Sarah Palin gets dished by Wasilla caterer Sue Williams (who will not be voting for Obama)

[struggle4progress]

... on the campaign trail for governor, when asked who would raise her children should she win, she promptly stated that Todd would quit his job and stay at home with the kids ...

Sarah was elected and then - whoops. Todd didn’t like the stay at home gig - so Sarah, citing they needed money for the kid’s college .. said Todd was returning to work. When asked about her statements on the campaign trail about how Todd would quit his job, Sarah said she’d actually never talked to him about what they would do if she was elected .. and that she’d spoken out of turn when she spoke for him stating he’d quit his job ...

So Todd trots himself back to work and Sarah is busy traipsing around the state and the nation. The kids are “farmed out” (this is the word used by thier associates in “the Valley”) to family and friends to raise while Todd and Sarah are off having their respective careers (Sarah is famously quoted as saying, “My mom does whatever I need her to”) ...

No thank you. I would like a VP candidate who puts the lives of the people she’s supposed to be caring for first, above her own ...

http://www.examiner.com/x-221-Seattle-People-Examiner~y2008m9d3-Sarah-Palin-gets-dished-by-Wasilla-caterer-Sue-Williams

[TwilightGardener]

1. This woman does NOT have control over her own family, and neither does the husband.

They are irresponsible parents with the kids who already EXISTED, and then took chances with Trig's life in TX. These people are awful, just white trash. And now they're putting their teen daughter up for exploitation by the Republican party.

[tblue]

Her family is in CRISIS. A newborn with special needs, a knocked-up teenage girl, and a boy being

shipped into the gates of hell.

But career and ambition come first! (And, yes, I'd say the same thing if Sarah were a man.)

I'm just glad I'm not her kid.

And, despite what Sarah said, Bristol was given NO CHOICE but to get married and have that baby.

[TwilightGardener]

19. Well, according to the Enquirer story coming out, Bristol resisted marrying

Mr. "Fuckin' Redneck". But mom's political ambitions seem to be trumping her daughter's best interests.

[tblue]

26. Bristol had sex, so she must be punished......for the rest of her life.

Nice, Sarah.

[avaistheone1]

27. Bristol needs to be hidden away because she is pregnant

given how Sarah pulled her from high school.

Not very good family values.

[Critters2]

2. Homeschooled?! Who's doing the homeschooling, if the kids are farmed out to

neighbors and extended family? Is Bristol getting any education at all? And what's with this "quicky-wedding" talk? I thought she had yet to marry Mr. Redneck.

[ladywnch]

7. just because she 'believes' in home schooling doesn't mean she 'does' home schooling

I mean her daughter missed (depending on who you listen to) 5-8 months of school at Wasilla high school......

[alstephenson]

3. What DOES Sarah's husband do for a living???

I've heard professional fisherman, works for oil company BP, and/or that he belongs to the Steelworker's Union. What's the story?

Also - if Sarah had no intention of aborting her baby no matter what, why was genetic testing done?

I'm just askin'....

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Apparently he's governor whenever she's out of town. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

5. They also have/had a carwash somewhere. These people seem to have

multiple irons in the fire, but do NONE of it well. And yeah, I've heard about four different professions now for the Toddster too, plus the fact that he is overtly involved in the Governor's office. Very, very strange--we do not know the truth about this family and where their money comes from.

[Wilber_Stool]

11. I think I read that she is

heir to the Heath(candy bar) fortune.

[kath]

12. I think that was a joke thread here.

[robinlynne]

30. Good, or it would be one more company to boycott...

and I like heath bars!

[madmom]

16. She sounds like george w bush in drag!

[TwilightGardener]

18. Yeah, there's some failed "Arbusto"-type businesses going on up there.

[juajen]

21. What money? I have read nothing about them being wealthy.

Elucidate, please.

[TwilightGardener]

23. I'm not saying they're wealthy. I'm just wondering why they seem

to own and run multiple businesses, have multiple careers between them. She was running some kind of business called "Rouge Cou" (French for redneck) a couple years ago. No one seems to know what the husband does, or where he officially lives, and the kids are scattered all over.

[TahitiNut]

29. Hell... they're probably Amway sales reps, too.

:puke: Dick and Betsy DeVos would salivate over those two.

:puke:

[MiniMe]

6. Works for BP

I'm sure BP is perfectly happy when Todd is with the governor.

[TwilightGardener]

14. But isn't he a commercial fisherman? How many jobs does this dude have?

[MiniMe]

17. Who knows. Todd and his wife own a carwash that is being shut down

or something because they haven't registered it. He was a fisherman. Apparently he was a steel worker at one time. Sounds like he is a journeyman.

[norepubsin08]

25. He gets 3 months of the year off

from BP and goes fishing during that time..that way he can say he is a fisherman and not appear to be an elitist sucking off the public via a greedy immoral oil company!

[Critters2]

8. He's a union man?! Do the Rethugs know this?

Don't they have rules against that sort of thing?

[mitchum]

9. He works for a FOREIGN OWNED OIL COMPANY

[jberryhill]

20. Gooooood one... goooood one.... /nt

[mitchum]

31. Thank Skinner for that one

it's really good

[jberryhill]

22. He lays pipe in Alaska. Apparently that's real popular with the young 'uns too.

The family crest has the motto "Drill Here, Drill Now"

:hide:

[LibGranny]

24. Genetic Testing is routinely done on older moms - I've been

having conversations re this with my two daughters (who are both nurses) and one said at approx. 16 wks gestation, the doctor orders an AFP (Alpha Fetal Protein) test which will indicate various genetic disorders (and Downs Symdrome). So, Sarah knew for some time that her baby had this birth defect. My daughters (who each have 3 children and work their work schedules around their kids (and NO I don't babysit) posited the theory that maybe Sarah Palin wanted something to happen to the latest baby and that's why she took 26+ hours to get the the hospital. The possibilities were there for lots of things to go wrong given her age and distance from where she chose to deliver. I know, it's crazy but it's just a theory!

[fishwax]

32. He works for a foreign oil company

:evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

10. College?

But Willow's only 13, and Piper's only 7.

I mean, I know it's never too early, but worrying about that now seems.... premature.

[SteppingStone]

13. Has anyone seen pics of Todd doing his part...

Nuturing stay-at-home dad? I haven't.

[nichomachus]

15. Well, another qualification for Sarah

She "farmed out" her kids -- this means she has expertise in agriculture. Her resume is growing by the day.

[hvn_nbr_2]

28. Contrast Palin with Joe Biden's way of taking of care of his kids....

After his wife and daughter were killed, he was sworn in to the Senate at his sons' hospital bedside. For 36 years he has taken Amtrak home at night to be with his kids. Family values vs. "(cough cough ahem) family values."

Edit to add: None of his kids had teenage pregnancies either.