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Hurricane Bristol hits Minnesota Republicans try to brush off the tempest over Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and turn that other storm in Louisiana into a political prop.
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  • GIVE IT A BREAK ALREADY

    More the of the same sexist bullshit! You think you're being so darn clever. From your critical description of Mrs. McCain's dress at the convention (who died and made you Project Runway's next winner?), to bashing the young woman who is expecting a baby. Like there's just no other 17 year olds in this country getting pregnant, right? I mean, where's the news in any of this.

    You didn't spend enough time on George W. Bush's antics when he was "youngster" at the age of 40, (before he was "selected") so now I guess you think you're doing the voters a great service here, eh?

    After the collective sexist, female bashing of Hillary Clinton for over a year, I'm sick of guys like you - and some of your more ignorant female reports too. You think you're scoring points for Obama with this crap? Think again, bucko!

  • Obama Campaign and Media are on Thin Ice

    Is this really the fight you want to pick right now? Wounds are still open and throbbing concerning Hillary. Now you name a seventeen year old female a Hurricane. Sure Sarah Palin is not on the right side of feminist social values but she is a woman. Her daughter is barely a woman and has been thrust into the lime light with no say in the matter. Is that to say that Gov. Palin shouldn't have taken the opportunity to run on the ticket? Heck NO! People have careers and family issues all over this country. Bullying this girl is not going to help your beloved Obama. Demeaning Gov. Palin's experience and only mentioning the small town she was mayor of and not her 2 years as governor is not going to help your 125days of Senate dem candidate. What if Obama lost and Hillary snubbed him and McCain turned around and nominated Michael Steele? Would the media attack him if he had familial issues? NO! Proceed with caution! Dems are supposed to be the "big tent" the party on the right side of "women's rights." But you are so blinded with hatred, those on the blogs and dirty caucus goers, you know who you are, that you are abandoning integrity and a sense of fair play. If Palin is such a poor choice, I would think you'd play the mature upper hand and let this thing play out. The fact is you're scared. And you know what, you should be.

  • We have no idea

    if these kids are in agreement with this shotgun wedding.

    If you were a hot-shot young man, the LAST thing you would want to do is to get tied down to some stupid girl who was stupid enough to get preggers. His MySpace page says he is totally uninterested in "having kids".

    WHAT DOES LEVI SAY ABOUT HIS UPCOMING WEDDING?

  • It's who pays that matters

    To FPZ1807 Ebony & Ivory

    What a silly comment! It doesn't matter to me if it's Obama's daughter or Palin's daughter who is pregnant. Those families can afford it. What matters most is when the taxpayer is forced to pay for the consequences of illegitimacy. Have all the children you want, married or not; just make sure YOU, YOU, not me, can pay to support them, emotionally & financially. We taxpayers won't be paying to support Bristol's baby! We ARE supporting the illegitimate offspring of the irresponsible who can't afford to have them yet continue having them anyway.

  • By Design?

    The McCain campaign is playing the media.

    The right wing base has a slight inferiority complex and their politicians exploit it. Why shouldn't they? They often claim that the media is liberally biased, and now they can say the ubiquitous media is attacking a 17-year-old girl. Damn liberals!

    Of course, this so-called-attacking comes from fringe postings on a (often times more than slightly unhinged) left-wing blog; hardly part of the media establishment, but no matter. The campaign can play it that way and paint broad strokes of umbrage all over the "real" media talking-head-a-thons 'til the bias meme sticks nice and snug all over again. I've yet to hear any respectable media outlet attack and rough up Palin over this. In fact, they've been quite subdued about it, as they should be. The actual issue of her daughter doesn't really matter.

    Perception matters though.

    The thing that stinks is that it doesn't cut both ways. Lefty ranters are somehow part and parcel to Obama, but connecting someone like Bush to someone like Coulter? Doesn't matter to 'em. But for a lot of the right's base, it seems to me it's more black and white and I think they really put these rantings under the same umbrella and constantly infer that Obama is holding it.

    I wouldn't put it past them (Rove's protege is part of the campaign) that they manufactured some of the goofier user posts over at Kos to whip this stuff up. A ranting lefty is not a welcome entity here in the heartland and it's a good way to create an "us vs. them" story-line. Take a visit to some right wing blogs/forums and you'll get the jist.

    Even if the whole response to the "vicious attack rumors" on Palin are not by design, it plays right into the right's pocket.

    "You godless hippie libs, you think you're so smarter than us, go stick it!"

    That stuff works. I have friends in those circles. It really works.

  • What about Larry?

    Isn't it enough that I'm utterly devastated to hear that Bristol was stupid enough not to make sure her boyfriend was wearing a condom during intercourse? Now I realize that I'm very concerned about Wide stance Larry Craig-did HE make sure condoms were used all around?

  • @ginadem

    "blinded by hatred" look in the mirror, honey....you PUMAs are just sitting there, covered in ashes, trying to find some way of tarnishing Obama.

    He has been pretty clear about this whole thing.

    However, what this shows is that Palin is the most incompetent person ever chosen - EVER CHOSEN - to be VP. She is, singlehandedly, just like the PUMAs, destroying all legitimacy of women candidates.

    The PLAIN FACT is that this moronic stupid Palin woman cannot keep track of 1 17 year old girl. And the repukeliscum believe, amazingly, that her failure to properly and sensibly monitor her own daughter makes her MORE FIT to be CiC.

    Palin lied about the Bridge to Nowhere.

    Palin lied about opposition to earmarks

    Palin is the member of a treasonous political party the Alaska Independence Party

    Palin was almost impeached as Mayor of Wasilla

    PALIN LIED ABOUT BEING MS CONGENIALITY

    Palin is nothing but a BIG FAT LIAR

    And now, for you PUMAwacks, she is the epitome of all that is good in women politicians.

    You need to sit down and think very carefully about your own attitudes

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