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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
She looks like a cross between Bubble and Patsy Stone from "Ab Fab."
she dicided to run for vp with a newborn at home (one with special needs) and a teenage daughter who is pregnant. crazy.
i have a baby now. it takes a lot of energy. i find i don't have time to go out anymore. anyway, that's just me.
"So getting married makes it ok?"
Yes, it does. Evangelicals have no qualms against divorce. In fact, evangelicals have more divorces between them than anybody else I know. They sometimes have 4 sets of stepgrandparents. They are all worried about how gays will defile the institution of marriage, but they jump in and out of marriages as if it is a big ole game of hopscotch. They use the all-purpose evangelical explanation: "We all make mistakes. Not even Christians are perfect."
So there will be a shotgun marriage and a divorce in a few years. No biggie.
So if McCain (oldest candidate ever) passes away, we are supposed to believe Palin is ready to jump in and lead the country with a special needs infant and a 17 year old with another baby on the way?
NUTS!! And I'd say the SAME THING IF THIS WERE THE DAD.
I have one four month old, non-special needs, a busy career, a loving spouse, wonderfully supportive parents and in-laws, and there's NO WAY I could handle that job.
Palins, Todd and Sarah, go back to Alaska and focus on your family. Save your political ambitions once the kids are taken care of.
Sheesh. I can't believe this even has to be said. I feel sorry for Bristol tossed into the spotlight at this fragile time.
I'm all for mothers having careers, but Sarah Palin looks as disinterested in her children as if they were somebody else's. I haven't seen a hug, hand-hold, really any acknowledgment of her children. Unless I've missed it, I haven't seen her hold her baby, who at five months would typically be pretty attached to her. Seems strange to me with all the emphasis on her being a mother of five that she pretty much ignores them.
wrong again, buckwheat. Palin made it an issue. Moralizing rightists like you made it an issue.
That's about as laughable a statement as I have ever heard.
I'm not a moralizing rightist. LOL
Your problem, and it is a problem, is you view the world with a narrow vision, so you subscribe beliefs to people when they don't hold them.
If you want to attack Gov. Palin on some of her beliefs, free feel to do so.
Abstinence only sex education is stupid in my opinion, but you can attack her position on this without having to resort to attacks on her daughter. In fact, politically it would be far wiser, because people can make the connection. People like you attacking a minor just builds sympathy.
I think I must be the only pro-gay rights, including marriage, pro-choice, including so-called partial birth abortion, moralizing rightist in the world.
It's obvious, that you view anyone not in lock step with you as an enemy and to be demonized, it is because of people like you that Democrats will lose an Election that should have been an easy win.
You alienate the very people you want to vote for your candidate.
I'm all for mothers having careers, but Sarah Palin looks as disinterested in her children as if they were somebody else's. I haven't seen a hug, hand-hold, really any acknowledgment of her children. Unless I've missed it, I haven't seen her hold her baby, who at five months would typically be pretty attached to her. Seems strange to me with all the emphasis on her being a mother of five that she pretty much ignores them.
-- MimiTurner
She was in an interview on Saturday with the baby slung right in front of her, she's had the same child with her during State business.
She's had her youngest child with her numerous times since her VP announcement on Friday.
How many times have you seen her at all? If it's once, well what do you expect?
What does it say about Governor Palin's judgment that she apparently had unprotected sex at her age and, in effect, played Russian roulette that she might have a Down Syndrome child? Downs Syndrome children require an enormous amount of care and are extremely expensive to maintain. If Gov. Palin had an amniocentesis test and knew months in advance that her child had Downs Syndrome, perhaps she should voluntarily offer to forgo any public assistance for the child's care and handle 100% of the expense herself. Then she would be putting her money where her mouth is as far as right to life is concerned.
It is interesting that Governor Palin’s eldest daughter, who is 17 years old and alleged to be five months pregnant, is going to be the nanny for the Governor’s infant Downs Syndrome son. If Gov. Palin had to provide the care herself, it would leave little time for her to carry out her duties as Vice President. It would seem that she has decided to make her daughter the family’s indentured servant for taking care of this child. Is that fair to the daughter? It would appear that a decision has been made to sacrifice the daughter to the mother's political ambition. Of course, it would would be perfectly fair for the daughter to tend the child if he actually belongs to the daughter.
The daughter was supposedly kept out of school due to mononucleosis for the last five months of the Governor’s pregnancy. It is interesting that the daughter was kept in seclusion during that period. Gov. Palin was supposedly in Texas late in her pregnancy when her water allegedly broke. She claims that she went into labor and flew 3,000 miles back to Anchorage to deliver her baby. This would seem to be very dangerous. Are there any records of the delivery, or did she deliver the baby at home with the help of a midwife?
What if Governor Palin’s claim that the infant is hers originated in an attempt to collect Alaska state employee insurance benefits for the Downs-Syndrome child of her daughter and the plan was to have her daughter claim to be pregnant to make it appear that the child attributed to Gov. Palin could not have been her daughter’s? What if they then planned to have the daughter claim after the election that she had had a miscarriage?
The Alaska state government insurance carrier should demand an independent pregnancy test of the daughter to determine whether she is actually pregnant. If she is not pregnant, then Gov. Palin is covering something up, probably the fact that the baby is the child of her daughter. In that case, the insurance company should demand a DNA test to determine whether Gov. Palin’s alleged son is actually the son of her daughter. If the test shows any DNA from a source outside the family, the baby is her daughter’s, unless Gov. Palin had the baby by someone other than her husband.
Who is the alleged father of Gov. Palin’s alleged grandson? Is he 17 or 35? Is he a relative? When are they going to wed? What is the age for statutory rape in Alaska? Can a shotgun marriage void the charges?
If Gov. Palin has committed insurance fraud, and Sen. McCain knows it, could that be the real reason they shut down the convention and have gone into hiding since Friday? Is that the reason McClain is refusing to give any interviews? Is he so freaked out by his screw up in selecting an unknown, improperly vetted person to be his vice presidential running mate that he has assumed the fetal position and is now in indefinite seclusion trying to figure out what in the world he can do? He has, as usual, shot from the hip without giving due diligence to his vice presidential selection and is now caught in a "vice" of his own making.
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