Dear Editor of the Register Guard,
Back in my day, August 2008, there was a certain stigma attached to being an unwed teen mother. Now that Bristol Palin has received a standing ovation at the Republican National Convention, I am relieved to assume that this is no longer the case.
I am also assuming that organizations such as the Heritage Foundation, Dobson's Focus on the Family, and the Family Research Council will be joining with groups like Planned Parenthood and Doulas Supporting Teens in working to make sure teen mothers have all the support and information they need as they navigate difficult times.
Now that conservatives and liberals have joined together in recognizing that unwed teen mothers need society's support and encouragement, I also assume that we will see an expansion in the number of programs designed to help young mothers and an increase in funding for those that already do, no matter which party wins the presidential election.
Lastly, as long as I am making assumptions, I will go ahead and assume that, now that the Republicans are celebrating unwed teen mothers, we will be hearing a lot less about abstinence-only education, as we have just seen that no one really takes it seriously.
Monday, September 8, 2008
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Yay. A letter to the editor that doesn't make me want to vomit on the paper. Well put, letter writer. And yet, if the Republicans were confronted with that logic (which they have been, multiple times) I'm sure they'd have some Twilight Zone justification of why that isn't how it is.
And, because it's confusing me, can someone explain to me how Palin's bubkus number of years as Pissant town Mayor and Governor of the densely populated state of Alaska adds up to MORE experience than Barack Obama's twelve or so years in the Senate/Politics in general? Someone actually, without being facetious, made that claim the other day in the letter to the editor section. I always thought twelve was more than, well, essentially nothing. My bad.
nice, nuncle!
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