern patriarchy has become. One of Palin’s roles in the Republican Party is to mask its intense sexism and contribute to it. Believe me, Palin’s policies will not create a more family-friendly workplace, nor will they erase the wage gap or any other power gap between women and men. Some young women are telling me, “Why be a feminist when anti-feminist women like Palin get all the benefits?”

The White House Project has a great opportunity to use to Palin issue to show how patriarchy really works in our post-modern world. It should interview Zillah Eisenstein, author of the brilliant book, “Sexual Decoys.” Eisenstein makes a strong case that women in leadership positions today are expected to be gender decoys. They’re supposed to mask the sexism and also contribute to it. Above all, they’re supposed to NEVER admit they are feminists (except when knocking down the feminist movement, of course).

I hate to say it, but at a certain level, the leaders of The White House Project are also acting like gender decoys. You seldom interview out-of-the-closet feminists, you seldom give the feminist movement any credit for the gains women have made, you don’t admit to being feminist, you don’t do much in-depth feminist analysis of issues. Please show some real feminist leadership.

“It has very little to do with abortion and everything to do with the lives that follow in the wake of birth.”

Thank you.

I also commit to choosing only politicians who “choose life” because it is the LIVES of those children and mothers with which we must be concerned. I feel that too many anti-choice conservatives (including Palin) refuse to see that viewpoint. Let’s not even get started on abstinence-only education.

I think it is a brave thing that Sarah Palin is running as the first woman VP candidate for the Republican party, and I wish I could be overjoyed that women are making such advances in society–but I don’t feel that she was selected because of her qualifications. I think it simply boils down to her gender and her pro-life activism. That is why I am offended by the GOP’s choice.

I interviewed the political journalist Melinda Henneberger some weeks ago. After the ‘04 election, she decided to interview hundreds of women voters across the United States and write a book summarizing her research called “If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear.” What shocked me most was her discovery that women (and men) vote more often than not based on emotion and not issues. People voted for a one candidate over another because they “liked” him better as a person. Because they had more charisma, because they seemed more down-to-earth, because they seemed to share their day-to-day lifestyles.

I respect the journalist, so her comment made me uneasy. In my mind, democracy simply cannot coexist with raw emotion, with likes and dislikes, with, what seemed to me, playground popularity contests. Shouldn’t we use reason, should’t we use our sense, the notions of right and wrong, what’s more advantageous to ourselves and the future generations, what’s more sustainable, when making our decisions?

I guess I am ruled by my emotions as well, because once I learned about this, I started feeling like a character trapped in an Orwellian dystopian society, meaning society-as-prison, and mind-as-prison.

All this to say that I don’t think we women should be ruled by our emotions as voters and as citizens. I don’t think that we should “support” each other because we’re women, vote for women because they’re women, get angry and feel “betrayed” when women do not vote for a fellow woman.

We should RESPECT one another–always!–but we should not be loyal to those women whose issues, believes, and decisions we do not agree with. That would be following our emotions and gender loyalties and not the issues and one’s beliefs.

I vote for people and the issues they espouse, and not women (or men). And no matter how strong my desire to have a woman president (or vice-president), I would never vote for Sarah Palin. That is simply because I do not agree with anything she stands for. I don’t think she has remotely enough political experience to hold one of the highest positions in the country. And let me state the obvious: She lacks political experience not because she is a woman. She lacks it, period. And the little experience that she does have has shown me that she she could never be my candidate.

If interested in reading the mentioned interview with Ms. Henneberg, please follow this link: http://www.imow.org/wpp/stories/viewStory?storyId=1620

Marie’s column is a surprise and a disappointment. You all should re-read The White House Project’s statement of purpose which claims it “aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency.” It does not say support only women with whom we agree. It does not make any one issue a litmus test. You need to walk the walk and stop the talk.

I agree with CDE, Kris Kline, and others. I am a pro-choice activist but I also believe that when you add women - regardless of their political beliefs - you truly change everything. I got involved with the White House Project as opposed to other overty pro-choice women’s political leadership organizations because I just didn’t want it to be about one issue.

What happened to the “richly diverse” part of the White House project’s goals? I am disappointed in Marie Wilson.

Hostage to abortion politics? Uh, kind of like the author is - only to the other side of the issue. Let’s tell it like it is. Save the faked moral outrage, please. Senator Obama chose to pass over an up and coming, star Governor from Kansas and a U.S. Senator from New York who garnered some 18 million primary votes and defeated him in, what, 8 of the last 10 primaries? And why would that be? Because they weren’t as competent as him? Perhaps the outrage should be pointed where it belongs.

Marie Wilson, this “article” is a total insult to the organization and woman that have supported it! I believed in The White House Project because it was supposed to be non-partisan and supporting the advancement of women. Isn’t your self description “The White House Project, a national, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization, aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency.”????

It is quite obvious that is not the case. You can’t even support the first woman actually on a ticket in 24 years???? You barely put Sara Palin on the website and then write this total liberal propaganda and put it as the leading story. I’m canceling my membership today.

Non-partisan, my A$$!!
Marie Wilson and the TWHP are a group of HYPOCRITS! We finally have a woman running for the second highest office in our nation (the first in 24 years) and all THWP can do is offer up a meager “congratulations” and a HUGE disclosure that they are a non-partisan organization on their home page. Then Marie has the audacity in her blog to discount Sarah Palin’s nomination based solely on Palin’s pro-life stance. Marie - I don’t care that you are pro-choice. However, so long as you continue to claim that you run a non-partisan organization you need to take your personal political agenda off of the table and represent ALL ISSUES from BOTH sides. Let women decide for themselves what their views are of each issue. However, it is evident that this is impossible for your organization to do. I attended a GO RUN training and approximately 90% of your speakers panels and guests are liberal Democrats. You sprinkle in a few token conservatives here and there, but do not fairly represent both sides of issues in your training. Lets call a spade a spade here … your organization isn’t non-partisan! I caution all readers that TWHP IS NOT NON-PARTISAN AND NEVER WAS. KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN THEY ASK YOU FOR DONATIONS AND SUPPORT!

Thank you Marie.

Many here are quick to say that the White House Project must support any and all women who seek higher office. Not in any time in history has this work for advancement alone been called feminism; feminism is larger than the republicans are now trying to convince us.

Some rights can not be extracted from the efforts to promote equality and reproductive justice. Those rights are not soft and can not be compromised. Until the conservative faction is willing to admit that as women, we are able to make decisions about our bodies, education, careers and families without their sanction, they are not feminists.

A woman who does not hold that an individual decides how to manage her own body and future is no feminist at all but a woman who has coopted the term for her own efforts at promoting the patriarchal structure, herself, and her own imposing agenda.

I’m all for working together, for advancing common causes, for putting women is the positions they deserve. But I will never give up my rights as an automonous human being. Some things are not open to discussion - indeed they are inherent in the very definition of feminism. Freedom of choice is one of them. Adherence to facts and science to educate our children is another. The earth is not flat, women. I allow anyone to make their own choices, to foster their own beliefs, as long as they allow me to make mine. That is the common cause, that is feminism.

I am terribly disappointed and saddened by the actions of Marie Wilson and The White House Project. It is now evident that you are NOT a non-partisan organization dedicated to the advancement of all women leaders. I foolishly believed that you were committed to your stated mission, and now your actions speak far louder than your words. While I have supported The White House Project in the past, I am now disgusted with your failure to support an accomplished, impressive woman as the first in history female Vice President of the United States. Truly, you should be ashamed of yourself. At a minimum, please revise your mission statement to reflect your true intentions, and stop deluding other women into thinking that you are non-partisan.

Hi Marie-
Thank you for your leadership towards a more equitable future for our country. Clearly, reactions run the gamut here, as they do across America.
From a guy’s perspective, and one who grew up in a family surrounded by brilliant, capable women, this choice is a real litmus test. One sister thinks Palin is the cat’s meow. Loves the powerful image of her, leading the ideological fight into the future, a real soldier for Christ. The other bemoans her total lack of empathy for the environment, her narrow perspective on women’s rights, her framing of drilling in the Arctic as an act of “patriotism”. Clearly, they will cancel out one-another’s votes come November.
My wife, like many, was heartbroken at Hillary’s loss in the primaries, in tears at her concession. Myself less so, remembering the tabloid baggage of their previous term and hoping, against hope, for a less beholden, more progressive vision for our country. But Hillary, for all her rhetoric, exhibited tremendous depth of understanding of the challenges that face our society, appreciation of our impacts on the world stage, and the deep social injustices that must be addressed for us to ever achieve anything that approaches peace on earth. Hillary gets it.
With her simplistic ideological blinders on, I don’t think Palin ever could…making her an easy pawn.

Thanks Marie. I am with you 100%. I am sure it took great courage for you to point out that Sarah Palin is unqualified for the vice-presidency since The White House Project is a strong supporter of all women seeking higher office. But electing an unqualified woman is worse than not electing a woman because it perpetuates a stereotype of our gender as unqualified for higher office.

For those who may vote Republican out of disappointment in Hillary’s loss I say this: Voting for Sarah Palin makes a mockery of your support of Hillary and other accomplished women like her. Check out Palin’s position on other issues such as respecting the environment vs. supporting big oil’s drilling initiatives, sex education vs. teaching only abstinence, evolution vs. creationism, as well as her support of killing wildlife. If you want to look beyond her stance on a woman’s right to choose you must also look beyond her gender and decide whether or not you share her vision for America.

Now I don’t know who to vote for! I wanted Hillary. I would vote for McCain-Lieberman, but I cannot vote for Palin who even opposes abortion for rape and incest, and I totally disagree with her on family planning. Her abstinance only stance is nuts!

I heartily agree with CDE and J.O. who touched on the subject that The White House Project was supposed to be “non-partisan project aiming to advance women’s leadership in all sectors”, but has deteriorated into a single issue ultra liberal “pro choice” political vehicle. I have been following your website for a long time as an interested observer. I have long felt I would be happy to vote for a qualified woman candidate. Many years ago, I thought Elizabeth Dole was qualified. Now, Sarah Palin has more “executive” experience than ANY of the other presidential or vice-presidential candidates. I feel she would actually make a better president than McCain. So I am going to be pleased to vote her ticket. I believe a lot of other women in America would also be pleased to be represented by her. Please get back to your mission statement or change it. It is hypocritical to say one thing and then really be seeking something else.

If one goal of The White House Project is to get a woman in the White House, why is the news release so much about Marie Wilson and TWHP’s activities, and not about this historic achievement? If this is a non-partisan organization, wouldn’t it be appropriate to celebrate and support this milestone? Doesn’t this nomination break the ceiling further, and ease the way for other women leaders in the future? Isn’t that what we all collectively have been striving for all these years?
My vision is that in four years the Presidential candidates will be Sarah and Hillary. That’s a choice I think we would all like to make.

I’m thrilled by Sarah’s nomination. She’s a real woman, a real mom, and someone who does the right thing. For years I’ve been hoping that someday the leaders of our country would be ‘real’ people, who’ve had ‘real’ lives. I’ve always believed that it doesn’t take years in politics to run a country. It just takes strong convictions and hard work, and the ability to gather the right people around you to make a strong team.

I gave a lot of $ and helped organize a big run that raised significant money believing the “claim” that the White House Project was non-partisan. Turns out that celebrating and promoting the advancement and progress of women in leadership roles, especially in the White House, was a deliberate misrepresentation by your organization. I and others feel CHEATED by your utter partisanship. I am considering a lawsuit to recover funds donated by me and others since the non-partisan marketing claim was a demonstrable falsehood. You lied to raise funds for partisan purposes and took advantage of the goodwill of myself and others, but when a woman of a different party rose to a potential seat in the White House, you were noticeably silent. Not even a mention or photo on your homepage, just a blurb found by ’searching’ diligently through the website, a blurb that unethusiascally congratulated Governor Palin and asking for blog inputs.

Many in the world are celebrating a true middle class woman rising to challenge the status quo. An objective person can see a mom volunteering to join the PTA to improve the conditions of education for her children, a person running for and serving as mayor to improve her community, a person challenging corruption in her state and running for governor, then serving as chief executive of our largest geographic state with two int’l borders with Russia & Canada, administering an $11 billion budget with over 15,000 state employees, Commander in Chief of the National Guard, a woman who attained the highest approval rating of any governor. Your hypocrisy is sad and I plan to hold you accountable for lying to raise money from me and others.

Well, well, the truth is out. You are not really nonpartisan. I’t time to change your name to Democratic White House Project.
And you probably have managed to set back women’s rights 100 years. The women with children who hope to become Senators, CEO’s and any leadership position will now be judged to be unfit. Shame on you for joining this stupid bandwagon.

It’s really a shame that so many women frame their entire political ideology around the “pro choice” issue. Ms. Wilson eloquently framed her point of view in the first 2 paragraphs and then started the 3rd with “Knowing this,…”. Well…knowing what? A truer way to proceed with the discussion would be “Assuming this,…”. Too many in America are so stuck on a particular point of view that there is no willingness to concede the value of a different point of view. Is it possible that the “maverick” John McCain wants some help in his quest to reform the vast bureaucracy in Washington? To reduce wasteful spending, pork barrel projects and the politics of special interests? This woman has a history of doing just that and doing it in such a way that wins popular support among all sides of the political spectrum. I would ask Ms. Wilson this… are there no other issues worthy of measurement in assessing the value of a political candidate? Especially a female candidate? You do yourself and all women a disservice with such a myopic view of the what is really at stake in this election.

Ron K is right on. I have always voted Democrat for the past 30 years and the “R” word was never mentioned in our household, ever. So, then why am I voting Republican this year? Because the Democratic party refused to listen to me and the Republicans did. I want a woman in the White House-it doesn’t matter if she’s Pro-Life or Pro-Gun as people change their minds all the time and she may “see the light” in the near future. I honestly believe that IF we do not have more women in govenment power, the world will never become a better place and I refuse to wait another 4 years to be given this chance again when it’s here, right now!! I say shame on all of you that think she not qualified as she’s much more qualified than Obama by just being a mother. Obama made me sick during his acceptance speech when he named all the women who were his heros and why… How can you trust a man that talks the talk, but does not walk the walk??!!! May the best man win.

Government needs to STEP ASIDE and GET OUT OF THE WAY of personal freedoms and choice! If Pallin or her misogynist government ever steps into my bedroom, I’ll blow her god damn head off. I’m hoping she gets @$&!ed by a grizzly bear and gives birth to some kind of mutant. As one of those “Reagan Democrats” who voted “Independent” all during the 1990s, I was actually behind Pallin and willing to do whatever it took to put a woman in the White House. I was actually moved beyond that one issue long ago. Until yesterday, when I learned that Pallin supported antiabortion legislation even in cases of RAPE or INCEST. Certainly, Pallin must not be a woman, rather some kind of mutant itself in disguise. God, where is the party that really believes in liberty and freedom? So my friend, we are NOT really talking about one issue here. What we are really talking about is liberty and freedom for all. That’s the point.

Nonpartisan? Wow….you completely fooled me. I’m was thrilled to know that there was a group out there to help me - as a woman - get a solid foot into politics because I want to know what it takes to run for office. This is a shame….where this site was to encourage women, young and old, to become more knowledgeable about politics, it’s apparent to me that you are encouraging women to become democrats. It is WONDERFUL that there is not only a woman that could be Vice-President of the United States as of next year, but that this woman didn’t discriminate her own son because he had down syndrome. What better person to show other woman that IT IS POSSIBLE: WOMEN can be mothers, WOMEN can have a special needs child without being selfish and ending its life to better their own, AND at the same time THEY CAN RUN FOR OFFICE. She is the woman who can say, “I accomplished it all…….and you can too.” You can call me Pro-Life….Anti-Choice…. whichever you choose, it’s no insult to me at all. But this organization canNOT call itself nonpartisan. This “womens” group is a joke……

Government needs to STEP ASIDE and GET OUT OF THE WAY of personal freedoms and choice! If Pallin or her misogynist government ever steps into my bedroom, I’ll blow her head off. As one of those “Reagan Democrats” who voted “Independent” all during the 1990s, I was actually behind Pallin and willing to do whatever it took to put a woman in the White House. I was actually moved beyond that one issue long ago. Until yesterday, when I learned that Pallin supported antiabortion legislation even in cases of RAPE or INCEST. Certainly, Pallin must not be a woman, rather some kind of mutant itself in disguise. God, where is the party that really believes in liberty and freedom? So my friend, we are NOT really talking about one issue here. What we are really talking about is liberty and freedom for all. That’s the point.

Ditto on what Haley from Austin Texas said. ["Nonpartisan? Wow….you completely fooled me."]

The White House Project in part inspired me to run for my local Town Council. And I have always been a HUGE Marie Wilson fan ever since I learned of your bravery in launching “President Barbie” (feminists just hate Barbie, huh?)

But now I’m also saddened by the nonpartisan view.

I feel no men have a place making choices for our bodles - and so I never vote on that issue. Ever.
I don’t agree with much of anything the Christian Right says.
I also don’t even believe in the party system.
I am a big Obama fan.

But as you might assume, I am a huge Sarah Palin fan, and see myself in her. No liberals seem to understand that at all. But it is the case. I find her leadership, bravery and courage refreshing. Wish I could say the same for The White House Project still. I’m really really disheartened.

But I hold out hope that the WHP can find a way to understand.

All my best, always

ANYONE CAN HAVE A BABY OR NOT…ALL IT TAKES IS INTERCOURSE…WHETHER LOVE IS THERE OR NOT!!!

A GIRL OR WOMAN SIMPLY HAS TO “SPREAD HER LEGS”…SADLY, FOR WHATEVER REASON…AND, BINGO, A CHILD CAN BE CREATED! MAYBE WITH “GENUINE LOVE”…SADLY, MORE OFTEN, WITHOUT LOVE…

THE REALLY REAL QUESTION, TO ME, IS “NOT” WHETHER TO HAVE “ABORTION OR NOT”….”AFTER THE ACT”…WHETHER TO “KILL OR NOT KILL”…

THE REALLY REAL QUESTION IS “WHETHER OR NOT”… I ENJOY MY PARTNER???, DOES HE ENJOY ME??? DO I FEEL “SPECIAL” INSIDE WHEN I’M WITH HIM??? DOES HE FEEL “SPECIAL” INSIDE WHEN HE’S AROUND ME??? DOES HE MAKE ME LAUGH??? DO I MAKE HIM LAUGH??? DO WE REALLY “LIKE” EACH OTHER??? DOES OUR RELATIONSHIP EVOLVE INTO “GENUINE LOVE FEELINGS”???

DO I REALLY “CARE” FOR MY WELL-BEING AND HIS WELL-BEING??? ARE WE HONORING OUR SPIRITUAL MASTER AND/OR CREATOR??? AM I AND IS HE “REALLY READY” TO EXPLORE EACH OTHER PHYSICALLY AS WE GROW EMOTIONALLY AND SPIRITUALLY???

THEN AND ONLY THEN, SAY “YES” TO PHYSICAL LOVE INTIMACY. TO “BE ALIVE AND MORE ALIVE”!!!

WHERE ARE THESE “BASIC” STEPS OF RELATIONSHIPS??? WHERE ARE “BASIC QUALITIES”???

WE ALL KNOW THE “TOO FAMILIAR” “WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU, M’AM”!!! OR….I “MUST DO IT” OR HE WON’T LIKE ME. OR….”RELIEVE STRESS” CRAPOLA!!!

“THE TIME HAS COME” TO RESPECT AND HONOR “THE BODY.” TO HAVE “GENUINE LOVE” RETURN AND NOT “THE LOVE BUG” BITE. RE-REMEMBER, THE BODY IS SACRED!!! I HAVE “FREE WILL” TO CHOOSE WHEN “I CHOOSE”!!! AND, LET’S CHOOSE WHEN “LOVE CHOOSES US.”

NO, I AM NOT INTO “ABSTINENCE”….IT DEPRIVES NATURAL TENDENCIES AND “LEARNING THE LESSONS OF LIFE”!

IF MEN AND WOMEN….CHOSE GENUINE LOVE & RESPECT & HONOR & SACREDNESS…FIRST…”THAT” IS THE “REAL” ISSUE…..”NOT” WHETHER OR NOT TO “KILL OR NOT KILL” THE BABY…THEN, THE MOTHER IS “RAPING” THE BABY….NOW, THE BABY IS “HAVING SOMETHING DONE AGAINST HIS/HER WILL”….RAPE….THE BABY WANTS “TO LIVE” OBVIOUSLY…SINCE HE/SHE HAS “CHOSEN” TO BE BORN….CHOOSING TO LIVE AND LIVE MORE…..AND NOW, AN “IMMATURE ADULT” IS “CHOOSING” TO RAPE AND TAKE THAT CHILD’S LIFE AWAY…AGAINST THE CHILD’S WISHES!!!! IT’S RAPE….WHICH IS, SADLY, WHAT THE TWO “ADULTS” DID IN THE FIRST PLACE….THEY “RAPED” EACH OTHER FOR THE “ORGASM”…..THE MOMENTARY PLEASURE OF THE EJACULATION AND/OR CLITORAL TINGLES……CREATED A LIFE “WITHOUT PROTECTION”…AND…NOW, THEY HAVE TO “STRUGGLE WITH A KILL OR NOT KILL” DECISION….NOT “FREE-WILL CHOICE”…

THE MOTTO “BE PREPARED” OF THE GIRL SCOUTS AND BOY SCOUTS IS TRUE….NOT “BE PREPARED” WITH A CONDOM OR BIRTH CONTROL PILLS…..YES, DO THAT….AND “REALLY” “BE PREPARED” BY REALLY HONORING AND RESPECTING YOURSELF AND THE PARTNER FIRST!

SO “HONORING & RESPECTING & CHERISHING” YOUR OWN BODY AND SEXUAL ORGANS AND UTERUS AND BREASTS …IS THE “REAL” ISSUE……TAKING “PREVENTATIVE MEASURES” TO PRODUCE A CHILD AND PREVENT TRANSMITTED DISEASES IS A MUST!!! WHEN PREGNANT, WHY IS THIS STUPID NATION STILL SAYING “THE BABY IS GROWING IN MY TUMMY”??? LIKE THE “STOMACH”??? INSTEAD OF “THE BABY IS GROWING IN MY WOMB”!!! THE WOMB IS SO VERY SACRED…..WHY AREN’T WE SAYING THIS??? LITTLE CHILDREN AGAIN ARE “MISLED” BY “AFRAID TO TELL THE TRUTH” “ADULTS” “THINKING” IF YOU “EAT” SOMETHING AND IT GOES INTO THE “TUMMY” , YOU CAN GET PREGNANT.

COMMON SENSE AND LOGICAL LOGIC AND GODLY GODLINESS AND UNIVERSAL UNIVERSE LAWS OF LOVE!!!

1 OUT OF 5 PEOPLE IN U.S.A. HAVE AIDS BECAUSE OF OUR “LACK OF RESPECT, HONOR, SACREDNESS & GENUINE GOD-GIVEN LOVE” FOR OURSELVES AND OTHERS….

THE TIME HAS COME TO REVERSE “ABORTION” AND WHAT TO DO “AFTER THE FACT”….AND…..FOCUS ON HOW TO HONOR, LOVE, CHERISH, RESPECT THE BODY AND ITS SACREDNESS….AND ….ENJOY, DATE, DISCOVER, EXPLORE ALL FACETS OF YOURSELF THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE FIRST…..AND THEN….ADVANCE INTO MORE INTIMATE STEPS!!!

YES, BE FREE….FREE TO CHOOSE SOMEONE WHO YOU “ENJOY AND LAUGH WITH” FIRST….AND…THEN, BE FREE TO CHOOSE WITH THE HEAD AND HEART COMBINED TOGETHER…NOT SEPARATELY!

A VOTE FOR MAULIN’ PALIN IS A VOTE FOR WORLD WAR 3!!!

DO YOU WANT TO BE IN A “CATCH 22″ AND “BE FORCED” …”TO HONOR AND OBEY”…”ADELLE SARAH MAULIN’ PALIN HITLER” WHEN SHE, AS “COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF-VP” “ORDERS”…”MORE KILLING AND MILITARY”…TO FALSELY ESTABLISH “PEACE”??? WHAT CREATOR GOD/UNIVERSE “ORDERS THIS”??? TIME TO USE OUR VOICES TO DECLARE PEACEFUL PEACE, WITHOUT WEAPONS, AND TO “PASS THE TALKING STICK AROUND”…as the AMERICAN INDIANS DO!…AND “LEARN THE LESSONS” FROM EACH OTHER…THE TIME HAS COME FOR ALL WORLD CITIZENS TO UNDERSTAND ALL WORLD CITIZENS!!! OPEN FIRE THE MOUTH, NOT THE GUNS!!! SHOOT OUT THE WORDS…NOT THE GUNS, WEAPONS, EXPLOSIVES, PENISES (YES, THAT’S WHAT I SAID!!!)!!! ANGER’S OK!!! JUST DON’T “CROSS THE LINE” BY PUTTING EACH OTHER IN “BODY BAGS” OR “MAIMED FOR LIFE”!!! WHOLENESS AT ALL COSTS!!! WORLD PEACE, NOT PIECES!!!

I SADLY WATCHED “THE MILITARY CHANNEL” ON TV (AND NEARLY THREW UP!)…THAT…ALASKA…IS “THE” TESTING GROUNDS IN AMERICA FOR “ALL” GUNS, WEAPONS, TANKS, EXPLOSIVES…!!! THE ANNOUNCER SAID “IF THE WEAPONS CAN HANDLE -50 DEGREES BELOW TEMPERATURES IN ALASKA…THEY’LL “HANDLE” TEMPERATURES ANYWHERE!!! SARAH “KNOWS” THIS….AND, SADLY, “SUPPORTS” THIS LITTLE KNOWN “FACT” OF “KILL OR BE KILLED” INSTEAD OF “LIVE AND LIVE MORE”!!! THE UNITED NATIONS IS “ALL FOR THIS” SINCE THEIR #1 ISSUE IS “HOW TO LOWER THE WORLD’S OVER-POPULATION”…AND…WAR…AND…AIDS…AND…STARVATION…”HELPS” TO “LOWER THE WORLD’S OVER-POPULATION”!!! ALL DOWNRIGHT “MEAN AND CYNICAL AND DEVIOUS”…WHY DO YOU “THINK” THE UNITED NATIONS ISN’T INTERESTED IN “FINDING CURES”???…THE POPULATION MIGHT GET “TOO HIGH” INSTEAD OF SUGGESTING, LIKE CHINA, ONLY 1 or 2 CHILDREN PER COUPLE???

SARAH PAULIN IS A MEMBER OF “THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION” AND, THEREFORE, “KNOWS” HOW TO LOAD, AIM, FIRE A GUN AND IS “WILLING” TO “KILL THE TARGET”!!! SHE IS “ALL FOR WAR AT ALL COSTS’…AND MAKES ME ILL THAT “THIS HONORS GOD OR WHOEVER IS HER CREATOR”!!! SHE’LL JUST BE “ANOTHER HYPOCRITE CHRISTIAN LIKE BUSH”!!!

IS THE NATION GOING TO “HONOR AND OBEY” A “WOMAN” LIKE THIS “JUST BECAUSE” SHE IS A “WOMAN”???

SORRY, YOU CAN’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER…SARAH’S “COVER” AND FAMILY SURE LOOK GOOD…AND…HER INSIDE “BOOK” IS “KILL AND KILL MORE”!!! I’D RATHER HAVE AN AGNOSTIC OR AETHEIST IN OFFICE WHO WANTS GENUINE PEACE THAT “HONORS” THE UNIVERSE OR THE SUN OR A PIECE OF DUST OR A MOLECULE!!!

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO “HONOR AND OBEY”…”ADELLE SARAH PALIN MAULIN’ HITLER”??? NOT ME!!!

A VOTE FOR McCAIN’T AND SARAH IS A “VOTE FOR WORLD WAR 3!!! I CAIN’T VOTE FOR McCAIN’T OR MAULIN’!

OBAMA SOMEWHAT BETTER.

RALPH NADER ONLY CHOICE???

The White House Project - WHAT A REFRESHING CHANGE from the extremist politics of N.O.W. Just think - we may have a woman Veep to ring in the new year!

THANKFULLY, your organization seeks to “…advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency. By filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women, we make American institutions, businesses and government TRULY REPRESENTATIVE. …To advance this mission, The White House Project strives to support women and the issues that allow women to lead in their own lives and in the world. ”

OOps, I just read about the “support” your organization is giving to Governor Palin. Guess she’s a little too richly diverse for you to write a positive piece about? Perhaps you could at least pretend outrage at the vicious media storm she’s in? Oh, but wait - you’re participating in the nasty insinuations as well… great networking you got going on…maybe with the Obama campaign headquarters of MSNBC?

“In 2002, The White House Project created another way for girls to dream big. We partnered with the Girl Scouts of America to create the Ms. President Patch. The patch encourages girls to learn about government and study the women who are at the forefront of political and social reform. Today, over 50,000 girls have received the Ms. President Patch.”

Of course, you forgot to mention to these girls that the White House Project will only support their bid for the presidency if they agree with Marie on all issues Marie deems important! Your organization is a sham - non partisan? Thanks for another layer in the glass ceiling. We’re never going to get there with women like you working against us.

I totally get it, what is happening here is that because of promoting yourselves as a nonpartisan organization prior to this unexpected turn of events you are being somewhat forced to eat your words and officially support Palin. However you just can’t bring yourselves to truely be supportive and write about all her positive accomplishments. Don’t be liars, if you are here to promote democrats just make that part of your mission statement and quit trying to misguide young women into thinking that your view very partisan speak for the “woman” vote and not the “democrat woman’s” vote as it so clearly does. Being liars about what you are here to accomplish tarnishes the accomplishments of women leaders everywhere.

Just think, if the McCain / Palin ticket wins in November, two of the top three government positions will be held by women…Sarah Palin (VP) & Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House). Now, if only we had a woman President …women would then occupy the top 3 positions…but, 2 of the top 3 would be a step in the right direction.

Impressa:) or as a Portuguese, vpechatlilso!

Keep up the good work.

Good for people to know.