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RedditSarah Palin, the largely unknown and unvetted Alaska Governor tapped as John McCain's running mate, spoke out today in response to blog and media rumors about her 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy. Palin, with her husband Todd, released this statement:
We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.
Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.
The Times reports that McCain knew about the pregnancy, and apparently the campaign planned to either keep it a secret or disclose it later on down the road. The speed of this news, first reported by Reuters, was spurred by a diary posted on the liberal blog DailyKos, which speculated that Palin's daughter was pregnant and her mother faked a pregnancy to cover it up.
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The GOP made a huge mistake when they made family values an issue because that made their families an issue..
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/01/2008 @ 08:42am
Being a pregnant teenager is something I know quite alot about; I married at 16, and by the time I was 20, I was the mother of 3...the marriage ended in divorce. As the article stated, "Bristol made the DECISION to have her baby." And that is the point; every woman should have that choice! It is not about being eager to terminate a pregnancy, it's about being able to decide your own future according to your own unique circumstances...and not having supreme court justices make that decision for me!
C. Phillips, Wisconsin
Posted by Carolyn48 at 09/01/2008 @ 08:47am
These abstinence only people need to start to pay attention to what their own children are doing rather than concern themselves with what other peoples children are doing.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/01/2008 @ 09:07am
Present day advocates of the old colonial practice of bundling will now make their case. Only now fish netting & space heaters should allow for modern expression. There you go. Again.
Posted by Sorelish at 09/01/2008 @ 09:20am
LVLIBERTY?....did I read this wrong?
"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child..."
"man she WILL marry"?...future tense?!??!?!
heheh
Posted by Maskdelta at 09/01/2008 @ 09:51am
"Shotgun Decisions" and "Shotgun Weddings", what a fine example of a leader John McCain is showing himself to be. First he makes a "calculated" choice of a female running mate with "conservative values" and the "bona fides" of Erin Brockovich. Then she turns out to be too busy playing Governor to keep track of what her minor kids are up to. Looks like they're planning on breaking another "Glass ceiling" by holding the first "Shotgun Marriage" at the White House., something we can all share with the world and be very proud of. Christian values at their hypocritical finest. If that's an example John McCain's decision making skills, I am not comfortable with his finger being on the trigger of the "Nuclear Shotgun". Talk about someone with "ambition" to be the Pres.
Posted by BigAndy at 09/01/2008 @ 09:54am
McCain picks a family values running mate with a knocked up unwed teen age daughter.That shows poor judgment on McCain's part as did picking a running mate who is under investigation..
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/01/2008 @ 09:54am
Palin needs to concentrate on her own house not the White House.
Posted by SandyFeet at 09/01/2008 @ 10:15am
that is just great, mcain has thumbed his nose at all americans . his choice of a woman who has never even been outside to country except to canada(her words) and who smokes pot, now has 5 mo. old pregnant 17 year old daughter, who i sympathize with, shows she was never there for her children , also while the rest of america is trying to instill right morals, and no drugs in their teenagers, mccain and palin are as immoral and uncaring about the future of this country as anyone can be. Plus i am sure that corruption investigation she under in alaska and 17 pregnant daughter speaks volumes about her ability to provide leadership in the world and restore our respectability aroound the world, plus horndog mccain knew about the pregnancy and was going to keep it a secret. Maybe they all got high together and had a swinging party. BY THE WAY, HAS ANYONE RUN ANY DNA TESTS ON PALIN'S 4 mo. old baby to see if it has any of mcvain's genes in it? that is the only thing that i can think of for choosing this party animal, immature, "kool" potsmoking creationist, because he wants to make sure any of his offspring will follow his lead and tell all americans to go to hell, if they cannot get us blown up first with anger and disrespect for our double standards around the world. I hate mcCain for doing this to America and her too, for even thinking she can come close to most american women with morals, values, education and truly caring about their kids and the kind of world they inherit and their kids too. McVain and her are worse than bushes and i did not think anything could be worse than that, but damn, Wrong again, they aren't even in office yet, and they already are counting on americans to be so stupid, as to not know when they have already said "f... you all!!!
Posted by sickened at 09/01/2008 @ 10:27am
Palin want people to respect their right to privacy? What planet is she on, that she is so uneducated, that she does not know, if she and mcvain are supposed to represent americans, every faucet of not only their lives, but everyone they know , will be investigated and researched because of national security interests, as it should be. When they make the decision to become public figures, their lives also become public knowledge and public has a right to know of any immorality, illegal activities and bad judgement . ....that is like saying, yeh, i want to lap up all the publicity, but only when it is favorable to them. .....tough , they are not entitled to pull a snowjob on american about what fine, upstanding qualities they have. nuff said!!!
Posted by sickened at 09/01/2008 @ 10:45am
How can you argue against government programs that promote condom use because you believe in abstinence before marriage and then create a family crises of a teenage pregnancy in your own family because of this political AND religious point of view?
This is about Palin's HYPOCRISY, which is not a small thing.
Posted by Metteyya at 09/01/2008 @ 11:07am
Here is the Diary that shows Palin covering up the teenage pregnancy of her daughter by FAKING HER OWN PREGNANCY!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137
Posted by Metteyya at 09/01/2008 @ 11:24am
While it's unfortunate that Bristol Palin has an unplanned pregnancy, she and her family are at least making the best of it. Nothing says the girl must have an abortion, even if the father has tried pressuring her into one. The baby actually has good prospects in life.
This does raise the tragic issue of out-of-wedlock births. There's an epidemic in the US. For example, some 70% of all African-American babies are born to single mothers (56% of Hispanic babies and 22% of whites). There's a strong correlation between growing up in a single-parent household and emotional and behavioral disorders as well as poor school achievement. Children of single parents are also vastly over-represented among criminals and drug abusers.
Obviously, single-parenthood is bad for children, bad for parents, and bad for society. I would like to see Sarah Palin and other politicos address the issue more systematically.
Posted by feinfein at 09/01/2008 @ 11:46am
So much for the abstinence only programs of the right wing. Ohh wait, hypocrisy has never been much of a problem..... think: Cheney's lesbian daughter!!
Do as I say, not as I do (or teach my family).
Control the excesses of the masses, hide the excesses of the aristocracy.
Posted by bartmelton at 09/01/2008 @ 11:49am
BRISTOL?
KARMA, KARMA, KARMA.
Environmentalists bristle over rumor of lifting ban on Bristol Bay drilling
by Margaret Bauman, Alaska Journal of Commerce November 29th, 2006
Word spread like wildfire through Alaska's environmental community Tuesday of alleged Bush administration plans to lift a presidential moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration in the North Aleutian Basin.
The area includes the commercial fishing grounds of Bristol Bay, described by Rick Steiner, a professor with the University of Alaska's marine advisory program, as "THE BREADBASKET OF ENTIRE BERING SEA."
Reports circulating through environmental groups were that Alaska Governor-elect Sarah Palin, as well as Alaska's congressional delegation, had "signed off" on the action, Steiner said.
Curtis Smith, press secretary for incoming Gov. Sarah Palin, said he could not confirm Palin's specific actions regarding plans to lift the moratorium.
Smith said that in the past PALIN "HAS SAID THAT COOK INLET WAS AN EXCELLENT MODEL FOR HOW AN OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT AND A DELICATE MARINE ENVIRONMENT CAN CO-EXIST. It is something the governor-elect would consider; she would want to learn more about it."
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rrrrrr, limit!
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 11:56am
Upper reaches of BRISTOL BAY experience some of the highest tides in the world. One such reach, the Nushagak Bay near Dillingham and another near Naknek in Kvichak Bay have tidal extremes in excess of 30 feet (9.9 m), ranking them -- and the area -- as eighth highest in the world. This, coupled with the extreme number of shoals, sandbars and shallows, makes navigation troublesome, especially during the area's frequently strong winds.
As the shallowest part of the Bering Sea, Bristol Bay is understandably one of the most dangerous areas for large vessels. This is one reason why the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishing fleet is limited to 32-foot (10 m) overall keel length. In addition, most of the area is not well documented by nautical charts and navigational aids are sparse.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 11:57am
So many distractions, so little time.
And too little money in payoffs this time around.
Whatever is the caught-with-its-pants-down-&-off poor old GOP to do?
Posted by sloper at 09/01/2008 @ 11:58am
The presumptive Republican nominee is simply another John. He was for experience before he was against it.
Posted by bobforer at 09/01/2008 @ 11:58am
Bristol Bay is home to the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery as well as strong runs of chum salmon, silver salmon and king salmon, each occurring seasonally.
Major industries are commercial fishing and the associated canneries, sport fishing, hunting and tourism. The number of commercial lodges, hunting- and fishing-resorts and visitors to the nearby Katmai National Park and Preserve has grown exponentially in recent years.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 11:58am
BRISTOL?.............
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 11:58am
The area has also experienced significant interest in oil and mineral development, most notably with the proposed Pebble Mine on the north shore of Iliamna Lake, and auctioning of leases to tracts in the southern Bristol Bay area known as the North Aleutians Basin, an area which has been closed to offshore oil and gas development since a moratorium in 1998.
THE DRAFT PLAN BY THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT (PENDING PUBLIC COMMENTS UNTIL 2/5/2007), ALSO PROPOSES TO OPEN MOST OF THE BLM'S 3.6 MILLION ACRES (15,000 KM²) IN THE AREA TO HARD ROCK MINING AND OIL AND GAS DRILLING.
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ready to do some co-existing, delicate marine environment?
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 12:00pm
Seismic work involves the use of underwater air guns that generate extremely loud noise – a single blast is 10 times louder than a rocket launch, and the blasts occur every 10 to 15 seconds for days, weeks and even months at a time. These sounds carry through the water for hundreds of miles and have been known to cause permanent hearing loss in marine mammals. They can disrupt their feeding, migration, social bonding, predator avoidance, and have been associated with stranded whales. They also can interfere with Native Alaskans' ability to hunt for these subsistence food sources, particularly the bowhead whale.
Under the provisions of the MMPA, NMFS may authorize the incidental taking by harassment of only "small numbers" of marine mammal population stock. NMFS, however, authorized Shell to harass huge numbers of marine mammals – over 40,000 in total – including nearly 40 percent of the population of beluga whales in the Chukchi Sea and more than 20 percent of the endangered bowhead whales that feed and calve in the Polar Bear Seas.
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ready for that in YOUR backyard, oillies?
stupid, greedy humans!
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 12:09pm
oops,
stupid, greedy humans.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 12:10pm
OUCH!!
Thats good for a couple hundred thousand "unmarried-teen-pregnancy-help-me-uncle-sam" votes.
Obama or Biden best hurry and admit an affair or something....
The GOP is taking them to the mat!
Posted by bleedingheart at 09/01/2008 @ 12:18pm
Maybe Mom thought she ate too many mooseburgers.
Guess they're going after the "Juno" voters
Posted by leftofcenter at 09/01/2008 @ 12:34pm
Archivers take note:
I am going to go ahead with the prediction that this announcement was timed to set the stage for a "graceful" exit from the ticket by Palin.
Sometime soon, certainly by the end of September, you will see SP before the cameras telling us that she wants to "spend more time" with her family and that she doesn't want "to be a distraction" in this most important election.
Who's Mc Nasty got in the wings?
Mittster (magic undies and all) ? Fred Thompson ?
Heck, this might have been a stunt to buy time so that Johnny Mack can continue to woo Hillary (wouldn't Frank wet himself ?), whatever, SP is the patsy. I wonder if she knows.
If I am wrong, hey, I can live with that.
Got it saved, there Luvvy ?
You, too, Mask ?
That's nice.
Posted by skeletonman at 09/01/2008 @ 12:38pm
poor christofascist rightwingers! all that abstinance only education just amounts to so much squat without one critical godly element...
THE CHASTITY BELT!
cruel and unusual? no more than the literalist christofascist god!
goddamn science believing, others tolerating secular humanists! THIS WOULD NOTHAVE HAPPENED IF THEM LIBERAL TRAITORS HAD BEEN HANGED BACK IN 05 WHEN THE SATANO-AYNRANDO/CHRISTOFASCIST coalition was still strong and bushcheney had everything under control!
Posted by ibbleblibble at 09/01/2008 @ 12:49pm
I swear, some of you people make me sick. Viewing Briston Palin's apparent pregnancy of some kind of come-uppance for the religious right is atrocious. She's a 17-year old kid who is obviously in for more than she ever bargained for, not some rallying point for people who want better sex education.
Granted, the abstinance only curriculum does not work, and most reasonable people know that. But to use a kid, no matter if she is the daughter of a Republican Vice Presidential candidate, as some kind of poster child for the hypocrisy of the Christian right is wrong. I'm a Barack Obama supporter, and i fully agree with him about the need to stop this politics of personal destruction, that you can disagree with him/her without trying to destroy them.
If Barack is half the candidate I think he is, he'll come out with something close to matching my outrage about this issue.
Posted by steed16 at 09/01/2008 @ 1:22pm
Palin needs to concentrate on her own house not the White House.
Posted by SandyFeet at 09/01/2008 @ 10:15am
You must be an ultra-conservative woman who thinks a woman with a family...
Posted by 2HAPPY at 09/01/2008 @ 10:28am
I suspect that the term 'house' was meant figuratively, not literally, sport.
Posted by skeletonman at 09/01/2008 @ 1:28pm
steed16-Maybe Palin should have been more concerned about her child than her political ambitions because she knew that this is what her child would be exposed to.Again,it goes to judgment and has nothing to do with the child herself.McCain and her mom exposed her to this and they are to blame.
Posted by i'm nobody at 09/01/2008 @ 1:32pm
Don't you wonder how much choice the young man, Levi, is having?
1. Does he want Palin's daughter to have the child, which he will have to help support?
2. Does he want to marry the young woman?
Maybe if they all pray really hard, they can turn back the clock five months.
Posted by goedel at 09/01/2008 @ 1:43pm
If Barack is half the candidate I think he is, he'll come out with something close to matching my outrage about this issue.
Posted by steed16 at 09/01/2008 @ 1:22pm | ignore this person | warn this person
heaven bless you, steed, and mr. obama has already commented sternly on this issue. i don't think he is obligated to comment again, but considering this little gossipfest will indeed seep into the consiousness of the marching morons of the supermarket aisle set...not much the hopefully soon to be saint king can do about it...
but dear, sweet, kind, decent steed! don't you worry about your stainlessly decent karma nor the stainlessly decent reputation of mr. obama!
ever has polite society needed hard men (and women these days) ready to break heads and ever have the decent and innocent needed the services of the damned to shove that knife in to the hilt and twist it once to be sure, once more to hurt...
so do indeed get all morally high ground and righteously indignant while the wicked who serve the good get about the business of breaking heads...
Posted by ibbleblibble at 09/01/2008 @ 1:46pm
"We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates," requested Sarah Palin.
Well, let's see what Chelsea Clinton has to say about that! For those of us who cannot remember how the radical Right treated her, here's what the late great Molly Ivins wrote back in 1995 (in an article for the May/June issue of MOTHER JONES, now available online):
"On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, [Rush] Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, 'Did you know there's a White House dog?' Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time and as far as I know had never done any harm to anyone.
When viewers objected, he claimed, in typical Limbaugh fashion, that the gag was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea--which I found as disgusting as his original attempt at humor."
I respect Sarah Palin's call for decency. But her appeal to "tradition" rather misses the mark.
Posted by JakobFabian at 09/01/2008 @ 1:56pm
Re: BigAndy
I hope the shotgun wedding doesn't include Cheney, someone will get hurt.
Posted by BullyBoy at 09/01/2008 @ 2:08pm
If the rumors are true and Trig is Sarah's grandchild and she lied to protect her daughter Bristol, would that implicate Sarah for insurance fraud if any payments were made accordingly by medical coverage?
Posted by BullyBoy at 09/01/2008 @ 2:14pm
>>>Granted, the abstinance only curriculum does not work, and most reasonable people know that. But to use a kid, no matter if she is the daughter of a Republican Vice Presidential candidate, as some kind of poster child for the hypocrisy of the Christian right is wrong. I'm a Barack Obama supporter, and i fully agree with him about the need to stop this politics of personal destruction, that you can disagree with him/her without trying to destroy them.
If Barack is half the candidate I think he is, he'll come out with something close to matching my outrage about this issue.
Posted by steed16 at 09/01/2008 @ 1:22pm<<<
STEED16,
This is about HYPOCRISY "and" CHARACTER of a woman who would be president if McCain is elected and has to step aside.
From the Daily Kos Diary, we have a COMPELLING CASE that Sarah Palin LIED TO THE PUBLIC concerning her own pregnancy. Read the Diary below and make your own determination:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137
Obama can say whatever he wants, but the American people need to know the CHARACTER of a woman who could be president.
My only issue with the Daily Kos story was the timeline in light of Sarah's new claim that Bristol is ALMOST 5 months pregnant.
But if Sarah really is covering for Bristol and Trig Palin was delivered on April 18th, IT IS STILL POSSIBLE that Bristol is "almost" 5 months pregnant with her SECOND CHILD. A woman is "highly fertile" immediately after pregnancy, and young Levi no doubt was anxious to have sex again with Bristol as soon as he could.
So when Sarah Palin tells the public that "she", not Bristol, gave birth to Trig on April 18th, and this turns out to be FALSE, then the public has a right to reject Palin as their Vice President on the character question that this raises.
Posted by Metteyya at 09/01/2008 @ 2:18pm
The age of consent is defined as 16 years old, according to Alaska statutory rape laws. If a person who is at least 18 years old engages in sexual activity with a person who is 16 years old or younger, he or she will be charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree. This charge is a felony in Alaska.
In addition, Alaska statutory rape laws declare that anyone who is 18 years old or older who has sex with a person who is 16 or 17, or who is at least three years younger than the offender, can be charged with sexual abuse in the third degree.
Posted by Balrog at 09/01/2008 @ 2:26pm
How old is Levi? When is Bristol's birthday?
Posted by Balrog at 09/01/2008 @ 2:27pm
When is Bristol's birthday?
Posted by Balrog at 09/01/2008 @ 2:27pm
who cares.
ms. palin rapes the land.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 2:47pm
So let me get this straight... Trig Palin is not Bristol's sister but her son. I don't know for sure if i buy that. I mean, on the face of the dailykos article, it may seem convincing. But this is, after all the United States of America, and not the Dominican Republic where baseball players regularly forge such documents as birth certificates to change vital statistics in their favor.
In any case, Metteyya, you are right that this twist in the story, if true, is kind of troubling if only for the cover-up of her daughters pregnancy. I guess maybe that can be a legitimate investigative story, because it deals directly with the charachter of Sara Palin. That said, Bristol's current pregnancy should not be a political football, and i still feel very strongly about that.
This assertion that somehow the Sara Palins and John McCains of this world expose their children to this kind of nonsense is tragic. It's one of the reasons Michelle Obama didn't want Barack to run for President, and probably a big reason why a lot of good people don't run for office. Now, you can argue about whether or not there is a tradition about granting the children of (Vice) Presidential candidates some kind of privacy from the media. I can, however, say without equivocation that there should be such a practice.
I'm not one who likes to bash on the media constantly, but this kind of tabloid journalism, especially when it invovles some 17 year old kid just because of who their mom is, is pretty sad.
Posted by steed16 at 09/01/2008 @ 2:58pm
Time for a remake of Deliverance. By the way, Who is Bristol's baby daddy?
Posted by WeldonRobeson at 09/01/2008 @ 3:01pm
I like "Know Nothing's" suggestion that the RNC brings this sort of scrutiny upon itself because of its "family values" stance. It would be more meaningful if DNC were ever scrutinized for the mega bucks it both courts and controls (more millionaires in congress, more "blue" CEOs, more pocket contact with fat cat supporters -- Electric Al and his investment pals warrant hardly a mention in MSM circles). There is, I'm told, something in the DNC that can't stomach the growing income gap. What a joke. If ever a bald face liar existed, it's a limosine liberal, and there's more of those every day. I'm not sure if it's worse that the media is complict, that the DNC doesn't acknowledge that the media complict or that the DNC will do everything they can to take apart Palin's story, a story they just can't stand for what it does to expose them as "all about me."
Posted by petersont at 09/01/2008 @ 3:04pm
Teenage pregnancy is all too common and not at all shocking today.
However ... this prenancy is not common regardless of how conservatives will paint it.
If this were Bidens daughter or granddaugher, conservative talking heads would be at the cruel head of the pack blasting Biden and the Democrat party.
This is their type of issue to bleed and sit in judgment on.
Reading the comments of some of these hypocrites is disgusting now that the shoe is on the other foot. But what choice do they have?
Respect the private life of Palin and/or her 17 year old daughter? Give me a break!
Palin has accepted the spotlight by accepting a position that she is not qualified for in the first place.
She and her family are fair game now that she is running for office. I'm interested to know how this person, one who would strive to enact laws to regulate your morality, manages her own house.
Evidence shows that whatever message she teaches at home didn't take. This along with the on going investagation of abuse of power would be enough to drop an perceived liberal in his or her tracks.
So don't give me the "hands-off" BS. Obama has spoken like a class act by stating that his campagn wouldn't focus on this.
But ... we need to know a bit more about Palin. It appears that her record and beliefs may not match up with reality.
Christian Right Wing Hypocracy! On display should we forget what it looks like.
Posted by Hoot at 09/01/2008 @ 3:10pm
Posted by steed16 at 09/01/2008 @ 2:58pm
In general, I agree that the family is off limits.
But Sarah Palin has mixed-up politics with her family. I believe the record will show that she fired an outstanding public official because he wouldn't carry out a personal family vendetta Palin had against her sister's ex-husband.
And this latest scrutiny is in large measure based on Sarah's projection to the public that she is some sort of "super mom" who adheres to right-wing "family value" policies of Christian fundamentalists, especially the idea that we only need abstinence-only education in our schools to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies.
Someone who abuses power for personal reasons would have no problem leaning on a doctor friend to put her name on a birth certificate or falsifying birth records. So I don't think this story is going to end until we get a paternity test from Levi or whomever (not sure if Todd's DNA would not show up in grandson) Bristol had sex with other than Levi during the time of conception to establish the paternity of the child.
Posted by Metteyya at 09/01/2008 @ 3:26pm
Palin is against sex education and for abstinence only education. Wants creationism taught in science classes that focus on empirical evidence.
Ironic no?
Posted by hsuBfools at 09/01/2008 @ 4:17pm
Where do your children's names come from? TODD: Sarah's parents were coaches and the whole family was involved in track and I was an athlete in high school, so with our first-born, I was, like, 'Track!' BRISTOL IS NAMED AFTER BRISTOL BAY. That's where I grew up, that's where we commercial fish. Willow is a community there in Alaska. And then Piper, you know, there's just not too many Pipers out there and it's a cool name. And Trig is a Norse name for "strength."
boooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
she wants to destroy bristol bay.
what a frikkin' hypocrite.
anyhoo,
he's her hard hitting interview with PEOPLE magazine:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20222685_1,00.html
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/01/2008 @ 5:59pm
The point isn't Bristol and her child to be and husband to be. It isn't even Palin's parenting, the point is the rash and impulsive decision by McCain to select Palin over, say Olympia Snow or Kay Bailey Hutchinson or some other qualified female Republican with foreign policy experience. McCain is unpredictable and quick to jump in, as we saw in his response to the Georgian mess. Not good qualities for a President. If McCain had been President during the Cuban missile crisis he would have been more likely, in my view, to listen to the Generals who were urging Kennedy to attack. Obama's training in Law and Politics encourages the kind of sober deliberation the Office demands.
Posted by ohsotired at 09/01/2008 @ 6:15pm