Equal Rights?

Whether you like or hate Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate, one has to wonder whether questions were raised about Joe Biden's ability to be a US Senator and single dad after his wife was killed in an automobile accident. Worst of all, it's a liberal woman making this attack; you'd expect her to be defending Sarah Palin's choice to raise her family and pursue her career.

SALLY QUINN (Washington Post): "And I do think, too, that you have to weigh the situation. It's one thing to have one or two or three children, especially if they are healthy children. And everyone knows that women and men are different and that moms and dads are different and that women — the burden of child care almost always falls on the woman. But I think, when you have five children, one a 4-month-old Down syndrome baby, and a daughter who is 17, who is also a child and who is going to need her mother very much in the next few months and years with her own baby coming, that I don't see how you cannot make your family your first priority. And I think if you are going to be president of the United States, which she may well be, I think that's going to be a real stretch for her." (CNN's "Newsroom," 9/2/08)