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Palins Announce Daughter’s Pregnancy
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by BMCWrites | September 1, 2008 at 09:47 am
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“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.”
According to a Reuters report, the 44-year-old first-term governor of Alaska said she made the announcement in order to squelch rumors by liberal bloggers (a.k.a., Daily Kos) that she had faked her own pregnancy last year to cover up for a first pregnancy of her daughter.
It won’t be long until those same liberals urge Bristol to “do the right thing and end the pregnancy (a.k.a., “have an abortion”)” and so-called “comedians” on late night television begin making jokes about the possibility of a “shotgun wedding” at the White House.
Unlike those in the Hollywood, pro-abortion Planned Parenthood crowd, however, members of the Palin family value life and will never even consider such a vile and disgusting move.
Hat’s off to the governor for doing what’s right and to McCain for standing by his running mate and her family in the face of much scrutiny.
P.S. Pray for Bristol, Levi and the baby on the way.
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at 09:53 on September 1st, 2008
And baby makes Obama President!!
at 09:58 on September 1st, 2008
Don't count your votes before they're cast, Jimbo -- unless, of course, you're voting in a Democratic Party-controlled precinct.
at 10:05 on September 1st, 2008
This could use an opinion tag.
at 10:18 on September 1st, 2008
BMCWrites, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 11:40 on September 1st, 2008
Dunk -- I checked the "opinion tag" box when I posted, but it didn't take. That's my opinion.
at 11:50 on September 1st, 2008
I have had that problem myself. Plus, is there an Opinion box in the highlight tool? I haven't found it.
at 11:54 on September 1st, 2008
Hi. The Opinion box will be added to the Highlight tool in a subsequent rollout. To add it currently, you can go into the Edit field of your story once it has published, and check the Opinion box there.
at 12:03 on September 1st, 2008
Righto! That's what I have been doing, but it doesn't always seem to take. It may be all the activities in the past few just confuses the poor dear.
at 11:53 on September 1st, 2008
What you sometimes have to do is to go ahead and publish the highlight and your commentary. Then just go back to the story and hit "Edit". When you go back in, the opinion box will show up just under the pull-down menu for which category the post goes in.
Check the box by Opinion. Hit publish again. You're done.
You can also put opinion in the tags (I think staff asked for that before), and many of us, from the pre-opinion flag days, will still put (Opinion) in the headline because there isn't a commentary/opinion section here.
at 12:02 on September 1st, 2008
Rachel and I were cross-posting!
It just takes an extra 30 seconds or so if the server is cooperating!
at 11:52 on September 1st, 2008
This has been a rather grimy couple of days. I seriously doubt that the left will issue a call for an abortion. However, just about all the other predictions may come true.
I say let them sort it out for themselves and stick to the issues.
at 12:06 on September 1st, 2008
I'm wondering why this is in "Culture" when the rest of the material on this topic is in "World." I think it's a "World" story--if not, the rest should move to culture! ;}
at 12:46 on September 1st, 2008
Palin's daughter's pregnancy would be a private affair if....
> Gov. Palin had not paraded her Down Syndrome baby as a political trophy during her VP announcement;
> FIX news and every conservative blogging nut job in America had not made up a new story every day about Obama's personal and family life;
> The Republicans hadn't been putting "shaming planks" about abstinence and teen age pregnancy into their party's platforms since the 1990s.
Oh...and maybe Rush Limbaugh's infamous remark about the presumed unattractiveness (as in lacking potential sex appeal) of the then-teenage Chelsea Clinton might now warrant an apology at this late date...and maybe a recognition on the part of Palin's feverish defenders that it probably was not a good thing for him to say -- or the right wing to tolerate.
at 13:05 on September 1st, 2008
Frankly, it is a family affair.
If you want to join the jackels who use such campaigns, such as that doper or the holier than thou evangelicals, don't do it in the name of the Obama campaign.
Those who can see the seamy side of the right-wing lies and smear campaigns only make themselves lower than a snake's belly by adopting the tactics.
at 10:13 on September 2nd, 2008
So what do we know about the sperm donor?
at 14:39 on September 3rd, 2008
Personally I think that her lack of experience is the real issue. The fact that her underage daughter is pregnant is a personal issue for her family. Although I won't vote for Mccain/Palin I have sympathy for her as a person, and I respect that she is supporting her daughter.
On a political level though I have serious problems with her staunch pro-life stance and her stance on sex education. In this regard, this issue is relevant. According to her principles, if her daughters child were the result of rape she would have pressured her to keep or adopt it. Also I wonder if her daughter felt comfortable enough talking to her mother about contraceptives to prevent pregnancy or if her mother's religious belief's prevented such a discussion. One last thing, what kind of religious nonsense would make you believe that encouraging your daughter to marry at 17 or 18 is a good thing? Talk about adding a mistake to a mistake.