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There has been a LOT of ugliness on TV about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy … some show yesterday had teen-age kids questioning her mother’s ability to govern when not capable of “controlling” her kid.

Parents know they have no real control over whether their teen-age daughters end up pregnant or not. Teens are expecting their parents to control their behavior? …. hmmmm … exactly how do they think that is going to be accomplished?

Parents talk … parents teach & preach … parents give orders … parents make rules … parents can even provide birth control for their kids

… then … some day or night … somewhere …. a boy and girl … together … teen-agers get lost in feelings, desires and emotions …. and a teen-age girl gets pregnant.

I preached abstinence. I talked about using condoms for disease control … I prayed …. I put my daughter on birth control pills. Thankfully, my daughter was one of only two girls in her group of friends that did not become pregnant during high school. My daughter had lots of friends … and unfortunately, she knew lots of teen-age pregnant girls who became teen-age Moms.

As a responsible parent that loves their child, you do everything reasonable for your beliefs that you can to prevent teen-age pregnancy … BUT if it happens … you continue to love and help your child and overcome your disappointment they have altered their life from what it might have been to what it will be now.

Any parent who has survived their children’s teen-age dating years … you know that you the parent had no control when they were dating and making choices you did not want them to make.

When I was a kid dating and making choices my family did not want me to make … they had no control either … and I was an unwed mother [age 20] at a time when it was not socially acceptable at all … my family had no control … they had done all the talking … all the teaching & preaching.

I had an engagement ring … I knew his friends … I knew his cousin … I knew his home … I was planning a wedding after we got out of school …. when I told him about being pregnant at 19, I expected to elope right away instead of waiting to get married til the next year.

… turned out he had a wife with 2 babies in another state - I knew NOTHING about his wife until I announced my pregnancy to him …

My life did not turn out as expected and I certainly did not marry the father … not even when he wanted to divorce his wife to marry me later on … my reasoning was that if he would cheat and betray her … he would cheat & betray me too … and that was not the life I wanted for me or for our daughter.

My family had no control over my actions … and neither did Bristol Palin’s parents … I believe they did their best and they tried … but they had no control when it came time for Bristol or her boyfriend to say no.

I find all this Internet and media hoopla about the subject really obnoxious and repulsive … this is a tough time for their family and it is their private business … it has NOTHING to do with government or being able to govern or politics … if I remember correctly … the Bible mentions something about not throwing stones?

Does this make a difference to how I will vote? No … I like Sarah Palin … I like her grit … I like her determination … she is part of a real family with real issues … and any working Mom knows how to multi-task and accomplish things needing done.

I’ve been a registered Democrat who voted independent of party based on who I believed was the best candidate my entire adult life. I have had my doubts about Obama all along … I supported Hillary Clinton very enthusiastically … she lost in the primary by a narrow margin.

I knew back in June that I could not in good conscience support Obama … http://barbaraburns.com/barbarablog/democratic-party-politics-i-do-not-require-healing.

Obama comes across to me as a very slick-talking snake oil salesman or old time tent revival traveling charismatics [those became today's technology TV tele-evangelists that prey on the people looking for free lunches ... more snake oil salesmen ... celebrities with no true substance ... just charismatic speechifying that jerks the emotions and deadens the thinking in the herd mentality].

If we read his entire speech, word for word, … no audio … no Obama charm or charisma coloring the delivery … just hard cold sunshine of the broad daylight showing stark words on paper … what would we get out of his speech then? Would it have the same impact? Would it move us to jump on his bandwagon or would it terrify us into running the exact opposite direction because we could see in action an old saying I learned as a kid from my grandmother …

…. if it sounds too good to be true … then it probably is too good to be true and ya should walk away …

… really quickly before it bleeds ya or rips your throat out like a wolf in a field of sheep.

Obama’s acceptance speech last nite was not full of real “clarity” for me anyway of how he actually expects to pay for any of his “supposed” goals that would cost trillions and trillions of dollars. And he sounded more like royalty spending the peasants money … I’ve read rumors that he comes across as very arrogant … to me … it was readily apparent during his speech last nite … and all the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr comparisons give me the creeps too.

JFK was as guilty of “womanizing” in his Presidency as Bill Clinton … but for JFK, they were not publicized to the world in the newspapers and TV DURING his Presidency - they were covered up. JFK made mistakes that were not good for America … don’t believe me? Do a search on “Bay of Pigs” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion to get started researching it … I am NOT going to even mention the Vietnam War …. or Kennedy’s involvement in increasing our involvement over there before his assassination.

Martin Luther King Jr was and remains a hero … he wanted to change the world into a better place for EVERYONE … “someone” killed him to try to stop him from accomplishing his dream … his dream lives on and EVERYONE now tries to make his dreams into our daily reality.