Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?

I cannot believe some of the mean comments that people are posting here – especially women. It is still hard for me to wrap my head around the venom some women spew forth when confronted with Sara Palin and her children. The most hated person on earth – as far as liberals are concerned – is a strong independent woman making choices in life based on core religious and/or moral values who chooses to raise her children – ALL of them – NOT just the “perfect” ones. Alicia’s comments of “Like your mother, the only thing you’re really good at is getting attention. And just like her, you have no substance” is just bazaar – does she know you and your Mother personally? Otherwise – how could she know anything about how you really are? And “Shady Lady” – my God – what is wrong with you? So in your mind this “bloodclot” you refer to: In your opinion when does that bloodclot actually become human? And are you saying that because God allows miscarriages to happen that we can assume the role of God as well? I can only conclude that a lot of liberal women are mean, nasty harpies that hate conservative women and unborn children. You people are scary.

Stop being so full of yourself. Your not that important! The country has more important issues to deal with than worrying about you.

This site is like a ray of sunshine.

I mean, your situations are pretty different.

Sandra Fluke is a private citizen who testified about her experience, and Rush called her a slut because of her opinion. It was totally uncalled for, and a very public attack on a private citizen’s political opinions. It is extremely important that people feel that they can testify about legislation without being attacked– even crucial to to democratic process.

Obama’s probably equally unhappy when any other women is attacked– including you. But I imagine he doesn’t have much time for anything, including his own family. He prioritized Sandra Fluke not because he felt responsible for Rush’s comments, but because she was being personally attacked for having political beliefs that other’s disagree with.

Maher’s comment’s were certainly as outrageous as Rush’s, but they were an attack on you, personally. Maher may know of you because of your mother’s political career, and feel inclined to insult you because of your conservative beliefs, but his comments were not direct responses to anything you have said about politics. That doesn’t change how hurtful and wrong they are, but it does mean that they were entirely baseless.

So even though Maher is a big financial supporter of Obama, I don’t really think Obama is a obligated to call you. (It would certainly be very nice of him to though.) Maher made those comments representing himself alone– they weren’t made with the permission or collaboration of Obama. Maher’s money was not an attempt to sway Obama’s opinion about you, or affect what he says. It was meant to help Obama be re-elected, and wasn’t enough to give him a true say in anything Obama does.

I think the situation is probably more complex that was originally presented, but I don’t really think he’s showing any preference toward liberal women. Sandra Fluke is symbolic of anyone with a political opinion– I think partisanship was evident in her treatment, not Obama’s response.

At the same time, I really don’t want to dismiss Maher’s comments as acceptable, because they weren’t, not at all. But I think Maher, not Obama, is the one who should (though probably won’t) apologize to you.