Op-Ed

Quit Picking and Prodding and Learn the Facts

Sarah Palin has been torn apart since the day she was announced John McCain’s running mate. Obviously, she can be seen as a very hot subject matter considering she is an attractive mother of five with one daughter pregnant at seventeen. The life of Palin can seem fairly controversial but is it significant enough to make your decision off of it. Sarah Palin is a very hardworking and motivated woman. She stands for what she believes in and gets things done. The Palin family has been criticized from the beginning but I think it is important for the people to know the truth behind it all. Palin is only running for vice-president but she has managed to be the center of attention compared to most other vice-president candidates.
Palin is a member of the Feminists for Life (FFL) organization. They believe in anti-abortion but pro-contraceptive. Many people have been affected by the fact that her seventeen year old daughter is pregnant. Palin has obviously taught her daughter about safe sex practices and birth control. Although, people may think that Palin has not been a good mother due to her daughters’ mistake it actually seems that Palin did the best she could to teach her daughter but mistakes happen. Her daughter seemed to become the topic of the election when in reality people need to get over this and start looking at Palin’s true plans for office. Everyone’s families have something wrong or weird so don’t judge Palin off of her seventeen year old daughter.
Being a young and attractive women and mother actually means you have no experience or substantial abilities. Wrong. Sarah Palin, a young and attractive mother, is a woman of drive and enthusiasm ready to help in any way she can. She has been involved in politics for sixteen years and still has an unmarked outlook on the nation as a whole. She is not in this for herself but for the United States of America. Palin has made such advancements and improvements in Alaska in just two years, imagine the work she could help McCain with. She has always had a family therefore it would not affect her work, for that reason her family should not affect who you vote for. Palin has come out and told the truth about many rumors and now it’s our job to listen to her and take this more seriously and not about gossip.
Being a working mother is such a common thing nowadays I just don’t understand why so many people are making a big fuss about her decision to be a working mother. This is just another characteristic that will help her to relate to so much of the population of the United States. For those that are worried it will affect her work she has already shown us in many ways that it will not. She returned to work just three days after her son was born a couple of months ago. She has even more motivation to be sure things about the war in Iraq get done because her nineteen year old son was just sent over there. If anything her family will make her stronger and encourage her to get more things accomplished. Her family life and complications only make her more like the average American family these days.
In order for people to decide who they will vote for they often choose through the process of listening to what other people say or write. People are greatly affected by what they hear instead of what is really important. If all anyone talks about is that Palin’s seventeen year old daughter is pregnant then that will more the likely eventually start a negative impression on Palin. It’s important to vote off of content and not rumors. Sarah Palin is truthful, powerful, and has an amazing family. So now quit picking and prodding on Palin and her family and try and learn the actual facts. People could really actually learn a lot about Palin’s views and ideas if they just learned the facts and left her family life out of it.