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She has a loving and supportive family that will enable her to get married, have a baby at 17, and be able to raise her children and presumably complete her education or whatever it will take for her to have a roof over her head and food on her table.
It's great that she has a safety net under her to catch her when she is a statistic of her mother's failed policies.
If this most supportive model family cannot make her mother's policies work, what hope does the average family have? And taking care of their daughter in a loving and supportive manner when there is a policy failure IS NOT the same as have an effective policy.
And isn't she lucky that she was able to "decide" whether or not to have the baby and whether or not to keep it? Just like her mother was able to "decide" to have her down's syndrome baby.
The majority of teenage girls in this country do not have a family that is willing and/or able to support her should she become a statistic of a failed policy. Too many families are having problems making ends meet and having the time to raise, support, and educate their kids WITHOUT having to take on the responsibility of being a grandparent in addition to raising their kids.
As much as I agree with Obama that kids are off limits of campaigns, if looking at Al Gore's personal energy footprint is an issue when looking at energy sufficiency, then Palin's ability to personally implement her core initiatives should also be an issue. And so far, she does not seem to be doing so well. Of her three primary issues, energy, anti-corruption, and pro-life, abstinence only teachings, she seems to have some pretty big questions on two of them.
