and maybe John Edwards was really the father, too

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For the love of God, people, can we drop this nonsense about how maybe Trig Palin is really Sarah Palin's granddaughter?  Christ on a crutch.  This story is so stupid it makes the "Barack Obama in a limousine with cocaine and gay hookers" line sound like an NPR report.

At the moment the Democrats are not, for once, the dumbest party in the country.  Let us please keep it that way for another few months.  Thank you.

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And honestly -- I would ask a man these questions, if his wife were a full-time worker. In fact, my own brother and his wife just had their 4th child, and I have a lot of respect for them. They have had their children while taking time off from education (she's an M.D. and just finished up a residency, and is taking time off between that and her next step to spend a year or so with her new daughter), and with lots of help and support from grandparents (support mostly in the form of childcare; it's only been this year, when their oldest child was 6-7 years old, that they have needed to hire someone for childcare and use preschool daycare).

Now, they also have a lot of resources, certainly not as much as Palin. I think it would be useful for Palin to discuss openly and honestly that while her family is nobody's business, she's living proof that you can raise a loving family while still having a 2-parent working household, and here's how we did it (with the idea that "if we did it so can you!" which, though not necessarily true, is the basis of the patriarch nature of the Republican party, and why so many people hurt by their politics still vote for them).

Discussing the importance of balancing a career and motherhood is definitely something I'd respect her for.