Posted by
Catmman on Thursday, December 21, 2006 9:56:03 AM
Here we go again with Hillary!
She was on "The View" the other day promoting the re-relaease of her (ghostwritten) book "It Takes a Village". She also more or less said she was going to run for President in '08 by saying it was about time a "mother" run for and be elected as President.
A mother?! Since when has Hillary been a mother?
The Clintons have been in governement (their own) service for over twenty years. Before that, Hillary herself constantly touts the fact she was a professional woman - a lawyer, student at prestigous universities, etc. Again, when did she have the time to be a mother?
Oh, wait - this is where the "village" comes in. How many nannies did the Clintons employ over the years? How many specialty schools did they ship Chelsea off too when she was younger? How many others in the "village" actually "mothered" Chelsea?
Mine and most other people have a different opinion as to what a mother is and I'll use my family as an example. My wife and I made a concsious decision before we married that my wife would stay home and raise our children. I know - I'm just a sexist neanderthal. Anyway, we decided we would sacrifice and otherwise do without for the sake of our children. My wife deferred job and profession to be a stay at home wife/mother. We didn't rely on nannies, day care, or even other family members to raise our children. To us, this made perfect sense - why have children if you aren't going to be the ones raising them? Villages don't raise children, parents do beginning with the mother. Parents love, heal, nurture and otherwise rear children, villages don't have this capacity.
Because of the route my wife and I took in rearing our children (we have three), they don't need a village, they are self-sufficient and confident enough in themselves to take care of themselves through life. The "village" is the route of dependency, the route of victimization, the route of mediocrity - there is no chance for individual achievement or excellence, self-reliance.
The difference between Hillary and most mothers is that Hillary (the Clintons) don't do anything without calculation and premeditation - how will this benefit ME at the expense of forsaking the child. Real mothers and parents forsake themselves for the benefit of their children.
For my part, my wife is more of a mother than Hillary could ever hope to be in every sense of the word.