Sarah Palin and India

Sarah Palin is defined by feminists as role model despite her daughter having a teen pregnancy. The methodology of role models in India is different. Such mothers like Sarah Palin are looked as bad parent, woman parent or male parent. 

If this were accepted in India, it would tantamount to accepting child marriage on pregnancy effect. 

Another things it tells people around the world, that good person for world politics is not 100% successful family person,

Sarah Palin has five children and she was once a beauty queen. Her aspiration to go for VP supersedes her traditional womanly role to help her daughter. It is useless to blame the media to create focus when mothers like Sarah are greedy and selfish to the outside core of human realms.

The Republicans have shown that they win at any cost , even the cost of th grandchild of their VP. Shame on the VP and not to forget , she needs additional attention on the child with down Syndrome.

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/McCains_Choice/articleshow/3438066.cms

Sarah Palin is probably the most talked about woman in America now, thanks to presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain choosing her — over more experienced and well-known candidates — to share his ticket. Until now, she was a little-known governor of Alaska, a state not known to significantly influence US national politics. And now, here she is, on the biggest political stage possible, a step away from the White House should McCain win in November. 

Understandably, this prospect is making many Americans — including some from the Republican Party — jittery. 
Palin has two years as governor of Alaska and two terms as mayor of Wasilla, a suburb with a population of a little over 5,000 people according to the 2000 census, to show for political experience. The vice-president in America, unlike in India, has a substantial stake in governance. Consider, for instance, the enormous influence wielded by Dick Cheney in the George W Bush administration. Palin, critics point out, is not equipped to play the part. Her grasp over national security and foreign affairs — two issues that are at the heart of America’s current concerns — is unproven and that’s fuelling fears among voters who do not know what to expect should she have to step into McCain’s shoes at some point. 

Her nomination is also calling into question, once more, McCain’s judgment and ability to take crucial decisions. He has been criticised on both counts by his detractors in the past and throughout this campaign. Known to be somewhat of a maverick and at times intemperate, he’s not particularly popular with the evangelical crowd — a vital Republican constituency — and has been trying to bridge the divide. This could explain, in part, his choice of Palin. She’s militantly pro-life, proven by her decision to have a child even when she knew it was going to be born with Down’s syndrome, and is supporting her 17-year-old pregnant daughter’s decision to keep the baby. 

In many ways, Palin is the conservative right’s poster girl. She is committed to oil drilling, backs teaching of intelligent design in schools, supports the rights of citizens to own guns and is an accomplished hunter herself. Some observers believe McCain might have chosen her to woo women voters who were disappointed that Hillary Clinton lost out to Barack Obama. That might not work because Palin and Clinton represent very different values and it’s cynical to assume that identity politics, and not issues, determines how women vote.