Loaded Questions from Auto Industry

Which is the bigger story, GM’s bankruptcy or Tesla Motors?

I just read an interesting article about this little car company that wants to define new realities.  The loaded question from the auto industry according to this guy… Read Full Article Here .

Sarah Palin’s Apology

In light of the announcement over this July 4th holiday by Sarah Palin of her decision to resign from her elected post as Governor of Alaska, I have decided that I can no longer keep quite on the Palin daughter / Letterman controversy.

On October 28, 2008 Sarah Palin said, “Yes, use me as the example of why you should, even more admittedly,  my daughter, of course she is 18 years old, but has really been forced to grow up very quickly now and starting her own family and you know, life has changed so quickly for her. But if we can use this, and if my daughter Bristol can use her story as a kind of teaching tool for others, then so be it. Let us do that.”  Read this quote in context here.

 

Sarah, you drew the national spotlight to your daughter when you said this.  Using your daughter Bristol as a pawn in the 2008 election inevitably opened all of your children to scrutiny, comment, debate, banter, jokes and possible disgrace.  You, Sarah, intentionally placed your daughters into both the election and the abortion rings.  No one leave these “rings,” Sarah without bruises.  That’s why running for office is so often compared to a boxing match, Sarah.  If you really thought Bristol or your other children would emerge from that ring unscathed, your decision to leave public office is most welcome.

 

Sarah, you owe your entire family an apology for putting them in the position to be ridiculed.  You also, Sarah, owe David Letterman an apology.  Taking your children into the ring with you gave the entire world license to discuss and use them as we see fit.  Note, Sarah, that I am quoting you with my use of the word “use”.  You offered your daughter up to be “used” in the 2008 election as well as the abortion debate.  Sarah, you could have (yes you should have) kept your daughter and the rest of your children off the stage.  You might have told reports that your daughter is not running for public office.  You might have told the world that you are still so very proud of Bristol and the decisions she’s made since becoming pregnant. You could then have politely changed the subject and told errant reports to leave your family alone. 

 

You didn’t do this Sarah.  In offering one of your children as a “tool” for public learning on a hotly debated topic, you Sarah, violated the rules of decency and good parenting.

 

Leave David Letterman alone. Stop projecting your guilt onto others.  Apologize, Sarah, to your family, to David Letterman, to America.  Once you’ve offered this apology, Sarah, I will then attack the Republican National Committee for seeking these inordinate sacrifices from you and your family.  The Republican party came to you and your daughter Bristol in its time of need.  I am truly ashamed of the party and it’s continued abuses of the American conscience.  Take this step, Sarah, apologize, then the onus will fall back on the party that asked you to subject your daughter to such extreme posturing.