Spending part of the afternoon watching US Open Tennis, where 29th-seeded Sybille Bammer just defeated 12-seated Marion Bartoli three sets (7-6, 0-6, 6-4) to advance to the round of 16.
After the match the announcers noted that the 28-year old from Austria is the only remaining player in the women’s draw who is also a mother (her 7-year old daughter Tina came out to congratulate her after the match).
Which is a pretty cool story. Bammer is one of only three moms on the WTA — American Lindsay Davenport and Paraguaian Rossana De Los Rios are the other two.
Though I’m sure — if they’re reactions and smears of Gov. Sarah Palin are any indication — rabid Obamaniacs will insist that either:
- She should withdraw from the match and stay home to raise her kid…how dare her have it all: career and motherhood. How dare she think she can win the US Open while her child languishes unattended to at hom, or
- That her daughter probably really isn’t hers anyway.
Fair enough- those are two vile criticisms. Of course, they are limited to anonymous internet posts and hardly match what Obama receives from ‘legitimate’ opinion sources.
Left by Preston on August 31st, 2008 at 8:32 pm