Hello Michelle, let's look at a few things.
re >Oh but heres the problem - the Bible says, that women who want to have children should stay home with the kids right? What a bummer!<
Wrong. The Bible never mentions whether or not mothers should work outside the home. If someone can prove me mistaken, I'd be happy to look at what the Bible says on the subject.
re >Guess Im just a meanie but when I see a dufus like Dan Quayle up there spewing family values claptrap and portray me as some sort of evil villians while he sits and reaps the benefits of all that Ive done, I just get kinda mad, ya know? At least, Clinton seems sympathetic to me. He doesnt bash me, etc. He doesnt criticize working women and imply that stay at home moms are actually as much to society than anything we have done and the huge sacrifices we made.<
First off, just to clarify, when Vice President Dan Quayle remarked on the role an actress was playing on TV (how long ago was that? Must have been at least 7-8 years ago), he was criticizing the glorification of single mothers, not whether or not the mother stayed at home.
Second, you cannot tell me that you are still feeling the sting of those remarks. No, I don't believe it. You're not an actress nor a mother, for one thing. But the biggest reason I don't believe that you continue to be bitter about those remarks is this: It is not a long ago Vice President whose views you as a mother would care about. The views you care about are the views of your children.
Third, forget about Clinton "not bashing you". Clinton tells you want he thinks you want to hear, PERIOD, and it matters not to him whether the words are good for you, bad for you, the truth, or shades thereof.
Let's look at this a bit further. Let's be Michelle's children:
"I'm so proud of my mommy. All summer long, she gets me up in the morning and brings me to day-care, where I spend 8 hours with a bunch of other kids whose moms or dads had brought them there. The day-care lady makes us lunch, and we learn more things (like we did in school for nine months), and we go on field trips, like we went to the zoo. I wish my mommy and daddy could have been there with me to see the animals though. But my mommy has a real nice car. She calls it her beemer. I'm so proud of how much she sacrifices to be able to have that car. I know she would rather go to the zoo with me or spend the day at the park, but her work...she says it's more important. And she makes a lot of money. "Tributing to teknoligy andhancmants", she says is what she does. I think she works on 'puters, like the one the lady at the day-care has in her office-room. Another thing the lady at the day-care does is make us dinner. My mom wants her to, so me and my mom can spend the evening playing Parchesi. At least, that's the way it was supposed to be. But usually after we get home from day-care my mom spends time with stuff she brings home from work. Some day mom says she's going to stay home more, but I dunno. She has to fly out of town for a biznis meeting this weekend. This means I get dumped off at D.A.D.s house. I hate dad's girlfriend, because she talks about me to dad like I wasn't there. Just jerks her head towards me and says, 'you know, Her'". |
