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		<title>By: JLFuller</title>
		<link>http://sheriareid.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/an-american-family/#comment-422</link>
		<dc:creator>JLFuller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alan you could not be more wrong. I spent 25 years working with this population as a case manager and know better.  People get locked into the failed welfare state because they &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; they can&#039;t do better. They hear so much about being a victim from the Democrats that they learn to live like one. Remember Alan, thinking drives behavior. If you think like a victim and believe you have no hope then despair is the result. 

Poverty has its own psychology. It is different from people who think in success oriented terms. Ask any successful minority business owner. Ask any minority person who has been successful in any endeavor. That is the norm. But Democrats take the exceptions to what I said above and claim they are the norm. That, my friend, is the big lie. People need hope to move out of poverty. They need a good education and encouragement to keep at it. If those in the poverty lifestyle consistently disabuse kids of their idealism then they will never learn to do it by themselves. The only person in charge of us is us. We can’t push our lack of success on someone else and that includes a way out for unwanted pregnancies. We kind of got off track in the birth control thing, but suffice it to say personal accountability in who someone associates with will have a huge impact on when they engage in inappropaite sexual behavior out side of marriage. There is more to that story too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alan you could not be more wrong. I spent 25 years working with this population as a case manager and know better.  People get locked into the failed welfare state because they <i>think</i> they can&#8217;t do better. They hear so much about being a victim from the Democrats that they learn to live like one. Remember Alan, thinking drives behavior. If you think like a victim and believe you have no hope then despair is the result. </p>
<p>Poverty has its own psychology. It is different from people who think in success oriented terms. Ask any successful minority business owner. Ask any minority person who has been successful in any endeavor. That is the norm. But Democrats take the exceptions to what I said above and claim they are the norm. That, my friend, is the big lie. People need hope to move out of poverty. They need a good education and encouragement to keep at it. If those in the poverty lifestyle consistently disabuse kids of their idealism then they will never learn to do it by themselves. The only person in charge of us is us. We can’t push our lack of success on someone else and that includes a way out for unwanted pregnancies. We kind of got off track in the birth control thing, but suffice it to say personal accountability in who someone associates with will have a huge impact on when they engage in inappropaite sexual behavior out side of marriage. There is more to that story too.</p>
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		<title>By: Alan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yet public policy as put forth by politicians supported by RTL people consistently leave children in marginal situations with no real public support.  Go try to live on WIC and the like for a while if you think I am wrong, or try to get out of the system.   The system as it is, supported by the radical right keeps people trapped and give children who end up there no hope for a future life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yet public policy as put forth by politicians supported by RTL people consistently leave children in marginal situations with no real public support.  Go try to live on WIC and the like for a while if you think I am wrong, or try to get out of the system.   The system as it is, supported by the radical right keeps people trapped and give children who end up there no hope for a future life.</p>
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		<title>By: JLFuller</title>
		<link>http://sheriareid.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/an-american-family/#comment-418</link>
		<dc:creator>JLFuller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RTF is a typo. It should be RTL. Sorry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RTF is a typo. It should be RTL. Sorry.</p>
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		<title>By: JLFuller</title>
		<link>http://sheriareid.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/an-american-family/#comment-417</link>
		<dc:creator>JLFuller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alan&#039;s comments above are disingenuous, misleading and are not an accurate observation of the way Right to Life advocates live. I think he knows that. It is a childish comment. RTF adherents do not abandon new-born babies or other children – liberals do. In fact liberals abandon them before they are born by about two million per year in our culture. It is called abortion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alan&#8217;s comments above are disingenuous, misleading and are not an accurate observation of the way Right to Life advocates live. I think he knows that. It is a childish comment. RTF adherents do not abandon new-born babies or other children – liberals do. In fact liberals abandon them before they are born by about two million per year in our culture. It is called abortion.</p>
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		<title>By: Alan</title>
		<link>http://sheriareid.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/an-american-family/#comment-415</link>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve always wondered how the &quot;Right to Life&quot; folks dealt with a child&#039;s right to a life.  Requiring people to give birth and then doing nothing (or at least very little) to support the child and insuring she/he has some chance at a life, just seems wrong.  As does the R. to L. stance on pregnancy prevention.

Can&#039;t say I like Palin or what she represents, but she does fit in well with most of the folks in my community.  Having a pregnant, unmarried, teenage daughter just makes her more like one of the community here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered how the &#8220;Right to Life&#8221; folks dealt with a child&#8217;s right to a life.  Requiring people to give birth and then doing nothing (or at least very little) to support the child and insuring she/he has some chance at a life, just seems wrong.  As does the R. to L. stance on pregnancy prevention.</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t say I like Palin or what she represents, but she does fit in well with most of the folks in my community.  Having a pregnant, unmarried, teenage daughter just makes her more like one of the community here.</p>
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		<title>By: JLFuller</title>
		<link>http://sheriareid.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/an-american-family/#comment-414</link>
		<dc:creator>JLFuller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I feel a bit awkward defending Palin. I am not sold on her yet and may never be but not because of her family problems. But in this case I have to take her side. If you are a good anything, you almost always subordinate your own will to your leadership when asked. It happens everyday. Maybe that is why I am not a good anything especially a Republican or Democrat.  But I prefer to work within the bounds of authenticity and truth as I can best discover it. It is unfair to blame Palin for responding when her party says they need her. Just as I don&#039;t blame Biden for accepting when he said a year ago that he thought VP was a looser job. You do what you are asked if you honestly believe in the cause.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel a bit awkward defending Palin. I am not sold on her yet and may never be but not because of her family problems. But in this case I have to take her side. If you are a good anything, you almost always subordinate your own will to your leadership when asked. It happens everyday. Maybe that is why I am not a good anything especially a Republican or Democrat.  But I prefer to work within the bounds of authenticity and truth as I can best discover it. It is unfair to blame Palin for responding when her party says they need her. Just as I don&#8217;t blame Biden for accepting when he said a year ago that he thought VP was a looser job. You do what you are asked if you honestly believe in the cause.</p>
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		<title>By: goodtimepolitics</title>
		<link>http://sheriareid.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/an-american-family/#comment-407</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You said Sheria &quot;However, I do wonder how concerned Palin is with protecting her family.&quot;

Let  me get this straight!  You&#039;re trying to say that Palin does not protect her children because she running for VP!  Now you need to get something straight...Obama your King and all other politicians are doing the same thing you&#039;re accuse Gov. Palin of doing so tell me does Obama protect his children?  I guess from what you&#039;re saying only single people should be politicians!  
Palin running for VP does not give the democrat Obama supporters the right to attack a 17 year old!  This 17 year old is not campaigning for her mother like Hillary Clinton&#039;s daugther did.  So does Hillary Clinton protect her children?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You said Sheria &#8220;However, I do wonder how concerned Palin is with protecting her family.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let  me get this straight!  You&#8217;re trying to say that Palin does not protect her children because she running for VP!  Now you need to get something straight&#8230;Obama your King and all other politicians are doing the same thing you&#8217;re accuse Gov. Palin of doing so tell me does Obama protect his children?  I guess from what you&#8217;re saying only single people should be politicians!<br />
Palin running for VP does not give the democrat Obama supporters the right to attack a 17 year old!  This 17 year old is not campaigning for her mother like Hillary Clinton&#8217;s daugther did.  So does Hillary Clinton protect her children?</p>
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		<title>By: Sheria</title>
		<link>http://sheriareid.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/an-american-family/#comment-406</link>
		<dc:creator>Sheria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mr. Goodtime,
I moderate my comments to avoid being overwhelmed with spam, so I could have blocked your comment, but I didn&#039;t want to hurt your feelings.

I believe in civility, so I&#039;ll keep this civil. Did you actually read my post or think that you knew what it said without actually reading it? I didn&#039;t attack Palin&#039;s daughter. I expressed my sympathy for her. I think that it is very hard to only be 17 and have your private life thrust into the public spotlight. I did question why her mother would expose her 17 year old daughter to the public spotlight. Gov. Palin knew her teenage daughter was pregnant and she surely knows that the public can be cruel. 
 
Either you jumped to conclusions or your reading skills are really poor. One thing that I&#039;m certain of is that you are afraid. Only people who are afraid of something jump to conclusions and direct racist comments to total strangers. I pity you and I&#039;ll pray for you. Don&#039;t worry, I know that you don&#039;t want me to but God does.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr. Goodtime,<br />
I moderate my comments to avoid being overwhelmed with spam, so I could have blocked your comment, but I didn&#8217;t want to hurt your feelings.</p>
<p>I believe in civility, so I&#8217;ll keep this civil. Did you actually read my post or think that you knew what it said without actually reading it? I didn&#8217;t attack Palin&#8217;s daughter. I expressed my sympathy for her. I think that it is very hard to only be 17 and have your private life thrust into the public spotlight. I did question why her mother would expose her 17 year old daughter to the public spotlight. Gov. Palin knew her teenage daughter was pregnant and she surely knows that the public can be cruel. </p>
<p>Either you jumped to conclusions or your reading skills are really poor. One thing that I&#8217;m certain of is that you are afraid. Only people who are afraid of something jump to conclusions and direct racist comments to total strangers. I pity you and I&#8217;ll pray for you. Don&#8217;t worry, I know that you don&#8217;t want me to but God does.</p>
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		<title>By: goodtimepolitics</title>
		<link>http://sheriareid.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/an-american-family/#comment-405</link>
		<dc:creator>goodtimepolitics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Should Obama had known that running for president that it was going to get out about him letting his your daugthers sit and listen to Jeremiah Wright say &quot;God damn America&quot;?
I guess Obama isn&#039;t protecting his children from the likes of Wright and his wife is out campaigning on the trail where as Palin&#039;s family is not!  Its a shame for you people to attack a 17 year old!  Most of the unwed mothers are black by records!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should Obama had known that running for president that it was going to get out about him letting his your daugthers sit and listen to Jeremiah Wright say &#8220;God damn America&#8221;?<br />
I guess Obama isn&#8217;t protecting his children from the likes of Wright and his wife is out campaigning on the trail where as Palin&#8217;s family is not!  Its a shame for you people to attack a 17 year old!  Most of the unwed mothers are black by records!</p>
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