Sally Quinn Projecting on Palin
By Larry Johnson on September 3, 2008 at 8:32 PM in Current Affairs
I was puzzled by the crazy attack that Sally Quinn launched on Sarah Palin, Republican V.P. nominee, because it was so over the top. Sally’s view? A woman with five kids has no business being Vice President. (Of course, no one made that argument to Joe Biden when he was a widower and single dad working in Washington as a Senator. But I digress.) Here’s Sally’s latest ranting:
Sarah Palin has five children. She is nursing her fifth child, an infant with Down syndrome. Her 17-year-old unmarried child is pregnant. Palin has spoken against sex education or the teaching of contraception. When her water broke with her Down Syndrome baby she got on a plane and flew eight hours back to Alaska, making it only hours before the birth, a risky decision for a pregnant woman of any age. After delivering one child she went back to work the next day. After the birth of her fifth child, she was back in the office after a few days.
I would like to hear what women think of her priorities. Do they believe that her first priority is as a mother or as a governor? Will her first priority be as a mother or as a Vice President or a President? One in three Vice Presidents become President. John McCain is a 72-year-old cancer survivor. As Vice President, Palin could ascend to the highest office in the land at any moment. Do women believe she should relegate her job to second place or her children to second place? Does she have to make such a choice? Every woman, and particularly every woman who works, including me, understands that the conflicts and the guilt are always there in a way that they are not for men.
So what’s her problem? Well, to use her logic, she’s a lousy, irresponsible mother. She was working as a journalist at the Washington Post, had a fling with the boss and married him, and then, at the advanced age of 41, had a child.
According to Wikipedia Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee was born in 1982 velo-cardio-facial syndrome. The National Institutes of Health describes Velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS):
as a disorder that has been associated with over thirty different features. (A disease or disorder that has more than one identifying feature or symptom is a syndrome.) The name velocardiofacial syndrome comes from the Latin words “velum” meaning palate, “cardia” meaning heart and “facies” having to do with the face. Not all of these identifying features are found in each child who is born with VCFS. The most common features are cleft palate (opening in the roof of the mouth), heart defects, characteristic facial appearance, minor learning problems and speech and feeding problems.
Quinn wrote about her son and his medical challenges in a 2006 article “What My Son Taught Me About God.” Well, God may have been teaching but she didn’t learn jack. Let’s face it, Quinn blames herself and her work ethic for her son’s physical and mental limitations. She probably blames herself that she waited too long in life to have a kid. I think she is being unduly hard on herself, but that’s her choice. But she has no right to dump her guilt on Sarah Palin and try to smear Palin for doing what Palin thinks is right.
Quinn is a cruel person. She could have drawn on her experience and come to Palin’s defense. Nope. Not an inkling of a charitable spirit or human kindness. Sally, pay attention to Sarah Palin in the the coming days. Take notes. Maybe God couldn’t teach you anything but i think Sarah can. YES SHE CAN. YES SHE CAN.
by Ronald Scott
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