the Palin kids (Briston conveniently holding Sarah's latest, Trig)
The last thing I heard Rush Limbaugh talk about last week was what a great job John McCain did in picking unknown Alaska governor Sarah Palin and keeping the pick a big secret.
He was implying, that McCain's campaign was better than Obama's because some press found out about Obama's VP pick a few hours before the message went out in text messages. (Not that McCain knows how to text, or use a computer.)
Anyway, the 17-year-old daughter of this potential VP is five months pregnant and the news broke on Labor Day (no pun intended).
I'm dying to hear what El Rushbo has to say about this one. Any guesses? Will he suddenly celebrate 17-year-old children running out and getting pregnant? Will he praise parents for not teaching about birth control and not supervising their teenagers? Will he claim, as McCain is doing, that the presumptive nominee really knew about the pregnancy when he was picking his vice? Will he claim that family matters should be kept out of the election, as Barack Obama has already said?
You tell me, I'm dying to know.
And what about the rumors that Palin's four-month-old, Trig, is actually Bristol's first born? That was floating around Mr. Bush's Internets Monday....and apparently triggered the Palins to tell the truth about their daughter
My bet? McCain didn't vet her carefully enough, anymore than the Republicans vetted what to do in Iraq, and she will be off the ticket, replaced by either Joe Lieberman or Mitt Romney.
Here's an interesting excerpt from a New York Daily News story about Baby Daddy Levi Johnston.
Besides his hard play on the ice, Levi Johnston was also a bit of a hell-raiser off it - another reason Bristol may have been smitten.
State troopers popped Johnston last year for snagging some king salmon out of season in Moose Lake, records from Alaska wildlife enforcement show. He had to pay $370 bail.
On his MySpace page, Johnston proudly declares: "I'm a f---n' redneck."
"I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing," he says on the site.
He also warns that if anyone messes with him, "I'll kick ass."
The Web site, before it was removed, appeared not to have been accessed for a year.
On it, he admits to having a girlfriend.
On the part where it asks about children, he wrote, "I don't want kids."
Mark Okeson, the assistant principal at Wasilla High School, told the Chicago Tribune that Bristol started her junior year last fall, in the town where Sarah Palin grew up.
He said Bristol inexplicably transferred to an Anchorage high school midyear, leaving Levi behind.
"I never heard the story why," he said.
Comments
People are not attacking Palin's daughter, they are rightly pointing out the hypocrisy of a Republican establishment that has advanced the politics of character assassination and undermined the Freedom of Religion in pursuit of power. The internet should be replete with apologies from Republicans for allowing their party to bludgeon and litmus test fellow Americans with some Biblical passages when politically expedient, while not doing so with other passages like those on fidelity, fornication, shell fish, swine, and indentured servitude. Christian Fundamentalists in the Republican Party and Media that want to impose their particular religious interpretations on others can't have it both ways:
Either, a pregnancy is a personal matter SEPARATE from government (as most open minded freedom loving Americans argue), or it isn't.
Christian Fundamentalists want to impose non-medical/religious-only beliefs on people outside of their church in a nation where your pledge of allegiance means you swear not to do that. By advocating the imposition of her spirituality into law, Palin invited us to do something we shouldn't have to: to examine the consequences of the imposition of Palin's religious beliefs on those of us who don't share those beliefs. Hypocrites deserve worse than being put in front of a mirror that reflects all the "family values"/"I'm more Christian than you" that were used to distract the nation from a rational and substantiated discussion on issues that are most deserving of our attention.
Christ was the first to advocate a separation of church and state when he declared "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s" (Matthew 22:21, see also John 18:36). Don't you dare use him to hide your lack of integrity,self-reflection, and moral courage. Not even someone who Christian Fundamentalists believe is fit to run the country and pick Supreme Court justices; who embodies their "Christian Values"; is able to keep her adolescent daughter abstinent. If you don't want people to look at how well the politics that puts "abstinence-only education" ahead of adolescent welfare worked out for your daughter, do us all a favor, mind your own business and remember your oath to uphold the Constitution means real American patriots would sooner die than allow their or anyone else's religious-only beliefs to be forced onto others.
Wow...I guess some people think it is okay to go after the families of candidates. Sorry, but nothing you can say justifies going after a 17 year old girl in this way. She has nothing to do with politics.
Pssstttt....Barrack Obama's mom was 18 when he was born. She raised him without a father being around. He turn out to be a great American success story. But don't let that knowledge keep you from acting like mean-spirited partisans.
rush limb is fat, lazy, and stupid. nobody wants to hear his opinions. he thinks he's a fuzzy, furry teddy bear. a lazy, fat, estupido one. palin is hot, rush is not.
Rush likens the white problem of pregnancy to a hang nail. To be black and "illegitamacy" is a problem of a lost culture and the welfare state.
Isn't Alaska a socialist oil state where the citizens get paid to shut up about Exxon's huuuuuuuuge profits and escaping liablility for the Valdez incident. Bring on the Rush hypocrisy and put it on the mountains of lies he pumps out his a## every day.Doesn't Palin look like a cousin of Brittney? the trailer trash VP gets a new grandkid. Congrats
Bristols' condition was already vetted by McCain. And no, Trig is NOT her baby - nice try, mouth-foamers.
Maybe there should be a lot more serious concern about the impact about Biden's son, Hunter.
These cheap tactics are ALL gone to come back and shoot the accuser's foot. The left one. Wait and see.
Still attacking a 17 year old girl because you don't like her mothers politics. Go kill yourself.
to Edwin Enciso, beautifully put! Excellent comment.
Hey Scumbag. Barack Obama's mother was pregnant when she married. If you have a problem with that, surely you won't be voting for him. Or does scum like you get off on trying to humiliate children?
By the way moron, her name is Bristol not Briston.
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