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Bristol Palin is Pregnant!

Bristol Palin is Pregnant!

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin announced that her 17-year-old daughter Bristol Palin is five months pregnant and is going to marry the father.

Sarah and husband Todd Palin released this statement via the John McCain campaign:

“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.”

Reuters news service, which first reported the news, says this news is “intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for [Bristol].” Trig was born this past April with Down Syndrome.

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367 Comments

# 1

I don’t think it especially debunks - I think it’s a nice coincidence to be able to come forward as though they AREN’T embarassed that their 17-year-old daughter is pregnant in an attempt to disprove the rumours.

# 2

Where there is smoke there is fire…

# 3

Aha! I knew it! This is only going to get worse. I think the baby Trig is hers and this is just another cover up . Either that or she got knocked up again, as many first time moms do. But how did the daughter get pregnant five months ago if she was infected with mono? Gimme a break! This lady is a joke with her family values, lies, and cover ups!

# 4

WOW! I don’t condemn them - these things happen. But, it certainly makes McCain look like a fool.

# 5

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

so much for family values! she can’t even keep her daughter in check and we’re supposed to trust this woman with the safety of the country.

# 6

I don’t think the first story is right.

# 7

this statement is said to look so supportive and sweet but you know Sarah Palin is freaking out about how this is going to look among her own party, all the conversatives that preach about family values and children out of wedlock, let alone so young. Yeah this is going to get interesting.

# 8

Interesting. This could have been a time where she stepped to the plate about how abstinence only education doesn’t work. Instead her and McCain still hold onto those outdated sex education beliefs that Bush pushed in their heads.

I don’t think this debunks her being the mother of Trig. And if Sarah is indeed the mother, then it brings into a WHOLE lot of concern about her judgment with thinking it’s okay to fly on a plan while in labor. Further to go back to work three days after having a child with ds. NEVER having a child with ds, but thinking it’s okay to not only go back to work, but step up to a position that will ONLY take you away from your child even more. If your judgment is lacking with your own kids, surely you aren’t prepared to be concerned about others.

This is so trailer trash.

# 9

What a coincidence. Now one of these things will happen:
1. Palin will resign to deal with her “family issues”
2. we will find out that the first baby is her daughter’s also and she got pregnant again
3. her daughter will mysteriously lose the baby (or mysteriously give it up for adoption) since she’s not really pregnant but is still overweight from her first (real) pregnancy.

This woman is a joke but I hope her daughter is OK.

hahhh nice…

This broad is an f’ing fool of a candidate. For all her high and mighty moral standards, nice to see her daughter is as much of a dirty w-h-o-r-e as all the other girls that get knocked up in high school.

I’ll bet Palin is out of the VP slot before the election as more and more stuff gets revealed.

Way to go McCain! You just RUINED your chances to be the next Prez. We live in a great country folks!

This broad is an f’ing fool of a candidate. For all her high and mighty moral standards, nice to see her daughter is as much of a dirty w-h-o-r-e as all the other girls that get knocked up in high school.

I’ll bet Palin is out of the VP slot before the election as more and more stuff gets revealed.

Way to go McCain! You just RUINED your chances to be the next Prez. We live in a great country folks!

I guess abstinence only education didn’t work in this case. Or maybe her daughter missed those class discussions due to being out for 8 months with “mono” (wink wink)!

This is such a joke !!!!! The truth will prevail… Sarah needs to come clean….. Remember EDWARDS??? President Clinton ??? Do we need to go on?? Family skeleton’s ALWAYS come rattling out of the closet, when you are in the public eye, no matter how hard you try to bury them. Wake up Palin !!!! It is getting close to Halloween, AND Election day…. Any skeleton’s you need to air out before hand ??? It is only fair to all of us and McCain ……..

Even without this news this morning, the vicious lie that The Daily Kos (who supports Obama) started was being debunked here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/01/a-picture-refutes-a-thousand-nutcase-conspiracies/

Also Sarah Palin’s story seems to be life imitating art. The wonderful film “Juno” dealt with this exact subject and America warmly embarced that story. I think Americans are going to love Sarah for her openess, her warmth, her intelligence and will really being pulling for her to succeed.

good luck with that @ 09/01/2008 at 1:02 pm

WOW.. are the parents forcing them to marry to save face? Cause I can’t imagine marriage at 17 working in this day and age. A shotgun marriage really consolidates the message of family values, abstinence vs sex education and birth control.

Sounds like someone needs to spend more time at home with her children vs less.

I was the result a high school love affair forced into marriage.. let me tell you..it rarely works. My parents are so much happier apart and should have never married just to cover the mistake of my conception.

Actually, news outlets are reporting that McCain knew about the pregnancy before he made his choice. They’re trying to handle a difficult situation as graciously as possible, and I think it’s really underestimating the American people to think that a mistake made by a candidate’s daughter would dictate election results. Seriously, people…grow up.

This is similar to Jamie-Lynn spears all over again. They have no other choice but to be supportive but who knows what other secrets that are out there.

I thought they were conservatives i.e. no sex before marriage?

groovacious @ 09/01/2008 at 1:05 pm

wow mccain way to go for choosing this woman

Obama’s attack site The Daily Kos is nothing more than a garbage in/garbage out website.

If Obama had any class he would denounce their support for his campaign. If he doesn’t it proves that he isn’t a new kind of politician and deals in slimes and smears of other candidates and their families.

Obama = The Daily Kos = smear site

KrissyKitty @ 09/01/2008 at 1:06 pm

Sounds to me like Reuters is right.

Kinda ends up making the case for sex education and birth control, doesn’t it?

Now she will be lucky to get a GED and be married before 17 and a toddler before she is old enough to drink.. nice Alaskan life. Nothing better to do out there I guess, especially when your mom is never around.

Good job Palin. Good example of leadership since it will not change your incorrect and stubborn view on sex ed and abstinence vs birth control.

And just think.. your newborn and his nephew will be only a few months apart in age.. heartwarming!!

mazolaheiress @ 09/01/2008 at 1:09 pm

Wow! i think they need a photo op with the Spears family ASAP!

Jaime Lynn and Bristol can become BFFs, they already share funny names, crazy familes and dumb boyfriends!

I feel bad fr the daughter to get dragged into all of this. I think it’s best for Palin to withdraw.

Ha! This family is a joke! What is wrong with the mother, having kid after kid, most recently, a child in April, while her 17-year old is getting knocked up also?? Something isn’t right there!
You don’t have to be pro-abortion to believe in contraception! Condoms, people, condoms……

mccain paline 08 @ 09/01/2008 at 1:12 pm

McCain Palin 08

This news just secured every vote of PRO-LIFE voters!

I think the true face of Obama and his fanatic supporters is starting to show. Attacking a mother/child bond is not exactly going to help their campaign, and focusing on something as trivial as a personal pregnancy issue when there are far more important things going on in our country is …..well, just plain stupid.
I mean really, smear her for some issue you oppose her on BUT THIS???!! Furthermore, before all the “but she lied” cr*p starts (which personally I think Sarah IS Trig’s biological mother) please don’t forget that it is basically in the genetic makeup for a politician to lie….
OBAMA IS NOT GOD people, he is just more adept at hiding his skeletons.

Heaven ulrich @ 09/01/2008 at 1:14 pm

I think that this was something that they are dealing with as a family. I don’t think Sarah needed to tell everyone about the pregnancy. Parents don’t hold press conferences about there teens pregnancies.
But the rumors about the baby being Bristol’s that’s just wrong. But now I know why she was holding the baby(to cover the baby bump). Big deal about her being 17. Most teen pregnancies are around 16+ in America anyways. Wake up America she choose life! The real pressure is on the baby’s father, he better marry this girl out of love not out of guilt. You don’t marry someone just because your going to have a baby together, you marry because you want to. You can have a baby together and show the baby love without marriage as well.
I had my first child at the ripe old age of 18. I didn’t marry the father until 3 years later. But when the time is right that’s when you do it. CT LOVES YOU PALIN FAMILY, JUST DON’T LIE TO US. We are mothers or we are teens, we can be very understanding if your honest.

Stella becker @ 09/01/2008 at 1:15 pm

FISHY!!! if the girl is really pregnant its probably her second, and that pic that is suppose to refute is so not from 2006, the little kids did not grow in 2 years? give me a ******* break! I pity the fools!!

Nice! Interesting. Well, guess what? This doesn’t help them with pro-lifers all THAT much because at least some % of them are going to be appalled that her teen daughter is unmarried and pregnant and was hiding it in the first place.

Second of all, she’s “five months pregnant” and due in “late December.” If true, the other rumors are false!

But if she delivers “prematurely” by a month or two, who’s to say good ol’ Bristol didn’t have that other baby and get pregnant again???

So far, so good.

Hopefully, the media will keep looking into that mysterious birthing pattern.

Again another example of America not facing the facts that teen are having sex. We need to discuss with our children the consequences of sex, and provide them with protection. We in this society want children to act like adults, want to give them so much freedom, want to be their best friends instead of their parents. I hope society opens it’s eyes, and realize that our children are dumb when it comes to sex, and what can result from it. The Palins are lucky in a way that all she got was pregnant. She could have had AIDS> NOW this so call joy about her getting married and raising a family when she can’t raise herself. I hate that the statement makes it sound so Fairy tale. Most teen girls are not given the choice of marriage, The boys walks away and the girl is left to raise the child on her own, or like so often the grandparent(s) are raising the children. I see this scenario everyday in my job. I know that the conservative line is keep the baby and get married. But a 17 year old is too young. She is lucky that her parents and probably the boys will help out. But for most girls in this society that is not the real world. She will not become and example of how easy life can be when you are pregnant. Remember Jamie Lynn.

I’m still curious about the other child Trig. Who is the real parent, and what is the real deal. I see a lot of drama on the horizon for Mrs. Palin. John McCain should have done his homework. I wonder if he knew this when he picked her. I won’t be surprised if she backs off the ticket. Time will tell. Al truths come to the surface eventually. Keep your seat belts on, This is looking like a bumpy ride ahead.

Although a very common and accepted issue in this country, teen pregnancy is still a very touchy subject.

Of course she is going to come out and say it, if not, the media would eat them up.

saying that she feels blessed is simply a pro-life statement. The fact that she is not fetile, and can have children is a blessing, but in my opinion, having a child at 17yrs old, is not a blessing, it’s a responsibility.

When your seventeen year old daughter is having unprotected sex, causing her to have a baby when she is still technically a child, there is a bit of a communication problem between parent and child.

Sorry Sheryl, those pictures don’t debunk anything for me. If she’s noticeably pregnant in February 2008 but NO ONE in her office knew she was pregnant when she announced her pregnancy in March 2008, not even noticed her belly big, SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT.

Again if the rumor isn’t true, so be it. Now she has to answer for ALL of the neglectful things she’s done while pregnant with Trig. Either way, McCain needs to pick another VP.

so much for the republican’s continuos scream of ‘family values’

Hilarious. I am laughing at all the Holier than thou comments…How Palin should withdraw blah blah…It never ceases to amaze me that the very people who think today’s world is so behind the times in America and now they think because her daughter is preg the woman is no good. I tell ya…this is so humorous and so ridiculous…Obama’s mama was a young White woman who became pregnant by a Kenyan who wanted nothing to do with them….Should he withdraw? HAHAH!

Family values, for those uninformed, is a family sticking together when times are tough. That’s what this family is doing. As soon as this woman become the VP nomination the dirt, orchestrated by the liberal media, began.

I’d like to see the attempt made to poke around and really report the skeltons in the Obamas closests. Racism would be called any everything dropped.

But when it comes to sexism against Hillary or Sarah, no one says a word.

That’s why the most unprepared guy will become president and then the problems will begin.

If you’re going to argue that all rumors about conservative candidates are circulated by Obama then the same can be said about the vicious rumors regarding Obama’s religion, alliance with the Middle East, etc were circulated by McCain. The Republicans have been the ones doing the Swift Boat campaigning here.

mccain paline 08 @ 09/01/2008 at 1:12 pm

LOL- Prolifers were voting for McBush anyway-

But will this secure the swing (or undecided vote)

HELL NO.

I can tell you are in a panic, you need to be!!!!

wowww is she pregnant with 5 months?
when did her mononucleosis end??

Yes, she’s pregnant, AGAIN!!
I think someday they’re going to drown in all they’re lies!
that pregnacy is a cover up for the last mistake her daughter did!
the lie went bad because now they had to fake another pregnacy!! Her daughter’s!

Shame on you sarah palin!!

Hello? Adoption. No child should be raised by a 17 year old.

ah ohhhhhhhhhh @ 09/01/2008 at 1:24 pm

WHAT THE ======== FIRST THE BABY WAS THE GOV’S THEN SOME SAY THE BABY WAS BRISTOL’S NOW THE MCCAIN
CAMPAINGE HAS CONFIRMED THAT THIS 17 YEAR OLD GIRL IS FIVE MONTHS PREGNANT AND UNWEDDED…………..WOW SMART PICK FOR VEEP JOHN POOR JUDGEMENT………………. SO MUCH BABY MOMMA DRAMA

Omar
That’s why the most unprepared guy will become president and then the problems will begin.

Are you asleep?

Two Wars
Record Deficits
Record Foreclosures
50,000,000 w/out healthcare
Gas $4 a gallon.

The problems have already begun (dumbass)

Also Palin is against sex education in schools- and Ladies and gentlemen we all see where that gets you- BRISTOL PALIN- BLESS HER HEART.

This Palin woman is laughable. So typical: it’s always the most conservative people whos kids get knocked up at a way too young age. Palin should be ashamed of herself!

Orig Ruth @ 09/01/2008 at 1:29 pm

I bet like h ell they are going to get married, shot gun wedding anyone.

osama husein @ 09/01/2008 at 1:30 pm

THE AMERICANS WANT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA AND BIDEN

BECAUSE THEY LOVE OSAMA BIN LADEN!!!!!!

LOL. OBAMA AND BIDEN SOUNDS LIKE OSAMA BIN LADEN!!

AMERICA WILL BECOME THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE REST OF THE WORLD WHEN OBAMA BIN BIDEN BECOMES THEIR LEADER!

tellin it like it is @ 09/01/2008 at 1:31 pm

World, look out, here comes another Jamie Lynn Spears.

As a mom, the more I think about it, the madder this makes me. Why on freakin’ earth did Sarah Palin accept the nomination and put her family in the national spotlight if she knew about this? To me, that’s child abuse - to make your child be the center of national attention at a time like this. I don’t condemn Sarah or her daughter for the pregnancy - just for putting ambition before motherhood. You can spout all the family values in the world - but returning to work 3 days after having a baby is NOTHING to be proud of. Putting your child in the national spotlight when she’s obviously pregnant and making her the center of speculation - that’s just totally WRONG.

Glad I’m a DEMOCRAT! :D

How is her daughter having a baby going to score points with conservatives, since they aren’t supposed to believe in premarital sex to begin with? Or did she have an immaculate conception and we’re awaiting the re-birth of the messiah? Anybody want to expound on this?

Even DailyKos has backed off their story with respect to the baby:

http://dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/234157/516/1017/581734#c822

This isn’t about Obama, folks! It’s about McCain picking a VP that wasn’t even vetted. That they didn’t know her beyond her being a female.

Lieberman. Pawlenty. Hutchison. Where you at? It might be your time.

Okay- no republican here- where I come from we don’t even call them that…..

WHO ON GOD”S GREEN EARTH manages/controls/completely limits their teenagers?? Who of you truly can?? Honestly I work out of having too to pay bills, and my kids have done some stupid things- even when I have been home.

Controlling your kids- please give me tips.

I wonder if they are going to drag the poor guy to the altar by the hair of his head and a shotgun pointed at his back?

I bet mommy dearest didn’t know what was going on in her back yard. Isn’t it a sin to fornicate outside of marriage…this should keep the religious right from voting for this terrible mom whose daughter got preggers…LMAO

guess what! whether or not this girl raises her own child is not your decision to make. the decision belongs to bristol. for the record my mother got at 16 married my father at 17 two months before she gave birth. my mother decided to keep and raise my eldest brother; he is now studying international law at oxford in england. my parents also had 4 other children. any questions.

Did the REpublicans not vet this candidate? She is running on a family values platform. While I don’t condemn Bristol etc., it does call Palin’s parenting skills into question. She needs to resign.

OMG she is pregnant again. I think this lady has serious issues in her home. a lot of women get pregnant right after they give birth. Sarah has serious problems in running her home. I have a niece who had a baby January 1 and she had a baby born in December the same year. So we all say how could she have done that. Sarah Palin has serious problems in her own family.

sorry i met to send above comments to number 43

I am utterly convinced that George McCain is an idiot! How could his camp, armed with this information, still nominate her?

This woman is a liar and worst yet a hypocrite. Her own family doesn’t respect her views, why the hell should we? My single working mother manages to raise her daughters with self respect and dignity. And you know what? We didn’t come home pregnant. If Sarah runs her own home so poorly, imagine how she would run the country! Do we really need a teenage mother in the white house? It would be like a white house endorsement of teen pregnancy.

Personally this doesn’t bring an end to those rumors. It just makes me wonder what else this morally questionable woman is hiding.

Juno got pregnant & she became an idol.
These are different times & sex at 16 is not
a *****.
My Mom had me @ 17.
I like Sarah Palin..I don’t trust Biden brrr

ah ohhhhhhhhhh @ 09/01/2008 at 1:43 pm

NOW SOME NEOCONS SAY THIS NEW WRINKLE IN THIS STORY WOULD MAKE THEM VOTE FOR MCCAIN EVER MORE TOTAL HYPOCRITICS DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO MAYBE SEX ED CLASS AND INFO ABOUT CONDOMS MIGHT HAVE SAVED THIS YOUNG GIRL THE TOUGH AND ADULT CHOICES SHE NOW HAS TO MAKE…………………HER MOTHER IS KIND OF RELENTLESS IN HER QUEST FOR POWER …………………

liberals look for a reason to attack any chance they get because their candidate is disgusting.

palin believes in pro-life…and her family is practicing that by not aborting the baby. it would of been much easier to abort and cover this up but they are standing by their MORALS and ETHICS and their FAMILY. something liberals have a hard time with.

liberals believe we shouldn’t have capital punishment because you never know what sort of childhood a rapist or murderer had and we should not judge them. YET they are willing to attack, and judge a 17 yr old who had sex and got pregnant. seriously all you liberals…go move to canada.

The McCain judgement is seriously in question.

“They knew about this teenage pregnancy” , but still insisted on allowing Sarah to be VP, knowing the hell they’d be throwing at Bristol, not just the next two months, but for the next four years.

Do we really need an Ashlee Simpson in the White House????

What were they thinking,? They should just have said ,”We’re not gonna hurt a 17-year old any more than she already is, find someone else”

I don’t think this girl should get married at 17, her decision to have the baby notwithstanding. Marriage at that age is insane.

die liberals die @ 09/01/2008 at 1:46 pm

Shell…sweetie…his name isn’t George McCain

you know i am one of the people who have not yet decided who to vote for. really, i consider myself to be independent. but after reading someone the comments from what obviously obama supporters i have come closer to making a decision. i have never read such idiotic comments in my life. but keep going; i’ve never voted republican before but there’s always a first time.

Sarah sets good examples for all young Americans..

not

proud John mccain supporter. @ 09/01/2008 at 1:49 pm

Aha! I knew it! This is only going to get worse. I think the baby Trig is hers and this is just another cover up . Either that or she got knocked up again, as many first time moms do. But how did the daughter get pregnant five months ago if she was infected with mono? Gimme a break! This lady is a joke with her family values, lies, and cover ups!
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so what?
it’s private.
if she wants to cover it up, she can.
it’s a private thing & so then she doesn’t have to answer questions.
cut her some slack.

Mccrazy farted a stinky one and the smell is permeating throughout the country. The repugs are sniffing and I don’t think they like the smell, although they are trying to cover it up with lysol.

This story just keeps getting more and more bizarre. I think it is safe to say that Sarah Palin couldn’t be trusted now no matter what she does. I still don’t believe she gave birth to Trig since as governor she has a staff who she surprised with her pregnancy when at her age and Trig’s Down Syndrome she would have been at the doctor all the time….but still no one knew? Just saying. Anyway, one of these days, the truth may actually come out.

And who is Trig’s real father? I bet there is a cover-up.

Vshizzle,

Obama’s mother is not the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate.

Obama’s mother was not known to advocate abstinence over safe sex.

Obama’s mother was not known to be against sex-ed.

I’m not saying that she should drop out of the race, I’m not saying she is a bad person, or that her daughter is a bad person.

I’m just saying that as a parent, I think she failed to educate her daughter on the do’s and dont’s.

Lack of communication.
Hipocrisy.

I’m not saying that a 17yr girl having sex is taboo.
I’m saying that according to what most so called conservative republicans stand for, a 17yr old girl having unprotected sex enough times to actually get pregant is far from the FAR RIGHT.

Thats why I dont believe in the terms conservative and liberal.
Those are masks people wear in order to gain what they desire.
An image you choose.

Again, as for being a blessing, thats just the pro-life stand.
If she was caught smoking a joint, it would be a disaster, but the 17yr old girl is in bed somewhere with her bf doing all that good stuff, and its a blessing.

Great parenting Sarah.
I hope that all the hard work you put in which did not allow you to efficiently educate your daughter on sex, payed off.

I am a christian and I believe in abstinence before mariage. I am very disappointed in Sarah Palin. As a mother, she was not able to transmit our values to her own daughter and to have control on her own family. I am also disappointed in Mc Cain for choosing this woman: he said he knew her daughter was 17 and pregnant.
I am a die-hard republican and I will never vote for a democrate candidate but I will not vote for this ticket either. This year I won’t vote at all because the republican family has come up with a running candidate that doesn’t reflect my morals and none of the candidates represent me. I hope my fellow republican friends don’t vote either as a way to protest this infortunate choice of running candidates.

I’m watching CNN and McCain’s spokesperson says Sarah Palin is against corruption.

Sure. Which is why she was almost recalled as mayor of Wasilla. She put Wasilla, a twon of less than 6,000, 20 million in debt. She fired the police chief because the police chief supported her opposition. The library director was fired because the library director was against book censorship. Her husband also had a hand in running the town even though he wasn’t an elected official. Now, as governor of Alaska, she is being investigated for firing someone for not firing her ex-brother-in-law going through a bitter divorce with her sister.

She isn’t against corruption. She’s part of the problem.

The truth will come out. Don’t blame the dailykos. Anyone can post on that site. Many people objected and it was taken down, but it wasn’t an atempt to smear. There were just too many things that didn’t add up.I saw the pictures of the daughter looking pregnant and Sara not looking pregnant at all. I think she is still trying to cover up. What kind of sane person would get on an 8 hour flight while in premature labor?? -she and the baby would have been at risk. What kind of mother would go back to work after 3 days and would agree to run for vice president with a 4 month old??? Family values my ass. This shows what poor judgement McCain has-he only met her once and made an impulsive and reckless decision! It was all a ploy to get women ( and Hillary voters)does he think we are all so stupid??

busy little bees @ 09/01/2008 at 1:57 pm

She’s not old enough to vote but she’s ready to be a mother and wife? I’m interested in the success rate of shotgun marriages.

Also, this news is being released in the midst of all the hurricane Gustav coverage while they’ve all known for awhile…. how convenient for them.

I would think this young girl would need her mom now more than ever and hopefully Sarah Palin won’t fail to teach her other four children the importance and necessity of abstinence before marriage if she wants to consider herself a true conservative, Christian and role model on parenting.

SundayRoast @ 09/01/2008 at 1:57 pm

The only Office I could see Palin uphold is on the set of a David Lynch movie! Wtf is wrong with this lady? Where the ell was the mother while the underage daughter was getting knocked up - for the second time!! Make her go away!!

SundayRoast @ 09/01/2008 at 2:01 pm

The mother was too busy lying about the daughter’s first pregnancy. She is GROSS. Lying is a GOP trait, not an inheriently Christian trait! Fools.

I think it’s wrong for people to blame Obama for this. Palin was the one who tried to hide this situation. If she really was a good mother she never would have accepted the v. p. She should have protected her daughter from this!! Palin is in fault here not Obama and not the Daily Kos. This is just the price of fame. Now her children have to suffer for her need for power. POOR KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This just goes to show the trash culture in our country. Teenagers getting pregnant constantly like it’s a normal thing and their parents being applauded for having them keep their mistakes. Sarah Palin is a criminal for not educating her children. For not providing them with basic sexual education and heath. For not educating them about preventing pregnancies. A criminal for allowing her child to have her first retarded mistake and a criminal for passing it off as her own. THATS CALLED FRAUD which should be punished with jail time. She is a criminal for failing to take the time to educate her daughter the first time around. The ***** just had to let her stupid daughter make a second mistake. How about the government starts fining schools thousands each time a teenage **** gets pregnant and puts their parents in jail for failing to educate them? teenage pregnancies will be almost nonexistant. Oh and of course that ***** Sara Palin is using her teenage ***** recent mistake to court prolife mental cripples in the election. McCain you failed. If you hoped to get Hilarys votes let me tell you you didn/t. Maybe you’ve gotten the votes of trash like britney and jamie lyn and their whorish mother. But thats about it. YAY THE TRAILER PARK VOTES! Some campaign!!!

Megan:

Here we go again with the word “liberal” .

Bringing up the subject of abortion.

Its interesting to see how those who want to abolish abortion, can turn the subject around like that.

Megan, the fact that she’s choosing ” life”, and making a statement by having her daughter go through with the pregnancy is not taking responsibility, and its not any consolation.

She was irresponsible when she alloyed her daughter to get pregnant without planning it.

I’ll bet that will be their catch-phrase:
” I CHOSE LIFE”

I can see it now, just like WAG THE DOG.

Thats your opinion Megan. PRO-LIFE is only an opinion.
Just like t is my opinion, that Only when we begin to live for ourselves, and not for god, will we advance long enough to leave this planet.

Never lbase your argument on an OPINION.

How convenient of her to release this statement while catestrophic storm Gustov is taking up news stations 24-7.

WOW…wonder if McCain regrets now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://mylifeiscrap.com

Shell @ 09/01/2008 at 1:41 pm I am utterly convinced that George McCain is an idiot! How could his camp, armed with this information, still nominate her?

This woman is a liar and worst yet a hypocrite. Her own family doesn’t respect her views, why the hell should we? My single working mother manages to raise her daughters with self respect and dignity. And you know what? We didn’t come home pregnant. If Sarah runs her own home so poorly, imagine how she would run the country! Do we really need a teenage mother in the white house? It would be like a white house endorsement of teen pregnancy.

Personally this doesn’t bring an end to those rumors. It just makes me wonder what else this morally questionable woman is hiding.

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So true-that didn’t answer any thing. I believe she is hiding a lot more. I would have more respect if she came out and apologized for lying about Trig and ask forgiveness instead creating another lie to cover up her last lie. Now I have no respect for her. You know the old saying “Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.” The republicans are so nervous about this that they are planting their people on sites to post continuous to shot this down.

Here comes another Republican Cover up!

So Jared no apology for printing crap from that nutty liberal blog full of misogyny ‘ queens” as fact, so let’s see, Trig is 4 months old and her daughter is 5 months pregnant and the whole reason for the story was the mother pretended that she was…. O please it’s to stupid to even retell but liberal and democrat losers are still going after her family just so they can discredit her, sad do you guys have any morals, besides wanting desperately the ability to kill a baby if the pregnancy doesn’t fit into your pathetic lives and then feeling some how superior when other people take the hard road and pay for their mistakes, instead of killing a life.

I can’t beleive that some people are going to vote for this women. I am ashamed of what is happening here. This women is a complete joke and should resign ASAP!

This even gets worse. Now I agree she has some really poor judgement. How can you rebutt rumours by using your daughter like that? They have to realise that no one is going to blindly believe that their daughter who missed school the last how many months is now pregnant and they are cool about it. She is ultra conservative with some really dated birth control methods. How then can she still advocate for them when they failed where her daughter is concerned? Is saying that she is going to marry the father of the baby at 17 supposed to make us applaud and forget it all?

My head is spinning over all this. What next? That her daughter conveniently lost the baby like she is conveniently 5 months pregnant. Notice that it is five months. such a convinient number since Trig is 4 months. Any less and the liberals would have said she can still be the mother. Any more and her stomach would be showing, enough for the public to have noticed without being told.

Count me out of this.

Schlumberger @ 09/01/2008 at 2:11 pm

I shall vote for McCain for President 2008.

I shall make sure I send in my mail ballot before I go on vacation in November.

McCain is definitely the best candidate over Obama.

Sarah Palin step down, please don’t hurt the party any more than you already had.

to 42 @ 09/01/2008 at 1:36 pm
guess what! whether or not this girl raises her own child is not your decision to make. the decision belongs to bristol. for the record my mother got at 16 married my father at 17 two months before she gave birth. my mother decided to keep and raise my eldest brother; he is now studying international law at oxford in england. my parents also had 4 other children. any questions.
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Yes. Why didn’t they send you do a decent school where they teach you that sentences begin with capital letters?

Its so interesting how all you liberals will jump on something so fast in order to help smear someone with different beliefs than you. It makes me sick and people are starting to see how vengeful and evil you all really are. You want everything to be how YOU want them and dont care for anyone elses views. You just label them ignorant when liberals are the ignorant ones! Obama is NOT perfect by any means..and just look at john edwards…oh but we cant report or talk about that right? You all are really effed up.

Hey Jared — where is the apology for publishing that story yesterday about Trig’s parentage? You based your piece solely on rumours from an ultra left blog that has since corrected its story. Now it’s your turn.

How horrible for this mother to accept the nomination knowing her family will be dragged through hell. Selfish. She should withdraw

probably not true @ 09/01/2008 at 2:16 pm

You/Me @ 09/01/2008 at 1:13 pm

Please. Do you blame Mccain for the Muslim rumors about Obama? I bet not. Thus don’t blame Obama for this rumor.

mcchicken wings @ 09/01/2008 at 2:17 pm

what dumb white trash like jamie lynn spears
what dumb white trash like jamie lynn spears
what dumb white trash like jamie lynn spears
what dumb white trash like jamie lynn spears
what dumb white trash like jamie lynn spears
what dumb white trash like jamie lynn spears
what dumb white trash like jamie lynn spears
what dumb white trash like jamie lynn spears

the mother and daughter should be ashamed of themselves john mccain is a ass for picking this trashy woman and her family

This just goes to show the trash culture in our country. Teenagers getting pregnant constantly like it’s a normal thing and their parents being applauded for having them keep their mistakes. Sarah Palin is a criminal for not educating her children. For not providing them with basic sexual education and heath. For not educating them about preventing pregnancies. A criminal for allowing her child to have her first retarded mistake and a criminal for passing it off as her own. THATS CALLED FRAUD which should be punished with jail time. She is a criminal for failing to take the time to educate her daughter the first time around. The ***** just had to let her stupid daughter make a second mistake. How about the government starts fining schools thousands each time a teenage **** gets pregnant and puts their parents in jail for failing to educate them? teenage pregnancies will be almost nonexistant. Oh and of course that ***** Sara Palin is using her teenage ***** recent mistake to court prolife mental cripples in the election. McCain you failed. If you hoped to get Hilarys votes let me tell you you didn/t. Maybe you’ve gotten the votes of trash like britney and jamie lyn and their whorish mother. But thats about it. YAY THE TRAILER PARK VOTES! Some campaign!!!

hhmm @ 09/01/2008 at 12:45 pm Where there is smoke there is fire…

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That is true. Some thing is going on. I never like McCain so not going to vote for him now. Why would he pick her is he knew all of this. I guarantee that girl is not 5 mths pregnant. You can do so much lying with a pregnancy. I’m so mad that McCain went there he could have chosen some one else. His ignorance makes me sick to my stomach.

Republicans08 @ 09/01/2008 at 2:23 pm

OBAMA AND BIDEN SOUNDS LIKE OSAMA BIN LADEN

McCain Palin 08

and here is your next VP if this is what you all want:

http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm

so we’re going to have a pregnant teenager in the white house?
Conservatives were going nuts over Jamie Lynn spears on magazine cover with her baby. can’t blame Hollywood for this one. Just Imagine if it was Barack daughter. Sly Fox news would have a field day with this ****

Pregnant again?! That little girl be getting her freak-on…hahahahahahahaha

Smithereens @ 09/01/2008 at 2:28 pm

You vote for polices and judgement, not personalities. You vote for the person who can stand nose to nose with world leaders and increase our standard of living, not who you think you might want to have lunch with.

Get a clue. Obama is the presidential material, the others–not so much.

I think Trig is Bristol’s baby too. I think Bristol got pregnant the second time because her mother took Trig from her.

If this news is about Obama, right wing republicans will tear him apart. Republican are setting standard they cannot meet. Shamefull!
Joke! Joke! Joke!

She is conveniently 5 months pregnant. Notice that it is FIVE months. such a convinient number since Trig is 4 months. Any less and the liberals would have said she can still be the mother. Any more and her stomach would be showing, enough for the public to have noticed without being told.

Interesting.

Liberals are so judgmental. It is truly reprehensible to delight in other people’s children’s misfortunes. How exactly does a parent “allow” or not “allow” their 17 year old to get pregnant? I guess an abortion would just make everything so much easier. But the harder path shows their character.

Obama is not attacking anybody. Her daughter got knocked up at 17. Abstinence in Alaska obviously is not working and let’s put blame where it is due. This is a newsworthy story reported by the associated press and anyone running for office is open to these disclosures.
The girl is to be commended for her bravery but really getting married is a mistake.

Good gosh women have been getting pregnant at an early since the beginning of time. This isn’t a newsflash. Obama’s own mother was an unwed 17 yr old. I am not going to base my vote on a underage pregnancy bc Obama is a product of one and Palin’s daughter is having one.

How old is the Father? I hope he is younger than 18 , otherwise he had sex with a Minor which is against the Law….

SundayRoast @ 09/01/2008 at 2:31 pm

McCain is more Insane in the membrane than I gave him credit for. That Is Not a compliment.

Anyone who thinks this means the original rumor is a lie is STOOPID. Just wait for more to come out! We’re only three days in and she’s being forced to admit her daughter is pregnant. She’s a lying hypocrite who is against sex ed and birth control and reproductive choice, so she planned to never tell us about her daughter—only 2 months till the election!—and let her give birth behind-the-scenes.

Also, the pix of Sarah looking pregnant date from AFTER she announced she was pregnant, so could easily be fake, duh!

And finally, why do I believe anything out of her mouth, let alone that her daughter happens to be exactly five months pregnant? Who’s to say she isn’t three or four months pregnant, and got knocked up right after she gave birth?

More will come out…

Anyone who thinks this means the original rumor is a lie is STOOPID. Just wait for more to come out! We’re only three days in and she’s being forced to admit her daughter is pregnant. She’s a lying hypocrite who is against sex ed and birth control and reproductive choice, so she planned to never tell us about her daughter—only 2 months till the election!—and let her give birth behind-the-scenes.

Also, the pix of Sarah looking pregnant date from AFTER she announced she was pregnant, so could easily be fake, duh!

And finally, why do I believe anything out of her mouth, let alone that her daughter happens to be exactly five months pregnant? Who’s to say she isn’t three or four months pregnant, and got knocked up right after she gave birth?

More will come out…

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sheryl @ 09/01/2008 at 1:00 pm\
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sheryl, Are you freakin’ crazy? That woman is not open, she is probably lying about Trig. He is likely Bristol’s baby and Bristol got pregnant again to pay her mother back for taking Trig.

MAX BLACK @ 09/01/2008 at 2:34 pm

Jesus f Christ , This stupid Bimbo cant run her house how the hell she gonna run the country , just wondering who is baby daddy is?

This is nobody’s business, the mistakes her daughter make doesn’t mean she is not a good mother, and that her family doesn’t have values, people make wrong decisions, and she made the wrong decision of not using contraceptives, now she has to pay for it, but people shouldn’t judge her for that.

sheryl @ 09/01/2008 at 1:06 pm

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sheryl…..You ignorant b*tch. Obama has nothing to do with this scandal. You are one effing ignorant b*tch.

Wow, some of these comments are crazy. As someone who has a sister that had a baby at eighteen, I know what her family is going thorugh. Most of you that are making comments don’t have teenaged kids, am I right? You can not control what your teenager does at school etc…… If a teen wants to have sex, there gonna do it. So her daughter got pregnant and she is standing behind her, and coming clean about it. That says A LOT about her mothering skills and how she supports her children.As a responisible parent, she is making her daughter own up to her actions. And sex eduation doesn’t do anything. If a kid wants to know about sex, that is something they need to be taking to their parents about. That is the parents responsibilty. At least she has the guts to reveal all the things she is ‘hiding.’ Bristol is going to be the one caring for that baby, not Sarah. This all stems from the fact that people are pissed that he chose a woman, and Obama stupid enough as that man is, didn’t. Her family is and has gone through some TOUGH times, and she is sticking strong and together with them. She will do the same for her country. I’m sick and tired of young people being a democrat because it’s popular right now. Hoenstly is someone has based their voted on what Paris Hilton says or what Hallie Berry says, you have NO business voting. I grew up POOR, but we never milked this country for every last penny they had, my parents just worked hard and it paid off. So yes, I am a hard working Republincan.

I was looking at some photos from the conferance and there is definitely a connection with Bristol & Trig. She is holding Trig as a mother would hold her new baby and Sarah holds him with total disconnect.

Also, I am beginning to believe that this baby do not have downs syndrom. In all the photos the baby is facing away from the camera and from looking at him he seems normal. Could the DS story be a cover to make it more believable that she gave birth to the child because of her age???

I think she needs to come clean or resign. I am just waiting for the mysterious the baby was miscarried or died in the womb story to finish out the finally.

I cannot believe how dumb the republicans are…they don’t know crap about the woman and they are saying how great she is.

Matt (#120 and 121) — are you writing from the mental ward or did you recently escape?

Jared, you should post this item from Reuters

McCain officials said the news of the daughter’s pregnancy was being released to rebut what one aide called “mud-slinging and lies” circulating on liberal blog sites.

According to these rumors, Sarah Palin had faked a pregnancy and pretended to have given birth in May to her fifth child, a son named Trig who has Down syndrome. The rumor was that Trig was actually Bristol Palin’s child and that Sarah Palin was the grandmother.

A senior McCain campaign official said the McCain camp was appalled that these rumors had not only been spread around liberal blog sites and partisan Democrats, but also were the subject of heightened interest from mainstream news media.

“The despicable rumors that have been spread by liberal blogs, some even with Barack Obama’s name in them, is a real anchor around the Democratic ticket, pulling them down in the mud in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their ‘campaign of change,’” a senior aide said.

how many of you teen agers writing on this blog are virgins??????????

who cares? @ 09/01/2008 at 2:45 pm

It’s not like that ticket will win the election. let’s move on…..

girl in dallas @ 09/01/2008 at 2:45 pm

Notice how most of the men comment on this, however, ask them how many of them had sex at 17.. Difference is they didn’t get caught or aren’t men enough to admit that they actually were responsible for a preganancy… Why is this classified as a mistake.

Parents can only do their best, but all people have their own minds, even the ir children and no matter what you teach them, they will do what they want to do.
Stop holding the parents responsible for everything.. Its of no great secret that most families have to have two incomes to survive and all of a sudden its the mothers fault?..
How many of these people that are posting negative comments are divorced?.. You don’t think thats not a sin.. Read your bibles people… How many people posting these comments are 50 plus pounds overweight?.. Talk about respecting your bodies people!!….
Those without sin can cast the first stone… its not me, so Sarah Palin and family, best of luck to you, real people living real life.. the rest of you people who live by rightenous, I just wonder what the press could dig up on you if you were worth digging

ace tomato @ 09/01/2008 at 2:46 pm

Well, there is simply no way the daughter is five months pregnant AND gave birth in secret to a four month old baby. Basic math.

Palin was just selected at VP on Friday, people. She wasn’t going to announce her daughter’s pregnancy in her acceptance speech. Give me a break.

Lots of political leaders have had children who made mistakes. That’s part of life.

I think in this case it’s very understandable how she wasn’t able to watch her daughter. I know when kids and up a pregnant a lot of people blame their parents for not watching, but it wasn’t like work and their own problems consumed them at the time of conception. They were a month away from bringing their own child, who they knew would have down syndrome, into the world. That’s an understandable distraction.

I respect her openness about the issue and the fact that she hopes her daughter and future son in law will see that it’s not so easy to raise a baby.

The girl is to be commended for her bravery but really getting married is a mistake.

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maggsie @ 09/01/2008 at 2:30 pm

Good gosh women have been getting pregnant at an early since the beginning of time. This isn’t a newsflash. Obama’s own mother was an unwed 17 yr old. I am not going to base my vote on a underage pregnancy bc Obama is a product of one and Palin’s daughter is having one.
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First of all Obama’s mother was married to his father.
And she was not pregnant at 17. She got married at 18 and then had Obama later.

Secondly, WHY THE HELL DOES THIS HAVE TO BE ABOUT OBAMA. OBAMA IS NOT INVOLVED IN THIS SCANDAL, YOU MORON.

Obama’s camp should try to rein in these liberal bloggers who are into these dirty tricks. It could backfire in their faces.

I don’t know if the Dems on this board have been paying any attnetion, but as per the latest surveys, Obama and McCain are practically in a dead heat. Obama didn’t get a bounce from his convention speech.

I remember when Jamie Lynn got pregnant, there were some on fox news like Bill O’Reilly and Saun Hannity talking bad about her and her mom’s parental skills. Bill even went as far as saying her show should be cancelled because she is a disgrace to teenagers and that she should not be a role-model. That’s a little hypocritical don’t you think?

#77 #77
LMAO, LMAO That was freaking hysterical! Another white trash fam. going to washington!The rep. party is known for their closeted homosexuals and yet they pass laws to discriminate against them. They are controlled by the neo cons which by the way is a small section of our society, and yet has so much power and money, that they are able to control uneducated men and women with fear tactics. They don’t want to loose because they make so much money on the backs of the rep. uneducated retards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right-wing, religious fanatics are such idiots! She does not believe in a woman’s right to choose, nor does she believe in Gay marriage. It is none of her business what other adults do. Why doesn’t she stay home and raise her children so that her daughter won’t go out looking for love in all the wrong places.

Jane of NY @ 09/01/2008 at 2:51 pm

I can’t believe these ignorant ass Repubs on this forum. Trying to drag Obama into this. The man is busy campaigning, and has nothing to do with this schytt.
You ignorant ass Repubs, are showing your true colors.

Libertarian @ 09/01/2008 at 2:56 pm

People, it’s not like Sarah Palin is 17 , about to have a baby and just accepted the Vice Presidential nomination!

It doesn’t matter and it actually makes the GOP look more Democratic.
VP **** Cheney’s daughter is a lesbian, so what?

The common thread is that everyone’s is American and that means the Republican’s are just as jacked up as the Dems.

All I want is that whoever gets in power not to jack up my ish that I have going on. I have it nice in this country as a business owner and no one better mess that up for me with funky new laws and Ray Nagin type of homeland security.

Jane of NY @ 09/01/2008 at 3:00 pm

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emily @ 09/01/2Obama’s camp should try to rein in these liberal bloggers who are into these dirty tricks. It could backfire in their faces.
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Are you righty’s this ignorant?!
The Obama camp cannot control what other people say on the internet. You must be a damn fool.

How does this knock anything down? It could still be true. Not saying it is but her being pregnant now doesn’t disprove anything. So last time the idiot faked it, this time there is no way she can do that so now her irresponsible daughter has to actually deal with it.

nope. each sitution is different. duh

Trig Palin was born on 4/18/08. That gives Bristol just enough time to be in her fifth month of a new pregnancy. Just because Bristol is pregnant now doesn’t mean she wasn’t pregnant before.

Jane of NY @ 09/01/2008 at 3:03 pm

hen @ 09/01/2008 at 2:49 pm

Obama’s camp should try to rein in these liberal bloggers who are into these dirty tricks. It could backfire in their faces.
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How ignorant can you get?!
The Obama camp can’t control, nor should they try to control what other people say on the internet

Jared, thanks for reporting this. It shows the true face of all your readers. In the end it doesn’t matter how much mud McCain & Obama throw at each other, the Republicans will fraud the election anyway. All go see
UNCOUNTED and you know that this whole election is a big joke anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJz09T0HME

That’s abstinence only education right there for you….GO CONSERVATIVES *notice my blatant sarcasm*

a realist @ 09/01/2008 at 3:05 pm

You/Me @ 09/01/2008 at 1:13 pm

I think the true face of Obama and his fanatic supporters is starting to show. Attacking a mother/child bond is not exactly going to help their campaign, and focusing on something as trivial as a personal pregnancy issue when there are far more important things going on in our country is …..well, just plain stupid.
*************************Listen stupid B*tch. Obama IS NOT attacking anyone, he is NOT involved with this.

Why didn’t Bristol get on some kind of birthcontrol? Hell, you can buy condoms over the counter. She’s irresponsible and lucky her parents are stupid , rich and can support her.

I wonder when the pictures will surface with Levi stickin’ his tongue down someones throat??

twpumpkin @ 09/01/2008 at 3:08 pm

Big Deal! Should every mother who has a young daughter get pregnant quit their job! She will still make a great VP. You left wingers are just looking for something on this woman. I say shut your pie holes and go hug a f***** tree!

Bristol may be pregnant…but not 5 months…anyone can say 5 months. If she is pregnant, she is perhaps 2 to 3 mos pregnant.. One lie to hide another, and another, and another……another…another…

I’m not American, so I can’t vote for either Mccain or Obama, but reading the posts here and what’s written on Daily Kos, I’ve realized that the liberal wingnuts are just as scary as the rightwing nut jobs.

They’re willing to believe anything, and are willing to twist the truth and spread lies to ensure that their candidate wins. And talk about a double standard.

Democrat, Republican- this is the ugly face of America right there.

From what I have been viewing photos of Palin and a news video of locals learning out of the blue (after Palin decide to announce it) talking about not knowing Palin was 7 months pregnant because she wasn’t even showing. Apparently, in the town she lived in no one believed her because she was not showing at all! They were all shocked. To see photos of her now today (4 months later) and seeing a photo of her pregnant in the past this woman was and has not carried a child IMO.

She is not a tall women she is petitte and therefore shorter women carry more weight, unless they are really thin which she is not. Photos from the conference of her daughter holding Trig with loving care as a mother is proof enough for me that this is a lie that has gone bad. I understand her intentions but I compare her bad judgment at home with bad judgment of running this country in the event father time McCain drops dead! What will she cover up to save face in front of America???

Will she lie to us just as Bush has for 8 years? Yes, she has already started yet there seems to be many on here that think it is a personal matter and none of our business. Well just like you republicans make it known to us about Clinton, Edwards, & Hillary’s lies you should be using that same critical judgment of lies on your own candidates as well, and call for her to resign from her post. I am not a republican but I would want a better judge of character than her for VP. Just because it wears a skirt don’t mean it is the best! Hell call Kay Bailey Hutchinson if you guys want a woman!

What a mess… This woman has an infant that needs a Mother’s complete attention and a pregnant teenager. This woman then now adds to her fame seeking life - the VP nomination.

Her career appears to be her main focus and how in the world could a Mother choose to go forward with such demands in public life and a career when she does not have to make that choice. Apparently, she does not have to work and makes this choice given her situation?

So much for the Republicans pushing abstinence…

Okay here’s my 2 cents on the whole situation.
I already heard Trig wasn’t Sarah’s sometime last week so I wasn’t surprised when I seen Jared posted the story about it yesterday. Thats why I didn’t comment on it. Now, Bristol is pregnant and it makes me really wonder, if Trig’s is REALLY Sarah’s child or her grandson.

The reason it makes me wonder is because of the things that don’t add up. I find it really bizarre that Sarah walked around her staff, her meetings, even to the damn grocery store in her town without people knowing that she was pregnant. I’m not saying she couldn’t have been pregnant because of smaller figure, but in her case it didn’t make sense. Throughout all her pregnancies, she was huge as a house! the more you have children, the more you are noticeably pregnant whenever you do become pregnant. Now the whole down syndrome situation, I won’t even comment on that because I am not a doctor so I wouldn’t know why Trig was born that way whoever “his” mother is. So many theories could go with that one LOL, either Bristol is his mom and wasn’t careful throughout her pregnancy with him, or Sarah and Bristol aren’t his mothers because Trig doesn’t look 100% white. Crazy huh? LOL

What I also don’t understand is besides the fact even her own staff were completely suprised about her pregnancy, she decided to take an 8 hour flight, then drive another 45 mins to the hospital while in labor. Thats something I won’t understand without probable explanation. She’s over the common age of having children plus the baby had a known case of down syndrome who ended up being born prematurely so why would she risk the fact of doing ALL of that just so the baby could be born elsewhere? Unless her daughter went into labor herself and she went off to meet her…

Now I’m pretty young, in college, and It wasn’t too long ago I was in high school with my friends who were doing their thing, and I remembered one of my friends caught mono, and she was out for a month and a half of school. I never heard anyone in my school at the time, being away from the “kissing disease” for 5-6 months. I know some people are different but hey, it just sounds….off.

Finally, Bristol is alledgedly 5 months pregnant. I just find it so funny because my girlfriends and I were laughing last night, saying if Trig WAS Bristol’s, then she better be careful and not get pregnant again because its 3 times easier getting pregnant after birth. And Trig is what? 4 months? Any woman knows, if you’re not on birth control and are having sex after birth, you’re bound to get pregnant again. Common Sense. Great Timing though, first we hear Trig is the grandson of Sarah, then we hear Bristol is 5 months pregnant. Nice.

I think this is less about being hyocrites than this being a generation of trash teenagers.

it’s obvious that there is no fear of God, parents and anything else that might make teens be more careful or scared these days. They seem to be the “I don’t care” generation. Up until recently, teen pregnancies statistics were the lowest in like 30 years then 5 years ago, things changed.

Bristol should not even pretend to say she will marry because if it’s marriage that she truly wanted, she would have announced her engagement. Marrying someone because you got pregnant is just as crazy and irresponsible as having unprotected sex.

Good luck to her.

Oh yah, I forgot to add the fact that I couldn’t believe she went back to work 3 DAYS LATER, when her child has special needs. Even if Trig didn’t have down syndrome, a mother and child need at least a week to BOND right after birth. Its just motherly instincts.

The Beverly Hill Billies goe to Washington oops I meant Alaskan Hill Billies…go to “Washington”….this is Juno, this is Jamie Lynn Spears, disgusting family….trashy trashy trashy!!!!!!! Anyone who kills animals are pigs.

Workin' Patriot @ 09/01/2008 at 3:26 pm

sheryl,and to whom it may concern,

The first amendment protects the freedom of speech.
You can’t spend all of your time seeking out those you disagree with to denounce them.This stuff always happens.Remember the swift boaters? It’s each persons decision to debunk,disprove and disbelieve or not.
However,this situation does reflect upon the ethics(Get it out immediately.Don’t attempt to cover-up) and honesty(mononucleosis?) of the VP pick and the decision making process of a potential president as well.BTW- I realize the argument will be “It’s a personal matter”.But,when you decide to become one of the most powerful public servants in this country you need to be as open,honest and forthright as you rhetoric.

Listening to all of Obama’s supporters trash a fine woman like Sarah Palin is very telling.

Why does Obama seem to attract such hate filled people like on this website and every anti-American type like Rev. Wright, Fr. Pfleger, William Ayers, Bernidine Dorhn, Hamas, Chavez, Castro brothers, Che Guevera t-shirt wearing supporters, etc.,etc.etc?

Obama has never served in an important leadership position in government, business, or the military. His ability to perform as a chief executive officer is completely untested.

Obama has prestigious degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, but no significant professional achievements to his name.

No businesses or organizations he has founded or managed. No law firm partnerships. No important cases he has tried.

Not a single work of legal scholarship he has authored, despite having been Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Review and a part-time law professor at the University of Chicago for twelve years. (This is unheard of in the elite ranks of the legal profession, and calls into question the bona fides of Obama’s professorship.)

[☆I n F a m o u s☆] @ 09/01/2008 at 3:27 pm

lol @ mccain.

palin’s p[o]ison.

Ava @ 09/01/2008 at 2:38 pm

Paris is a republican. Nobody is voting for Obama b/c of what a celebrity says- Obama is the best choice.

Hell McBush could not even vet his own vp properly, the media is doing this for him.

Just wait until the debate with Joe Biden, it will be all she wrote for Mrs. Palin.

Left wingers are crazy? Puhleese, if anyone is shaking in their boots it’s the right wingers. If a Democrat woman was pulling this type of crap, Republicans everywhere would be bad mouthing her and saying what a bad mother she is and how this isn’t someone who should be running the country. About time someone looked into some major dirt about those hypocritical conservatives, and I hope there’s plenty more where that came from. LMAO

I will never vote for Obama and fall for his great speeches, he’s all talk and no action. McCain/Palin 2008

Obama “is the least experienced candidate for president in the last
100 years.”
He’s never run a city, he’s never run a state, he’s never run a
business, he’s never administered a payroll, he’s never led people in
crisis. But yet he promises change???? Yeah if that isn’t a huge target on America I don’t know what is.

Assuming that the first rumors were true and Palin did fake a pregnancy, the only way they are going to cover up their lies is by more lies and pretending Bristol is now pregnant to take the focus of the first rumors.

gnmc - you are obviously forgetting that birth control is not 100% guaranteed you won’t get pregnant!

My sister was conceivved with condems
A friend just got pregnant this year using birth control!

you don’t know if she was using birth control or not - so until you are 100% sure (i.e. Bristol or her family says it!) you cannot say about that!

I think it’s great her parents support her… honestly this just reminds me of that show Reba when the 17 year old gets pregnant.

This woman can’t even control her 17 year old daughter. A person who chooses her job over ‘her’ children just goes to show what kind of a person she is. Sorry, if she can’t handle her own children, she surely can’t handle an entire country.

guys… she 14.
your source is obviously wrong.
and yesterday you said she was 16

peewee -

there’d be no point in them lying about her being pregnant now b/c if she is it will show, & she’ll give birth & everyone will KNOW, if she’s not she won’t give birth - so NO, they are NOT lying now. If they were earlier, that’s besides the point, this will NOT cover it up.

“BTW- I realize the argument will be “It’s a personal matter”.But,when you decide to become one of the most powerful public servants in this country you need to be as open,honest and forthright as you rhetoric.”

I think she is doing that. Sarah has just become a news story since Friday, less than 100 hours ago and is extremely new to the nation. (I was thrilled with her because I follow politics closely so she isn’t so new to me….she has a very impressive life story).

It’s as if someone in the GOP approached a Hollywood casting agent and as for a dash of:

Norma Rae (for self confidence in taking on the good ol boys & corruption)

· Katherine Hepburn (for intelligence & athleticism)

· Margaret Thatcher (for steel resolve to make it in a man’s world)

· Princess Diana (for beauty and warmth and a naturalness with the public)

· Marge Gunderson from Fargo (for the cheerful mother & happily married wife who just so happens to have a serious day job that she’s wicked smart at)

· Lara Croft (for her affinity for weaponry and to use it for the common good and the saving of mankind)

The Republicans sure do love their liars.

Being a conservative doesn’t eliminate one’s sexual drive or a teenager’s raging hormones….

Being a conservative does protect the unborn child…

John McCain had to know about the pregnancy, and I give both of them credit for not letting an unborn child be the deciding factor in choosing Palin to round out the ticket.

For those of you who are “glad” that you are Democrats, do you work? If you do, do you like paying for the deadbeats that don’t, who like to live off of the government for generations? Do you like the fact that if you have a captial gain, you would pay the government 33 percent of it? Oh, if you are a Democrat, that probably wouldn’t matter to you. You’re more concerned about what the minimum wage is, most likely.

McCain is the most experienced and most qualified candidate, and that ticket just got alot warmer with the addition of Palin and yes, her grandbaby on the way.

Did the fact that **** Cheney having a gay daughter stop people for voting for Bush??? Nope, in fact, it may have helped them seem a little more human.

If we are going to scrutinize VP’s family’s - how many of you know that Hunter Biden (Joe’s son) is under investigation for mishandling of hedge funds?

In the real world, Hunter Biden’s behavior is alot or more questionable that Bristol Palin’s…..

But, we are electing a president, not a vice president, or their children, are we?

hmmm -

can YOU control a 17 year old?

Yes, “where there’s smoke there’s fire”….wonder if this young lady has back-to-back pregnancies? The story of the mother’s pregnancy does not ring true and seeing the photos at term, hearing the “story” of the amniotic fluid leak, et al., makes it very fishy.

There is absolutely nothing attractive about a pregnant teenager and it doesn’t make this Republican candidate appear to be a very strong mother while she lusts after power and playing political games with the good ole’ white boys rather than supporting her children with sound guidance.

What is wrong with these narrow-minded fundamental Christians who make excuses for one another while they judge those of other parties. They say abortion is “killing” and, yet, they are collective warmongers, perpetuate violence and killing, beheadings, hangings, and the displacement of Iraqi families who lived in a sovereign nation which was illegally invaded by Bush-McCain.

Since John McCain didn’t vett her for the position as he rushes to grab Alaska’s oil with Bush-Cheney, I hope the mainstream media never leave one stone unturned regarding her life.

She “ain’t no” Hillary Clinton and we know her daughter isn’t beautiful, intelligent, and refined like Chelsea Clinton.

WOW, “WOW”. You lifted that argument directly from a conservative blog. LOL! Let me add another one to your list of “nevers”. YOU NEVER THINK FOR YOURSELF!

bluegirltoo @ 09/01/2008 at 3:41 pm

Classic. How’s that abstinence-only education working for you now? Bristol Palin is lucky all she got was a baby and not HIV or other sexually transmitted disease. And now she’s getting married?? Yes, let’s compound the situation by forcing two teenagers to wed and start a household. That should work out well.
I am a feminist. I would never say that any woman could not or should not have both a career and a family if she chooses. However, I do believe Sarah Palin is in a special circumstance here. She has a 3-month-old baby with special needs and a pregnant teenage daughter…not to mention 2 other children still at home. And now she is embarking on a presidential campaign? There is simply NO WAY she can adequately handle both. Our country cannot afford to play second fiddle and neither should her children. Sometimes you just have to say NO.

Casey -

I understand being against the war but there was nothing illegal about it as far as invading - Congress voted for it, that made it legal for US standards to invade. For Iraq? Since when has WAR been agreed by both nations!!!??!! In that case you have to think every war, including war for independence, is wrong.

And is Palin really a Christian? I had not heard that.

You mean..THERE ARE NO DEMOCRATS WITH TEENAGE PREGNANCIES IN THEIR FAMILY?
CAST THE FIRST STONE.

geez @ 09/01/2008 at 3:38 pm The Republicans sure do love their liars.
___________________
And how do you spell liar, with a Bill Clinton or a John Edwards, or a Ted Kennedy ???

Both parties have liars, you idiot.

So, sounds like the mono was actually morning sickness????

Megan @ 09/01/2008 at 1:44 pm

no please, we do not want americans liberals to move here to canada. we don’t need anymore liberal loons we have enougn problems with our own; we dont need to add yours to the mix. no, no they are your problem; you keep them.

Do you really think that a woman should not run for public office because she has a houseful of kids? Yes, I know the youngest has Down’s Syndrome, and unless there is a need for heart surgery, all that child needs is love and a supportive family.

Would any one be saying that a man with a special needs child should not be running for office? Think about it.

Did anyone say that Robert Kennedy should not run for office because he had alot of kids and one on the way when he was campaigning? Think about it.

A woman can do both. Alot of us do it every day.

Schlumberger @ 09/01/2008 at 3:53 pm

AP @ 09/01/2008 at 2:43 pm Jared, you should post this item from Reuters

McCain officials said the news of the daughter’s pregnancy was being released to rebut what one aide called “mud-slinging and lies” circulating on liberal blog sites.

According to these rumors, Sarah Palin had faked a pregnancy and pretended to have given birth in May to her fifth child, a son named Trig who has Down syndrome. The rumor was that Trig was actually Bristol Palin’s child and that Sarah Palin was the grandmother.

A senior McCain campaign official said the McCain camp was appalled that these rumors had not only been spread around liberal blog sites and partisan Democrats, but also were the subject of heightened interest from mainstream news media.

“The despicable rumors that have been spread by liberal blogs, some even with Barack Obama’s name in them, is a real anchor around the Democratic ticket, pulling them down in the mud in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their ‘campaign of change,’” a senior aide said.

to Julianne @ 09/01/2008 at 3:56 pm

Yes both parties do have liars but the republicans are the ones who try to make it seem like they are above anything wrong ever happening in their camp (do gooders) and are quick to want everybody to squash their dirt. Yet when it comes to the Democrats you guys want to smear the dirt for months to come. So yes the Republicans love their liars and their closet gay men! They will protect & cover them at all cost.

Sarah Palin is a feminist too. She worked her way to the top on her own with no special help of being a president’s wife or the child of privilage or special connection in politics.

She succeeded by being intelligent and hard working and caring about her community. She was able to succeed with a supportive family around her. And with this new story it looks like proof that she isn’t perfect but is able to handle anything, in a positive way, that comes her way.

She embodies the qualities of strength, beauty and brains of an American woman.

When does it become a decent thing for teenagers to become pregnant out of weedluck. Whoow it is the right thing only when republicans are involved. This is pathetic and distubing! Now Obama is to be blamed for a teenage pregnancy. Unbelivable!

Oma,

I couldn’t agree more.

THANK GOD SHE’S NOT A LIBERAL. WE WOULD NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT FROM CONSERVATIVES.

See, if a liberal teenager gets pregnant, all we hear from the right is how liberals are destroying family values by having unplanned pregnancies out of wedlock. But if a conservative does the same, she is somehow a martyr for the pro-lifers. You can’t have it both ways, you hypocrits! Oh, wait, I forgot…you’re the GOP…you talk out of both sides of your mouth on EVERY issue.

Workin' Patriot @ 09/01/2008 at 4:08 pm

The election boils down to this.
You can vote for more of the same:
- less jobs,lower paying jobs,less healthcare,less respect world wide,less freedoms & rights,less pay,less home value,wrecked economy,higher inflation,higher taxes on the shrinking middle class,higher debt,less health & financial security for our seniors,less executive accountability,more so-called “pre-emptive” wars,More money to the rich and powerful, less for the average working man & woman,more pollution,more invironmental destruction and more of hypocrisy :’We’ll dictate to everyone else how they should live. But, those same rules/laws don’t apply to us.After all,we’re above that’.
-or you can vote for the opposite!

Obama’s campaign response:

Obama: Back off the families

Candidates’ families are “off limits,” the media should “back off” and if he thought anyone on his campaign had been involved in spreading rumors about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s youngest child “they’d be fired,” Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told reporters in Monroe, Mich., a short time ago.

Obama was reacting to reports that Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant and that McCain adviser Mark Salter says the news was released in part to knock down Internet rumors that the 17-year-old is the mother of Palin’s 5-month-old son.

Obama supporting websites are the ones that started this rumor. Also, Obama has attacked Cindy McCain’s wealth too.

Obama’s news organization MSNBC also attacked Hillary and Chelsea all thru her campaign.

Obama is a dirty politician from Chicago. There is no proof that Obama can fix Washington because he didn’t lift a finger to clean up the dirty politic in Chicago.

He actually did the opposite, he dove right in to move up the political ladder and Chicago citizens are the poorer for it.

ASSOCIATED PRESS:

Sarah Palin’s fifth child, a son named Trig, was born in April with Down syndrome. Internet bloggers have been suggesting that the child was actually born to Bristol Palin but that her mother, the 44-year-old Alaska governor, claimed to be the mother.

Palin spokesman Bill McAllister emphatically denied those rumors, and McCain adviser Mark Salter said the campaign announced the daughter’s pregnancy to rebut them.

“Senator McCain’s view is this is a private family matter. As parents, (the Palins) love their daughter unconditionally and are going to support their daughter,” said McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt.

“Life happens,” he said.

“An American family,” added Salter.

The advisers said Palin told them about the pregnancy during lengthy discussions about her background. At several points during the discussions, McCain’s team warned Palin that the scrutiny into her private life would be intense and that there was nothing she could do to prepare for it.

Advisers said Palin’s daughter should be afforded privacy like the other candidates’ children. Said Schmidt: “If people try to politicize this, the American people will be appalled.”

In Monroe, Mich., Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama condemned rumors involving the children of candidates and echoed the McCain campaign argument. Said Obama: “I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits.”

Obama adamantly denied anonymous claims that his campaign helped spread the rumors.

“I am offended by that statement,” Obama said. “Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I ever thought that there was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they’d be fired.”

Ok, Bristol is not the first 17 year old to get preggers, nor will she be the last. I am a pro-life supporter, as well as a supporter of abstinence. So I do give Sarah some props in that respect. However, while we all know politicians aren’t saints, and they are some of the worst liars out there, the fact is that they do present this facade of respectability. The want the people to believe that they follow some sort of moral code. So for Palin to come and preach to people the virtues of abstinence and then have her own daughter become pregnant before marriage is downright hypocritical. Palin needs to take care of her family, which is obviously facing a few problems at present. Also, how is it that she travels around the U.S. “politicking” yet she has a 3 or 4 month old child at home with special needs. What about breast feeding? Who, really, is looking after this baby?

Also, someone asked if any of us teens writing here are virgins. Well I am over the age of 20 and still a virgin. My sister was still a virgin at age 30, then she got married. In fact, she and her husband shared their first kiss on their wedding day. So abstinence is possible, but difficult, especially since we are bombarded with sexual images left and right.

But to Sarah Palin I must say your daughter, and by extension your family, needs you more than McCain does.

Liberal Nutjobs, this is what your Lord Obama says:

In Monroe, Mich., Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama condemned rumors involving the children of candidates and echoed the McCain campaign argument. Said Obama: “I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits.”

Obama adamantly denied anonymous claims that his campaign helped spread the rumors.

“I am offended by that statement,” Obama said. “Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I ever thought that there was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they’d be fired.”

Remember how some celebrities hide their pregnancies? using coats and other heavy clothing, which Sarah Palin is wearing in most of the pics where she is pregnant. I think she was. I am a teacher of middle school and I’ve seen the type of body that some teens who are not too thin have, specially those who have used low rise jeans that leave the belly to grow out, particularly when you are a teen and still growing and having weight fluctuations. The other Palin’s girls do not seem very slim, just normal, not thin. I believe the baby is Sarah’s and this is becoming an urban legend or something like it just for the power of gossip. If Sara were a man, this would not be happening.

So much for women having the same rights as men, why is not the father being blamed for not taking care of the now pregnant girl? Blame the woman, we are guilty of everything!

alannah-jaide @ 09/01/2008 at 4:19 pm

Desperate Housewives much?
Faking a pregancy part I mean

alannah-jaide @ 09/01/2008 at 4:19 pm

Desperate Housewives much?
Faking a pregancy part I mean

TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Total trash!!!!!

Absolute Trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, real women’s lib - have your 17 year old have a baby, get married instead of educating herself on the many opportunities she could embrace as a young American woman. Nice - real nice…

Why don’t we tell EVERY SINGLE 17 year old to go out and get pregnant since it’s such wonderful news Sarah Palin?

Somebody put out the TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!

Nice pick McCain. 5 months pregnant????!!! TRASH!!!!!!

I have nothing against Palin however, I think she has made some very unfortunate decisions - fAmericans we need a VP that will not compromise our future.

I have a child with a disability, I have two other kids in addition, the youngest being 2 years, I am a career woman and is fortunate to have the financial resources to have babysitters, BUT I have now made the decision to resign from my job to be there for my child.

To choose a career as demanding as VP of the most powerful nation on earth is not something you can just do without sacrificing your family.

I am sorry, something has to give… and personally I would choose my family but hey that is just me.

Nice family values Palin!!!! Bwahahahahahahahaha!

TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Workin' Patriot @ 09/01/2008 at 4:30 pm

sheryl,
I lived in or near Chicago for decades and followed this news.Your Obama/Cricago references are erroneous

Down syndrome baby. 17 year old who is 5 months preggers. Palin has her hands full. Jus twhat I need in my heartbeats away from being president candidate! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trash Trash - like worst then the Spears trash!!!!!!
Nice values message Palin! Th hypocrisy here is THICK!!!!!

I am glad to see the response from Obama about the families of the candidates…they should be off limits.

I respect him for issuing this statement, and hope that the media will only take a day or two to chew on it, unless of course you have CNN streaming all day with the liberal propaganda filtering into our society all day long.

There are bigger issues to deal with, besides a baby being born to young parents. They aren’t the first, and won’t be the last. Teenagers have been getting preggers for centuries, despite whatever political party their parents are affiliated with.

I say we thank Obama for his voice of reason, and concentrate on the issues.

OMG - Was Diddy high when he went on his “no black people in Alaska” rant? Embarassing. Maybe he should come and visit my hometown of Detroit. Plenty of black people there, just check out the mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick. Again, embarassing.

Speaking of embarassing, can you spell Elliott Spitzer, the former Governor of NY and a life long Democrat ? ? Sorry, couldn’t resist!

Workin Patriot you are simply wrong. Chicago is notoriously known for their dirty politics.

Ask Tony Rezko and William Ayers.

Ask Obama why he is trying to shut out any inquiry to the Anneberg Project that he and Ayers chaired.

Ask them why isn’t fair to ask how a 100 million dollars was spent and why they think the public doesn’t have a right to fair and open inquiry to this matter.

This doesn’t debunk anything. If they faked Mama Palin’s pregnancy they can fudge the truth about anything. Just because they say Trig was born in April doesn’t mean he was. If he’s Bristol’s he could have been born a couple of months earlier and it wouldn’t be so unrealistic to believe Bristol got knocked up again right away. I have 2 cousins who are 10 months apart, so this proves nothing.

All I know is that they sure are a fertile bunch. Must be all those Moose burgers.

Don’t blame this on Obama fanatics either because you know if the same thing happened on Obama’s side McCain would be ALL over it. The dirt is on both sides–don’t even try to act like one is nobler than the other.

This doesn’t debunk anything. If they faked Mama Palin’s pregnancy they can fudge the truth about anything. Just because they say Trig was born in April doesn’t mean he was. If he’s Bristol’s he could have been born a couple of months earlier and it wouldn’t be so unrealistic to believe Bristol got knocked up again right away. I have 2 cousins who are 10 months apart, so this proves nothing.

All I know is that they sure are a fertile bunch. Must be all those Moose burgers.

Don’t blame this on Obama fanatics either because you know if the same thing happened on Obama’s side McCain would be ALL over it. The dirt is on both sides–don’t even try to act like one is nobler than the other.

“I say we thank Obama for his voice of reason, and concentrate on the issues.”

It’s a good start but he needs to renounce The Daily Kos’ endorsement for his candidacy. Smear machines like The Daily Kos shouldn’t have been so elavated by the Democrat party and over the years the Democrat party has become so entrenched with this site.

The site doesn’t practice respectable journalism and no one running for president should accept their endorsement.

Workin' Patriot @ 09/01/2008 at 4:48 pm

…There is proof that McCain can wreck this country.
Because,for over 30 years he didn’t lift a finger to clean up the dirty politics in Washington!
He actually did the opposite, he dove right in to move up the political ladder and U. S. citizens are the poorer for it.

….That is a much better fit.

Yea, this is the woman running my country…….NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Workin' Patriot @ 09/01/2008 at 4:51 pm

Now you’re talkin”!

“If this happened on Obama’s side…”

Well, Obama’s mother was preggers for him in college and married the father.

This is not a political issue, it is a personal one.

You know the good thing is that we are at least having dialogue about the candidates and although we all don’t agree, we care enough about our country to debate.

Team Lara Croft - Put that Red Bull down, girl….whewwwweee, all worked up over a baby!

mccain got punked by sara @ 09/01/2008 at 4:56 pm

Mccain said he knew this before he chose her as his running mate.
what does this say about Mccain’s judgement? The lady is joke, she has all kinds of skeleton, 20 months in office, she wanted her ex brother in law fired, fighting leaders of her party in Alaska, she was raising her daughter’s child, now her daughter is pregnant. Like Michael moore said, God really exist. God is trying to save America from another 4 years of bondage with MCbush.

What else will come out about Sarah palin, her husband is actually her brother?

I hate it when you attack all of one group for something some people on the outskirts states. As a liberal progressive I am disgusted with being linked in with nut jobs. We are not desperate the fact you think we are shows how scared you are of the outcome. I have a question to ask you if she chooses to have the child and she were a poor women from a minority group and you had to put up the money would you? think about that I know of women who while going through there period had that area bulge and had the same rumor surrond them boy did they have a hard time of it. I think one took her own life. Words and deeds do have consequences(sp)

rachellelala @ 09/01/2008 at 5:01 pm

First of all, you all should just shut up. None you know the circumstance these people are going through. I’m not a supporter of either candidate in this election so I’m not taking one side or another. I do know however, that I was raised by a family with very strong family morals and it would have been just as easy for me to get pregnant at 17 as it was for this young girl. Unless you know this family personally you can’t judge them. The only thing you know about them is what is in the tabloids and if you read them and believe everything that you hear then you are in fact the fool. I’m sure this is hard enough for this young girl without the attention she is getting from the entire world.

why are all 17 year old girls getting pregnant??

This pregnancy will actually work to humanize the Republican Party…just watch.

It may be just what they needed to be seen as humans, and not a bunch of money counting robots.

With Gov. Jindal’s performance today in Lousianna, and Gov. Palin’s announcement that she’s going to be a grandmother, and Diddy looking for Alaskan black folk, it’s a good day to be a Republican!

Dont judge this family. Some ppl are downright nasty and God will take care of that.

Original jpf @ 09/01/2008 at 5:11 pm

Can we cease with Palin’s son not being her’s but her daughters? I’m in no size shape or form a McCain/Palin supporter but that doesn’t mean I don’t think this nonsense is ugly, mean spirited and just nasty. You have nothing but an ill conceived internet rumor that’s blown into a worldwide piece of trash worthy of NE or the Star and I can’t believe you’re trying so hard to validate something that hasn’t a leg to stand on. So what if the kid is going to have a baby now? She’s not running for anything so why is she even up for discussion? If you’re an Obama supporter you’ve got no reason continuing to call yourself one if your on here trying to rip Bristol or her any of her family a new one because Bristol did something human, and Obama even states that he’s the child of a teen mom and this family is off limits.

Some of you seriously need to grow the hell up asap. Oh, and this is for the McCain/Palin folk……everyone not for McCain/Palin is a Liberal or a Democrate so cease lumping all in the same box just because they don’t agree with you on certain issues………….Lib’s & Dem’s, same advice for you too.

jpf

So far, this appears to be the genesis of the lie about the 5-month pregnancy of Bristol Palin.

Reuters today, 9/1/08, says:

“Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2944356420080901

So, according to Reuters, the 5-month pregnancy lie originates in what “the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate.”

So, if you’re not a liar like GC, the first thing you do is check out what “the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate.”

Statement from Sarah and Todd Palin

ARLINGTON, VA — Today, Sarah and Todd Palin issued the following statement regarding today’s Reuters story:

“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.”

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/ab547fc8-d96d-4f87-aa8a-2e52be2b66fc.htm

The “statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate” talks about “five wonderful children” of the Todd and Sarah Palin, but says nothing about 5-month pregnancy of Bristol.

So, Reuters is lying when it reports “”Bristol Palin … is about five months pregnant … the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate.”

Note how Todd and Sarah and the McCain campaign explicitly pimp “today’s Reuters story” without acknowledging or vouching for ” today’s Reuters story” lies about the 5-month pregnancy, left unmentioned by either Bristol or her parents or the McCain campaign, but simply made up out of the blue by “today’s Reuters story.”

Gop whores will jump at the invitation to be misdirected by the mysteriously alleged “5-month pregnancy,” but the real story is already out there.

Go Go HILLbillies! Not only are you getting two ex beauty queens, but mccrazy’s wife cindy stole from her own org. to supply herself with drugs, now we get a crazy right winger , whose daughter possibly gave birth to the downs child and help cover it up! by claiming it belongs to her, God help America if these crazies make it to the white house, they’ll be yodeling through out the white house, making more wars , lord help us all Mcsame on that button pretty scary to me, god fobid he croaks even scarier to have this crazy woman as a president.

Workin Patriot says:

“Because,for over 30 years he didn’t lift a finger to clean up the dirty politics in Washington!”

You should get educated instead of just using other people’s words. John McCain has a perfect record of 0% funding on pork barrel spending, which is one of the biggest problems in Washington.

Obama on the otherhand has asked for millions in pork barrel spending, It hink he is in the top five of senators for the most asked.

How can Obama be blamed for something he had absolutely nothing to do with (no shred of evidence so far!)? Sites that support him have no right to their own opinions? The last time I checked, this is “supposedly” a FREE country and those sites can do their own thing without Obama being lumped in.
Should McCain take time out of his daily routine to come and denounce his supporters who are blaming Obama without concrete evidence that he is responsible for all the rumors concerning Palin?

People of this country never seize to amaze me when it comes to politics. Instead of having legitimate discussions on differing opinions, insults are hurled and one side seems to be masterful at not accepting their mistakes and blaming others for their own shortcomings. Nothing adds up, especially people’s logic!

Kim in California @ 09/01/2008 at 5:38 pm

Leave this family alone. ENOUGH. Those living in glass houses should NOT be throwing stones. We’ve all made mistakes and survived. This really is NOT a big deal. Things happen in our lives and we DEAL with it. This situation won’t affect Sarah’s position as VIP. What happens if one of Barack’s daughters goes through the same thing down the road??????

From FoxNewss this photo is dated May 28, 2008. Do this look like a woman who just had a baby????

http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,4975,00.html#37_1540

This woman is scary because she’s got that “dub-ya’ thang going on for her and the conservatives don’t think she is the answer to Obama as much as they think she is the right and TRUE heir to Bush.
I’m no fan but you have to be a fool if you think this woman doesn’t have a lot of women who admire her. American Republicans finally have their Margerett Thatcher. Again I am no fan but this choice quite literaly has made John McCain a hero to conservatives and completely
rehabilitates him in their eyes. It’s going to be an interesting autumn.

Nic mayor @ 09/01/2008 at 5:43 pm

This candidate should have her feet to the fire. Republicans push this abstinence-only crap and it does not work and Mrs. Palin’s daugter is a prime example. Palin is also against choice even in cases of rape or incest. As a social worker/therapist/substance abuse counselor, I see the REALITY every day and unlike Palin, I am not sitting in some pew or behind a desk pontificating on how others should live. Palin is in position to make decisions which directly impact on people’s lives and her own life needs to be put to the test. She could be president and appointing anti-choice judges to the Supreme Court. What would have happened if her daughter got raped, or made another choice? I attended a Christian university and many good Christian girls had abortions and their parents never even knew.

Great! An advocate for TEENAGE PREGNANCY. Very suspicious timing and God knows what this woman is capable of putting her family through for her ambition. Really really scary!!!

wow. who needs daytime soaps!

KARMA is a muthfucker LOL

Oh and what ever happened to her MONO? Now are they going to say that was a mis-diagnosis? This means Bristol was taken out of school and during that time she was knocked up instead of “recovering from MONO? More you try to wiggle out of one lie, the whole of lies get bigger and bigger. Again, Republicans are capable of anything. Scary, scary, scary…

anonononono @ 09/01/2008 at 5:53 pm

Anyone else think she looks like she could be related to Angie?

Seriously I’m not a Republican but if I were one I would want her taken down from the running. It’s still a long way to November and God knows what else this woman is up for, and the subsequent cover-ups she is willing to do.

I bet the McCain/Palin camp are rejoicing about Gustav. They are milking it for all it’s worth in order to bury this Palin story.

this woman belongs on jerry springer, not in the white house. anyone who votes for her is a ******* idiot.

Dana #8 -

Oh my god! Are people really this stupid? I am embarrassed for you and for the school that you got your “education!” You certainly don’t know anything about having children, having a career and being able to balance all things in life that come at you. Her children are a blessing and she CAN certainly go to work and do her job in goverment after having a child. Seriously, educate yourself before you accusing women of not being able to work and manage families. Also, do the math. Her daughter supposedly had Trig in April which makes him 4 months old and if she is now 5 months pregnant…..ADD IT UP. It was a story that a liberal blog thought would stick and that only dumb asses like you would take as gospel truth. Even Obama has said to lay off of the children.

JOHN MCCAIN

YOU JUST LOST MY VOTE. I LIKED YOU AT THE BEGINNING BUT YOU HAVE HORRIBLE JUDGMENT. I WAS SKEPTICAL ON THIS WOMEN SINCE ANNOUNCED BUT IT JUST IS GETTNIG WORSE BY THE DAY.

I AM NOW FOR SURE VOTING FOR BARACK OBMAA.

AND GUYS REMEMBER

SHE WAS 16 WHEN SHE GOT PREGNANT

NOW 17!!!

lmao mcain couldn’t even pick a good VP and ppl want him to be president is beyond me imagine this mistake with palin and what mistakes he would make as prez if he couldn’t even see this

Amber - post #177.

This woman went back to work 3 days after ‘giving birth’ (although I doubt it was even hers). If she were there more often as a mother should be, this could have been avoided. But a teenage girl without a mother around - of course this situation would happen more often. She has no one there to teach her any better. So much for being out with ‘mono’….instead she got knocked up (possibly twice) within that time. Instead of getting well needed rest because of a ’sickness’ she was getting busy with her boyfriend. lol

Sorry, if this woman can’t be there for her own family, how will she ever be there for anyone else’s??

This shows the horrible judgement and policy stances for someone who is in the running to be 2nd in command:

Preaching family values- FAIL

Humans are not to blame for global warming- FAIL

Endangered species should not be protected- FAIL

Only teach abstinence- FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL

This is the best VP candidate McCain could come up with? FAIL

just saying @ 09/01/2008 at 6:23 pm

It’s not her fault her daughter is a *****. Why should she have to suffer because of her daughter’s actions?

What has Obama got to do with this 17yr old getting pregnant? I fail to understand how this issue involves him. He didn’t get this girl pregnant but a lot people are determined to drag his name into it. It goes to prove my point that a lot of you don’t care who you vote for as long as it is not Obama the black guy. You don’t want a coloured man as a president. A lot of you are in denial of your prejudice based on your ignorance. You know Palin is the wrong candidate for VP and that McCaine has made a bad judgement but still you’ll rather stick with them than see Obama voted in. If it had been Obama’s daughter in this mess the comdemnation would have been very different and hostile and all these people would never have shown any sympathy or understanding. I have more respect for the Republican woman who condemned McCain for his choice of VP and slammed Palin’s morals. She has guts and she spoke the truth. She believes the way Palin and her family have conducted their affairs goes against her conservative believes and convictions, as a result she has decided not to vote this year for the Republican party. In my book she is a true Republican. When joining a politacal party, you have to have a strong believe in the rules, ethics and morals of the party, you should not cast a vote based on flimsy idealogy such as, the person’s looks, skin colour or personal gains. Basing your decisions on the core principles and morals of that party is the only way to ensure the right candidate is chosen.

sara n. dippity @ 09/01/2008 at 6:38 pm

She’s a classic ReSmuglican, a goosestepping narcissist who doesn’t have five spare minutes for that burgeoning brood of hers. But I hope she won’t back out of the race. The White House needs its first-ever First *******.

Well, it’s not the daughter’s fault for becoming a *****. Afterall, she was following her mom’s example. Bwahahaha And this is coming from a Republican. Sorry, but I might have to change my vote to do the hypocrisy about family values. McCain really screwed up on this one.

“Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for Bristol”

Someone watches Desperate Housewives

sara n. dippity @ 09/01/2008 at 6:50 pm

Oh, no, Cathy - I wasn’t calling the daughter a *****, but rather saying that her son would be the First Buster*, to be a little euphemistic there :)

Look you neocons with blinders on– when someone makes their reproductive business part of their campaign readiness and they parade their babies around and say, “no vaccuumed out fetuses or other freakishness in this household!” Then they open themselves up to public investigation of the image they represent. PALIN MADE IT RELEVANT. Besides, it isn’t like you neocons ever said any lies or anything untrue about Obama’s family. You didn’t drag his father and his African family through the mud, no, you were respectful and didn’t start this campaign out in a smear manner. How sweet McCain was when he compared Obama to Spears and Hilton– juxtaposing popular white girls next to Obama just in hopes of getting up the ire of the bigot who would grab a ballot. Take your medicine, radical freaks. When you spin this one, you look desperate. McCain brought this on himself and his party.

Look you neocons with blinders on– when someone makes their reproductive business part of their campaign readiness and they parade their babies around and say, “no vaccuumed out fetuses or other freakishness in this household!” Then they open themselves up to public investigation of the image they represent. PALIN MADE IT RELEVANT. Besides, it isn’t like you neocons ever said any lies or anything untrue about Obama’s family. You didn’t drag his father and his African family through the mud, no, you were respectful and didn’t start this campaign out in a smear manner. How sweet McCain was when he compared Obama to Spears and Hilton– juxtaposing popular white girls next to Obama just in hopes of getting up the ire of the bigot who would grab a ballot. Take your medicine, radical freaks. When you spin this one, you look desperate. McCain brought this on himself and his party.

this family is really crazy…
yesterday there is Palin didn’t give birth to the down syndrome baby.
today is her 17-year-old daughter going to marry and have a baby.
gosh…she doesn’t look like a running mate at all.
just a woman who try to catch attention from everyone for Mr. McCain.
Poor McCain~

this family is really crazy…
yesterday there was Palin didn’t give birth to the down syndrome baby.
today is her 17-year-old daughter going to marry and have a baby.
gosh…she doesn’t look like a running mate at all.
just a woman who try to catch attention from everyone for Mr. McCain.
Poor McCain~

Seems so easy to put your child on the pill. If you can’t keep up with your childs sex life how will you help run a nation.

i found a second job at home to watch over my teen daughters. She has two more little girls to raise. Can you see eight year of her in the White House. Remember now she would be a Vice President. Maybe Secret Service can watch her daugthers and give out the birth control.

doesnt this just make it more likely that Trig is her child.

But no, that would be wrong cause we can all tell that the abstienenece only education to Palin children have been recieveing woudltn let that happen.

“Musn’t let these little things mess up Mommy’s political career, Bristol”

S Palin says
“We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby”
What a joke!!!
Making a decision implies the girl had a CHOICE. She had NO CHOICE, her mother being who she is and in the postition she’s in.
Palin would like to make the decision for every woman. Even the ones who aren’t rich and powerful or from rich and powerful families, the ones who don’t have help, who can’t afford nannies or HEALTHCARE!
AND she wants to censor books and rewrite evolution. She should be VP of AL-Qaida, they appear to have the same platform.

This lady is a bonafide fruitcake! Why on why did McCain pick her for VP is beyond comprehension. Looks like Barak will be our first black President. Good for him.

Obama released a statement to the media, to “lay off the kids”, he won’t stoop to taking cheap shots though the far right have repeatedly intimated he has terrorists ties becuse of his background.
He’s a class act all the way!
WHy didn’t the Republicans think Clinton’s affair was a private matter?
Why did the Republicans make Chelsea Clinton ugly jokes whil her dad was POTUS. Because they are hypocrits!

McCain may as well as picked Lynne Spears, Shitney Spears’ mom, for VP.

LOL…looks like that ‘abstinence only’ crap that fundamentalist Christians like Palin are all about didn’t sink into her own kid’s head, huh?

random passerby @ 09/01/2008 at 7:46 pm

Actually, despite the cries of conservatives, I found the story in the “liberal blogs”, true or false, to be more touching. In that story, Sarah Palin sacrificed herself to protect her daughter’s future. It’s not unusual for a family to raise a grandchild as a child if the daughter is too young to be a mother. And I feel like it gives both children a chance to live normal lives until they are ready to deal with the truth. Yes, I’m sure some people think that people need to deal with their own consequences, but she was 16 and parents can make their own choices on how to protect their children. Setting all conspiracy theories aside, the revelation that Bristol is currently pregnant and simply going to marry this young man that got her pregnant may be more normal and honest-seeming, but it’s a sadder story. My friends in high school who married due to a pregnancy are not still together today ten years later. Despite the best efforts of many couples, children alone can’t fuel the love required to keep many marriages going, especially when both halves married before they were ready to. Half of adult marriages fail; there should be no expectation that marriages between children should be better. It may be the “right” thing to do, but I preferred the image of a Palin who went beyond the call to protect the future of her daughter. For once, I wish the conspiracy theorists were right.

Okay seriously people.. if you think this is heartwarming on Sara Palin’s part… it’s a cover up!!!!

First of all, she preached about abstinence and no-premarital sex, etc., etc… and she can’t even handle her own kids? Okay, let’s face it, besides puttting a lock between your kids legs, NOTHING is going to stop raging hormones, not even the fear of god… so the only thing to do it arm the stupid idiots with some protection! Come on.. you were all that age once! Did you all wait till your wedding day? PLEASE!

If those right winger’s could get this in to their tight little heads, there would not be as many teenage pregnancies!

So to all you conservative republicans, get off your high horsed moral butts! You use religion where convenient… so it’s okay if you confess your sins for premarital, extra-marital issues? Again, PLEASE!

As a ***** atheist, this is the best news in years!
Their “values” re: gay weddings and abortion now appear to be that of fools. Hey, ever heard of a rubber?

John McCain says he knew beforehand. Maybe, maybe not. He’d look like a fool if he didn’t know. John McClain wouldn’t lie to us, would he? Besides, I do like the Republicans ability to put a good spin on anything. If you think I’m being facetious, you’re right.

I agree with whoever said, ‘Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.’ What do we really know of Palin except her well executed public image? Now that she is in the national spotlight, we could see the uncovering of other things.

I don’t care one way or another that her teenager is pregnant, stuff happens. However, it’s going to be hard for Palin to preach abstinence and family values when she couldn’t get her daughter to buy into them. If you think people don’t hold what kids do against their parents, you need to come up for air. If you are an adult child living out of your parent’s house that’s one thing, but the behavior of underage kids IN the home is a reflection of the parents, like it or not. It has nothing to do with being fair or unfair. I don’t make the rules, that’s just the way it is.

Republicans may support her; well they always support their own, no matter what they do, but I bet behind closed doors heads are shaking. It’s like being shot at once; they’re waiting for the next bullet.

The other thing is, I wouldn’t advise a 17 years old to get married. They can’t undo the fact that she had sex and is now pregnant. Nor does it make the situation more palatable to say “They’re getting married.” It is what it is. The question is whether she is getting married now just because she is pregnant. I’d say at 17 she wasn’t looking to be married this soon, so what’s the point to do it now. Marriage doesn’t work just to save face. On the other hand, the reason for giving the ok to the marriage may be as simple as her parents not wanting to risk that she’d get pregnant again out of wedlock.

Next we’ll hear the run down on the father to be; bet he’ll be glad to have the glare of the spotlight on him and his family. Hold on to your seats it’s going to be a bumpy ride. .

what the.... @ 09/01/2008 at 8:07 pm

Okay, first of all I would just like to say that this is bad. Mccain f*cked up big time. Plus also when Jamie lynn spears was pregnant they mad her look bad in front of everybodyincluding her mom. Now that this Bristol girl is pregnant they are like oh it’s okay she is keeping the baby. What the heck at least Jamie came out and said she was pregnant. This girl didn’t even come out. she hid it like she is insecure about it. Also it seems to me that they are saying she is a good girl because she is keeping it. Bad girls are the ones who don’t. To tell you the truth good girls are the ones who wait tell they are older to have a baby. I guess that I’m just saying two things here. Where is her mom and dad? AND that people need to treat her the same way as they did with Jamie Lynn Spears. I don’t care if your more is going to be Vice president. Don’t lay off the kids either. Sarah and her family including John made a mistake on this big time!! Plus if that little baby was hers then how come she is not married yet. This is really fudged up!!!

All I have to say is WOW!

HAHAHAHAHAHA told ya!!! The truth ALWAYS comes out… What do ya say now ‘religious’ republicans? Don’t play angels when you’re not.

haha @ 09/01/2008 at 2:43 pm

how many of you teen agers writing on this blog are virgins??????????
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That has nothing to do with this story. Any non-virgins who are blogging do not have a mother who is running for VP on the abstinence and family value platform. Deflecting from the issue doesn’t make it go away.

lessons learned @ 09/01/2008 at 8:22 pm

I have learned a lot in the last 4 days. When it comes to anyone outside of the GOP they are considered evil, vile, liars, they’re bad people, inexperienced and can not be trusted.

However, when it is in the GOP they are righteous, it’s life, it’s a lie, 18 months is experience, they’re good people, they are plotting against us trust us, this is good for us and they will spin, spin , and continue to spin to make themselves look good. Because remember the GOP is the saints of the political world.

I feel bad for her daughter being used by mom as a political tool :(

http://www.happylolday.com

omg mccain seriously made a mistake. OBAMA BIDEN08

barbergirl @ 09/01/2008 at 8:32 pm

What no condoms in Alaska? Guess that happens when your mothers never around.

obamarama @ 09/01/2008 at 8:35 pm

Better hope the father isn’t of legal age because she will be married to a convict. In Alaska, sex with a minor is illegal and marriage doesn’t stop the law.

BAD mother!!! @ 09/01/2008 at 8:36 pm

For someone who espouses “family-values” Sarah Palin, was reckless with her newborn by flying in labor, not seeking immediate medical attention while leaking amniotic fluid and leaving him to go back to work three days after his birth. Than she accepts the VP nom. after her teen daughter confides in her she’s pregnant. Palin knew full well the kind of media scrutiny her daughter would be subjected to, I’ve read at least a dozens posts here calling Bristol a s-l-u-t. I think a mother who put her kids first would have said thanks but no thanks to the nom. SHe’s young (44) if she is really ambitious she coulda waited till 2012 to put herself in the national political arena. BUT NO! Shes power hungry and would subject her kids to this, wonder what she’d do to your kids, if she got to the oval office. *shudder*

BAD mother!!! @ 09/01/2008 at 8:36 pm

For someone who espouses “family-values” Sarah Palin, was reckless with her newborn by flying in labor, not seeking immediate medical attention while leaking amniotic fluid and leaving him to go back to work three days after his birth. Than she accepts the VP nom. after her teen daughter confides in her she’s pregnant. Palin knew full well the kind of media scrutiny her daughter would be subjected to, I’ve read at least a dozens posts here calling Bristol a s-l-u-t. I think a mother who put her kids first would have said thanks but no thanks to the nom. SHe’s young (44) if she is really ambitious she coulda waited till 2012 to put herself in the national political arena. BUT NO! Shes power hungry and would subject her kids to this, wonder what she’d do to your kids, if she got to the oval office. *shudder*

remember da truth @ 09/01/2008 at 8:42 pm

Can you imagine if Chelsea Clinton, a Stanford graduate, with a masters from Oxford University in international relations, were to get pregnant out of wedlock, can you imagine the blistering from the right wing?!?!

Such hypocrites.

This has nothing to do with a crazy, little-known blog and it’s wacko ideas. This is the reality — you have a candidate chosen to pander to fundamentalists, and racists who just wanted a woman. Now, you reap what you sow.

OK, so Trig was Sarah Palin’s baby. I must say, it was weird, her flying 8 hours back to Alaska and driving 45 minutes to her doctor AFTER her waters had broke when you are 44 years old and this being a high risk pregnancy because of her age.

As for abstinence only for teenagers and no birth control?

It doesn’t work.

BTW, remind me again What people said about Lynne Spears when Jamie got pregnant at 16??

THE ONLY THING MISSING NOW IS HER SON COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY!!!

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Kim @ 09/01/2008 at 2:30 pm

Liberals are so judgmental. It is truly reprehensible to delight in other people’s children’s misfortunes. How exactly does a parent “allow” or not “allow” their 17 year old to get pregnant? I guess an abortion would just make everything so much easier. But the harder path shows their character.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You know, I’m pro choice but I myself will probably never choose abortion. It would personally destroy me.

But between abstinence and abortion there is such a thing called BIRTH CONTROL. The pill which changed the world. There is such a thing called sex education which doesn’t begin and end with the message “DON’T HAVE SEX”.

when you leave Birth Control out of the equation you are basically asking teenagers, at their biologically most horny age to refrain from doing something MOTHER Nature and God had designed teenagers to do - go forth and multiply.

But presumably God allows birth control beyond abstinence just as God allows conception in a test tube. God is Beyond Great and we should never put God in the strait jacket of human expectations. To do so would be a sin.

This is a common everyday occurence. I wonder how many of you pointing the finger have yourselves or have others in your own family , friends, or neighbors who went out and had an abortion. That is what everyone should be p’d off about.

OBAMA SAYS PALIN’S FAMILY IS OFF LIMITS.
NOTE: OBAMA’S MOM WAS 18 WHEN SHE GAVE BIRTH TO BARACK

MONROE, Michigan (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama said firmly that families are off-limits in the campaign for president, reacting to news that GOP running mate Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

“Let me be as clear as possible,” Obama said. “I think people’s families are off-limits, and people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”

Obama said reporters should “back off these kinds of stories” and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.

“How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics, and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that’s off-limits.”

MCCAiN iS A ****** FOOL FOR CHOOSiNG A DUMB ***** TO BE VP.

ITS dosent matter smith. this article aint about obama’s momma

They chose LIFE and that is what counts, they did not take the easy way out! I admire them for that.

MCCAIN PALIN 2008!

http://cajunboy.tumblr.com/

This site contains incriminating evidence that suggests that Bristol is the mother. It includes captions with her boyfriend’s sister holding the baby, etc.

TIME.COM

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1837862-1,00.html

In Wasilla, Pregnancy Was No Secret

That’s about the only thing that I didn’t know about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. The rest of the details I picked up almost without trying, while talking about other things with townsfolk — some who know the governor and her family well, some who don’t. It was, more or less, an open secret. And everyone was saying the same thing: the governor’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, the father is her boyfriend, and it’s really nobody’s business beyond that.

well @ 09/01/2008 at 2:38 pm

I was looking at some photos from the conferance and there is definitely a connection with Bristol & Trig. She is holding Trig as a mother would hold her new baby and Sarah holds him with total disconnect.

Also, I am beginning to believe that this baby do not have downs syndrom. In all the photos the baby is facing away from the camera and from looking at him he seems normal. Could the DS story be a cover to make it more believable that she gave birth to the child because of her age???

I think she needs to come clean or resign. I am just waiting for the mysterious the baby was miscarried or died in the womb story to finish out the finally.
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Maybe the Down’s Syndrome story is because the Father is a Native American or part-native.

It is horrible the way that Obama’s supporters are attacking this young girl. I have many friends that this has also happened to and they chose to support and love their daughter/sons. This happens to many families across the USA . Perez Hilton on his blog was calling this girl a ***** and ****. Of all people to be judgmental someone who has probably been promiscious and with many partners since he was probably 11. Mr. Hilton should know what hatred and prejudice are all about since he is gay, but why is he now preaching the thing he most speaks against towards the Palin family?

BAD mother!!! @ 09/01/2008 at 8:36 pm

For someone who espouses “family-values” Sarah Palin, was reckless with her newborn by flying in labor, not seeking immediate medical attention while leaking amniotic fluid and leaving him to go back to work three days after his birth. Than she accepts the VP nom. after her teen daughter confides in her she’s pregnant. Palin knew full well the kind of media scrutiny her daughter would be subjected to, I’ve read at least a dozens posts here calling Bristol a s-l-u-t. I think a mother who put her kids first would have said thanks but no thanks to the nom. SHe’s young (44) if she is really ambitious she coulda waited till 2012 to put herself in the national political arena. BUT NO! Shes power hungry and would subject her kids to this, wonder what she’d do to your kids, if she got to the oval office. *shudder*.

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I hesitate to call anyone a bad mother even with the FACTS which you laid out.

However, I agree with your opinion that Sarah Palin is very ambitious to accept the VP role when she has young children, including a SPECIAL NEEDS baby who is only 4 months old, a teenage daughter who is obviously in need of significantly MORE guidance then what her mother has time to give her.

When you become a mother you make choices. Many of us have to work for financial reasons. However, many many women choose to work part time, or choose to go on the MOMMY TRACK, thereby sacrificing our careers so that we can give our families the TIME. I know of many women who gave up jobs which their talents could take them just because, it required too much travel and time away from the family. Sarah Palin, if she becomes a VP will have to travel almost every day.

I really question Sarah Palin’s choices and if you are a mother, with 5 children, one of whom is a troubled teenager, one of whom is a 4 months old special needs baby, you must do the same, whatever your political persuasion.

Sure, you can say, Sarah Palin has a husband who would be Mr Mom. Perhaps that is true. But there are some things, even Mr Mom’s can’t do. They can’t breast feed and they can’t always talk to teenage daughters.

I was just watching a cable newshow where it said that there were possibly people from McCain’s camp in Alaska doing further vetting of this woman. Isn’t that something he should have done thoroughly before nominating her? This has more twists and turns than a soap Opera. Next thing you know they’ll be on the Maury Povich show trying to find out who the daddy is.

I was just watching a cable newshow where it said that there were possibly people from McCain’s camp in Alaska doing further vetting of this woman. Isn’t that something he should have done thoroughly before nominating her? This has more twists and turns than a soap Opera. Next thing you know they’ll be on the Maury Povich show trying to find out who the daddy is.

I agree that we shouldn’t attack the children.

However, please make a distinction between attacking Bristol for getting pregnant and attacking Sarah Palin and Todd Palin for the way they raise their family and the way they are handling their family and how it reflects upon them.

Bristol is in effect, still a child. She is a minor. She isn’t fully responsible for her actions especially if she is not fully educated about how to prevent a pregnancy.

Sarah and Todd Palin are adults. They chose to take up the nomination for VP. They chose NOT to educate their daughter on Birth Control. They chose the way they raise their daughter. Sarah chose to fly back to Alaska to have Trig. She chose to go back tow work within 3 days of having a special needs baby. If you were NOT A republican, if you were to encounter this in an ordinary woman, would you not say that some of her choices SUCKED? Would you not query the WISDOM of a woman who chose an ambitious job, which required her to fly all over the US when she had just delivered a special needs baby? Would you not say, hey, she needs to slow down just a little bit and spend some time bonding with her youngest child.

Should Sarah and Todd’s parenting skills be scrutinised?? Should Sarah’s choices not be scrutinised as a REFLECTION OF HER TRUE VALUES?

ABSOLUTELY YES.

I think Sarah Palin’s baby isr really her OLDEST SON’S Baby. I think he had a kid outb of wedlock and when the girl found out it was downs Syndrome she wanted an abortion but Sarah agreed to take the kid if she would carry it to trem. So the baby IS her grandchild, but it is from her son’s baby momma. That is why he is getting ready to go to the war. Out of sight, out of mind. These people are terrible role models. What a bunch of hypocrites. They talk about family values, and judge other people. They use their kids to promote this fake image and then they are mjust trashy. I bet if this was Obama’s 17 year old daughter they would be frying him and Michelle. That Sarah Palin needs to take her butt back to Alaska and practice what she preaches. She’s got opinions about what other people should do, she needs to go home.

You retards Obama’s camp has nothing to do with this, they are far too intelligent to scoop to the level of the Mccrazies and the neo cons!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This woman can not be trusted shows you the bad judgement on mccrazy , he will do anything to win this woman is not qualified to run a whole country let alone foreign policy, in this world today. WTF was he thinking , win at all costs to satisfy a few neo cons, most replblicans are moderates and not crazy like Hannity o riley rush, these men are tools and get paid a good amount of money to promote the neo con agenda, wake up America!!!!! Retards, they are laughing all the way to the bank while scaring you right wingers shitless,Wake up dummies!!!!! God forbid mccrazy wins and croaks this woman is nuts now imagine when she goes through menopause she will push that button and we will all ************. At least Hillary went past all the craziness with the menopause and don’t call me sexist i’m a woman who has fam’ members and friends who went through hell after menopause so don’t berate me fools all women know about this **** and how crazy some women get i see Palin going nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XX’s post #286 has thrown me for a loop!
Why would a busy Governor bring her newborn baby round to her daughters boyfriend’s to meet the his sister?

Sarah I admire your courage. However, this VP job is way beyond what you can handle at this time. Why don’t you raise your children first, specifically your last born? You are still young…and can always run for presidency even ten years from now. If family values really matter to you…your children need you at this time.

Is this election real?
Look Dem and Repubs, leave Gov. Palin’s daughter and her fiance out of it.
We have enough to sort through without this girl’s private life.
Dems. Obama and Biden
Repubs. McCain and Palin
lets bring on the debates. Let us citizens research and study the issues.
Facts or surprises I should say, unbelievable, but true
Hurricane Gustav took the sail out of McCain and Palin as quickly as they gained some interest with their big story. Their convention is shortened. Palin is someone no one knows. Obama did not select Clinton. Biden is well know. Whew!

Republicans are saying Obama is behind this, because they are IDIOTS and are trying to pass of McCains serious lapse in judgement as a smear campaign.
The liberals didn’t “cook this up” it was circulating around AK since Trig was born, anybody with internet could have found it.
Y’all are just mad becuase McCain is shown for what he is- a poor judge of character and a sellout to the fundies. Shoulda stuck to your guns MAC and gone with Libermann, but your fundie backers don’t like his pro-choice stance and Jewish last name.

the real tita @ 09/01/2008 at 10:05 pm

Before the libs start celebrating about a new scandal, they should know that the conservatives are rallying for the Palins. They are glad that Bristol is taking responsibility and so is the baby daddy.

Just to show you how people in Alaska are taking it, here is a link:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican_race/2008/09/01/2008-09-01_bristol_palins_pregnancy_was_an_open_sec.html

innominedei @ 09/01/2008 at 10:07 pm

i think this whole thing has little to do win Obama trying to win more support of McCain being a fool for choosing Palin.

Because truth is, it is a personal issue/problem and only made into such a news because of the position Palin is in.

Personally, I think issues like this should be separated from political concerns. Family is one sector of life Palin has to deal with, her job is another one. I hate the intermingling of the two. and most of the time, it’s irrelevant to to mix the two aspects together. as we know it, there are ppl out there who are great bosses but terrible fathers/mothers.
in this case, we only need to choose which aspect of their lives matter more to the public. and in Palin’s case, it’s her political one.

so respect their privacy, judge her potential for being a VP not through her role as a mother, but a politician.
especially nowadays that the state of the household does NOT (accurately, anyways) reflect the state of the nation as a whole.

joonie @ 09/01/2008 at 9:17 pm
They chose LIFE and that is what counts, they did not take the easy way out! I admire them for that.

Joonie - Actually they chose SEX. Sex outside of marriage. And that IS taking the easy way out. If you’re going to have conservative beliefs, go all the way. I guess that’s a poor choice of words…”go all the way”!!!

Yes it would be nice if they were split but her platform mixes them together as a family value package one she thinks others should live by and claims to.
Yet in her own house it means nothing, cause she is to busy telling others how to live, while no one is at home base really watching out for her own childrens well being.
Saddest part is she sold her daughter out to the media and now the kid has the whole world on her butt.
Family Values start at home which means family is number one.
If you are going to talk the talk then you best walk the walk.

The more comments I read here, the more sad that I am…Not for Bristol…she will be fine, but for how cruel human beings can be to one another. We all know that criticism for others only comes from our own insecurities, so I do hope that all of you find some happiness in your own lives.

Of course Palin supports her daugther’s decision. It’s her daughter after all. Any politician, Republican or Democrat, would say the same thing… support his/her daughter’s decision, happy and proud about her… becaust it’s family matters, and it has happened anyway. You can only admit, or defend, the reality.

What matters, as a vice presidential nominee, is whether Palin supports or promotes teenage pregnancy and teenage marriage in general. (I guess no one does.) And there is a great gap between what she herself believes a teen should be or a family should be and what is actually happening in her family.

I am a Democrat.
STOP this aboutthis girl. It is not relevant.

Also , theGov. infant son is not for the daughter. Match the dates. The daughter could not have a baby and get pregnant at the same time ,stimutanesly.

One thing for sure,…
Whoever Levi is and his parents, you be theywant him to marrythe Gov. ’s daughter yesterday. Their son is son-in-law tothe gov and now he will be son-in-law tothe VP of the USA. I am a Democrat and do believe McCain -Palin will win based only on the fact the Obama is Black American . I don’t see the country yet voting for a Black American. His wife is Black American He did not marry a White woman like his mom . Most Black guys marry White women. I don’t see this country voting and having a Black woman a First Lady…AND MICHELE ROBINSON OBAMA IS A SAMRT, CULTURED, WIFE ,MOTHER, WOMAN!!!!

the real tita @ 09/01/2008 at 10:29 pm

And before you Obama people start throwing stones, remember that his mother was also a pregnant teen who was either unwed or was wed to a man who was already married. Where does that leave you guys to talk?

Conservatives of yesterday is not the same as the Conservatives of today. Something like this isn’t enough to turn them off now. The liberals had actually succeeded in getting them to somehow understand that kids will be kids and they will have sex…just as they have somehow almost made them accept that gays will be gays (although marriage is still an issue for them).

See? You’ve rammed these things into the people’s throats so much so they believed you when you said that a movie that was being sensationalized by HW called Juno is just one of those things that can happen to anybody…that there was nothing wrong with teens getting pregnant. Aren’t you glad that the right-wing-bible-carrying mini van majority are able to get it now? Proof is their quick rally to the Palin’s side and Obama’s statement that he finds all the things being said about Bristol is offensive.

This is one issue that if you insist on making a big deal of can somehow make it work for McCain/Palin 2008. Think about it before you start crowing about victory.

:-) Man, you can’t make this stuff up !!!

Look, the bottom line is this Pallin woman is a shady character. Everything about her just oozes sneakiness. And yes, this issue with the daughter should be a concern to all Americans because it highlights Pallin’s management skills and how she can handle a crisis. It begs the question: How can she handle a crisis when she can’t even control what goes on in her own home? How is she going to handle the entire country and its interests should she become president?

I am so lovin’ McCain right now because of his stupid pick - a woman who has more skeletons in the closet than you could shake a stick at. And it further points to questions about his judgement and fitness to become president.

The floods that thwarted a Republican convention, the Pallin pick and subsequent bombshells, the crazies coming out of the woodwork. So many things are pointing to the fact that perhaps McCain and his party are not supposed to get the White House this time. Perhaps divine intervention is afoot.

Obama ‘08 !! Obama ‘08 !! Obama ‘08 !! It’s HIS destiny !! It’s in the stars.

the real tita @ 09/01/2008 at 10:42 pm

#276: RDT, Chelsea was living with her boyfriend without the benefit of a wedding band when she was in Oxford so I think the only difference is she’s better at birth control than the other kid.

If she had had a baby, then of course there will be talk just as there’s talk now about Palin’s daughter. There’s no denying at all. However, it only makes sense that whatever side this has happened to will also try to put up a defense. Nobody is non-judgemental here, right? This is just another one of those pot…meet…kettle thingie. Nobody has room to throw stones when we all live in glass houses.

i think the baby the governer claim is hers, is really her daughters baby and she is covering up for it. i think her dad father the child. cuz the dad was arrested years ago for DUI, and he was know to be a drunk sometimes. its going to come out. they do mess up big time !

sleeping Giant @ 09/01/2008 at 11:17 pm

Mccain should have chose Mike Huckabee. Now He’s the real Family Values guy and a decent honest man to boot :)

Huckabee for VP!!!

This is great. Now the Republican Party will be hosting Teen Sex Orgies to prove this is not only okay, but Pro-Life! Sarah Palin can become the Pro-Sex candidate! Maybe this will be like Hitler’s Lebensborn babies! Just imagine the packaging possibilities: A line of Hallmark Cards for your unwed daughter’s first baby,

On the other hand, if Trig is indeed Bristol’s spawn, then who is the daddy? Could it be the former brother -in-law that Sarah is gunning for? It all makes “republican” sense, doesn’t it? Sarah Palin made a statement that effectively said she would not approve of abortion even in the case of her own daughter being raped or in the case of incest. There has to be a real reason she is so mad at the former bgrother in law. Maybe he knows something?

Anyway, this is typical republican make-believe: Our kids aren’t really having sex; We are happy and responsible people who value family life; Every child is a blessing (tell that the a homeless woman who has been raped…).

This can only get better. And I am loving it… McCain is a genius and Sarah Palin has proven she is not just a “Hockey Mom” but an utterly irresponsible, inept and completely clueless mother. While the poor girl was home nursing her Mononucleosisfor 5 months, where was Mom? While she was having traffic problems at the mall, while out with mononucleosis, where was Mom? While Bristol was having unprotected Sex, where was Mom? For a woman who takes her motherhood so seriously, can you imagine the the aplomb with which she might be able to handle a crisis of a much greater magnitude? And all you idiot republicans want to put your lives in her hands? Please!

XX that website you posted with the pics has convinced me that the daughter was pregnant with the Trig and now she’s having a second baby. WOW LOLLLLL I just have to laugh, how this pregnancy story is unfolding right before our eyes. The republicans must be pissing their pants, this is too good. This woman cannot be trusted. She will cover up anything it seems. No honesty or values what so ever. They tried to butter things up with their little announcement. Sorry folks we are not fools. Just because the vp candidate is a woman, that does not mean Hillary left overs are going to vote for him. Woman are more intelligent then to fall for this childish trick.
Obama is one classy man, esp after he said that this has nothing to do with politics. He has so much respect. GOOOOO OBAMA!!!

So, Lylian - you know that Sarah Palin did not teach her daughter about sex or birth control? And, you know that her baby was in danger because she went back to work after three days? When was the last time you had lunch with her? Do tell.

As I have said before, Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter will do nothing but humanize the Republican Party. Just watch. You have to know that it was a concious decision on his part to choose her, even after he found out about her daughter.

Was Robert Kennedy told to stay off the campaign trail due his large family? Nope…so neither should Sarah Palin.

Saying she’s not a good candidate because she’s a woman is like saying Obama is not a good candidate because he’s black. And no one wants to say that, now do we?

Go Sarah Palin - show these nutso liberals what a real woman can do….

Sneaky Pete @ 09/01/2008 at 11:31 pm

This is FANTASTIC! What’s it been, a whopping 4 days since McCain picked her in a cynical attempt to attract disaffected Hillary voters? What’s great is the transparency of his motivation just like attempting to rebrand the RNC into caring about the victims of Hurricane Gustav so it doesn’t make Republicans look like callous racists a second time around. I actually don’t mind McCain that much but it’s enjoyable to watch him desperately flail around trying to catch up to Obama’s appeal/momentum. Sarah Palin’s views on the other hand instantly make me dislike her & regard her as little more than a conservative baby factory who finally got tired of being a Stepford Wife. Hey Sarah, how’s that teaching “abstinence only” work out for you so far? I guess birth control is out of the question too which apparently just gave your daughter’s boyfriend the go ahead to ejaculate directly into her ****** instead of catching it in an ungodly condom. Whoops.

the real tita @ 09/01/2008 at 10:29 pm

And before you Obama people start throwing stones, remember that his mother was also a pregnant teen who was either unwed or was wed to a man who was already married. Where does that leave you guys to talk?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Please TRT, I for one, am not throwing stones at the daughter. She is a child for all intents and purposes. Young people get pregnant.

However, it is absolutely correct for people to look hard at the Sarah Palin. What does she stand for? If she stands for conservative family values, can you honestly say that a mother who has these problems at home, a pregnant daughter, a special needs 4 month old son, who already has a challenging job as Governor of Alaska, should be taking on the job as Vice President?

And if she didn’t want her daughter to be subject to this sort of intense scrutiny, might she not have been better off to reject the nomination of VP?

That’s what most sensible people are saying. It’s not about the Bristol any more than it s about the mother of Obama.

Who the Baby Daddy?

“Let me be as clear as possible, I think people’s families are off-limits, and people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.” –Senator Obama

Grow up people. Are you incapable of a rational debate, or can you only sling mud? Let’s move on to RELEVANT issues, please.

Someone already posted this “where there is smoke, there is fire”. So much for the evangelical preaching abstinence. This woman needs to be a stay at home mom so she can input real morals and values into her daughters. Oh how the mighty have fallen. What a disgrace to America. Mrs. Palin is the last woman we need to run for Vice President.

frogcatcher912 @ 09/01/2008 at 11:40 pm

Sarah Palin gave birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome at the age of 44.

Is anyone else appalled at this?

The risk of giving birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome is extremely high in women over 40 (and even higher when the father is also over 40).
http://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20030701/dad-age-down-syndrome

Sarah Palin “opposes the use of birth control pills and condoms even among married couples”.

I am disgusted by this irresponsible behaviour. To give birth at age 44 to a baby with Down’s because you refuse to use birth control inexcusable. Ignoring the dangers that you expose yourself and your baby to by refusing to use birth control after 40 is negligent and careless. To believe that a woman like this has the opportunity to become Vice President of the United States of America in 2008 makes me ill.

Does anyone else share this opinion?
Sarah Palin gave birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome at the age of 44.

Is anyone else appalled at this?

The risk of giving birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome is extremely high in women over 40 (and even higher when the father is also over 40).
http://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20030701/dad-age-down-syndrome

Sarah Palin “opposes the use of birth control pills and condoms even among married couples”.

I am disgusted by this irresponsible behaviour. To give birth at age 44 to a baby with Down’s because you refuse to use birth control inexcusable. Ignoring the dangers that you expose yourself and your baby to by refusing to use birth control after 40 is negligent and careless. To believe that a woman like this has the opportunity to become Vice President of the United States of America in 2008 makes me ill.

Does anyone else share this opinion?

How does this not debunk the rumor that Bristol’s the mother of Trig?!?! Trig is 4mos old. Bristol is 5mos pregnant. Therefore if she was Trig’s mom she was pregnant with Trig and this baby simultaneously?!?! Come on people.

groundcontrol @ 09/01/2008 at 11:41 pm

obamarama @ 09/01/2008 at 8:35 pm

Better hope the father isn’t of legal age because she will be married to a convict. In Alaska, sex with a minor is illegal and marriage doesn’t stop the law.

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You are incorrect. The age of consent in Alaska is 16. He is a freshman in college and she is 17, almost 18. Though the law is a little more complicated it doesn’t look like there was anything illegal about it.

Julianne @ 09/01/2008 at 11:31 pm

So, Lylian - you know that Sarah Palin did not teach her daughter about sex or birth control? And, you know that her baby was in danger because she went back to work after three days? When was the last time you had lunch with her? Do tell.

>>>>>>>>>

You are right. I don’t know if Sarah Palin taught her daughter about sex or birth control. I do know from her own words, that Sarah Palin is not for birth control other than through abstinence.

Therefore, I think it is safe to assume that even if she told Bristol about the condom or the pill, it is likely she also said that “you shouldn’t have sex in the first place. Abstinence is the best form of birth control.

Yet, international studies in Europe,particularly in the Scandinavian countries which have some of the lowest rates of teenage pregnancy, show that teaching about birth control in a non judgemental way, is the best way to prevent teenage pregnancies.

On the issue of Trig being in danger. First, many downs syndrome babies have ancillary health problems. Second, even if Trig were perfectly healthy and perfectly well taken care of, can you honestly say to any mother that going back to a demanding job, 3 days after delivery, taking up an even more demanding job 4 months after his birth is conducive to bonding, is conducive to good maternal care.

If Sarah Palin were just another celebrity, would you not be saying, hey, take it easy lady. No need to rush.

But we are not talking about an actress who is shooting a film that takes up only 8 weeks of her time and then she can take another 6 months off. We are talking about a mother of 5, one of whom is a troubled teenager and another one a 4 month old special needs baby, who is thinking of taking on one of the most demanding jobs in the world if Mccain is elected.

Even if Sarah Palin were a MAN, I would question the fathering aspects of this person.

But as a mother, knowing that there are aspects of motherhood that simply cannot be replicated by a man or by another woman, I really really question Sarah Palin’s decisions to take on the VP nomination so soon.

Please be clear. I’m all for feminism and work part time now, planning on returning full time. Had little Trig been 4 years old now instead of 4 months old, I really would come to a different conclusion to my own questions. . I’m not a woman to stay home and bake cookies and have tea either. But there is a time and a place for doing things when you have a family, especially a baby and especially knowing you have a young teen at home who is pregnant.

groundcontrol @ 09/01/2008 at 11:57 pm

Such judgmental posters.

She’s a bad mother because her daughter got pregnant? Please.
She’s a bad mother because her daughter had sex? Again, please.

The young woman is probably in love and did the most natural thing on earth. She didn’t rob a bank or torture a puppy.

She has a supportive family and will have a partner in her husband. You’d hope that we wouldn’t still be assuming that young women who have children at an early age have no future and that their lives are essentially over. Ask Barack Obama if his mother’s life was over because she had him at 18? How does this neanderthal thinking survive in 2008?

As for Palin flying home. Not everyone whose water leaks or breaks is in imminent risk. Especially if the mucus plug isn’t out. Palin conferred with her doctor and it was decided that she wasn’t in real labor - this was her 5th pregnancy and she knew her body and what real labor felt like. She also conferred with her doctor along the way home to Alaska and all felt it was okay to continue the trip. She clearly wasn’t in labor because after she got home labor had to be induced the next morning. Who the hell wants to have their baby in strange place with a strange doctor if you can get home.

Most of these posts condemning her even though they don’t have all the facts are most assuredly by females. Women remain their own worst enemies.

I predict that Sarah Palin will leave the ticket.
McSame is toast.

Who the *** care about this *****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

frogcatcher912 @ 09/01/2008 at 11:40 pm

I am disgusted by this irresponsible behaviour. To give birth at age 44 to a baby with Down’s because you refuse to use birth control inexcusable. Ignoring the dangers that you expose yourself and your baby to by refusing to use birth control after 40 is negligent and careless. To believe that a woman like this has the opportunity to become Vice President of the United States of America in 2008 makes me ill.

Does anyone else share this opinion?
Sarah Palin gave birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome at the age of 44.

Is anyone else appalled at this?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I’ve been critical of Sarah Palin but let me say this clearly:

I ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND WHY SHE WOULD CHOOSE TO HAVE THE BABY EVEN KNOWING THAT HE HAD DOWNS SYNDROME.

I would have made the same choice and I’m a woman in my 40s.

A DS child can have a very good quality of life. They are loving and caring. Depending on the severity of the DS, they can even hold down a simple job.

I would never blame anyone for aborting a DS fetus. But I can absolutely understand the decision to have and love a DS baby.

That’s why I’m critical of Sarah Palin, for having the baby and leaving the baby to the care of others. That is a fact. Sarah cannot be much of a hands on mother, not if she went back to work within 3 days of delivery, not if she accepted the nomination of VP.

DesparadoJA @ 09/02/2008 at 12:25 am

Typical Republican hypocrites. They tend to talk from both sides of their mouths. I remember when Jaime Lynn pregnancy was announced, Fox news and their right winged reporters had a field day with insults. And now they’re embracing Palin and her teenage daughter, calling it a family affair. What a bunch of HYPOCRITES !!!

And it’s ok because she’s having a shot gun wedding, you got to love these God fairing Repubs.

#324 it is more than judging the mother, it is also judging the greed and political ambition of this cadidate. She is supposed to represent a party that shoves family values down the throats of Americans and acts as if Democrats have none. Guess what, they are not alone, even non-affiliated voters have religion, and we don’t kill babies either!

What concerns me is how she makes the statement that they are glad that Bristol decided to keep her baby. This is not the time to turn her daughter’s pregnancy into a political statement. Her children are not political stepping stones. That is NOT an indicator of a healthy mother, or a candidate with strong family values.

Does a candidate really value the family when she is so willing to pursue the Vice-presidency so soon after giving birth to a special needs child? I don’t just mean mothers, this would be true for fathers too.

Don’t act the good Christian, state you are the good Christian, but then sacrifice the time your children need to pursue your own ambitions. If she can’t devote the time and attention that her own small children need within the home when they are young, how can she do the same for me and my family?

I need a stronger economy! I need my sons to have jobs waiting for them when they get out of college. The Republicans have started a war with no end in site. They have created a deficit with no apparent point of return. She is not giving me a sense of hope here.

This woman should have done a better job with her oldest in the area of abstinance or birth control, either one, but not lie to us and portray herself as the perfect mother of five and then start having skeletons coming out of the closet.

The Republicans are insulting women if they think that she is a suitable replacement for Hilary. Chealsey is grown, inteligent, and educated. Hilary put the needs of her family first, and she stood by her family, and her cheating husband, during hard times. She is tough and proven through the toughest of times.

All this woman has done is shown that she can wear a skirt and race over slippery streets in icy conditions on a February walk in Juno, pregnant with her 5th child?

Come on, we are not idiots. McCain is old, they focus their campaigns on smearing Obama. I hear almost nothing of new ideas that will result in a change, and then they throw in a token female. I am personally disgusted with them. I started out neutral–now I am pissed off!

seymour_gunner @ 09/02/2008 at 12:32 am

Trying to get this: So Sarah was pregnant with young Hockey player.
But he was dating her daughter Bristol, and didn’t tell Bristol that baby was not hers. Obama’s mum who had baby when she was 18 tried to out Sarah, to deflect the attentions from herself and her illegitimate baby , Sarah told her daughter to get knocked up by the Hockey player, and Evangelical right said its okay as long he marries her, and the communist from Obama household, … well I don’t know his role, but apparently reading some comments there is a commie lurking around.

I think I got enough materiel for juicy made for TV film. . Thanks Sarah.

Perhaps divine intervention is afoot.

Obama ‘08 !! Obama ‘08 !! Obama ‘08 !!

It’s HIS destiny !! It’s in the stars.

Sarah Palin, a baby-mama’s mama.

What exactly is in your Kool-Aid these days? Must everything be a conspiracy to you liberal kooks??

Men of dignity and honor for change in the White House….

Obama-Biden ‘08!!!!!

Men of dignity and honor in the White House….

Obama-Biden ‘08!!!!

Oh please!!!!!!!! Obama’s mom was 18 and was in college when she met her college sweetie and was pregnant. #2: Obama’s mom was not in a party that claimed to be the authority of family values. Palin is a hypocrite!

frogcatcher912 @ 09/01/2008 at 11:40 pm : I agree with you! Ladies, USE BIRTH CONTROL!! Especially over 40 when the risk of birth defects is higher. palin may be able to afford a Down Syndrome baby but most American women will not be able to mee the cost and challenge of raising high risk babies so women should practice safe sex and use birth control. Don’t listen to Palin and her rants - she can’t even raise a daughter that will follow her own beliefs. Palin=moron! Hypocrite!!!

Also, Obama’s mom was not a VP candidate - Palin is and if she is goign to feed us her crap - well her family should believe it first. TRASH!!!!

WOW!!!They approve of sex before marriage.

Bristol Pad should have kept her legs closed !!!!! TWO WORDS - BIRTH CONTROL !!!

JESSE1562 @ 09/02/2008 at 2:21 am

There is just something really wrong with this woman Palin!

How can she give birth to a DS baby 4 months ago and be so focused on becoming a VP. This is not practicing family values. This is demonstrating greed and power mongering. I mean if she were really about her family, this would be about helping her young daughter and her infant! Come on…

I am sick to death of Republican attack ads, their self-righteous attitudes, and acting like the only ones that love life are Republican. Do they know any other tune to play. It is getting nauseating to listen too. How about demonstrating that they can make a good speech too–maybe at least one time.

How many lives of American soldiers have been lost because of greed for oil in Iraq (pronounce with short i sound, like in India)? How many more Iraqi lives? They are not even the ones that are responsible for 9/11.

Love life? If you really love life, love your family and spend time with them when it counts. Don’t just buy the best nanny service and call that good Christianity. We know she loves her family, but apparently she really loves power a lot too. McCain, shame on you for not seeing this.

When will all the democrats whose moms took them to Planned Parenthood after a frank discussion about sexual activity get their say? I took birth control for 9 years before having 2 planned kids, and my husband took 3 and 4 weeks off with me to help me after the birth. My mom deserves a lot of credit for talking truth to me at 16 and I never got pregnant before marriage. Some of my friends were not so lucky and I supported them.

I never liked the idea that Palin went to work 3 days after having Trig. If she wants to kill herself running for fitness, that’s one thing. Don’t mess up your family and the nation by running for VP.


The Republicans are really great in seizing attention! Now nobody talks about Obama. Nobody is interested in him anymore.

Suddenly the whole of America and the whole world are so much interested in Sarah Palin.

Move over Obama! Sarah Pain is the NEW ROCK STAR.

Sarah Palin: ROCK STAR! @ 09/02/2008 at 7:20 am


The Republicans are really great in seizing attention! Now nobody talks about Obama. Nobody is interested in him anymore.

Suddenly the whole of America and the whole world are so much interested in Sarah Palin.

Move over Obama! Sarah Palin is the NEW ROCK STAR.

JESSE1562 @ 09/02/2008 at 8:39 am

Great point, but so far the Republicans haven’t gotten attention through great ideas they have done it through either trashing women, trashing the nation–through war-profiteering–greed–self righteous religeous shove it down your throat evangelizing, or having a women of questionable character–nothing of sustainable character themselves so far.

I think Sarah Palin seems to be a decent person. However, I believe in family first and I think she holds her political aspirations above everything else. Being a mother myself, I would think, with a pregnant teenager and a new baby with special needs, the last thing she should be doing is running for VP. Her family obviously needs her, especially her daughter, but mom is too busy playing politics, and anyone that thinks she can do both is delusional.. I don’t care what people like to believe, you cannot do both AND give your all. One or the other suffers. In Sarah Palins case it will be her family. The Bush admin has set womens rights back 30 years and McCain/Palin will continue that path. I think McCain chose her because of the fact that she has no experience in anything, so no one to question his decision making,he can do what he wants, just like King George.

Prison Break "Scandal" @ 09/02/2008 at 8:52 am

Anyone can lie about a month or two in a pregnancy, this proves NOTHING, NADA!

…and so I reiterate from the previous thread…

DISCLAIMER: FOR PRISON BREAK FANS ONLY
Entertainment only

YES, it’s a MISA baby! Michael’s sperm mixed with “Sarah’s” egg implanted into a 16 year old body covered up by mom.

“IT’s a boy!” Heir to the FOX empire!

Haha I’m cracking myself up this morning!

Gotta crack aafew eggs to make them Omelettes!

Headlines around the world:
Teen pregnancy makes Republican VP candidate “proud”

Skull-R-US @ 09/02/2008 at 8:54 am

This stinks … a lot…

Sarah is not what’s best for America, she’s obviously being paid back for some favor…

Skulls-R-US @ 09/02/2008 at 8:55 am

Oops Skulls-R-US

Sarah Palin: ROCK STAR! @ 09/02/2008 at 7:17 am

The Republicans are really great in seizing attention! Now nobody talks about Obama. Nobody is interested in him anymore.

Suddenly the whole of America and the whole world are so much interested in Sarah Palin.

Move over Obama! Sarah Pain is the NEW ROCK STAR.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

She deserves to be the ROCK STAR of this election. She is soooo fascinating … interesting story. But of course she is also a BEAUTY. People will be interested in her. She has THE REAL STAR QUALITY.

Without any iota of doubt, Sarah energizes McCain’s campaign … who knows they might even WIN.

BTW, will she be in the next cover of People Mag? I am eager to buy a copy.

@ #347

DISCLAIMER: for entertainment only

I think Trig even looks like Wentworth Miller of Prison Break and MISA takes a new twist.

MISA for president!