Just Askin’…

Sorry to hear that, but congratulations.

Jake, you know what the reaction would be. Obama’s campaign would be over!! And the fact that Palin opposes sex-ed, birth control and choice makes this a legitimate issue.

Obama took his two children to Wright’s church. Obama made that decision. Sarah Palin didn’t make the decision for her daughter. The media is crossing a red line.
Obama took his children to hear how great hamas was, awards to farakkan, and how horrible Israel was.
Just askin Jake Tapper what would have happened if McCain took his children to such a hate filled place. A place that rose in joy as Hillary was being asked.
Just askin what would have happened if McCain did a home deal like Obama did when Rezko was under federal investigation for influence peddling by patrick fitzgerald.

Depends whether he had been out there advocating spending taxpayer money on abstinence programs in lieu of responsible sex ed.

Obama took his children to hear Rev Wright’s rants.
Obama did that.
Sarah Palin didn’t scar her children for life by taking them to a hate filled church.
You are comparing Obama doing something to her daughter doing something.
I hate the way the liberal media covers this election with every fiber in my body. Enough is enough.

Or let’s imagine if Michelle Obama had a DUI like Todd Palin or if she had stolen drugs from her charity like Cindy McCain or if she was involved in an “accident” in which someone had died like Laura Bush. I think we all know the double standard that’s at work here.

I actually think this makes Palin a better candidate… if she uses it as a reality check.
I am sick of all these right wing blowhards talking against gays and blacks for their “immorality.”
Well, guess what, even straight, white Christian girls don’t follow the standards that the right wants to legislate!
So stop blaming Hurricanes on blacks and gays. And ask yourself… why, when you pray for rain to ruin the Democrat’s convention… why would God send a hurricane during yours?

The right would be attacking of course.

To be fair… Palin did take her kids to church. And I think most people would be surprised about what her preachers had to say about America. But I do think a white preacher can criticize the soul of our nation in ways that a black minister cannot.

Obama is somewhere right now smiling a broad smile. maybe he has a sly grin. This is a disaster for the GOP. But questions persist: How old is the boy? How do we know Bristol is 5 months pregnant? Will Sarah produce a birthcertificate for Trig?

Actually Sarah Palin did marijuana.

Jake: You should be asking why a mother would expose her daughter to such ridicule for the sake of her political ambitions.People love to see the moral rightous fall. Her stand on sex education will only make the fall steeper.Her daughter doesn’t deserve this.I give her 2 weeks on McCain’s team. Bristol,best of luck and hold your head high.OBAMA 08

Looks like the Palins (Note: not just the wife but also the husband) really need to spend more time supervising their kids at home.
I was already wondering whether Governor Palin has any idea of what it takes to raise a kid with Down Syndrome. It demands a lot of work and attention and support and patience from both parents, not to mention the parents have three other kids at home (a son is now in the military).
I thought maybe she’s really very capable.
Now it looks more like a punctured fairy tale.

USmarine0331,
The difference is Obama’s mother wasn’t religious. The Palin family call themselves “committed christian”. Having a child out of wed lock is not of the Christian faith.
The fact that she has a daughter that’s pregnant and a child that’s 5 months and has down syndrome and she’s still running for VP tells you alot about her character, jugdement and where her priorities lie.

Jake, Obama has already answered your question regarding his daughters:
“if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Just another day at the clinic, ya know.

Really… the point is… it doesn’t matter that her daughter got pregnant.
I do think people shouldn’t make an issue of it.
I do think it is unfair of McCain to take a poorly vetted candidate from a podunk town and slap her onto his ticket… without thinking about how devastating politics is for all involved.
With 2 kids under 5 and a third on the way, I would never put my family through the hell of a political campaign. Especially if I had a special needs kid.
After I saw how Chelsea and Hillary were treated… even with Bill’s soaring popularity… I would never do that to a little kid.
But I think McCain wants to win… so that was his priority.

Obama would say–We are being punished.

Don’t you just love the Republican’s family values? If that were Obama’s daughter, you had better believe that they would have a field day with it.

If Obama’s daughter was pregnant she would either get an abortion or bring it to term, unless there was misfortune otherwise. Palin’s daughter is in the exact same circumstance. So what.

From the right: self-righteous criticisms; from the left: vicious rumors. What do you prefer?

great question jake. what kid of mother would put her daughter through the national spotlight during this time? this reflects badly on sarah and mccain (not on bristol – she’s just a kid who wasn’t taught the right family values by her mom who was too ambitious)

Jake, Obama has already answered your question regarding his daughters:
“if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Just another day at the clinic, ya know.
Don
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Don,
I think you’re being hypocrite as well. The answer Jake is asking about is not Obama’s but the one of the Right wing Republicans who think they have higher moral values than anyone else on this planet. Do you see how Dobson was so quick to speak about forgiveness? Think about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Insanity: what would they have said about this?

It’s nobody’s business what the children of the candidates do. The personal lives of the current Pres/V.P. and the future Pres./V.P. really don’t belong in American living rooms. So is this the first white or black girl to get pregnant at 17? Can we hear about real issues like ACTUAL FACTS about the CANDIDATES and not their Aunt Tilly?
Posted by: Bobbie
Huh, then why were there Republicans saying things about Chelsea Clinton? One thing I can say they brought their daughter up properly. One thing about her you never heard anything negative.

Lance, I’m sorry if the quote that I posted from BHO got you upset.
Regarding “values”, it certainly is no secret which party is more against abortion. Is it? You’re free to attack me all you want, but you’re really not going to change the political or religious landscape. Carry on.

regarding your question jake-ah if it was obamas daughter she would have had an abortion (COVER UP) and we would not be having this discussion.
and if obamas UNWED mother whose father was married to antother woman had not decided to keep obama we would not be having this discussion either.
me personally i do believe in a woman’s choice. but i personally would NEVER kill my own baby.

You have to hand it to the Republicans. They’ve got their sheep so well trained they will make excuses for anything the Republicans do. If a Dem’s daughter was pregant, it would be evidence of decadence. But one “Christian” tried to dismiss this event and authoritatively tried to say on one comment that we should remember that Jesus was born to an unmarried mother (which, of course, isn’t true)!
Democrats are sinful but Palin’s single daughter’s pregnant and Cheney’s daughter’s gay and Dubya’s daughter walked around nude in public. That’s all ok on the Religious Right because it’s not the sin, it’s WHO sins!
Democrats waste money on health care and veterans benefits but Palin supported a $233 million bridge to nowhere. That’s ok because low taxes are in vogue – even though our infrastucture’s falling apart.
If the Religious Right is correct in their assessment of the afterlife, a lot of them are going to be sitting in a very hot place for their hypocrisy!

We wouldn’t be taling about it as they would be marched off for an abortion. I don’t really care as I am pro choice and against Obama.
McCAIN/PALIN ALL THE WAY

Believe me, Dems should leave this alone. Barack Hussein was conceived THREE MONTHS before his mom Anne married B. Hussein Sr……so life happens.

You’re all wrong. First the ultra-conservatives would claim that Obama didn’t pass the values he supposedly holds to his children.
But Obama would then respond with:
Race baiting
Proving he doesn’t really support abortion personally, since his daughter is having her child
Then you’d see Obama say McCain himself is a racist.
I think the Obama campaign would spin this quite well!

just asking; while we are on the topic of candidates children-i remember the way hillary’s daughter was disparaged, and harassed every time she spoke by the very types that cast stones against palen’s daughter now.
common thread? yes they are all women.
hillary supporter.

Willem,
I think the message is this:
Democrat sins are threats to national security and unforgiveable.
Republican sins are personal and forgiven.
End of story.

I’m conservative, but not so much so that I would say the parents of a pregant teenager were bad parents.
It happens to all kinds of people, of every part of the country, of every religion, of every class and rank, of every color. That’s life. To make a case of this is just embarrassing.

Lance,
Just a suggested reading assignment: “Signers of the Declaration of Independence”, George F. Cooledge & Brother.
I highly recommend it.

obama would get rid of it
“Be punished with a baby” – Remember??
Let’s not forget – obama was born to an UNWED mother!
These comments are a DISGRACE!
Don’t throw stones – we can & will throw right back!!!!

I love how people love to speculate about Obama would kill his grandchild…
but then howl with outrage about how mean people are to Palin.

‘sonia trevino’, I suggest you refresh your memory about the ‘joke’ McCain made about Chelsea Clinton and Janet Reno. It might stop you from putting your other foot in your mouth.

Egad, the ring wing nut jobs would go absolutely berserk!
Comments demanding to know who the BABY MAMA’S BABY DADDY was, and how can it be that someone running for the highest office can’t keep track of his own family, etc. etc.
The manufactured outrage would be palpable, and of course the racism would come to the surface.

Repulsive?? Yes, its “shocking, shocking” to think or speculate that the GOP and their base on the religious right would take an opportunity to impugn the moral standing of Democrats or the “left.” Shocking, I say, inconceivable.
Seriously, now, the point is that this country has had to listen to the endlessly hypocritical and self-righteous blather of the right for a decade even as their political icons fall one after another to scandal and the inevitable messiness of being human. The Democrats are equally fallible; they just don’t pretend to be “holier than thou.”

To answer you question: undoubtedly, Dobson would be all over the airways holding up the Obamas as the proof of the moral decline of America.

It would be no different if it were the Obama’s.

Oh, I don’t know what their response would be but they would probably understand that these things happen. At least we didn’t carry on outside the Dem convention and kept it peaceful. I just saw the Obamazombies young kids protesting, destroying public property, getting arrested, etc. Aren’t you glad we didn’t behave like that when the Dems had their convention? You guys act like wild animals! It’s disgusting. You attacked Hillary supporters and ran us down during the primary season and now you have your crew in at the GOP convention getting arrested, etc.

What a disaster this pick has turned out to be … The idea that McCain would place someone who was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska less than two years ago a heartbeat away from the Presidency is shameful and an outrage.
If GOP supporters were not fact-immune follower automatons, they would see the plain truth of that fact. Palin is in no way ready for prime time. And certainly not for the Presidency of the United States.
And I could care less about her pregnant daughter. Although I have to love the indignation coming from the GOP sheep about this considering how hey clucked with glee over Chelsea Clinton and other examples. Hypocrites.
There are at least half a dozen women GOPers whou would be better suited for this position, Liddy Dole, KB Hutchison, Jodi Rell, Condi Rice, etc.
This proved that Putting Country First is a political slogan, McCain is a tired, old liar.

Eddy,
I love how you guys always say it would be a press field day if it was Obama, wah, wah, wah… Yet you and your brainless leader had no qualm about sexually bashing Hillary Clinton day after day, after day. when the press started to scrutinize Obama he was on a plane going somewhere and said he thought it was unfair that they were so intent and checking into his history, etc. How would he have liked to have been Hillary and have that done to him every single day. Get over it! They’d have a press field day! You’ve got to be kidding to even make such a comment. What was it that Bill Maher said about the press and Obama? They fawn over him so badly it is like they want to have sex with him. Just because it is now the general election and now Obama can’t wave his wand and get everything and everyone to go away you start crying the blues. If he can’t take it and you can’t take it than he shouldn’t have run. What did they tell Hillary? It’s politics, that’s the way it is. But you can bet your boots if she evened the playing field and starting jumping on him constantly about his race everyone would have been screaming bloody murder. Another case of Obama and his groupies saying do as we say and not as we do. Good riddance! I can’t wait until that elitist sexist pig Obama is defeated in November.

Well, since Obama said he supports abortion rights because he wouldn’t want his young daughter be stuck with a ‘mistake’, then I guess he’d take her for an abortion, right?
Now, if he tried to keep that a secret, and the right-wing press and bloggers tried to pry into it, how would YOU react.

Obama’s campaign would have collapsed. The media and right-wing would have field day. Yet, since this is happening to a Republican, everyone all of sudden feels compelled to respect their privacy.
Obama released a statement saying to “BACK OFF” and I agree. That demonstrates class! Unfortunately, I doubt he would have received a similar class act if the situation was reversed.

Mary Anne,
PUH-LEEZE!
1. give me one concrete example of Obama himself or one of his main advisers saying something sexist about Hillary.
2. if you think McCain is going to win, than i’ve got a bridge i’d like to sell you.

I’m really shocked at the assumption that everyone who is pro-choice would abort an unexpected pregnancy, or one that would lead to a child with a disability. I’ve got news for you: you’re in a lot of trouble if you think all women think like that. I am pro-choice, and staunchly so, but I would never have an abortion. Why? Because I would never judge anyone else (I think I read that in the Bible somewhere?)

“Question: Are you offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?
Palin: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.
The pledge, of course, was not written until 1892 and the words “under God” were not added until the 1950s.

it would have been a non issue if it was obama
for instance it was non issue that obama’s father was polygamist.
more relevant question is whether this would be an issue if palin was a man? no.
statment that this proves palin is selfish in fact implies that a woman should stay home and look after babies and teenage daughters and give up jons etc. that betray so called obama fans sexism
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btw initial rumors about this propagated by obama supporters at daily kos and andrew sullivan were as disgusting as rumors that obama is a muslim . but how many of you protested ?

JPT: OK, let’s play the “what would the response be” game some more. Imagine if Obama’s VP pick claimed executive and readiness for the presidency based on six years as part-time Mayor. One visual is all they’d need. Have we seen this on ABC news yet?

I have never seen such ugliness as I’ve seen coming out of the mouths of Democratic men. Thanks for proving my point — the party is filled with mysogynists.

He would be called unAmerican, of course!
True Americans who put their country first are the only ones fit to be parents!

IF YOU CAN’T RUN YOUR HOUSE, YOU CAN’T RUN THE WHITE HOUSE. Period!

Jake, you already know the answer to your question. Hurricane Gustav would have taken a backseat to the story. You and your peers would be running it loop after loop, and questioning the Obamas’ values all way down to their first generation.
But Jake, here is one for you and ABC and the rest of the press, what would you guys have been saying if Barack Obama had chosen someone with the exact background as Sarah Palin? Honestly, by now, Barack Obama would have been demeaned, denigrated and called every name in the book. For starters, one can already hear that it was his first executive decision, and he flubbed.
I know it is difficult for you guys to see it, but for those of us watching from the outside, the coverage between Obama and McCain is pretty darned one-sided. The double standards in McCain’s favor stinks to the high heavens.
Today, everyone is giving McCain Kudos for going to the Hurricane zone to talk about the disaster. Give me a break. You guys don’t see the politics of it all. During Katrina, he and Bush were eating cake. He voted against every bill to help the people of Katrina, yet he gets a pass.

Maybe this has gotten some mention already, but…can you imagine the reaction from the right if it had been Chelsea Clinton who was the pregnant teen a few years back? There would have been such a hue and cry about what horrible parents the Clintons were, and it would have been taken as prima facie evidence of same.
I don’t think this necessarily reflects poorly upon Mrs. Palin, who seems like quite a decent sort of person, if hopelessly underqualified for the office for which she is nominated. Maybe in a few years, but not yet. Sorry John.

Debra… Barack’s a good man; McCain’s a good man. This question is about a hypothetical, and everyone knows that folks like Rove, Rush and Hannity would try to destroy Obama if the roles were reversed. That is all they do: inject mean spiritedness into every conversation they have

He would be slaughtered in the press. There would be a constant sneering discussion about those terrible “liberal” family values and the fact that Michele Obama ever worked outside the home would have made her guilty of her daughter’s demise. There would be endless and heartlessly personal discussion about the father, the age of the father and questions asked about statutory rape. I am a Mom and a professional. I’m the primary breadwinner for my family and I run a business. But, in all honesty, my family comes before me and if I had a daughter, pregnant while she was still a child herself. I would never, never, never expose her to the National press for my own personal gain. Never. I think Ms. Palin shows deep personal flaws in choosing to subject her young daughter to this kind of scrutiny. I hate to be the one to say it but this young woman needs a mother right now.

I don’t feel inclined to cast stones at the Palins for having a pregnant teenaged daughter; I have too many friends who’ve been in the same boat. But for crying out loud, this woman now has a 4 month-old infant with Down’s Syndrome *and* a pregnant underaged daughter. Does she really need to be running for national office, too? Speaking only for myself, if *I* were in that position, and just holding down my normal, average, not all that exciting, day job, I know I’d feel like I was stretched about as thin as I could handle.
This whole thing just gets more and more absurd, every day.

Most conservatives I know would wish the daughter and her child well, and express pleasure that she chose to have the baby.

What if it wasn’t an Obama daughter that was pregnant at 17? What if it was a poor Black or Hispanic girl who lived in the projects and whose family didn’t have one-tenth of the resources (both economic and non-economic) to help her that the Palins have to help their daughter? I don’t know what Gov. Palin would say, but I know what her advocates on the religious right would say: “Just another example of how Godless liberal policies mix with lower class values so poor (read: minority) girls get pregnant just so they can collect welfare checks. We need more good Christian family values, not liberal give-away programs.” Don’t believe me? Just read Ann Coulter, James Dobson, and their cronies. The most hypocritical two-faced people on the face of the planet. Good luck to Gov. Palin and her daughter in dealing with life’s difficulties. May this episode teach their supporters a little compassion and true charity towards others. Goodness knows, they could all use it.

“I have never seen such ugliness as I’ve seen coming out of the mouths of Democratic men. Thanks for proving my point — the party is filled with mysogynists.”
You don’t know many Republicans, do you?

I feel sorry for Bristol. If her parents were committed to giving her all the support she needs, her mother would not have chosen to run for VP.
One might even question the judgement of someone who thinks they can balance the love and care a small baby needs with campaigning. I don’t know what decisions their family makes, but it is interesting that the Obamas say that they could not have had Senator Obama run for President if his wife’s Mother had not been available to join with them in care for their daughters.

What would happen if McCain was friends with terrorists, racists, and criminals like Obama is? Just askin’.

Ellen705 i agree parents should be responsible for their children-so how could obama raise/baptize his young impressionable children in the wright church. imagine the trauma growing up hearing your nation is evil. that is very conflicting for a child.
hillary supporter

I believe Obama was right in his statement that families are off limits. Obama has two daughters of his own and we don’t know the future. We always hope they do the right thing but we can’t always be behind them. If one of Obama’s daughter’s I would say the same as he did about families being off limits. And we shouldn’t be quick to critize her daughter because its going on every day of the week. Palin is running for the VP not her family. What is important is the issues we are facing today and how we can make changes. Her daughter’s pregnancy is not important. That’s a family matter. I am not an Obama fan but I thought his answer to the question asked was the right one. I listen to the Maury show and there are young women that have babies out of wedlock and don’t know who the father is. Sometimes they have to test two thru 8 men for one woman. Palin’s daughter knows who the father is and she is going to marry him. I wish her good luck.

Sarah is not responsible for raising her daughter’s child. Her daughter has that responsibility. It doesn’t matter who the father is because we don’t know him anyway and its not our business. Our business as voters is to choose who we think is the right candidate to run this country and what changes are they going to make. As I stated prior teenage pregnancy is going on every day of the week, many teens are killing their babies, dumping them in the garbage or trying to drown them in the toilet. That will not happen in the Palin house. And the teens that are trying to kill their babies will get pregnant over and over again. They plain sluts to me.

I am sure that Rush would have something to say>

If it were one of Obama’s daughters and they made the decision to keep the baby, the Republicans would be all over it. When young white women get pregnant and decide to keep the baby they are doing the right thing. When you black women keep their babies, according to the rhetoric you hear from a lot of people on the right, they are doing it to collect a welfare check.

Fair question Jake. We all know where this story would end up. I cannot fathom why knowing what the current media environment is Ms. Palin would subject her family, her daughter specifically, to this. This did not happen while Ms. Palin was running – she knew this and still accepted Sen McCain’s profer. It is utterly irresponsible of her and is again another reason that McCain’s judgement should be called into question.
Not all Republicans or conservatives are excited by the selection of Palin and many are hoping that the convention nominates Romney this week. Remember when Rush, Hannity, etc. were slamming McCain in the primaries? All the reasons remain true – he does not put country first and is more concerned with being popular (especially with the media) than doing the right thing. Enough! We can still nominate Romney!

Sarah looks awfully good for just having a baby 4 months ago. Her daughter looks like someone who just had a baby 4 months ago.

Any pictures of Sarah pregnant?

Families should be off limits. But the GOP would crucify Obama over this type of story if the tables were turned.
What should not be off the table is McCain’s abysmal judgment in making this terible and impulsive decision. He had months to think this through, and then gave us the least experienced VP ever? And, basically, because she’s a woman and he thought he might peel off some Hillary supporters? And is popular with the most right wing Christian conservative wing of her party? And knows something about making a state government run at a surplus by allowing as much oil production as the law will allow, and taxing it?
Foist on his own petard. He is the original Maverick – like the irresponsible, vain, cocky and dangerous Tom Cruise character in Top Gun. Only this time it’s not just him who has to live with the consequences, it’s all of us. That she didn’t think the better of it and turn it down speaks to her political ambition and bad judgment. That he chose her over any of the three alternatives who were on the “short list” speaks to his political ambition and bad judgment.
Obama, tested over a 20 month campaign, with 21 debates, countless interviews, and personal appearences, and answers to alomst every question about national and international policy, has proven his leadership and executive skill. It is no small feat, especially against the clinton machine, in a You Tube world. McCain has proven that he is too risky for the Presidency. It’s time to turn the page.

While (I hope) most Americans would applaud Bristol’s decision, and I hope she also had a CHOICE in this decision, I feel sorry for her. There is no reason she should be drawn into this media circus. Gov. Palin is obviously more focused on her career than her family. It’s one thing for her to put in long days away from her family on the campaign trail—but they need her right now—fourt month old Down Syndrome child, seventeen year old pregnant daughter. What’s wrong with “Thanks Senator McCain, I’m flattered, but right now my family needs me.” ??
Listen to Joe Biden’s quote the day he became a US Senator contemplating whether or not he should take the job.
To me, one screams “family values” and the other seems very selfish.

Great question, Jake. They would be the instant and relentless victim of a “high tech lynching” at the hands of the media. Ditto if Obama had offered up Michelle at a biker rally to be in their topless beauty pageant. Or was carrying huge monthly balances on their American Express. Or had so many homes they lost count. Or if Michelle had had a drug problem and was caught stealing. And on and on.

How old is Levi (who should have kept his pants zipped)? Is statutory rape involved? I think voters have a right to know.

“Ellen705 i agree parents should be responsible for their children-so how could obama raise/baptize his young impressionable children in the wright church.”
Probably the same way Republican hero Mitt Romney could raise his children in the Mormon Church. The Mormon Church whose founding prophet, Joseph Smith, taught that blacks are not human.

“Obama would make an excuse how society failed his daughter. Not take responsibility as a father. Blame the society.”
That’s nice wingnut talking points, except the facts are Obama has taken complete responsibility for his children. He’s better educated than you, he’s richer than you and I’ll bet he’s better looking, too. I’ll also bet he started lower on the ladder than you.

Easy…Obama’s supporters would call the media racist for asking about it.

his polls will go up because people will identify with it..this is not something a parent wish for and all you can do is sympathies with the parent.
Palin handled it with grace so more power to her.

“What would happen if McCain was friends with terrorists, racists, and criminals like Obama is? Just askin’.”
Anna have you looked at teh bush administration in the last 4 years?

There’s a stereotype of blacks having an epidemic of unwed teenage pregnancies (and the stereotype is based on the fact that blacks do have a higher rate of that). Because of that, the GOP *and* the mainstream media would talk about this story 24/7 on cable news, ripping Obama to shreds, it would drown out everything else and Obama’s campaign would be finished. None of you can honestly deny it, either.
Of course, the same would’ve happened had Obama confused Shiite with Sunni, Somalia with Sudan, Czech Republic with Czechoslovakia, the Anbar Awakening vs Surge timeline, or had talked of a non-existent Iraq-Pakistan border. McCain did all of the above within the span of a month, which should’ve put an end to his so-called foreign policy credentials. But the media gave him a pass on ALL of it. If Obama had done even ONE of those gaffes, cable news would’ve gone into 24/7 loop mode and torpedoed his campaign. The media sucks.

If he announced that she was going to marry the father and the family would help the mraise the child together, I think it would dispel a most of any negative response that occurred.

David & Dan,
You’ve been listening too much to Sean Hannity! Prove to me that Obama broke the law in buying his house – prove to me that Obama’s church is a hate filled place. It can’t be done. Conservatives always claim the high moral ground & in this case, their hypocracy is demonstrated. As far as Mr. McCain choosing Palin for his running mate, it demonstrates his lack of judgement, his poor decision-making & that he shouldn’t be the next President!

My heart goes out to Gov. Palin.
But in my candid opinion, I think she should have declined the nomination.
If she couldn’t control her Child in a town of just over 8000 inhabitants, how would she be able to control a complex Country like the United States of America should something untowards happen to Mccain?
And to think she is an advocate of abstenance while her daughter was eating the forbidden fruit makes it more appaling.
And to think that some GOP members and some so called Evangelicals are backing her on this is incredible and ridiculous.
Leaders are supposed to be role-models. A bad example has been set, We pray that it does not go round.
It won’t come as a Suprise if it is discovered that Bristol is actually the Mother of Trig or the anybody in Alaska see a pregnant Governor Sarah Palin in 2007?

When I read posts in defense of Gov. Sarah Palin, I get worried at what the future portends for American youths.
Barack Obama said his mum conceived him at that age but he seems to forget that his Mother did not aspire for Public Office. His Mother did not even aspire for the post of a Mayor, talkless of a Govenor and now the Vice-President and then, when Mccain’s is juxtaposed with his mortalilty at above four score plus 10, the potential President of the United States of America.
And to think that She held back on this important information until it was broken in the blogosphere gives me a feeling that we are going to be treated to more darker stories about the Palins before November.
Now let’s be truthful; If it had been Barack Obama, I know so many pundits would have suggested that he disqualifies himself as the Dems Flagbearer. But because it is Mccain, his apologists are trying to spin the story as an American family value.
I could remember the castigation that trailed Jamie-Lyn Spears Pregnancy on Entertainment blogsites.
But for a Woman that is an hair-breath away from the Presidency, it is a thing that deserves an applause.

That is one of the only aspects of this story worth publicly discussing (all the rest being the Palin family’s private family matters): right wing hypocrisy on getting to condemn everyone within range unless it falls on one of their own, in which case suddenly “forgiveness” takes on renewed relevance.

In Law, one of the MAXIMS of EQUITY is “HE/SHE WHO MUST COME TO EQUITY MUST COME WITH CLEAN HANDS.
Her hands are not clean. She has failed one of the tenets of good Motherhood. Being the Vice-President makes are the mother of all Americans and by extension, the World.
But if she could not hold her home, if she could not control her Children because of the demand of Political Office, She should do what is best for herself and her Family – Leave Politics.
See what American Society is turning into – a Society of Moral decadence.
We need a Leader that would lead by good examples. We need a Leader we can look up to. We need a Leader that we can proudly say of “If she can achieve these good deeds, I can do the same”
Not a Leader that our Children will say “If Sarah Palin’s daughter could do this and he mum was rewarded with the post of a VP, WHY CAN’T i DO THE SAME.
IF WE CONDONE THIS ACT AND SWEEPS IT UNDER THE CARPET, American Society is sure sitting on a amoral Time-bomb which, when it explodes, no household would be spared.

If it were Obama’s daughter I would feel the same. This is Palin’s daughter….not her. We cannot control our children, we can only instill in them what is right and wrong; they have to do the rest. I’ve known ministers children, children that were brought up in a christian home, and hormones just get the best of them at times. So what is the big deal….we all make mistakes and the judgement doesn’t lie with us.

I wonder if people understand that the story is not about the pregnancy, but the fact that it was concealed.
Sen McCain and his staff is making this to be a “Great American Story”. They are applauding Gov. Palin for sticking by her family and supporting her daughters pregnancy. The problem that I have with this is, if this was such a great story, why wasn’t it introduced when Gov. Palin was introduced. From my perspective, Sen McCain was attempting to play on the heartstrings of many Americans with the revelation that the youngest Palin had Downs Syndrome, she married her high school sweetheart (by the way I did too), her husband is a snowmobiler, and she is a member of the NRA. Well, I ask, Why not share the pregnancy at the same time. Let it be known that she is excited about becoming a grandmother. That the father of the child is planning to marry her daughter.
The fact that the story only broke after bloggers made such “radical suggestions” that the infant was in fact the daughters, lead me to wonder if Sen McCain and his staff knew of the pregnancy or even learned of it during the Vetting process.
I can understand why Sen McCain wanted to pick Gov. Palin for his VP. Appeal to the Clinton’s bitter supporters and attract a larger woman vote. However I ponder this question, will this decision prove that Sen McCain is more ambitious about his ascention to the White House or does he really put “County First”.
And to regards to the question, “What if this was Sen Obama”. Do we really need to entertain that question. I know the politically correct response is, It is no different. However we all know that is not true. There is a double standard in this country in regards to race and sex.

Ruth T doesn’t pay attention so good.
Also, why is Jake asking questions to which he already knows the answer?
The culture warriors love to have enemies. That’s why Bill O’Reilly can sexually harass an employee while wearing his wedding ring and Limbaugh can be married a gazillion times and have a hillbilly heroin addiction, and still claim a vast “conservative” audience. It’s not about doing what’s right. It’s about winning a “war”.

If it was Obama’s daughter, the very same conservatives who are now oh so understanding of the Palins situation will cast the Obamas as typical of black America. They have already called Michelle Obama by the choicest names, now they will also shower his children with a tirade of unspeakables. If you don’t serve their purpose, the right, esp. the religious right, will cast you as worse than the devil. Sad but true.

Palin’s bio is heartwarming and good fodder for the media but it’s disingenuous.
I can’t think of anyone who can parent 5 children, be active in the care of one who has Down Syndrome, be emotionally available for an unwed pregnant teen, have a successful marriage and sex life, attend hockey games and carry out the duties of Vice President of the United States of America (in addition to taking vacations and taking care of other personal needs).
She will not be involved with her family and that’s ok. It is a choice she has made. She is a career woman, and that’s ok too. Another life choice.
Just don’t sell her to me as a hockey mom.
How dumb do you think we are?