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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Who's Da Best, now derision of politicians
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:29:51 -0800 (PST)

Yea, Susan, I know it comes with the territory, but the venom and hate thrown
at this perfectly nice person is just terrible.. Maybe with Quayle didn't
seem as bad, because you didn't see regular people taking cue from media and
ussing invective.

Plus, Quayle was Ivy League, Silver Spoon, 'to the manor born'. A lot of
his opportunities came to him through daddy and connections. This woman did
it all on her own. And, maybe, I'm being a bit sexist thinking a man like
quayle or Ford can 'take it' better than a woman.

As for the baby, as I told moon, I can only guess, but that is personal. The
media , without trying hard can do a lot of personal damage.

I've heard that Amy Carter has had problems all of her life , because of
the derision when she lived in White House.

............bobford


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--- On Wed, 11/5/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:

> From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] was Who's Da Best, now derision of politicians
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 1:14 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> > I swear the venom from some women I have heard on tv,
> and on web, in print, makesm me think there might be some
> weird envy of a person unknown (not from you, Moon). Palin
> has been gracious to a fault, and mistreated more by the
> press than anyone I've seen that didn't commit a
> disgusting type of felony.
> >
> Hey, Bob---remember Dan Quayle? He was mistreated 'way
> worse, and
> before the internet; they could have done an even worse
> (better?) job on
> him if they'd just had the internet :-) . I
> don't even
> remember much about the guy except some of his inanelies
> and the way he
> was subsequently butchered. So they've got a way to go
> on Palin.
>
> The press openly laid in wait for him, and of course his
> political
> opponents had a heyday, too, even leading to the term/
> /"Quaylism",
> which is sometimes heard even today/ . / He, like George
> W, had a
> propensity to make inane, nonsensical statements (One I
> remember was "I
> have made good judgments in the past. I have made good
> judgments in the
> future."; those silly things lodge themselves in
> one's brain), and it
> makes them easy targets for pundits, then that gets out of
> hand,
> and.....there they go...
>
> Any politician, or aspiring politician, in this country
> lays themselves
> wide open to such. Palin's "accent" set her
> up, so did her claim to
> clean Christian living after "having" to get
> married, mothers and
> medical people took issue (as did I) with her judgment as a
> mother (I
> can't think of having an "at risk" 5th
> pregnancy, water breaking, then
> getting on a multi-hour plane flight.) and so on. Those
> things didn't
> bear up to being bragged on; they'd have been better
> left off the 'Look
> at me and my history' list......as would Quayle's
> claim to be an
> intellectual when the man couldn't spell (I know many
> very smart folks
> who can't spell worth a toot, but spelling skill is
> taken rightly or
> wrongly in our society as a measure of intelligence) or
> reliably form a
> sentence to mean what he really wanted to say. All it
> takes is a
> start like that, and ridicule is guaranteed to follow, no
> matter the
> person.
>
> People all make mistakes, but to make those kinds of
> mistakes, then hold
> yourself up as a positive example will bring derision,
> whether in a
> group around the pickle barrel or in front of a nation. In
> politics,
> since a person aspires to be a leader, the situation is
> intensely
> exacerbated, and if possible used by opponent/s. It's
> a given, best
> avoided, no matter the person.....
>
> SusanJane, in Maine
>
>
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