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Yep, Salon articles on the Palin family sure do bring the wackos and their gibberish nonsequiturs out of the woodwork.
Nice article, Ms. Traister. I've felt sorry for Bristol Palin ever since the whole story broke back in early September. I don't doubt she did make her own decision about whether to have the baby. In fact, there's a little nagging voice in the back of my head pondering the disturbing possibility that the real scenario was actually the reverse: that her mother may even have tried to pressure her into having an abortion, which would be comparatively easy to cover up. Palin senior, after all, seems to have had her own doubts about whether to carry Trig to term, according to reports this week. This may sound crazy, but I wouldn't be surprised, considering that everything Sarah Palin does is intended to benefit Sarah Palin...including steamrolling over her daughter's single opportunity to show that she's more than a political football. (And I caught the veiled hostility in her opening line, too.)
