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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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!
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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!
Desperate Housewives much?
Faking a pregancy part I mean
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!!!!!!
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