Indeed. It is true that multiple children, including handicapped ones, are an enormous time burden, but that time can come from her stay-at-home partner, hired professionals, family and friends, and it /doesn't make her any worse a mother/.
It is, I think, a somewhat valid question in HER case, because she would swear up and down if questioned in a social rightwing court that her children are her first priority because she's a good, safe babymaker who knows her place. And while the Vice Presidency is supposed to be a prety much ceremonial post, if McCain kicks it, America really couldn't afford a president who would refuse to deal with business because she had to cook dinner for her family, because thats what good mothers do.
IE, it's not a question of whether being a mother can be balanced with being a president, but whether being a /socially conservative proper mother/ can be balanced with being a president.
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Date: 2008-09-03 05:32 pm (UTC)It is, I think, a somewhat valid question in HER case, because she would swear up and down if questioned in a social rightwing court that her children are her first priority because she's a good, safe babymaker who knows her place. And while the Vice Presidency is supposed to be a prety much ceremonial post, if McCain kicks it, America really couldn't afford a president who would refuse to deal with business because she had to cook dinner for her family, because thats what good mothers do.
IE, it's not a question of whether being a mother can be balanced with being a president, but whether being a /socially conservative proper mother/ can be balanced with being a president.