Oh shut the hell up. You know women are not behind Sarah Palin, she's not behind us on the issues that matter most! What a waste of ink...

Sorry, I love my mom and she's probably more qualified to be VP than Sarah, but I wouldn't want her as President or VP either! This whole working mom aspect is absurd. This isn't a popularity contest folks, the nations future is at stake and we need knowledgeable, intelligent, thoughtful candidates not your mom or your beer buddy, like we have now. Please wake up and pay attention to what's being said and done.

I am appalled by the adulation that Sarah Palin is receiving about being a woman and a mother.
Sarah Palin, and her husband are going on a campaign for the Republican party which will take until Nov. 4th. She has a 5 month old baby with special needs. Will she take the baby on the campaign, and her “husband” take care of it while she works, or will she leave it at home with a “nanny”? Do all working mom's have the financial means to take care of their children as Palin does? In either case, I think her judgment is very flawed, as one way or the other she has sacrificed that baby for her chance to be the vice president.

Well, hopefully, everybody gets it: Sarah Palin and John McCain couldn't care less about women's issues, or what's best for education, health care and children. And of course, they oppose equal pay for equal work. Where's the surprise that they couldn't be bothered to accept a letter?

Right on Kim! She is ridiculous woman, and a McCain gimmick for the stupid women out there.

Oh, please! Why should women make as much as men? That's about as absurd as saying that all americans should be able to own a home... and look where that got us!

Tell me how Barack is more qualified to be president than Sarah Palin?

Hello All Mom's Rising. I agree with all the issues you have put before Ms. Palin. I don't believe I read one that is equally, if not more important. What about mothers, especially single mothers, who have no option but to stay at home with disabled and medically fragile children. Do you know when these children turn 18 the Mom, who up until then, was eligibile for Medicaid is abruptly dropped. Doesn't matter this that "adult child" will always be a dependent, and we will love them, care for them, and cherish them always, but where does that leave us? Many of us are well-educated, trying to work from home and balance worlds most people never have the privilege of visiting. Ms. Palin, your child is young, and I wish all the best, but please....as a Mom, sit down, if you haven't already and ask his doctors if you can be in two places at one time if and when the calls come in the middle of the night to be at the hospital or a White House Crisis. Tell the good ole boys who have muzzled you these past few weeks to take a hike and let us hear from you. If not, we will gladly hear from Hillary again in 2012.

Palin's a disaster in the making. Women, please do not be fooled by this extremist!

Things Obama has said: "This is the worst financial crisis in generations: "Call me if you need me"

Things Biden has said: When wall street crashed in 1929 Roosevelt went on TV and to spoke to the people.

Can you distinguish between the two idiots???

Kim is right; Palin's views are very different than those of mainstream women in America. She is vehemently against a woman's right to choose, she is anti-environmental protection, and she likes to kill animals with her guns. God only knows where she stands on healthcare and other issues of a nurturing nature.

The rebuff of the mothers group was pure stupid. That sort of elitest behavior is exactly how a mole-hill gets turned into a mountain.

I am all for having Palin answer the questions that these mothers want answered. In fact, I want to hear Palin answer a LOT of questions, in depth. So far all I have heard from her are ham-handed attempts to regurgitate the BS that McCain's team has been spoon feeding her ever since she was selected. Oh yeah, and the big lie she has been repeating ever since nomination night, that she was against the bridge to nowhere. It is a well documented fact that she was FOR the bridge until congress killed it, then she suddenly came out against it. Yet Alaska STILL got the money and just spent it on other projects, which she didn't have any problem with. The exact same amount of taxpayer dollars went to Alaska, which gets more than its fair share. She had no problem with that.

She is the worst joke of a VP pick I have seen in my 43 years on this planet. She makes Dan Quayle (remember him?) look like a genius.

I agree with Bill, setting wage standards is a joke. Women aren't nearly as smart as men, way to emotional, and most of the time too annoying to justify paying them as much as men!

@Jean.
"...for the stupid women out there."

You are one of them. Never thought there are always smarter people out there, to them you are dumb.

To say such a thing shows that you are stupid in the first place.

John and Jeremiah:
Sarah is more qualified than Barack because she can SEE Russia from an Alaskan Island! Geesh, don't you read her, uh, "news reports?" Guess we Floridians are all qualified, too. We can see Cuba from Key West. Oh, yeah...she DOES have a four year degree in journalism and has been a major of a town about the size of a bird's nest, and governor of a state that has less people than Miami...and poor Barack, only years going to law school, becoming a lawyer, community activiist, Senator.... Don't fret, boys. Hillary will be back in 2012.

Ailin’ - wailin’- failin’ -Palin. Post troopergate--jailin' Palin!!!

Moms are rising up thanks to Sarah Palin....Really?

I would think that someone like HIllary Clinton, one who has experience and can balance raising a child and keeping up with her job requirements would be more in tune to moms.....

Sarah Palin, until today, has been treated like a delicate little flower who is being protected by her staff to not talk to reporters because they are affraid she might not know what she is talking about.....

they are right, she does not know what she is talking about, but they are wrong to block her from doing interviews......people want to see palin exposed, gaffs and all......the american people are smart we dont need a VP censor

By the way...about Palin....she has not been a champion of womens issues like Hillary or Obama have.....The only thing i have hear from her time in Alaska that had to do with "women" was that while she was mayor, women had to pay for their Rape Kits after they had been assulted.

I'm not understanding something here, So where did this event take place? When you say "Palin's staff" what do you mean here? At what level was this attempt to reach the VP candidate? Did the group write down the names of the "people who turned them away". I sure would like to know.

In other words, I don't doubt the veracity of the story... however, there isn't enough here for me to accept it without question either.

Does anyone have a response to these questions? THANKS!

And what the hell does this mean. "Even if she doesn't have any foreign policy experience, John McCain probably thought that at the very least he could count on Sarah Palin to nurture the mothers-who-vote niche."

This isn't a race for PTA, it's a God Damn race for the VP seat of The United States.

Has this country gone off the deep end? Sarah Palin is the American dream X 10. She IS the typical American woman raising a family without millionaire parents that feed her with a silver spoon and somehow managed to make a political career out of nothing. Most likely the only political canidate that has ever seen the inside of a Walmart like the rest of us and has had to pay their own bills and fill up their own gas tank.

No billionaire lobbyist to kiss azz for million dollar campain contributions, she will only have herself, her husband and "we the people" to fight for.

I guess if she had aborted like 6 babies you liberals would consider her a success.

This article sounds like a small, 140,000 member group represents the entire country. This website is full of liberal sexists, who hate conservatives, especially conservative women. I cannot believe the amount of prejudice and disrespect for a governor of a state in this country. I wonder if these people are jealous of a mom who made it to a governor's mansion.

To Oregon4Obama:

Why should women be exempt from paying for a rape kit? I'm sorry, it's a horrible thing. But, so is getting pushed to the ground, & breaking a wrist. If that happens to me, do I get to go to the ER & get a free cast?

These are the people supporting Obama: GIVE ME FREE EVERYTHING. Let me fill you in on a couple things, you should have to work in life to get ahead, pay for insurance, buy a house, and enjoy a good life. Vote for him & think that the government will get you everything you "need", & see how long the "free ride" lasts. I wish I could live in Oragon, LA, or the like... ignorance MUST be bliss...

Lisa,
This is an irresponsible post. Did you as a journalist inquire of Palin's DC office why they didn't accept the request? There could have been legal and/or security reasons. Additionally, it is rather arrogant for anyone who employs an unannounced delivery to assume they will be welcome with open arms, no matter whose office they approach. I'm all for grassroots-- but have little regard for unbalanced positioning.
So, too, is the consensus for the first few comments (including my own)to Momsrising.org's own post on this -
http://momsrising.org/node/1076#comment-90023

So let me get this straight...

They want to hand deliver this letter, which obviously has strings attached (some sort of meeting, discussion with questions) and because Sarah Palin's staff suggested putting it in the mail instead (because perhaps the bombardment of media attention, must be quite deafening) they go into a frenzy and trance of rallying. And to top it off they want to incite even more unneeded sensationalistic media on PBS.

GTFO!

This is not whats important, relevant to reporting in any sense. I mean, what opinions can the reader form from this article that werent already daisy laced with biased and poorly contexted facts. I am not surprised at the attitudes expressed by the me-first, gimme' it all at once ultimatum tossing people, I am disappointed however supposedly represent Moms and come off as something else the deeper you look.

Am I the only one that finds the obviously copy/pasted blather from both sides into every comment field on every news story hilarious? I count 3 comments above mine that seem to blast the article for being pro-Palin, a view only reachable if you didn't read anything but the headline.

Nick P, people are pathetically stupid on both sides of the isle and will fall for almost any old trick, as long as you stick to it.

To the person that thinks Sarah Palin is into voodoo and demonic things, you should study what Christians (or at least what "her" group) actually believe. ouji board? voodoo dolls? witch doctor? all three of those things, almost every Christian I have ever heard talk would say is bad, evil, and probably (in the case of voodoo/witch doctor, no "probaby") demonic.

Family vlaues - Obama and Hillary have not been champions of women's issues except in abortion. If by "women's issues" you mean you want the right to abort, then you're right, Sarah isn't for you. But don't say she's not womanly or not for women's issues because her duaghter chose NOT to hav ean abortion and because she believes that abortion is the murder of a human being. (by the way, I was watching animal planet a while ago, and it showed images of unborn baby frogs I believe... it didn't call THEM "fetuses," it called them "little frogs" or "baby frogs" .. and ye twe call HUMANS "fetuses").

Regarding qualification... Obama has far less experience and far wors eassociations (even with religion) than both McCain and Palin combined. Unfortunately, the mainstream media has decided that Obama should be elected (and even some media organizations unashamedly know it - e.g., keith olbermann and Chris Matthews being stepped down from their positions but still being political analysts).

Even this is obviously biased: fthis is about women and yet the article starts out "Even though she doesn't have any foreign policy experience..."

That'd be like me talking about gun rights with Obama and starting out my article with "Even though Obama attended a black theology, political activist church..."

The agenda is so clear.

And if you want to talk about people being called stupid, how do Alaskans feel (and how should Americans feel) with the Obama campaign talking down to them like their a bunch of redneck ignorant fools for electing such a horribly inexperienced and unqualified governor, who by th eway, has the highest approval ratings out of any of the current governors: 90 percent in 2007)? Not to mention that the Obamas apparently look down their noses at most of America.

What I want to know is this. Who really HAS influenced Obama? He seems to have a ton of iffy associations (Raines, Ayers, Frank M. Davis, his college roommates, etc) but nobody in the mainstream media even so much as mentions them. Can you imagine if Palin had said that a communist was a great influence on her... can you imagine the media coverage on that? But when a presidential nominee that they LIKE has communist associations, Marxist influences, Freddie Mae CEO advisors, all he has t osay is "No I don't" and they believe him and say nothing more about it.