Presidential Politics
Palin’s Unmarried Daughter Pregnant
By Jonathan Weber , 9-01-08
This one is sure to stir up the morality debate a little further: Republican Vice Presidential pick Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant, and plans to marry the father. The announcement came in response to persistent blog rumors alleging that Palin's recent baby, born last April 18, is actually her daughter's. Bristol is said to be five months pregnant. Will the religious right's love-fest with Palin come to abrupt end in light of the pre-marital sex, or will it be reinforced by the decision to marry and have the baby?
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Used to be, you stuck it in and it worked as engineered, if not intended, the shotgun was there to make sure the rest of the deal was upheld.
Given how well Mrs. Palin has, um, held up....and politics aside, getting married to that gene string might not be so bad.
Never mind that if the Obama campaign does ANYTHING along this line, then the question of his own legitimacy, as well as that in the "African American Community" comes up. I would rather not have that discussion in a partisan environment, although out-of-wedlock birth rates ARE a, an, um, er, LEGITIMATE sociological matter.
Make no mistake unwed sex is a real problem, especially for the youngsters, but we have the libs screaming that humans have no control over themselves and must not be taught anything about abstinence, only given birth control or abortions wihtout the parents consent even.
Perhaps this will bring a conclusion to the "free love" that pretty much resulted in a Barack Obama, and save the slaughter of innocent preborns and a reduction of STDs, some of which are fatal.
Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports: At a press avail in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama on Palin: "Back off these kinds of stories."
"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor and/or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics."
I don't think Bristol Palin was trying to conceive, this is something that's hard to dispute. Perhaps some honest-to-god education could have prevented this (for Sarah Palin) embarrassing turn of events.
I do find the attempt to cover up everything by saying the child was hers as ridiculously dishonest, which is a trait I would prefer a potential chief executive not to have.
To summarize: Is it really so bad to teach sex education? I'm sure that Sarah wishes she had mentioned the birds, the bees and the condoms to her daughter a bit more firmly.
Jedediah, how in the world were you able to interpret Dave's comment as white supremacy?
I am a medical care provider that worked providing health care including birth control to young women for many years and I do have a clue what I am talking about. You obviously do not.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php
"Mr, Carter says that AIP members must "infiltrate" -- his words -- the other two parties and push for the cause of Alaskan independence."
So Palin was a member of a right-wing militia movement that encourages members to drop their party and infiltrate the other parties to advance their agenda. By the way she dropped the AIP a few years ago. It sure would be irresponsible to not investigate this.
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/is_alaska_an_abstinence_only_state/C564/L564/
I may not have any idea what I'm talking about, not even the barest shred of an atomic sliver of an idea of what I'm talking about, but I think Stokes does.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-center/centerDetails.asp?f=3254