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Don’t worry…she totally does.

So let me get this straight – it’s a problem if my mom listened too much to my dad, but it’s a heroic act if the President made a massive change in a policy position that could affect the entire nation after consulting with his teenage daughters?

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

In this situation, it was the other way around. I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox.

Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.

Yes, because real leaders just make decisions from their own isolated worldview, ignorant to the perspectives and opinions of others or even to the changes of time. That totally sounds like leadership to me. Sigh.

This article appears in May 10-16, 2012.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

18 replies on “Wondering If Bristol Palin Has Something Dumb to Say About Obama and Same-Sex Marriage?”

  1. And now my day is complete. (not) The sad thing is, someone probably had to write that for her.

  2. You must have a very slow news day if that’s all you liberal idiots can think about!!!
    Enough already!!!!

  3. Rose-Marie, the scary thing is that some conservative think tank (oxymoron) actuallyput these words into her pretty, but dumb mouth and passed it off as news in the first place.

  5. Now stop it people! Let’s address the important issue here. Bristol, honey, you gotta lose those pounds you put on!

  6. I only wish bristol was gay then we wouldnt have another uneducated teen mom in this country. She is more of a threat to the sanctity of marriage than gay marrige is. I will bet even at their young ages malia and sasha have far higher IQs than bristol anyway.

  7. I’m glad the president’s daughters are getting a better education than Bristol received. Sounds like they are already educating people around them rather than parroting popular thinking to anyone who will listen.

  8. Yes, because real leaders just make decisions from their own isolated worldview, ignorant to the perspectives and opinions of others or even to the changes of time. That totally sounds like leadership to me. Sigh.—————look in a mirror Dan

  9. Let’s change the definition of marriage and totally ignore illegal immigration. Our priorities are in the wrong place America.

  10. Oh my,my….all of you wanna be socialists just can’t wait to see obongo walk on water and change water into wine……when the skell can’t even produce more jobs which most of you probably consider a miracle………

  11. Who is she and who cares what she has to say? She is just a dumb-young unwed mother whose own mother is nothing more than a bible humping caribou barbie figure doll. Her family’s 15 minutes is waaaay past due. Palin women need to learn to keep their mouths and legs shut. Society doesn’t deserve the garbage they regurgitate or anymore idiots from this mob of morons.

  13. Bristol wrote: “I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox.”

    I hope someone has explained to Bristol that Dora is a cartoon character.

  14. To boot, I have become utterly intolerant of “would’ve” in the “if clause” rather than in the “result clause” where it belongs. Only the uneducated (and, of course, sports announcers) fail to understand this grammar point.

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