I doubt either have studied developmental psychology much, or perhaps ignored it, along with common sense, in favor of their very own personal view (excuse) of child rearing.

St Brangelina? Every few months they do, what seems to amount to, drive through photo ops. They stay in four or five star hotels and admit to feeling better about their own lives after the drive by events. “I can’t complain about my life after seeing so much pain.” Roughly translated, that seems to mean that your pain makes me feel better about my life. Granted, they do bring cameras into horrible regions, Sadly, it takes multi-millionaires to do that. The cameras don’t seem to want to follow real workers in the field. If there isn’t glitz or glamour, it isn’t newsworthy, it seems. After a harrowing few days, they return to the South of France to recover in billionaireland. Watch how defensive she gets when the conspicuous consumption and affluence are challenged in interviews.

On top of that, two individuals who had no prior experience with children, are adopting an entire team of children from all over the world? Anyone who has either studied developmental psychology or who has helped to raise younger siblings, knows that children need stability and consistency. They need to have regular periods of play, sleep and socialization. Having a sense of personal space and home is crucial. They are dragging those children through airports as though they were tiny verbalized pieces of luggage. I would remain silent were it not for those beautiful little persons who don’t know any other way. The parents have decided that they will be citizens of the world before they ever know what it means to be a little citizen in a safe little kindergarten. Each of them were in their 30s or 40s when they became interested in “the world”. Their minds are barely developed enough to understand some rather simple consequences in the home.

As it stands now, all they will remember of childhood will be a blurr of airports and hotel rooms. There will be no favorite hiding place, chair, bed,room, bed or blankey. If the insanity hotel employees complain about is true, it most likely can be ascribed to the rootlessness. I hail from a family of six and I can assure one and all that we were not allowed to run through the house like untrained creatures. The condition of having no limits or boundaries only serves as an impediment to personality development.

In short, they seem to be zig-zagging through life which is fine if their sole concern were fulfilling their own wishes or finding relationships with other adults of ANY persuation; however, there are children in the mix. If chaos and crazy is what THEY want, then pass the children on to people who can offer a stable and relatively sane home to thrive in.

Her best days are behind her. And understand something; politically, the rules are different for California candidates. That state is in such a mess, Ron Jeremy could win statewide on a reform platform.

The way Angie will handle her past is NOT to run away from it, but to run WITH IT. Most politicians are stupid and try to cover up their past drug use or acoholism like Bush did with his silly DUI back in 1976. Had he simply revealed that in an interview in 1999, it would have been off the table by the closing week of the election with Al Gore. Instead, stupid Bush kept it quiet and got ambushed by Maine Democrats. As a result, a lot of Republicans from the Elmer Gantry wing of my party were shocked, stayed home, and gave Al Gore the popular vote victory in 2000.

Trust me, Karl Rove was always overrated.