Obama not bringing family into the public eye more like Palin, is going to hurt him

Authors Note: This is a first draft of my op-ed. I still need to conduct further research and provide more evidence for my claim in this Op-ed. I also need to organize my thoughts and revise this paper, and elaborate on the quotes I have. But for the most part this piece has direction and makes a claim that I am passionate about.

If you were to go up to a random person on the street and ask them, “whose family can you tell me more about, Obama’s or Palin’s?” My thoughts were, most people would probably be able to say more about Palin’s family since they are in the public eye a lot more than Obama’s. So, I decided to find out for myself. I asked four random people this question. Two of them told me that they plan to vote Republican, and two told me that they plan to vote Democrat. In response to Palin’s family, a respondent told me “[Palin] has five children, a son, Track, is nineteen years old, and was just deployed to Iraq, she also has a seventeen year old daughter, Bristol who is five months pregnant and her youngest child has down syndrome.” I then asked what they could tell me about Obama’s two daughters, and her response was, “Obama has two daughters?” And this person was one of the two planning to vote for Obama! The other three responses from the people I asked were similar. Clearly, Obama is not making an effort to have the country he wants to run one day get to know his family. I researched on the internet and I visited several websites until I found out that his daughter’s names are Malia Ann, who is nine years old, and Natasha who is seven years old.
Sarah Palin is proud to show off her family and wants the nation to get to know her family and her. With all the work she is doing with the campaign, she still has time to raise five children, while Obama is only raising two. Most of America knows about her children and husband’s interests. This type of information is easily available on the internet. Things such as her husband’s interest in professional snow mobilism and her son’s interest in playing Hockey and his recent deployment to Iraq. America is really getting to know Palin’s family. Does Obama say anything about what his daughter’s like to do for fun? No. It took me at least twenty minutes of researching to even find out these girl’s names and ages!
“I think people’s families are off limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Governor Palin’s performance of governor or her potential performance performance of vice president” says Obama at a campaign in Monroe, Michigan.
“How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics and I hpe that anyone who is supporting me understands that is off limits.”
“we don’t go after people’s families; we don’t get them involved in the politics, its not appropriate, its not relevant.” Is he kidding? The way a president raises and interacts with their family and their families life is very relevant. This amount of devotion a candidate is devoted to their family, they will be devoted the same to their country.
“Sarah Palin has been portrayed as the very model of the working mother. She answers her blackberry while pumping breast milk for her infant, keeps a playpen by her desk, and manages a state while cooking hot dogs for her family,” says
Despite her daughters pregnancy, Palin believes that schools should teach “abstinence only, and not be so explicit about contraceptives and birth control.” Obama has not said his views on contraceptives, but all the liberals how dare they to say “what kind of nurturing mother lets her daughter get pregnant,” Obama does not even state solutions on what to do for the pregnancy.
Barack Obama talks about her putting her kids in the public eye, but he doesn’t because he plays the dirty games of politics unlike Palins.
The Clinton’s tried to shield their daughter Chelsea from the public eye because she received a lot of criticism for being “unattractive.” It was almost as if the Clinton’s were ashamed of their daughter. It is not that Obama is ashamed of his daughters or anything like that, it is more of he does not want to bring them into the public eye because he is afraid it will hurt his campaign. While he says things such as families should be off limits, the real reason he is saying this is because he is threatened that Palin has already made such an impact by bringing her family into the public light, not making excuses for her daughter’s pregnancy and not being afraid to be down to earth and identify with the millions of other mother’s in America who are dealing with the same issues. Just goes to show that Palin is not out to play the dirty games of politics like Obama.