Colette Meiji

How could she have any choice when her mother is anti-abortion?

And what kind of spoiled kid has sex with no birth control when her mother is the GOVERNOR OF ALASKA?

Joy Honey

The same kid whose mother wants to replace sex-ed with abstinence-only

Tyche Shepherd

I find it very sad that a 17 year olds pregnancy is an issue in any Election in this day and age.

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Joshua Nightshade

Well it's more about her mother's hypocrisy than anything else.

Colette Meiji

How is her daughter getting pregnant and her keeping the child hypocrisy?

It would be hypocrisy if she had an abortion, yes. But she didn't.

Right?

Isablan Neva

Well, it is sad. It is sad because significant portions of the Republican Party Platform deal with sex and the morality thereof. If Obama had a pregnant 17 year old the GOP would be having a field day shouting about "liberal hedonism and lack of morality." It is only an issue because Republicans have made sex a national campaign issue and have been using teenage pregnancy in particular as a club to beat people with as examples of moral decay due to liberalism.

Joy Honey

All's fair in love, war and politics.

I still fail to see how this makes Sarah Palin a hypocrite, though.

Colette Meiji

We all already knew that a lot of 17 year olds have sex, right?

And the pregnant daughter is not the mother of the retarded Child, that is the Governor's

The daughter isn't the governor and she didn't have a platform preferring abstinence.

Did the Governor somehow encourage her daughter to have sex and get pregnant? I don't see that anywhere.

I just don't see why this is the Mother's fault at all. In the slightest.

Joshua Nightshade

And this is why she's a hypocrite.

Isablan Neva

She has a choice because she lives in America -- she is allowed to choose here....

The fact that she is going to have her baby is an admirable choice and she is lucky she has the right to choose. In China, she might not have that choice. In India she might be killed for disgracing her family. She has choices here, although the very same people lauding her for her choice want to restrict that same choice - that is the irony.

reeneebob Birmingham

This Palin woman is awful. I would think that someone concerned for their daughters well being would not put their pregnant daughter on full public display on an international level and then act indignant (this is more McCains camp) and insinuate liberal bloggers forced them to say she was pregnant.

You don't want people to know your 17 year old daughter got knocked up sweets, DON'T ACCEPT THE NOMINATION.

Now she is being punted around like a political football.

The timeline of the birth of the governors son made me question her judgement - you don't fly all over the country while in labour, you dumb bitch. But now? She makes me ill.

Colette Meiji

She's a hypocrite because IF Obama had a daughter in this situation, People THINK she would be shouting that its "Liberal hedonism and lack of morality."?

But it didnt happen, so she didn't ... but she's still a hypocrite.

How does that work?

reeneebob Birmingham

I am not saying her choosing to have the baby is bad. I am saying that her 'mother' using it for political points, and saying how proud she is of her daughter who will be a mother and a wife before she is old enough to vote make me want to slap her mother upside the head with an alaskan king crab. She rubs me the wrong way.

And if this is how she watches her family, god help the country.

Joshua Nightshade

What is with you today?

reeneebob Birmingham

And don't be fooled, the conservatives are all over Obama, insinuating he would force his daughter to have an abortion, the godless heathen. *rolls eyes* I made the mistake of checking Hannity's forums.

The person who made this pregnancy a political event is her mother. Her mother CHOSE to put her minor pregnant daughter in the international spotlight. Her mother CHOSE to put her political career before the potential well being of her own daughter, who is already in upheaval. McCain's camp is blaming the liberal blogs for forcing them to make this public? As fucking if - the girl is 5 months pregnant and on the campaign trail, exactly how were people not to notice - were they hiding her behind a huge handbag or couch ala The Young and the Restless?

Cocoanut Koala

I don't see how she is using it for political points.

It's obviously a bad thing politically for any candidate to have a child this young getting pregnant. (If Chelsea got pregnant, it would be different, as she is considerably older.)

I don't see what she SHOULD say about it. "Yeah, my daughter is a slut and we have disowned her?"

I'm sure she would have preferred it hadn't happened. (Who wouldn't?) But I absolutely don't see how this makes her a hypocrite.

I mean, if my daughters got pregnant, would that make me a hypocrite somehow? I mean, I wouldn't be the one getting pregnant, they would!

coco

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Gigs

That is the most badass picture I've seen in my entire life.

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reeneebob Birmingham

She has already started scoring points with the religious right for the "good family values". Apparently premarital sex is swept under the outrage rug when you get married and have the kid, even when you are a teenager. Everything I have been reading in the right wing geared forums is that people are supporting her because her daughter is proof that she is pro life.

What she *should* have done is not accepted the nomination for the well being of her daughter and focus on her family, not running for political office. I would have a lot more respect for someone who put their family first, before their political aspirations.

Of course, this is the woman accused of trying to get her former brother in law fired as a state trooper over her sisters bad divorce, and using her office to do so.

Decadent

I just keep focusing on her ugly-ass shoes and that atrocious waste of precious Alaskan crab.

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Joy Honey

To be fair, the crab shell might have been the product of molting.

I can offer no alternative explanation for the fugly shoes, though

Decadent

Don't say that. I was having lovely mental images of crab legs dipped in melted butter, and an empty shell is no good for that.

Gigs

Yeah, another Huffington Post reporter.

If anything, with so much screaming from the left about how Palin sucks so much, I think the left are the ones sweating, not McCain.

Joy Honey

Yes, but my explanation means the crab wasn't wasted

mmmmm crab legs



not as impressive as King crab, but Dungeness are still yummeh (and local)

Joshua Nightshade

What do they have to sweat about? Obama's the next president.

Gigs

Actually the probably-fake tan on her way-too-glossy legs is kind of distracting.