Thinking Right

By Jody Beaumont

September 1, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Coming to a theater near you: “Juno From Juneau — The Sequel”!

By Jody Beaumont

September 1, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Coming to a theater near you: “Juno From Juneau — The Sequel”!

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Here’s what really bothers me (along with Sarah Palin’s underwhelming resume):

McCain knew of this and surely Sarah Palin knew of this. Both of them are would-be players on the national political stage with all its glare and the lack of privacy it brings to everyone connected with the candidate and still they thought that having Sarah Palin, despite a lack of other real credentials to succeed McCain if he died, as the VP candidate was a good idea.

Neither of them cared about the feelings of a 17 year and her privacy? Not to mention that of the baby’s father! They decided it was OK to drag these two young people into the glare of a national spotlight. Even if these two are going to get married, this is still embarrassing for them (esp. if they are fundamentalist Christians) and they don’t deserve it.

By Butt Geyser

September 1, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

The phrase “hockey mom” is a new one on me. I’ve heard of soccor moms, but never hockey mom.

I’ve heard of stage mothers. I’ve heard of step mothers. I also happen to have stolen a copy of Sarah Palin’s speech she’s giving at the GOP convention.

“My dirty pillows, I mean, my fellow americans, let me tell you about myself: I was homeschooled but it was a student exchange program, so I spent my entire middle school years on the Concorde. I did my post humous, post partum doctoral work on the in-vitro, pre-natal implications of lifetime achievement awards. My mother was deaf, so I spent most of my summers lip reading holler back girls. I schooed myself in the different ways to fake “en passant” in chess games. I developed a fail safe method for cheating at hop scotch. This served me well at PTA meetings. I was molested at age 18 by a mime and have been faking all my orgasms ever since. I once snatched victory from the jaws of defeat when I simultaneously gave the international sign of surrender and then crossed the international date line. I could go on and on about snatching things, but now it’s John McCain’s turn.”

John? John? JOHN!!

zzzzz

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

Mary Matalin was just on CNN with Wolf’s Situation Room and he asked if this was going to have any political ramifications. She said she was disgusted with the “blogosphere” first claiming that her newborn son was not really her son but her daughter’s. Then she jumped on the moonbats for saying Palin was too old to have a child which was the same age Mary had one. For the slow wit Dimocrats, Mary is married to that Cajun mutant liberal James Carville. This will probably make people rally around the Palins more as this is obviously not the first time in US history it’s happened. Keep up the attacks, RATs. Please.

But the big news in my mind is that the father is marrying the daughter and there will be no abortion. Alaska is a state where you can make a PANT LOAD of money without a college degree. It is not uncommon to hear stories of moving up there for a few years and then come back with six figures in a pocket - TAKE HOME after taxes and living expenses. In short, there is no shortage of serious money making up there for a future young family starting out.

Alaskans are a different breed than those of us in the lower 48: they don’t much look to government for their well being. They can take care of themselves like adults and not bedwet and cry to mommy when things go bad.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

This is a really sad story. A 17- year old is not capable of raising a child. And is too young to be married. She is just a child herself and has her whole life ahead of her. If she had the earlier special needs baby, the probability is high that this baby will also have special needs too. Palin should withdraw, remove this spotlight from her childen, protect and take care of them. No kid should be on the world stage at a time like this.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Here we go! A mother with evangelical belief has a daughter who is pregnant without benefit of marriage. What do say or do? Normally we would let the girl stay private. But her mother is ambitious and her mother’s protege McCain even more so. So the girl has to have her secret revealed. What better example of vicious evangelical belief and practice!

By Butt Geyser

September 1, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

A: Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, and John McCain

Q: Name two hockey moms and a puck

……

I guess the RNC wasn’t very good at cherry picking veeps.

……

By Ray

September 1, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

For the first time today, I heard something from the Wonder Boy that I had to admire him for. In a very brief news conference before boarding a plane, some reporter asked him what was his opinion of Palin’s daughter becoming pregnant. He became somewhat indignant and said again, as he has said before, that the children of candidates are off limits in the political process. He stated that it was a personal matter and reminded those in attendance that he was born of an 18 yr old mother himself. He stated that if any of his staff made comments regarding this issue that he would see to it that they were fired from the campaign. Some of you liberal dumba**es on Jim’s previous blog were making hay out of this very personal matter between a daughter and her parents. Perhaps you should take the advise of your “leader” and let it go. Palin’s daughter, as Obama stated, is not running for election.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

And another thing: I know a few 17 year-olds who are wiser and more grown up than some 30+ year old pot smoking dumbassed liberal hippies out on the left wing coast.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Oh, and John Voight is on FoxNews’ Neil Cavuto right now. Great stuff from a great man who has one hot daughter, even though she’s a liberal moonbat. Keep an eye on him during this convention. He will tell it like it is.

By Ray

September 1, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

Churchhill and Butt Geyser,

You are both sick and in need of help. What kind of drivel is this that you are throwing up. I am surprised that Jim would let you post this crap on an otherwise pretty decent dialogue exchange. Get a life.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Time for a little Straight Talk. Who vetted Sarah Palin? No wonder no one wants to go to the GOP convention. This is, of course, a private matter for the Palins, Gerson and the GOP except they also believe they have license to insert themselves into the delicate matters of everyone else.

Aside from any cynacism with regard to the tangled web and it’s failure to really dispel the rumours (a little independent and trustworthy DNA testing could probably do that), here’s what really bothers me:

McCain knew of this and surely Sarah Palin knew of this. Both of them are would-be players on the national political stage with all its glare and the lack of privacy it brings to everyone connected with the candidate and still they thought that having Sarah Palin, despite a lack of other real credentials to succeed McCain if he died, as the VP candidate was a good idea.

Neither of them cared about the feelings of a 17 year and her privacy? Not to mention that of the baby’s father! They decided it was OK to drag these two young people into the glare of a national spotlight. Even if these two are going to get married, this is still embarrassing for them (esp. if they are fundamentalist Christians) and they don’t deserve this.

By Davo

September 1, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Hey Wooten; watching you spin is making me dizzy! Do you have any integrity at all or have you replaced it with republican talking points ( which you just admitted to in your intro)?

No big deal, huh? Some journalist you are who can’t see a bombshell like this. Here’s a scoop for you Jim…McCain loses presidential race 2 months before vote; voters claim ‘lack of sound judgement’.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

The Republicans—-particularly their Christian, conservative members—-really tick me off. I’m a Christian myself (yes, there are Democrats who are Christians), and what really irritates me is that now the conservative bloggers are trying to paint Palin and her daughter as saints because they didn’t have abortions. There are lots of women and pregnant teens who don’t have abortions.

What kills me is that Mr. Focus on the FAmily himself still praises her—-but how can she possibly be focused on her family to be running for VP, when she has an infant with special needs and a teenaged daughter who’s pregnant?? Not to mention the other three. Those kids obviously need her more now than the country does, but she’s going to have a whirlwind schedule of campaign traveling. What is the woman thinking?

As a woman, I do believe a woman can be anything she wants. But I DON’T believe a woman—-or a man—-can have it all. There are trade-offs for everything, and at some point everytone needs to decide what their priorities

By cj

September 1, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

NO BIG DEAL? Wake up and smell the coffee Jim and wipe that smile off your face!! This is a 17-years old child! Where was her mother - to busy governing or taking care of her baby? If this had been one of Obama daughters at age 17, you and every news organization would have made a big mountain out of a mole hill over this-24-7 saying he and wife are unfit parents, therefore he would be unfit to run the Country. Again CUT THE CRAP!!

By Suzanne

September 1, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

Obama’s right: The kids of candidates aren’t any of our business, but when you’re selling Sarah Palin as some kind of a high standard of pro-life fundamentalist moral standard, sorry but there’s no way I’m voting for a woman who has chosen the national spotlight over her own 3-month old newborn AND clearly didn’t do much of a job teaching her daughter not to sleep around despite the Holy Bible’s teachings. Rove and Cheney must’ve had a cow when they heard about this one.

By TW

September 1, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

McSame could not have found a better face for Republican hypocricy than Sarah Palin.

The RNC’s wheels have officially come off.

Pathetic.

By Bush go away

September 1, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

“My response: It’s no big deal. Nobody in the room expressed any particular concern.”

Kinda like the Bush administration when Katrina hit, right Jim?

Oh and if you hear any toe tapping in the restroom stall at the convention center, don’t be concerned. It’s not a pervert, it’s just Senator Craig listening to his IPod while taking a dump.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Hey hysterical liberal garbage: take a looksie at this pic of Briston on August 29 and tell me if that’s not a ring on her finger, you mindless emotion-driven liberal wingnut incompetents.

By Ann

September 1, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Note to Atlanta Journal Constitution: It is a VERY BIG DEAL. The crisis is teaching teens abstinence, that condoms are pre-emptive murder, and that once you are pregnant that there are no choices. Being pregnant in high school is a very big deal and we need to acknowledge that and help them not become that way or stay that way.

By Ray

September 1, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

Churchhill,

Maybe toning down your rhetoric, like the last post, will get you more and better debate than throwing bricks. First of all, it is none of our business about what decisions that Palin makes. She seems to be married to a rather nice person who was her high school sweetheart ( note the prom pictures in the NYT today). He has seen her through some pretty rough times so far and she seems to have survived. True, the VP is the big leagues, but don’t underestimate this lady. She has a constitution of granite and if most any other American, especially politicians, had the opportunity to be the first Repub female candidate and only the second female in history to run for VP, they would jump at it. Her family seems to have been pretty well taken care of so far and I would not believe that the future will be any different. Some of the far right Christians really tick me off too but that is not the reason I am voting for she and the fossil. I like her grit, her honesty and her constitution. I have a very good feeling for this lady and her future in leadership.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

You know the liberal garbage is grasping at straws when they first wail about Palin having a kid and being in politics - as if no Dimwitocrat has ever done that or something, and then wail about a teen age pregnancy that 1) will not be aborted and obviously WELL taken care of, and 2) be a young new MARRIED family.

I think the liberal trash buckets here are just upset because that’s one less single mom to go on welfare and vote RAT. And like I said earlier, i know a few 17 year-olds who are WAY more mature than the 30+ year old pot smoking liberal hippie douche bags out on on the left wing coast (and elsewhere).

By TW

September 1, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

McSame said that because he was a Vietnam Vet, he didn’t think his VP selection needed Vetting.

Change Grandpa’s diaper and put him down for a nap.

It’s over.

By catlady

September 1, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

I cannot see how Ms. Palin can be held up to be a model of family values when she does not have time enough to take care of her special needs child and her daughter who was BADLY in need of supervision and attention. We want to ENCOURAGE her not to have time for her family? Or are they just “staging” for her ambitions?

I want a woman as a VIABLE candidate. Not someone like that poor female soldier who was made out to be a hero in Iraq for the political purposes of others.

Pimp my candidate—that is what it looks like. But a dressed up pig is still a pig.

By julie

September 1, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Can’t anyone get real without being afraid of being called sexist and old fashioned???

We all know it: “Country” does not “come first” family or in some people’s cases, God and family! This woman, no matter her politics is utterly incapable of putting her family first, or is an idiot.

I have a handicapped child, who is now grown. One of the most glaring and in a way frustrating and sad things you realize right away is that time will be your enemy. My child was my first, so I didn’t have others to contend with while I educated myself on issues and strategies I needed to learn so I could take care of my child.

That is number one.

Second, she obviously isn’t doing well as she has a 17 yr old who is pregnant, so much for “handling” a family! I’m not saying her husband has no part in handling a family, but lets’ be honest here! Please! she needs to see to those whom God or a universal entity has given her, and she isn’t doing very well just now.

There is nothing wrong with stepping back in life, as long as you have a have a plan, it’s not forever, but if her judgement and Mr McCain’s are that she can “handle” being VP and being a mother to 5 children, 2 of whom are very needy and deal with the worries of a son in Iraq at war, then she is Wonder Woman.

However, we know from the results so far, she ain’t all that!

What does that say about McCain, is he losing it?? It would seem so. Caving on right wing threats if he picked his real choice Lieberman? Doesn’t he have any backbone??? Wouldn’t that have been better than this soap opera?? I am so sick of people with soap opera lives, doesn’t anyone have morals anymore?? Ethics? That was supposed to be Ms. Palin’s strong suit—fat chance. Look at the Troopergate??

Trotting out PTA membership as part of a national resume is no resume. I have more qualifications. I heard a Mississippi woman at the Convention today, say that she being in the PTO and having 5 kids meant she could handle Congress. S(*^ then lets’ just give up on anyone being qualified or educated about anything.

Creationism, tiny-town rural anti-intellectualism, joy in ignorance, why not just get a big ole button that says “Ignorant and Proud of it”!

My grandmother who had 12 children, was a parachute packer (uin WWII), church organist, semi-professional pianist, volunteer for all kinds of womens and charity clubs, and full time worker of 37 yrs, had more qualifications, but she would never have put her family second, and tried to pull a fast one by saying she could “handle” a most important national leadership role.

Can’t we be honest???

By julie

September 1, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Can’t anyone get real without being afraid of being called sexist and old fashioned???

We all know it: “Country” does not “come first” family or in some people’s cases, God and family! This woman, no matter her politics is utterly incapable of putting her family first, or is an idiot.

I have a handicapped child, who is now grown. One of the most glaring and in a way frustrating and sad things you realize right away is that time will be your enemy. My child was my first, so I didn’t have others to contend with while I educated myself on issues and strategies I needed to learn so I could take care of my child.

That is number one.

Second, she obviously isn’t doing well as she has a 17 yr old who is pregnant, so much for “handling” a family! I’m not saying her husband has no part in handling a family, but lets’ be honest here! Please! she needs to see to those whom God or a universal entity has given her, and she isn’t doing very well just now.

There is nothing wrong with stepping back in life, as long as you have a have a plan, it’s not forever, but if her judgement and Mr McCain’s are that she can “handle” being VP and being a mother to 5 children, 2 of whom are very needy and deal with the worries of a son in Iraq at war, then she is Wonder Woman.

However, we know from the results so far, she ain’t all that!

What does that say about McCain, is he losing it?? It would seem so. Caving on right wing threats if he picked his real choice Lieberman? Doesn’t he have any backbone??? Wouldn’t that have been better than this soap opera?? I am so sick of people with soap opera lives, doesn’t anyone have morals anymore?? Ethics? That was supposed to be Ms. Palin’s strong suit—fat chance. Look at the Troopergate??

Trotting out PTA membership as part of a national resume is no resume. I have more qualifications. I heard a Mississippi woman at the Convention today, say that she being in the PTO and having 5 kids meant she could handle Congress. S(*^ then lets’ just give up on anyone being qualified or educated about anything.

Creationism, tiny-town rural anti-intellectualism, joy in ignorance, why not just get a big ole button that says “Ignorant and Proud of it”!

My grandmother who had 12 children, was a parachute packer (uin WWII), church organist, semi-professional pianist, volunteer for all kinds of womens and charity clubs, and full time worker of 37 yrs, had more qualifications, but she would never have put her family second, and tried to pull a fast one by saying she could “handle” a most important national leadership role.

Can’t we be honest???

By Davo

September 1, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Rufus talking about maturity is kinda like the neocons talking about responsible government…all talk, no substance. TW’s right…it’s all over now and none too soon.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

A parent who virtually abandons a newborn with special needs and a pregnant teenager in order to pursue a pie-in-the-sky political office is disgusting, regardless of party.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Donna Brazile on Wolf’s Situation Room: *”It is unfortunate this kind of smear politics has come out so early in a campaign trail when so many other important issues are before us and the Republicans are just introducing their vice presidential candidate.”

Amen Donna. Those are your disgusting people though. I pray they lash out even more than they are now.

Keep it up you mindless liberal jackals. PLEASE.

Besides, it’s not going to stop us from voting for McCain/Palin, and it SURE isn’t going to stop you mindless numbnuts on the left from voting for McCain, so what really are you pansies spitting venom for?

Jackasses.

By Hockey in Alaska

September 1, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

@@,

What do you bet that Gov. Palin wishes her daughter had only followed the lead of Monica Lewinsky and got down on those knees!

But instead (warning: hockey terms ahead) she let him go five hole; and he put the buscuit in the basket.

By youcan'thandlethetruth

September 1, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

who’s the daddy her father or her mother? seems like someone need to rent “Juno” I mean, “Juneau”…..

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

Rufus talking about maturity

Yeah that’s right, Davo, you hysterics on the diseased left lash out, I’ll lash right back.

By drahcir71

September 1, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

The hypocrisy of this situation clearly makes this an issue to be discussed. You can’t ignore the facts.

Governor Palin would only approve funding for abstinence teaching & then her teenage daughter becomes pregnant?!? Maybe the courageous hockey Mom of 5 should have spent more FAMILY time instead of hunting deer or smiling in front of the nearest camera.

I can’t wait to hear the comments from Republican conservatives justifying this as a “non-issue” or that the “pregnancy is a blessing from God” or that everyone makes mistakes in life.

There is plenty of blame to go around when a teenager gets pregnant but the parents are near the top of the list.

By @@

September 1, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

Churchill:

Neither of them cared about the feelings of a 17 year and her privacy?

Could it be that McCain and Governor Palin had more faith in the compassion of the American people. Perhaps they aren’t aware of just how vicious radical leftwingers could be.

Radical leftwingers will be the last nail in the coffin of the Democratic Party.

OBlahMa is where he is today because the radical leftwing kooks, DailyKos, Huffington Post, and MoveOn.org carried him there.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this

Wow….if Chelsea Clinton had gotten pregnant at 17, the right wing would still be flying that flag. When it suites you then morality is definitely in the eye of the right wing. Just like Cheney’s daughter is the only one allowed to have a baby (in vitro) and is protected from any verbal right wing assault, yet Rachel Maddow is dragged thru the mud just for being a broadcaster on a progressive radio station and now at MSNBC. Hypocrotical swine…

By Bush go away

September 1, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

The same party hacks that got Bush elected by saying that McCain fathered an illegitimate black child are now complaining about “smear campaigns”?

Now that’s rich.

By TW

September 1, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

Like mother like daughter - how’s Sarah gonna say anything when she did the same thing herself? Quite obvious he was pregnant with her son Track when she married Todd on the Court house steps.

Have the Republicans invested heavily in Inquirer Magazine?

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

Republicans should remember when you are in a hole stop digging. Not scandalous. Please. Republicans have been blaming out of wedlock births for the destruction of America for decades. Now that it’s one of their own it doesn’t undermine the american family. The hyprocrisy on display regarding Palin is absolutely unbelievable and the stench is going to turn off their base. I don’t care that Palin’s daughter is pregnant, but I do care that I have to be subjected to Republican bs on this subject.

By @@

September 1, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

To all the leftwing kooks who are reveling in their ridicule of young Bristol……..

Rest assured, I will be taking your hate-filled posts to a location where they will do Governor Palin the most good.

You guys are rookin mahwelous dressed in your dem duds.

Chortle nyuk nyuk.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

*This woman, no matter her politics is utterly incapable of putting her family first, or is an idiot *

A parent who virtually abandons a newborn with special needs and a pregnant teenager in order to pursue a pie-in-the-sky political office

And that^^ from a couple of moonbat liberals who stood up and cheered for Shrillary Clinton when she said she “wasn’t going to be like some little Tammy Wynette standing by her man.”

My cheap advice right now, little liberal skirts: heed the advice of your fellow Dimocrat bretheren on this. But, you don’t have to. Keep running your toxic lips. We will thank you for it.

By TW

September 1, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Bush go away - I was not aware that McSame had fathered an illegitimate black child. Perhaps he will accompany Sarah Palin when she and her circus spend an hour with Jerry Springer this fall.

It’s over. It’s soooooo over.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Yes she is a hypocrite and her behavior is NOT consistent with Christian biblical values….(only consitatn with hypocritical secular conservative values… do as I say, not as I do).

She should have been home RAISING HER OWN KIDS, instead of dumping them on family. She sacrificed her family (husband and children) on the alter of her ambition. Her husband is a weakling and apparently has no leadership value what so ever, he is a lacky to his wife. If they had an ounce of care for ANY OF THEIR KIDS, she would not have even come close to the VP slot and drag her daughter and the rest of the kids thru this mess. There is nothing to admire here at all. Selfish is more like it but that makes her fit in all the more with McCain who ABANDONED his first wife and kids.

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

The same party hacks that got Bush elected by saying that McCain fathered an illegitimate black child

I never said that nor anyone I know. Try again, you worthless mindless liberal mud plugger.

By Ray

September 1, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Julie,

The ice cream wagon only comes once in your life. In those same photos of Palin’s family in the NYT were pictures of her and her husband’s parents when the news was released about McCain’s choice. Tears of joy, proud parents and inlaws. These photos did not show an unhappy bunch of people or someone who would not be there if needed. I am not sure that this is raw political ambition, as many of the posts suggest. I think that this a very qualified and dependable leader who happens to be an Evangelical Christian. This is almost as bad a Karl Rove to most Demos. You just have a problem with the right, whether this lady is a good choice or not. They tick you off with all of their better than thou rhetoric and give you the impression that they are looking down their noses at you who are not one of the fold. Palin is living her life as she chooses. It is none of our affair why she has chosen to do as she has. Quit judging her on your terms and give her the benefit of the doubt. You just might be surprised how fortunate we are to have someone of her caliber making decisions for this country.

By Single Mom

September 1, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

HAHAHAHAHA! Thank goodness we’re going to have some “conservative” women in higher office, instead of these doggone loose moral libruls, eh Wooten? Pregnant minors of conservative parents: “No big deal.” (Ditto unwed lesbian mothers of Republican vice presidents.) After all, they “plan to wed” so that’s moving America in the right direction. Kids marrying before they can vote… Yeah, that’ll keep them on the straight and narrow.

I guess Palin tried to do too much raising four children, being Alaska’s head diva, and returing to work three days after her fifth baby was born. Who needs family leave to attend to one’s own children? HAHAHAHAHA! Morals are what you make of ‘em, right Wooten? Just don’t let the Democrats pull that stuff on your watch! HAHAHAHA!

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

Talk about switching sides!

But in the bright side, nice to see Republicans talking about CHOICES, and TOLERANCE, and PRIVACY AND how the pregnancy (or end of the pregnancy) of a teenager out of wedlock is a PRIVATE FAMILY AFFAIR.

OH SO NICE to see that Teenage Pregnancy is not “a big deal” and that who cares, THEY CAN GET MARRIED and it will all be fixed! Good to know they have the option of GETTING MARRIED.

17 year olds who think they can fix a mistake by making a bigger one can get married!! unless of course they happen to ge gay, now THOSE people… they have no clue!

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Yeah, hypocrisy rules. These same mindless halfassed liberal Dimwitocrats who are chastising Palin for not being a stay at home mom have been touting women’s liberation and getting out of the house for 40 years now and using their brains. Now suddenly THEY believe in stay at home moms, who they’ve been RIDICULING for decades.

If nothing else, the posts on these blogs and the reaction from the pig-tailed left in this nation just goes to show that liberalism is an emotion-driven disease of which there is no cure for happiness.

You sick liberals have no baring on this election and this situation. So go jump off a bridge down in NoLA.

By Churchill

September 1, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Maybe if Sarah Palin wasn’t so egocentric she might have considered not only preaching family values, but also living them. What kind of mother is so narcissistic that she actually thinks she can devote eighteen hour days to her job as vice president of the United States while caring for a special needs baby and her other children? This is NOT putting your family first! I bet Romney and the Mormon crowd are livid about McCain’s choice. Mormons totally adhere to the stay at home mom philosophy. Maybe if she wasn’t so concerned with her own agenda she might have been around more to guide her daughter toward more productive activities.

By Bush go away

September 1, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

Oh sure abstinence education hacks will point out that some kids do indeed postpone sex until marriage. But they don’t tell you that kids who take abstinence pledges are four times more likely to engage in anal sex. Gotta keep that woo-woo nice and pure right?

Must have learned about anal sex from Bush appointee Dr. David Hagar; you know the gynecologist who said he wasn’t really anally raping his wife; he just couldn’t find the right hole!

Now them’s “family values.”

By TW

September 1, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

The trouble with Romney was that America was tired of having a Moron in the White House. Romney says he’s proud to be a Moron, and even though he doesn’t have a bunch of wives like most of ‘em do, he still would have hurt McSame’s chances. Thus, Sarah Springer Palin was the choice.

Pawlenty has every right to be ticked off, as does the guy from Florida.

By Churchill's wife

September 1, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

This is such a shame for Palin’s daughter. I can’t imagine how that poor kid is feeling after being exposed like this. My heart goes out to her. Shame on her mother!! No job—NO job—is worth exploiting a vulnerable child in such a fashion, and I think the latest Palin train wreck speaks volumes about Palin and her character, or lack thereof. (While she was busy espousing Abstinence for everyone else’s kids, where was her daughter?!) As a mother of teenagers myself, and a staunch feminist, I have to say that it sounds as if Palin’s children, brand-new baby included, need her a great deal more than the United States does.

By Richard

September 1, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Suddenly the religious right is all-forgiving and pious. Tolerance and love spring to the forefront. If it were Senator Obama’s daughter, the right-wing hardliners would burn her at the stake. Just once could the Democrats stand up and swift-boat McCain? Remember how the Republican establishment made hamburg of Kerry? Sara Palin would be one heartbeat away from the presidency. DNC, get nasty! Richard

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this

For real leadership on how the left perceives this, look at the Democrat politicians’ reactions; they aren’t touching it, and wisely so. The only ones who are are the Daily Kos blog scabs that we see on this blog, who said that Palin’s son wasn’t really hers for starters.

We need more talk like this from you disgusting, vile, wretched mindless sub-human troglodytes on the modern diseased far loon left.

By @@

September 1, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

Dang Churchill! You went from sounding concerned for the Palin children to sounding just plain ol’ Anti-McCain.

that makes her fit in all the more with McCain who ABANDONED his first wife and kids.

Your spelling is a little off too.

17 year olds who think they can fix a mistake by making a bigger one can get married!! unless of course they happen to —->ge<—- gay, now THOSE people… they have no clue!

By catlady

September 1, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

she might have been around more to guide her daughter toward more productive activities.

Seems like to me her daughter understands how to be “productive.”

By Ray

September 1, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

Churchhill,

How many times have you made decisions regarding your children that you have paused and asked yourself whether or not you did right? We are pulling from a pool of Americans with flaws, mistakes in their resume, things that they wished they could take back……. and how many of us do the same? We expect our prospective leaders to be perfect to the bone and if one or two flaws show up, they are immediately not qualified, depending on what party you are voting for. We overjudge those who would lead us. They are not perfect as we are not perfect, like it or not. Pick any American president or Vice President and give me one person who was not flawed in some way. Some were impeached for telling lies, some were shot for their beliefs, some were sleeping around more than the average male, some resigned……. none were perfect. So why do we expect Mrs. Palin to fit some kind of perfection mode? Look past all of this to the person. She is a very qualified lady with rock solid integrity and I don’t care if she has a daughter who made a mistake or not. I will vote for her in a heartbeat.

By catlady

September 1, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

she might have been around more to guide her daughter toward more productive activities.

Seems like to me her daughter understands how to be “productive.”

Absentence does NOT mean “not talking about it.”

Who would have ever thought we might have the Repulbican version of the Jamie Lynn Spears family a heartbeat away from the White House?

By Rufus

September 1, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Protesters smashed windows, punctured car tires and threw bottles Monday during an anti-war march to the site of the Republican National Convention. Police used pepper spray in confrontations with demonstrators and arrested five.

You just have to find the disgusting far left liberals in this nation as entertaining as the circus and zoo coming to town.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 2, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Non-issue for conservatives. Big issue for the leftists who think babies ought to die under these circumstances.

By cmitchell

September 2, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

ok people i also have very conservative views but FULLY understand that young people (heck - old people too) don’t always make the best choices that can result in difficult consequences – BUT if my 17-year-old daughter were pregnant (whether she was marrying the father or not) i would want to perhaps stay a little closer to home and spend more time with my family. NOT TO MENTION HAVING A 6-MONTH-OLD BABY. i’ve been the working mother of two and it was often difficult to concentrate on work with a baby - and even now that they are older (9 and 12) as they are involved in many activities. BUT ADD TO THAT HER BABY HAS DOWNS SYNDROME. THIS CONCERNS ME MUCH MORE THAN THE PREGNANT DAUGHTER! i have a very supportive husband but there is NO WAY i would be putting myself in line to the leader of the country (as she very well could be) with my baby having special needs. a woman can most definitely be a viable VP choice but one with more experience and fewer concerns at home would have been a far better choice. as a “conservative” palin’s conservative beliefs aren’t nearly enough to sway me. i need more. and the horrible spotlight that is now on that 17-yr-old child and the father - is the VP spot really worth all that to gov. palin??? what other selfish choices will she make? ….

By robert brooks

September 2, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

Most of the people in the world was probaly born to unwed moms. My mom was 15 (married) when she gave birth to me. For sure I know we are not throwing rocks at Gov. Palin’s daughter, after we praised a sex maniac president who ‘sexed-up’ a woman named Monica in his office. rb

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

Aw come on Wooten,. We all know if this was Obama’s daughter the media will be all over it. Especially Hannity and Push Limbaugh. I can see the headlines now “Obama Can’t Run his Own Household. 17 year old Pregnant and he is Trying to Run the Country. It is just amazing how white girls get pregnant and it is no BIG deal. But if she was black it would be a national disaster. Then it will be a Black problem not an American problem. Obama knows if his campaign was to push negative ads the same as with Hiliary Clinton, she is a white female and it will backfire on him. You mean to tell me that Palin can shoot a moose but she couldn’t shoot her daughter’s boyfriend. I was also shocked that ADULTER Fig “Net” Newton had the nerve to say that he finally has respect for Obama when he cheated on his wife.He also acted as if it was no deal and still didn’t answer Tavis question about the media having a field day if it was Obama’s daughter.

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

Aw come on Wooten,. We all know if this was Obama’s daughter the media will be all over it. Especially Hannity and Push Limbaugh. I can see the headlines now “Obama Can’t Run his Own Household. 17 year old Pregnant and he is Trying to Run the Country. It is just amazing how white girls get pregnant and it is no BIG deal. But if she was black it would be a national disaster. Then it will be a Black problem not an American problem. Obama knows if his campaign was to push negative ads the same as with Hiliary Clinton, she is a white female and it will backfire on him. You mean to tell me that Palin can shoot a moose but she couldn’t shoot her daughter’s boyfriend. I was also shocked that ADULTER Fig “Net” Newton had the nerve to say that he finally has respect for Obama when he cheated on his wife.He also acted as if it was no deal and still didn’t answer Tavis question about the media having a field day if it was Obama’s daughter.

By Rob

September 2, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

How any of you moonbats can question Palin’s credentials is beyond me… She has more years of elected experience than Obama, and her experience is actually executive experience. Please tell me what Obama has ever lead or been in charge of? She has more experience than the guy on the TOP of the Dem’s ticket!!!

By Jinx

September 2, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

So do you think Fox News will flash a picture of Bristol with the caption “Baby Momma” like they did Michelle Obama, who became a wife WAYYYY before she became a mother?

By Not Happy

September 2, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

The pick of Palin was a mistake. She has too many issues and too little experience (God forbid ANYTHING ever happens to John McCain once elected!). I am disappointed in this pick and will have a lot of trouble pulling the lever for that woman on election day. You can say it’s no big deal about her daughter getting pregnant. I disagree. It shows what sort of parent Mrs. Palin is and goes directly to her ability to lead. If she can’t lead her family, how can she lead the nation?

By Uh-huh

September 2, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

A “Non-issue for conservatives?” Somebody didn’t get the memo:

(From the PI blog:) Here is why foxnews, and their conservative supporters, are so sad:

“On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet. Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves.”

Thanks Bill O’Reilly. You can read this at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317577,00.html

Let’s see what Rush Limbaugh had to say: (http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/12/spears-pregnancy-news-annoys-talk.html)

CALLER: Would you tend to think that a family in this position, though, wouldn’t you think that there would be a more watchful eye as a parent to be watching over these kids so this doesn’t happen to them?

RUSH: I would certainly hope so, but it’s long past time for this to happen. The parents here are the culprits!

CALLER: (chuckles)

RUSH: I mean, the parents, they’re infected with this disease, this addiction to fame themselves. Look at Britney’s mom, for crying out loud. “Put me on TV, too! Put me on TV!” You know, celebrity parents, they can go both ways, and some of them lose whatever grounding they had as adults when their kids get famous. They want to be part of it. They like the money themselves. It’s very rare to have celebrity parents that remain grounded, but who’s going to get this family in line?

By gigi

September 2, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

thank God, finally a real human being, one who isn’t perfect, wasn’t concieved by saints, and certainly did’t give birth to any! i’m sick of talking heads in Washington who babble on about how they understand me and my life when none of them has a clue. here’s a nice dose of American Reality. choke it down and move on.

By S

September 2, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

Palin is not Qualified to be VP. She has no experience on international anything. She at one time was a member of the Independence Party in Alaska. Don’t know what that is check out You Tube. This woman has to many unknowns. Personally I don’t think she has a lick of sense, and McCain doesn’t either for selecting her.

By mel

September 2, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

So who’s the babymama now? LOL

By Typical

September 2, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Hmmm. Very odd. How quickly the party of “family values” is able to compromise those values just to win an election. Typical. If this was a democrat you right wingers would be frothing at the mouth. Especially YOU Wooten. But since it’s a republican it’s OK to be a pregnant senior in high school. Even James Dobson has said “no big deal.” Wow. You have lost all credibility.

By ljohnson

September 2, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

at least obama was smart enough to pick someone with more experience than himself as his VP. a mark of a wise leader if you ask me (and you didn’t :-)) but what the heck is mccain doing??!! picking a pretty gal to help him get his dream job. who cares what predicament this could potentially leave the country in one day. more selfishness in my opinion. good looking out mccain.

By james

September 2, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

hello if any one can read this pleaae post a message. And if you do say something bad about either Mccain, Obama or Clinton. Thanks for participating!

By Willie G

September 2, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Two of the happiest people I have ever known got married when he was 15 years young, and she was 13 years young. They had 9 kids, had a ball, more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Never got a dime of welfare.
How old do you thing people was, when they got married, when the USA was started??

By Charles

September 2, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

If I were a Democrap (God forbid) I’d be more concerned with having a racist (20 year membership in Jeremiah Wright’s church) Presidential candidate (Obama) who is friends with a unapologetic terrorist (William Ayers) and has less experience than Palin (sorry, running for the Office of President all your Senate life doesn’t count) and a plageristic (liar) running mate in Biden.

By ljohnson

September 2, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

at least obama was smart enough to pick someone with more experience than himself as his VP. a mark of a wise leader if you ask me (and you didn’t :-)) but what the heck is mccain doing??!! picking a pretty gal to help him get his dream job. who cares what predicament this could potentially leave the country in one day. more selfishness in my opinion. good looking out mccain.

By dbrown

September 2, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

OK, SO WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TRUST THAT THIS CHICK CAN KEEP THE COUNTRY IN ORDER WHEN SHE CAN’T EVEN KEEP HER OWN HOUSE IN ORDER?? PLEASE! WHAT WAS MCLAME THINKING? SHE IS A JOKE! MCLAME OWED IT TO US TO CHOOSE A FORMIDABLE CANDIDATE, ESPECIALLY SINCE HE IS ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE HIMSELF. I AM SO DISGUSTED WITH HIS CHOICE!

By Debora

September 2, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Palin wants birth control illegal as she believes most are types of abortifacts. She also wants sex-ed out of schools. We can already see the consequences of her actions.

So what if you can make a boat load of money in Alaska. I want my kids to have an education for education sake.

P** poor example for my 15 year old daughter.

By Tuffy, the Airborne Soldier

September 2, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

It was just a matter of time before this and probably more came out about the good Guvnor from the frozen tundra. Was reading some article last night concerning young Bristol and found that she was out of school for 8-9 months for Mono. I’m an older bird and recall Mono as being one of our childhood rites of passage in the social world. 2 weeks at best and plenty of antibiotics would fix it. C’mon 8-9 months??!! Guvnor Palin did not show until month 7 or 8? Had a child with Down Syndrome and was back to work in 3 days? As a man, I love women with incredible strength, my wife is that example, however, if you think for one minute that Guvnor Palin had a child with Down Syndrome, PREMATURELY, and she left it in a hospital too rush back to address the needs of the people of Alaska (all 650,000 of them in a state with enough money to give each resident a stipend), you must be CRAZY. This is going to come back on the GOP badly my friends.

Sen. McCain has placed himself in a horrible situation. He has no platform, he is in a party that, as hard as they try, continually shoot themselves in the foot (without aiming), has the most unpopular and most incompetent administration in the history of this country (save Laura Bush, that’s strength), a running mate who he selected after a 15 minute chat (15 MINUTES!!!!), who he CLEARLY did not vet worth a damn, who we the people are watching implode on a national scale, and the GOP is trying to defend this debacle after demonizing people in the past. (I wish young Bristol well, because she is just as any of us, period.) I think the GOP will has farther reaching issues that it must come to terms with. If not, I think we’ve seen the last of it.

Just my viewpoint.

By kj

September 2, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Ok, everyone is so concerned about what will happen if McCain dies…what about if Obama dies? No, he’s not as old but he could be assasinated. There was even an attempt on Reagan. So, just figure Obama dies then Biden becomes pres. He’s old as dirt too. So then he could easily have a heart attack from the shock of Obama dying and then we’re stuck with Pelosi as pres. I’d much rather take my chances with Palin than Pelosi. I think Palin was a great choice and I’d much rather make history with Palin as the first female VP than Obama as pres. (I’d support the first black president if it were Colin Powell running instead of this slimeball that just talks a good line) Get a clue read the book “the case against Obama” he’s complete slime - pull your heads out of the sand - just because he’s black and speaks elequently doesn’t mean he’d be a good president. The only thing he’s qualified for is a spot at a used car dealership where he could talk his way into salesman of the month. Do some research and you’ll be shocked when you learn the truth about Obama’s political past in Chicago. The media is not telling you about his very shady background and what his plans for our country are. Or go ahead and vote for him if you want your taxes (everyone that makes $32,500.00 or more per year) to nearly double. He’s not from a poor family (unless you consider $240,000.00 per year poor) YOU NEED TO EDUCATE YOURSELF ON WHO YOUR TRYING TO ELECT - DON’T JUST BLINDLY FOLLOW A CROWD!

By ron

September 2, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Meanwhile,rolling right along,the Obama campaign has been defanged by Mrs.Palin.She and Gustav have had the headlines.Quite a way to splash upon the national scene.

This McCain guy is a politician.I think he may have orchestrated all of this.The way I see it,he’s in charge of the campaign.He shut downthe convention beause of Gustav.There won’t be any roll call votes for the other candidates either.McCain’s in charge.

I read that the pregnancy of Mrs. Palin’s daughter is being called a mistake.Who decided that?I know many reciprients of shotgun weddings that were happily married all their lives.Their pregnancies certainly weren’t mistakes.Let’s all vow to lay off the young lady and leave her alone.She’s not running for office.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 2, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

The moonbats are raving on this one.

Dear Churchill @ 5 PM yesterday, with all due respect you are not competent to award yourself that title. You may profess your attempts to be a Christian, but of course your posts contradict that affirmation also. There is no charity in anything you post, and no compassion. Your posts truly reflect the perspective of an Obamaniac; you would do well to follow the example of your fuhrer instead. Your posts are filled with false innuendo and manufactured facts. Your level of seething hatred is rare even for this blog, and we have some true lunatic leftists posting here regularly.

Dear Ann @ 5:11 yesterday, why do you assume that there is no teaching opportunity here?

Dear Catlady @ 5:26 yesterday, you have false predicate assumptions in your judgment. Not that you have ever cared about illegitimate judgments.

Dear Julie @ 5:26 and drahcir @ 5:36 yesterday, do you similarly blame Hillary Clinton for Bill’s sins?

Dear cmitchell @ 8:18, it is called noblisse oblige – you leftists don’t understand such a concept. Suggest you read up on Cincinnatus.

By ButlerDawg

September 2, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

The anti-McCain/Palin bloggers on this site are just slightly more civilized then the thugs who are terrorizing delegates and other attendees of the RNC in Minneapolis. Both are experts at hurling bombs and hatred while hiding under their false veil of “Change.” The problem is that it isn’t “Change” that they want, they want an all out New World order! Have faith in knowing that the toilet will soon be flushed though and that these people will feel the waters swirling under their feet…maybe they already have.

By Dirk

September 2, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

OK kj:

I am biting… WHAT is Obama’s shady past? And PLEASE don’t repeat rumors you read on wacko-right-wing-blogs… tell the truth.. WHAT, in your esteemed opinion did he do that should disqualify him from being president? Of course besides being an African America…

By nodock

September 2, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Please do me a favor…if you run into Combs, from Hannity & Combs, pick up a 2 x 4 and slap him across the mouth…I know I can get enough repub friends to pay the fine and send you on an all expense paid trip the Greek islands…keep up the good work…..

By nodock

September 2, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Please do me a favor…if you run into Combs, from Hannity & Combs, pick up a 2 x 4 and slap him across the mouth…I know I can get enough repub friends to pay the fine and send you on an all expense paid trip the Greek islands…keep up the good work…..

By ljohnson

September 2, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

mccain’s choices are just more evidence for me that “experience” doesn’t always equal wisdom. in this election obama has shown more wisdom time and time again. i choose not to dwell on the bad choices people made years ago, as we have all made bad choices if we admit it (even if we don’t admit it). but thank God some of us have learned from our mistakes.

By ljohnson

September 2, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

*mccain’s choices are just more evidence for me that “experience” doesn’t always equal wisdom. in this election obama has shown more wisdom time and time again. i choose not to dwell on the bad choices people made years ago, as we have all made bad choices if we admit it (even if we don’t admit it). but thank God some of us have learned from our mistakes. *

By Elephant Whip

September 2, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Dear Democrats:

FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF OBAMA. If you continue to beat up on Palin and her family, the Hilary women will swing and the McCain ticket will get really close, if not beat Obama, who SHOULD be the next president.

By kj

September 2, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

S, In response to your comments about Palin not being qualified as VP becasue of her lack of experience on anything international - What experience on “anything international” does Obama (who is running for PRESIDENT!) have? Don’t you think it’s a little more important for the President, Commander in Cheif to have at least a couple of years of experience at doing something (other than running for office?) than for the VP? Palin will get all of the international experience she needs as VP. When will Obama get international experience or are we now providing on-the-job-training for our president??? Wake up people!

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 2, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

Dear kj @ 8:54, not sure, but I think Pelosi is older than Biden.

Dear Ron @ 8:56, today’s WSJ reveals the name of the genius orchestrating the McCain campaign: Fred Davis.

By Joey D

September 2, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

Great…that’s all we need:

Trailer trash drama up there in the White House.

Palin may be a conservative angel but methinks she’s from simpleton stock..(creationism taught in public schools?) too simple to be one heart beat away from the most important office in the world.

By lacuda

September 2, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

So Govenor Palin is in the same league with Britney’s parents: too busy to take care of their teanage kids & family,but have enough time to chase the dollar or run for power.Now we know Palin can be a good leader,despite neglecting the needs to raise a wholesome family:GREAT!!!!!

So there goes your FAMILY VALUES.

By tcoach

September 2, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

So to understand this correctly if ever there is a candidate who has an infant they are then disqualified form being president or vice president. I understand you liberals would never do anything like that. We all know you would just kill your fetus to ensure that you could do what ever you wanted. The newborn will be fine I am sure her husband will not be too busy to take care of the 4 month old. Her daughter is also about to get married and has been engaged for more than month( look at pictures she has been wearing a ring for over a month). As a conservative I appologize to all of the liberals, but conservatives do not see children as a punishment. At the worst we see them as a responsibility. I know responsibility and punishment are the same to you liberals but.. believe it or not children are not the great punishment you all make it out to be. See some of us may not have children at teh time we want, however we look at them as a miricle and take responsibility for them. Even better do not expect that the government should pay for them and for the school to raise them.

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

I bet McShame wanna take that gun that Annie Okaley shoots for the moose and shoot himself in the foot. Palin’s son and grandchild will both be getting dressed for the nursery at the same time. Now that is GHETTO and yall skurred that black folks gonna make the White House ghetto. Stop the madness.

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

I bet McShame wanna take that gun that Annie Okaley shoots for the moose and shoot himself in the foot. Palin’s son and grandchild will both be getting dressed for the nursery at the same time. Now that is GHETTO and yall skurred that black folks gonna make the White House ghetto. Stop the madness.

By Peadawg

September 2, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

I love how all the democrats pull the experience card (one of their many cards) on Palin, even though she has more experience than Obama.

By AJC is DOOMED

September 2, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Ah just luvs the the double think double speak of stinking repukes like woodenhead and its ilk wrt pregger’s brats of their standard bearer…Ah just hopes all the fat cat repukes lose everything, and I can make them my plow animals at the plantation….Imagine mah cat of nine tails striking old woodies back as it labors to pull mah plow thru the clay like soil….git up mule, git up, smack….ah gots a tobaccee crop to git growed fer mah buyers in China….

By Dave

September 2, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

So I guess all of you who are ready to use this against McCain aren’t going to cry no fair, when the Michelle’s “whitey” video shows up in a next month.

By Mom at 17; 20 yrs ago

September 2, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

I had my first child at 17, my parents are devout Catholics and I knew they didn’t approve of pre-marital sex. I never once thought I would have premarital sex either- but, I did. Don’t we all find ourselves in high pressure situations as teens and ineveitably we make a decision that is unwise? Some of us get caught and some of us don’t.

Sarah Palin obviously has politically ambition and it seems to me that her husband is not a weakling, but her biggest supporter. Isn’t that what our spouse should be? Our biggest fan, staunchest supporter, etc, etc?

It seems to me that there are lots of 17 year olds that are pregnant today! How many of them are Christians who made a bad choice in “the moment” and now have to make very adult choices in the light of day?

Many of you ask, where was Sarah when her daughter got pregnant? I would venture to guess that she was either working or caring for her family, just like she was when her daughter was at school, or at a friend’s house, or the library or church. The daughter made an adult decision, to have sex, and now will follow it up with a lifetime of adult decisions.

By the way, my son is 19 and a sophmore in college. His sister is 18 and a freshman in college. I will be married for 18 years come November to the father of all of my children. I am a productive member of society and do not rely on the government to pay for me or my family… not bad for a 17 year old mom huh?!?!

By Dave

September 2, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

So I guess all of you who are ready to use this against McCain aren’t going to cry no fair, when the Michelle’s “whitey” video shows up next month.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

So, McFool met a girl, became enamored and proposed vice-presidency to her. Trouble is she’s under investigation in her home state for ethics violations. It doesn’t end there either. Vice-President Twinkie’s slut daughter was impregnated by the hockey team and they have singled out a bum for a shotgun wedding with all the trimmings. The Republinazis applaud that the b******* progeny will live to foul the Anchorage air and won’t be aborted as it should be. Face it Jim! This nomination is the most ridiculous of all time. Gov. Twinkie was over her head as Mayor of Wasilla and she’s in the weeds as a governor. McNugget is an idiot and this nomination is the joke of all time. Hello, President Obama!

By Rufus is a Ja**A*

September 2, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Rufus is a prime example of the idiot kool-aid guzzling Republicans. They could put my Australian Shepherd on the republican ticket and Rufus would vote for him. The 17 year olds he “knows” ,who are “wiser and more grown up” are probably the ones he is trying to score a date with himself. But with the name Rufus, I assume you are older than McCain. And for you to call Democrats pansies, I would buy a farm and then bet it that I could kick your a*. Rufus you are a bitter, ignorant, and cowardly jackass. Go insert your nose back into Rush and Hannity’s posteriors.

By my_my_my

September 2, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

I’m betting Fox News won’t use the phrase “Baby Mama” or “Baby Daddy” this time around.

By AJ

September 2, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Well, Well, Well, the plot thickens. So you want this young woman, who has a teenage pregnant daughter at home, not married with baby momma drama in the white house. It is funny how you people are trying to sweep this under the rug but had a fit about where Barack went to church. That is a personal choice also but you were all over it. This woman needs to take care of her household before she tries to run the country with no experience.

By Disgusted

September 2, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Oh, PUH-LEEZE! I’m still trying to get past the irresponsibility of her deliberately bringing a defective child into the world, KNOWING it would always be useless & would always have to be taken care of. Yeah, yeah, I know, Downs Syndrome children are so “loving” & such a “joy”. Dunno about any of you, but I see nothing joyous about manhandling a 200-lb. 16 year old into & out of diapers & making sure it doesn’t sexually assault its peers

By AJ

September 2, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Well, Well, Well, the plot thickens. So you want this young woman, who has a teenage pregnant daughter at home, not married with baby momma drama in the white house. It is funny how you people are trying to sweep this under the rug but had a fit about where Barack went to church. That is a personal choice also but you were all over it. This woman needs to take care of her household before she tries to run the country with no experience.

By Billy Slocumb

September 2, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

I’m concerned that if McCain/Palin win the election the country will have to hire a full-time exorcist to keep the demons under control in the White House. An adulterer as President, and adulteress as First Lady, and a Vice President who seems happy that her underage children engage in unprotected pre-marital sex… And this is the party that James Dobson and the “Christian Coalition” are supporting?! All I can say is “Amazing!”… Can anyone say “hypocrites”?

By ljohnson

September 2, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Peadawg - for the record i am (or was) a registered republican. no sure what i am now. but from what i’ve seen the last year and a half, obama-biden is the best choice. i’ll take wisdom over experience any day.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Governor Twinkie won’t make it to election day. She’ll withdraw and McStupid will have to provide another name nobody ever heard of for Vice-President. Let’s just elect Obama by acclimation and be done with it. Nobody, other than the true Nazi believers, is going to vote for McBrainless. The reich is going down in flames heir Wooten!

By AJC is DOOMED

September 2, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

So, how do the repukes know which member of the hockey team is the real daddy? Ya just know dna testing is gonna be involved, CSI comes to neocon scum bag politics….

By Billy Slocumb

September 2, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

I’m concerned that if McCain/Palin win the election the country will have to hire a full-time exorcist to keep the demons under control in the White House. An adulterer as President, and adulteress as First Lady, and a Vice President who seems happy that her underage children engage in unprotected pre-marital sex… And this is the party that James Dobson and the “Christian Coalition” are supporting?! All I can say is “Amazing!”… Can anyone say “hypocrites”?

By norman ravitch

September 2, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Evangelical children often rebel against the domination of their parents by having sex. This is what Bristol Palin has done: no better way to get at her self-righteous mother than to get knocked up!

By Get Real

September 2, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

It is astonishing how Wooten gives the Palin’s and their daughter a pass on the responsibility of having a child out of wedlock, given has past diatribes about ‘urban’ women becoming single parents. Yes it happens, but just last week Wooten stated that single mothers think of government as a husband, and thats why they vote democrat. Yes, unexpected pregnancy does happen, but for Wooten and his type to think this is some political advantage by making the Palin’s as more like regular Americans is crazy.

The Republicans claim to be the party of family values, and Wooten’s premise is that every child should group up in a two parent home. Palin did say her daughter and the guy are getting married, but what else is she supposed to say?

Wooten likes to beat up on blacks and hispanics about having children out of wedlock, but in his eyes its a good thing (no big deal) when it happens to a well-connected Republican. His hypocrisy on the matter is rather disturbing given his past posts on the subject. We’ll see what happens. This isn’t a political matter, but goes to show how much of a political a** Wooten is.

By Ricecakes

September 2, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

All I have to say is…If this was one of Obama’s daughters, Jim and all the other reporters would have a different tone. It’s funny when it’s one of their daughters it’s okay and society forgives. JIM you are full of horse pucky and so is Gov. Perdue. Keep up the good work McCain and Palin. THE PRESIDENCY IS SEALED!

By BWARE

September 2, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

John McCain and the repubba party will gloify anything as long as they think it’s going to get them in the White House.

Wonder how this would have played out if it had been one of O’Bama’s kids in the same situation. I can see the headlines now — O’BAMA DAUGHTER PREGNANT - DO WE WANT THEM IN THE WHTIE HOUSE?

By ron

September 2, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Dear Ragnar,====While it is true that Fred Davis is The Man behind the scenes,I detect McCain himself in these issues.I believe that McCain has the final word.Davis is a combination af advise,act and advise.McCain knew everything about Mrs. Palin long before she was picked.The timing of the pregnancy announcement was hastened by the rumors of Mrs.Palin’s baby actually being the daughter’s.You can’t buy publicity like this and McCain know it.

By Winston Smith

September 2, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

No one should be surprised by the Democratic response to Palin or her daughter’s pregnancy—they have to take her down quickly before she gains any traction with Americans. But anyone who is betting on a withdrawal or negative voter reaction is the one taking a gamble—Palin’s candidacy puts the question of life front and center in the campaign, and that is a debate Obama will inevitably lose when his positions on the unborn and newly-born become well-known. Not a big deal for hard-core Hillary supporters, but one that resonates with Main Street Americans, male and female alike.

By AJC is DOOMED

September 2, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Double think, double speak: Cheney’s dy-ke daughter, and Cheney’s wife’s homoerotic writting were labeled off limits by the neocon controlled news media.

By Jim Wooten

September 2, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Get Real @ 9:49, You overlook the fact that the couple intends to marry before the child is born. The child will have a mother and father in the home.

By The GOP has gone NUTS!

September 2, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

The Palin pick just goes to show how mindblowingly hypocritical the Republicans are or just how stupid they percieve their constituency to be. He’s hammered Barack for months because of his “inexperience” and now McCain is going to pick the most inexperienced running mate in history. UBER HYPOCRITES!!

By DJohnson

September 2, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

There’s something that doesn’t feel right about Sarah Palin and the function of her own family. Her son joins the Army as an 18 year old instead of going to college or first and then serving the country. The 17 year old daughter is pregnant and is being drug publically through scrutiny no child deserves. Has Palin been out of the house so much that she has sacrificed her parental responsibilities? Is she blinded by ambition? Does she value her children and view them as her first responsibility? How do these situations reflect on her values and her decision making? I have teenage children and hope to give them different values and choices than I see in the Palins.

By Flava

September 2, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Oh, so she says she’s gonna get married? She is five months pregnant. Has she just not found the time yet? It’s okay I guess as long as she says she’ll get married someday. Great! Hypocrites! If Obama had an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter I doubt Wooten would be so charitable. He never has been in the past on this subject. But I guess it’s different now. Now were talking about Republicans. Different standards. As long as she says she’ll marry the baby daddy someday that’s good enough. Gotcha!

By Matt

September 2, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Typical hypocritical GOP nonsense. Vote them OUT!

By Dave

September 2, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

Oh, by the way Biden’s two Adult sons are in moneyed insider deals up to their necks, including lawsuits over millions of hedge funds $$. But let’s stay focused on this 17 year old girl. You liberals are truely focused on what’s important in this election.

By Crenshaw8

September 2, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Some simple questions.

Is it easier to say yes or no to children?

Is it easier to say yes or no to government bureaucrats?

Is it easier to say yes or no to government corruption?

Is it easier to say yes or no to bloated government programs?

Is it easier to say yes or no to government hand outs?

It’s tougher in Alaska thanks to Gov. Palin who said no to all.

Democrats will always take the easy yes because they’re lazy servants.

By CJ

September 2, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Young mothers need to learn the importance of having a stable home and an income to properly raise a child! It will be years before this girl can even consider going to college, if she finishes high school. Will she, too, claim welfare? Great - another one to support!

Had this happened to a Democrat, Pat Robertson and friends would have held a telethon to raise money 24 hours a day for Bibles to send to Democrats.

By Pat Nap Marietta. Ga.

September 2, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Whether she can or cannot handle the V.P. is only one part of the question. The most important part is should she. She has a special needs child who needs a mother’s love not being handed to anyone who will hold him. Secondly, with the problem of one of girls, she should be spending time educating and being there for the other girls so that the same thing does not happen to one of them. She does not realize that this is a wake up call for her as a “mother?”

By hrw

September 2, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

When we say ugly things about people; and then watch those same words return only in a bad reflection. The McCain sogga continues with so many things he has said and is doing; like…it don’t matter and what comes….let it comes. There is nothing wrong with him electing a woman; nowever, this lady do not have the experience; like McCain said Obama did not have; yet, he went on and selected here to run with him. I don’t think McCain is getting it and I don’t know if he actually knows or realize what is his strength and weakness.

By Jim

September 2, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Everything I have read or heard from the left concerning Governor Palin is steeped in anger. They are angry that Governor Palin brings a real threat to Senator Obama’s chances of being elected. They feel this is the left’s time and Sara has put their success in jeopardy. GO SARA!

By kj

September 2, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Dirk, First, I don’t read “wacko-right-wing blogs” I don’t associate myself with either political party as they both contain idiots. When voting I educate myself on the person running including their values, beliefs and experience. Our country would be in much better shape if more people investigated candidates themselves rather than relying on what the media feeds them. Second, Obama’s ethnicity has nothing to do with whether or not he can lead our country (as I said if Colin Powell were running I’d be one of the first to stand up and shout my praises but of course he has years of experience) Unfortunately, many people are disgusted with our country’s current state of affairs and have blindly leapt onto the “Obama for Change Train” without educating themselves on the driver. Yes, he talks a good talk - but if you actually look at his past: -He won his first office by shadily disqualifying the other three opponents (right before election)based upon how people had printed or signed their names on the petitions so that voters in Chicago literally had no other choice on the ballot. Obama explained his tactics years later as “If you can win, you should win…” He talks about honor and democracy but then what honor is there in getting rid of every other candidate so you can run scot-free? Why not let the people decide? This is well documented with facts. Easily researched for those that care to know the truth. It was 1996. (yes, that was his first venture into politics) -Chicago (Obama’s stomping ground) is well known for its corrupt politicians and dirty politics. Obama supported and endorsed John Stroger (retired in 2006) and then his son Todd Stroger (two proven dirty politicians) to help his own agenda and political career. He did not stand up against them to support “change we can believe in” - instead he supported the corrupt officials (the FBI has been investigating them after raiding the Cook County administration building finding extensive illegal activities) All of this is documented, proven and can be easily researched as well. But yet he is for change and not the good ol boy politics? (except when they halp him get elected right?) -In 2007 Obama requested $11 million in earmarks for Chicago State University - a repayment to his political “godfather” Senator Emil Jones - who gave almost every bill Obama sponsored to him. (Jones’s pet project is CSU and they’ve rewarded him well with about $55,000 in contributions to Jones and CSU even named their convocation center after him). Since last year, Jones has been blocking passage of a package of anti-corruption bills, one of which is a gift ban for mambers of state boards, such as Stuart Levine- the man who helped convicted felon Antoin Rezko steer investments from the state teachers’ pension fund toward firms that would give him illegal kickbacks. Yet Jones is Obama’s self professed mentor. These are the allies that drafted and gave him popular, must pass bills to herd through the state legislature; the allies who openly take credit for making him a Senator; the allies that control Chicago political money and run and preserve one of the most overtly corrupt political systems in the nation. The list goes on and on. Too much for a blog. The information is out there. It’s readily available, documented facts. Barack Obama is a candidate for the presidency of the United States. It is appropriate to consider his character, his record, his background, and his proposals. It is not appropriate for anyone who takes his role as a citizen seriously to take up a chant of “Yes, we can” without educating themselves on the man behind the slogan. These are politicians; they want to win at all costs. As Obama said, If you can win, you should win. A good start is to read A Case Against Obama - The unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate. If you read it, then look up the facts for yourself, I can garantee you won’t be supportive of the slimeball (unless you yourself are a slimeball from Chicago benfiting from his election)

By Common Sense

September 2, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

Relax Democrats and common sense folks!

Palin is fine as a VP pick, her family is just going thru what millions of othe familes go thru in their lives.

Let’s not speak nasty about the Palin family whether she is ambition or not it may show where her family priority lies.

But it is amazing to me that some on the right think she has this amazing amount of experience!

While Senator Obama who is running a 2500 person organization with a budget of 30 million per month does not have any executive experience.

Then we have those who states he was at a church for 20 years. Well can anyone of you prove what values he shares!

See you are asking DEMOCRATS not to attribute guilt by association, but with Senator McClain past it;s a wrap.( CHarles Keating a great friend who costs the American people billions!

What has Senator Obama cost you?

Conservatives obvious does not mean christian because I have never seen such hate filled statements come from people since Senator Obama has been running for the president of the United States!

By deesmith

September 2, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

More Deception. Buy Why?? This is not the way to introduce yourself to the country as a running VP candidate. Why the deception? “Hi I’m Sarah Palin, this is my lovely family, husband, daughter and by the way we’re expecting our 1st grandchild and we’re very excited” and that would have been fine. This is alarming. Imagine the level of deceit they would go to once in office.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Dave, moron, what’s important is that we get rid of Republinazis. Your boy, McSine, has nominated a woman few have heard of previously and, right out of the box, she’s an unmitigated disaster. Her daughter, Trollop, is pregnant, teenaged and un-married. That, however, will be remedied as soon as the white shotguns are sledded in to Anchorage. Gov. Twinkie, under an ethics investigation in Alaska, has no resume to justify her inclusion on a national ticket. All she has is a fine pair of firm t** and that’s all it took for McStick. They’re going down in flames Dave. I love it!

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Dave, moron, what’s important is that we get rid of Republinazis. Your boy, McSine, has nominated a woman few have heard of previously and, right out of the box, she’s an unmitigated disaster. Her daughter, Trollop, is pregnant, teenaged and un-married. That, however, will be remedied as soon as the white shotguns are sledded in to Anchorage. Gov. Twinkie, under an ethics investigation in Alaska, has no resume to justify her inclusion on a national ticket. All she has is a fine pair of firm t** and that’s all it took for McStick. They’re going down in flames Dave. I love it!

By CWest

September 2, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

WOOTEN, SARAH PALIN WAS AN ABYSMAL VP PICK AND YOU KNOW IT!!! Where was the vetting? She has an entire cemetary in her closet. Now, they say she may have been a member of the Alaska Independence Party, a group that favors the secession of Alaska from the United States. Why would McCain do something like this. He has blown the election.

By Willie

September 2, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Hey liberals would you have preferred the daughters to be GAY!!! Liberals you can not please them and you can not shoot them….

By Jacksmum

September 2, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Do you realize that many of you people sound like college students at UGA and Florida arguing over who will win the Cocktail Party?

Let’s all consider our responsibility to make a choice on November 4 to select the best leaders for our country. This is not a win/lose proposition. If we busied ourselves asking our leaders to do the right thing for our country instead of defending situations in their personal lives (or their childrens’), we as a country would have better standing in the world.

Honestly , it seems as if most of you care more about your team winning than keeping the USA as a world power. If we lose that, then consider that your choices may be worse. In some governments you would be forced to go and vote for the “right” candidate like it or not - no lip, no opinion, only vote.

I challenge each of you stop looking at the exciting dirt being dug and start considering the real issues, abilities and strengths possessed by the next leaders of this great nation.

By mscutie

September 2, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Ray - you are correct - Palin’s daughter is not running for office but Palin is and her inability to maintain order within her family unit should speak VOLUMES to voters out there. If she can’t get her daughter to keep her legs closed at home - (if elected) how in the world will she be able to lead this country when John McCain dies???

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

JIM WOOTEN,

You and the Republican Party are nothing more than a group of hypocrites.

“The crisis in the family is not that teenagers engage in risky behavior that often has consequences. The crisis is that teens and unmarried adults create life without giving the child an opportunity to grow up in a home with a mother and father present.” The statement above says a lot about your Christian Conservative MORAL VALUES. It’s definitely about more than married and unmarried women having a man around the house to look after those teenagers engaging in risky behavior. GUESS what WOOTEN, Sarah Palin had a husband and this young woman had a father. She’s still someone’s BABY MAMA. You say they are 2 for 2, because they decided to keep their children. GUESS what WOOTEN, this is not something new, because as you so often like to point out – there are a lot of unmarried women raising children. I guess you think Sarah and Bristol are special because (1.) Sarah has a husband and (2.) Bristol is five months pregnant and about to be a wife. The thing you don’t seem to want to get, is that even with a husband and a father in the house, young women get pregnant just as often. They are also first in line at the abortion clinics.
You, Sarah Palin, John McCain and the Republican Party are nothing but hypocrites. But, I wish Bristol and her soon to be HUBBIE, the best of luck. I just hope they can teach their child, that having a husband and father around does not keep a young man out of their daughters pants.

By threedeep

September 2, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Okay, I can agree on not placing a 17 year old who is pregnant on national blast and that it is a family matter; kids are off limits. But by the same token I do not want to hear how one son was born with Down’s Syndrome and the other is headed to Iraq on Sept. 11th. You can’t have it both ways, privacy when you can’t parent and sympathy on the other hand. Also, if she knew anything about foreign policy she would stop placing her son and his platoon in danger by announcing when he is going to Iraq. Remember Prince Charles son was in Iraq for months without anyone knowing. Why? Because he would have been a prime target. Like McCain, she just does not get it. What a pair of idiots.

By Democrats=hypocrites

September 2, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Pat Nap I agree with you all the way! A mom should stay home and not work! The VP job is a man’s job and not for a MOM. Obama has 2 young children and I think it’s great that he’s held to a different standard than a woman. It’s okay for him to not be at home for his two small kids. It is not okay for a woman. I think it’s great that the Democrats can be just as sexist as anyone else. What a great day indeed.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

JIM WOOTEN,

You and the Republican Party are nothing more than a group of hypocrites.

“The crisis in the family is not that teenagers engage in risky behavior that often has consequences. The crisis is that teens and unmarried adults create life without giving the child an opportunity to grow up in a home with a mother and father present.” The statement above says a lot about your Christian Conservative MORAL VALUES. It’s definitely about more than married and unmarried women having a man around the house to look after those teenagers engaging in risky behavior. GUESS what WOOTEN, Sarah Palin had a husband and this young woman had a father. She’s still someone’s BABY MAMA. You say they are 2 for 2, because they decided to keep their children. GUESS what WOOTEN, this is not something new, because as you so often like to point out – there are a lot of unmarried women raising children. I guess you think Sarah and Bristol are special because (1.) Sarah has a husband and (2.) Bristol is five months pregnant and about to be a wife. The thing you don’t seem to want to get, is that even with a husband and a father in the house, young women get pregnant just as often. They are also first in line at the abortion clinics.
You, Sarah Palin, John McCain and the Republican Party are nothing but hypocrites. But, I wish Bristol and her soon to be HUBBIE, the best of luck. I just hope they can teach their child, that having a husband and father around does not keep a young man out of their daughters pants.

By CINDIE

September 2, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

What was that? oh the wheels just came off the straight talk express!

Seems his judgement might be a little off. really can Mccain be trusted? Pick a loser vp with a slutty daighter and drunk husband because he wanted a woman to get hilary voters?

What a clown. Wouldn’t trust this guy to valet my yukon. might fall asleep, or crash it like the planes he used to fly (before they crashed).

Can’t wait for the maury VP special for Dna testing. I f@#CKED the hockey team and don’t know who the daddy is?

Oh and the wedding? I’ll hold my breath on that one. when their married come talk to me..then the over under on their marriage will depend on Palin’s political career. As soon as it crashes so will the marriage. Then we’ll add divorce to our favorite fundamentalist family.

By Reverende

September 2, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

The US is such a hypocritical nation. For years you speak and warn against teenage pregnancy and now it is okay to be an unwed mother simply because it is Palin’s daughter. Where are the good old Evangelical’s on this issue. We can’t hear you. If Obama had fathered a child out of wedlock the media would have tried to destory him. The moral fabric of these United States continues to unravel and has truly hit an all time low.

By Reverende

September 2, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

The US is such a hypocritical nation. For years you speak and warn against teenage pregnancy and now it is okay to be an unwed mother simply because it is Palin’s daughter. Where are the good old Evangelical’s on this issue. We can’t hear you. If Obama had fathered a child out of wedlock the media would have tried to destory him. The moral fabric of these United States continues to unravel and has truly hit an all time low.

By Jacksmum

September 2, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Do you realize that many of you people sound like college students at UGA and Florida arguing over who will win the Cocktail Party?

Let’s all consider our responsibility to make a choice on November 4 to select the best leaders for our country. This is not a win/lose proposition. If we busied ourselves asking our leaders to do the right thing for our country instead of defending situations in their personal lives (or their childrens’), we as a country would have better standing in the world.

Honestly , it seems as if most of you care more about your team winning than keeping the USA as a world power. If we lose that, then consider that your choices may be worse. In some governments you would be forced to go and vote for the “right” candidate like it or not - no lip, no opinion, only vote.

I challenge each of you stop looking at the exciting dirt being dug and start considering the real issues, abilities and strengths possessed by the next leaders of this great nation.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

JIM WOOTEN,

You and the Republican Party are nothing more than a group of hypocrites.

“The crisis in the family is not that teenagers engage in risky behavior that often has consequences. The crisis is that teens and unmarried adults create life without giving the child an opportunity to grow up in a home with a mother and father present.” The statement above says a lot about your Christian Conservative MORAL VALUES. It’s definitely about more than married and unmarried women having a man around the house to look after those teenagers engaging in risky behavior. GUESS what WOOTEN, Sarah Palin had a husband and this young woman had a father. She’s still someone’s BABY MAMA. You say they are 2 for 2, because they decided to keep their children. GUESS what WOOTEN, this is not something new, because as you so often like to point out – there are a lot of unmarried women raising children. I guess you think Sarah and Bristol are special because (1.) Sarah has a husband and (2.) Bristol is five months pregnant and about to be a wife. The thing you don’t seem to want to get, is that even with a husband and a father in the house, young women get pregnant just as often. They are also first in line at the abortion clinics.
You, Sarah Palin, John McCain and the Republican Party are nothing but hypocrites. But, I wish Bristol and her soon to be HUBBIE, the best of luck. I just hope they can teach their child, that having a husband and father around does not keep a young man out of their daughters pants.

By Pat Nap Marietta. Ga.

September 2, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Asking a mother to stand up to her responsibilities and put her career on hold for a few years is not being said in ANGER it is said out of love and concern for her other children. The increase in drinking among the teens is because no one is there to watch or care for them.

By CommunistAJC

September 2, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Bye bye democrats. If this is all you can find on Sarah then we are in much better shape than I imagined. James Carville was on Larry King last night. He said she has no experience. Last time I checked, being governor was 10 times the experience of a one term senator from Illinois. Obama Hussien has never accomplished anything in his life. I’ve asked libs time and time again to name his accomplishments. Here is their answers: he’s black and he’s a community organizer. Sarah Palin was mayor for 6 years over how many people? 10-20 thousand people? Um, how many people did Obama Hussien govern or “community organize”? Anyone? Anyone? ZEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOO.

Obama/Biden are going down. By the way, picking Biden is as far away from change i can believe in as you can get. This guy is as dumb as John F. Kerry. Gee Democrats, you’re party is just full of idiot whiners who’ve never accomplished anything in their life. Good luck in November. Maybe you guys will win one or two states.

By Constance

September 2, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Hey Churchill, did you read anything other than this one article? It is quite obvious that you don’t have children. Every child of every public face is subject to scrutiny. This child’s privacy was invaded by the shmuck that put out the story that the 4 month old baby was hers and not actually her brother. I’ve only seen one article that has actually named the “baby daddy”. I think Gov Palin and her family have been respectful by not naming him.

And thanks to those (DJohnson) that have suggested that Gov Palin is to blame for her daughters pregnancy. Again, you apparently have no children and have no idea what it takes.

By Erica

September 2, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

I would like to say that I admire the fact that McCain chose a woman but why did he bypass all of the other women more qualified to do the job? Granted, Condelezza would not have gotten the black vote but she has experience and she represents ideas and policies of the Republican party to the fullest. And what about the guy from Minnesota or Mitt Romney? Why decide to change the everything that your party stands for on a whim. I don’t always agree with the republican party but I admired that fact that they are strong in their beliefs.

By Dave

September 2, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Algonquin J. Calhoun

Dave moron? Wow, you really know how to use that obviously highly educated vocabulary of yours to make a salient point. I’m guessing you didn’t attend one of the Ivey league schools, but then again maybe so, you are after all a liberal.

By Sue Bee

September 2, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

I will continue to support Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin as long as they are in the running. I see Gov. Palin as an example of multitudinous American families who have had to deal with serious problems of young children. In my community, two Christian l families are dealing with the extremely serious consequences of what, not that long ago, would have been regarded as a teen-aged prank. Will their sons go to college or the state penitentiary? The candidates are in my prayers.

By annie

September 2, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

It’s very disturbing to hear that reporters are praising a 17 year old, unwed pregnant teen who happens to be the daughter of a vice president candidate - seriously society what have we become?? If you think that it this behavior is acceptable - you all need to get your heads checked out. If it were any other teen - we would look down on them and call their parents failures for not having raised them better to do the right thing and abstain from sex until marriage - but since it’s perfect, pretty Palin it’s ok. You conservatives are a JOKE!

By AJC is DOOMED

September 2, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

To a stinking repuke liar like woodenhead, a quicky marriage and a quickie divorce makes a quicky caused pregnancy A ok…. Which member of the hockey team is the designated daddy, the ugly loser kid who fell for the team’s play thing? She will cheat on you, and dump you at the first opportunity kid, just say no, and demand a dna test.

By CONCERNED PARENT

September 2, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Having a daughter attend a prestigious school is something that should make a parent proud! NOT HAVING A BABY AT THE TENDER AGE OF 17.

Q1. Why is she FORCING her child to get MARRIED to someone who doesn’t want kids?

They will be divorced within 3 years.

MR. WOOTEN have written articles on this all but condemning the woman who has a baby out of wedlock.

Gov. Palin is against sex education being taught in schools, against birth control etc. Her daughter was probably uncomfortable trying to talk to her parents about this problem.

What I worry about is, if they were both from such a painfully small, closely knit town that is deeply, deeply conservative - then maybe buying protection is just something someone can’t do without their parents, friends, and church leaders all knowing about it? Being from a town like Wasilla, that’s apparently extremely conservative and where everyone knows your business, could make it so kids don’t feel like they can even buy protection without being found out and judged. Were all these kids taught that abstinence only was the THE way to go before marriage, and anything besides that was evil and wrong?

First, J. McCain runs on the experience factor. Then he questions his opponent Judgment. Well this is one INDEPENDENT VOTER that has to question Senator McCain judgment.

ONE LAST THING, SEN. McCain didn’t know because he would have introduced the family to America as soon to be grandparents.

My guess is that she is NOT 5 months pregnant. My guess is that she IS the mother of the last baby that the Gov. claims is hers. My guess is that they will come up with a story as to why she is no longer pregnant before the election. All of this to cover up the original sin of lying about the pregnancy more than a year ago. And now the media will cry foul about covering the 17 year old, but of course it is not about her it is about the mother hiding it and lying about it. The McCain/Palin campaign made it about the girl when they released the statement claiming that she is pregnant now.

By GILA MONSTER

September 2, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Everybody keeps talking about Palin’s lack of experience. As if running a town, then state doesn’t count for experience. What has Hussein Obama ever run? He went to Washington. Was on the senate for 140 days, wouldn’t vote on anything controversial. He has never been an executive of ANYTHING. And the first chance he got he decided to run for president. This is all AFTER he sat in the pullpit for 20 yrs while his preacher torn down America AND white people. Obama has never been anything more than a racist public agitator who has friends who support terrorism on their own country. The media thought it would be cool if a MIXED guy ran for president and so there you have it. The Affirmative Action Candidate - Hussein Obama ( who was raised by a white woman, btw)

By annie

September 2, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

It’s very disturbing to hear that reporters are praising a 17 year old, unwed pregnant teen who happens to be the daughter of a vice president candidate - seriously society what have we become?? If you think that it this behavior is acceptable - you all need to get your heads checked out. If it were any other teen - we would look down on them and call their parents failures for not having raised them better to do the right thing and abstain from sex until marriage - but since it’s perfect, pretty Palin it’s ok. You conservatives are a JOKE!

By Robert

September 2, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Isn’t it amazing how just a few short years ago the Republicans could not open their mouths without spouting the foundational importance of “the rule of law.” Where is that today? As Governor, Mrs. Palin is the chief law enforcement officer in the state of Alaska. Alaska State statutes clearly state that if an individual who is 18 has sex with an individual who is 16 or 17 it is a felony, sexual abuse in the third degree. According to reports, this baby daddy is 18 and the mother 17. Does Mrs. Palin believe in the rule of law or not?

By Keith

September 2, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten, you have consistently accused Obama of “throwing his grandmother under the bus” by referring to her previous racist comments…saying that he would do anything to get elected. Isn’t Gov. Palin doing the same thing? In order to be elected VP, she is exposing her daughter to national publicity at what has to be one of the hardest times in her life. It’s not that I disagree with her choice, it is the double standard you are using. Aren’t both candidates exposing their family to undue scrutiny by running?

By Rufus Blows

September 2, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim, I don’t feel that Sara(h) has put democrats success in jeopardy, I feel Sarah running our country puts Americans in jeopardy.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

By Willie September 2, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this Hey liberals would you have preferred the daughters to be GAY!!! Liberals you can not please them and you can not shoot them…

Hey Scumbag Willie, Larry Craig and Mark Foley are gay Republinazis. Ted Haggard, the gay minister from Colorado, is a Republinazi. The Republinazi Vice-President, Dickhead Cheney, is the proud father of a gay daughter. You yourself are probably gay as a goat and just want to keep it hidden. As for shooting, Liberals own guns and know how to use them. So spare us any veiled threats. You’re a punk behind a keyboard and nothing more. March around, talking your fascist drivel in the daytime and dressed in that nightie at home. Typical Republinazi behavior. See ya Gayboy!

By Dave

September 2, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

mscutie - obviously you know how to keep something closed - your mind. what kind of nutcase are you?

By KJ

September 2, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Teenagers have free will. The teenagers of even the best parents will make decisions their parents won’t approve of. I am more than willing to assume Sarah Palin taught her daughter well but her daughter was yet another foolish teenager acting and thinking in the moment only.

The best post I have read on this is from hughhewitt.com:

Hugh –

There couldn’t be a clearer difference between conservatives and liberals than this one…

Obama…

“If my daughter makes a mistake, I don’t want her punished with a baby”

Palin…

“As [our daughter] faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.”

(also… “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.”)

When I, myself, became pregnant in college, my soon-to-be mother in law (a hard-core liberal Democrat who had openly encouraged me to have un-married sex with her son) expressed her “disappointment” in both of us – and immediately pushed for an abortion. My own mother (a sex-before-marriage-is-sin Catholic) immediately comforted me, affirmed her love for me and said, “There’s always room in our family for another baby.” My husband and I have been JOYFULLY married 21 years and have 4 amazing kids…. What an beautiful gift of love my mother gave me that day!

Babies…Punishment vs. Love. I think I’ll take love.

Warm Regards,

By Rufus Blows

September 2, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim, I don’t feel that Sara(h) has put democrats success in jeopardy, I feel Sarah running our country puts Americans in jeopardy.

By reebok

September 2, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Palin is a joke. A 44-year old w/ no experience who can’t even keep her 17-year old daughter from getting knocked up. Great family values. Maybe Mom whould have spent less time shooting elk and training for marathons and more time managing her own family. Are the right-wingers are trying to kid the American public into thinking this nobody is ready to beat one (72-year-old) heartbeat away from the Presidency? Palin is a gift to the Dems.

By tcoach

September 2, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Many of you people forget the saying that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we deal with it. Yes her daughter has made a mistake, she should have been more careful and taken steps to prevent her pregnancy. However she seems to be handling it well. She is prepared to get married and to also take care and raise the baby. I have no problem with having a child out of wedlock as long as a commitment is made by both parents to be active members in the child life. Which is what the two in this case appear to be doing. As long as it is not my tax dollar going to raise the child.

Also to get this straight to all of the mean, nasty and plain sexist people on the blog, women cannot have children and run for public office but it is ok for men to. Some of you folks who would do anything for Obama to win, because you think he will just give you free money, just read your comments aloud and see how sexist and demeaning to women they are.

By threedeep

September 2, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Everyone who would let someone babysit their kids after meeting them one time please raise your hand. Everyone who would let someone run your family business after meeting them one time six months ago raise your hand. Everyone who would place a complex nation of 300 million in the hands of someone vetted by a man who met her one time please cast your votes.

Obama was right, this election is not about him, it is about us as a nation. Will you put country first or personal beliefs first. I am putting country first and voting for Obama, I know longer drink the conservative/repub. kool-aid because I can THINK for myself.

By Yrag

September 2, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

“An American family????” What a Hoot….Maybe in your trailer park, not mine!

By Crystal

September 2, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

I absolutely love this. Of course, it’s no big deal! Come on. If my daughter, who is now 20, got pregnant when she was a teen - I’d hit the ceiling and it would be a HUGE deal. As I tell my daughter – it has nothing to do with you having sex – it has everything to do with you having UNPROTECTED sex!!!!! In this day and age, with condoms and so many forms or birth control being made available…teenage pregnancy should be a memory.

After years of preaching abstinence and labeling and fighting teenage pregnancy all of a sudden - it’s not a big deal. Why is it NOT a big deal? Is it not a big deal because she comes from a “respectable family?” Is it not a big deal because of who her parents are? Is it not a big deal because she will get married?

Talk about your double standards.

By house

September 2, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Let see the teenage daughter having a baby is private, but having a down syndrome baby was not private because it was seen as a good thing to tell. Be consistent.

By vinshe

September 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

As the cameras pan the Republican convention, it’s beginning to look like one big dysfunctional family. It has all of the trapping: pretty, dumb women; old farts, and a bunch of dirty secrets and lies. What will we find out next? Maybe we’ll learn that Palin’s husband is the daughter’s baby father. I imagine Jim Whooten would congratulate Palin’s husband for his new found fatherhood. This is actually bordering on the absurd. Anyone who votes republican this election is truly brain-dead. There’s no two ways about it.

By KZ_Guy

September 2, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Wooten’s articles crack me up. I think he should be published in the entertainment section. I would hope that after McCain loses (‘big time loses’) Wooten will do the honorable thing an retire from the AJC. OK Jim? Your predictions are like the weatherman predicting a cloudy day when a hurricane is coming thats how wrong you are. I can’t believe the AJC pays Wooten for this crap. Nice gig Wooten but don’t give up your day job unles Faux news is hiring.

By INDEPENDENT VOTER

September 2, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Mr. Wooten please be FAIR AND BALANCED. I have read articles that you have DEMONIZED poor people who happen to be unwed mothers. You roll out an article that is no longer a BIG DEAL. Why? Because her family is well connected.

The young man doesn’t want to be married. He states that he doesn’t even want any kids.

By Alaska Poor White Thrash

September 2, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

send the poor white thrash couple back to alaska.

good luck trying to convince that 18 year old to marry that 17 year old horny girl.

basically an 18 year old man is now in control of mccain’s v.p. choice.

if the dude marries the 17 year old all is well. if he doesn’t well bye bye pailin.

This kid should hold out for 10 million from karl rove and his cronies.

send the poor white thrash back to alaska

By mary

September 2, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

As an independent voter I really have to question McCain’s motive for picking Palin as his running mate. Perhaps he thought the Hilliary supporters would vote McCain/Palin since Palin is a woman -which in my opinion displays very poor judgement. Had McCain picked Romney, Huckabee or really anyone with ‘REAL’ experience - I would mostly likely have voted for the McCain ticket - but unfortunately with Palin and all her skeleton’s and contradictions I will be voting for Obama on Nov 4.

By onefreeman

September 2, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

I’m getting dizzy with all the right wing convservative, moral majority,so-called christian are putting out.

All of a sudden, unmarried teenage moms are the example you want to portray.

You people have no shame. If there’s a hell below…

By rsmith

September 2, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

If this had been one of Obama’s daughter’s, he take the stance of, “…I wouldn’t want her PUNISHED with a baby…”, and had it aborted.

Also, don’t forget that Obama’s parents got pregnant out of wedlock when his mother was 17. I guess it’s a good thing his parents didn’t share Obama’s feelings towards life. He wouldn’t be alive today if they did!!

By Kevin

September 2, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

Obama was the son of a 18 year-old mother. No one has the right to attack a family for doing the right thing—offer a chance at life to an unborn child.

By Big John

September 2, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

Who is the bigger fool here, one who argues with fools, or the fool itself? I have nothing to add. Yet here I sit on my lunch hour reading this drivel.

By Pirranha Barracuda

September 2, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

All I’m saying GOP and so-called “Christian Conservatives” is…Don’t tell the rest of us about family values when you prove yourselves time and time again to not really have any yourselves.

I don’t really want to hear this “teens will do stupid things” garbage. When it’s a poor Black uneducated kid it’s “irresponsibility”, when it’s yours it’s “principled”.

How about doing a little parenting Sarah…?

By Common Sense

September 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

TO Gila Monster,

Can you prove that Mr. Obama reverend preached hate in the pulpit every Sunday?

Can you prove that Mr. Obama supports or share the views of all his friends?

The Palin pick was just dumb! Mrs. Palin is an executive of 6,000 people and small budget.

Mr. Obama is running a campaign business that employees 2500 people with a budget of 24 million per month.

Senator McClain who campaign was out of money before Super Tuesday. Who cannot pass any legislation in the Senate because he does not get along with anyone.

Mr. McClain is not a good decision maker!

THE WAR IN IRAQ alone is costing us over 300 billion dollars and some of you think our social programs are what bloats the budget.

We could not even afford a war because a REPUBLICAN only idea is to have the American public spend their money and send!

By renewablenergy

September 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

i used to work with jamie lynn spear’s baby daddy daddy back in tennessee. brittany, jamie lynn, bristol. inquiring minds want to know. underwear is optional…….

By Rsmith

September 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

If this had been one of Obama’s daughter’s, he take the stance of, “…I wouldn’t want her PUNISHED with a baby…”, and had it aborted.

Also, don’t forget that Obama’s parents got pregnant out of wedlock when his mother was 17. I guess it’s a good thing his parents didn’t share Obama’s feelings towards life. He wouldn’t be alive today if they did!!

By onefreeman

September 2, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

I’m getting dizzy with all the spin the right wing convservative, moral majority,so-called christian are putting out.

All of a sudden, unmarried teenage moms are the examples you want to portray.

You people have no shame. If there’s a hell below…

By ELLGEE

September 2, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

As usual, a publicn servant expects us all to respect her privacy and choice when she refuses to extend the same respect and privacy to others. Palin is anti-choice even in cases of rape and incest.

I’m happy to support and even defend her daughter’s right to have the baby and raise it. I simply require that Palin support my daughter’s right to contraception and abortion, if necessary.

By Kevin

September 2, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Obama was the son of a 18 year-old mother. No one has the right to attack a family for doing the right thing—offer a chance at life to an unborn child.

By Kevin

September 2, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Obama was the son of a 18 year-old mother. No one has the right to attack a family for doing the right thing—offer a chance at life to an unborn child.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Jim, any idea when the terrorist attack is scheduled for? Also, when will Osama come out for Obama? I bet he’s working on that video in the basement of the White House right now. Let us know as soon as you can. You should be getting advance notice since you’re on the Republinazi payroll.

By CC

September 2, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

This is the best female candidate in the Republican Party? Sad.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

tcoach,

It appears that they are both in highschool and do not have the necessary means to take care of their child, which means you might be taking care of this child in the future. The only reason you might not, is because her mother is a governor and might be a VP oneday. If this was any other 17 year old, you would be taking care of her and the Hubbie for a little while. Raising a child is not inexpensive and when you are 17 & 18, without an education or work experience, you usually need a helping hand.

So, don’t try to look down on single moms on welfare or lower income women who give birth, because they don’t have PARENTS in HIGH PLACES.

Because if Bristol were any other pregnant 17 year old, she would be saying DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT. Of course, that’s not enough income to truly support a single person without children.

By Peter

September 2, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

HA HA HA Jim…..when are you going to write about “Family Values” ?

I guess the Republicans basically gave up on that one hey Jim ?

Gee if the lady wasn’t too busy helping her OIL HUSBAND and all his causes…….threatening the wild life in her state…….

I guess she wasn’t around to at least teach her daughter, the little ho, about BIRTH CONTROL !

Great job with the VP pick……… would you want that lady taking the 3:00 AM call for a National Emergency…….

Has she even been around for her own FAMILY ?

Yes Jim she is doing Great……….

Very Conservative I see………. what happened to just saying NO ?

Very DOUBLE STANDARD Jim !

By renewablenergy

September 2, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

i used to work with jamie lynn spear’s baby daddy daddy back in tennessee. brittany, jamie lynn, bristol. inquiring minds want to know. underwear is optional…….

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

tcoach,

It appears that they are both in highschool and do not have the necessary means to take care of their child, which means you might be taking care of this child in the future. The only reason you might not, is because her mother is a governor and might be a VP oneday. If this was any other 17 year old, you would be taking care of her and the Hubbie for a little while. Raising a child is not inexpensive and when you are 17 & 18, without an education or work experience, you usually need a helping hand.

So, don’t try to look down on single moms on welfare or lower income women who give birth, because they don’t have PARENTS in HIGH PLACES.

Because if Bristol were any other pregnant 17 year old, she would be saying DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT. Of course, that’s not enough income to truly support a single person without children.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

tcoach,

It appears that they are both in highschool and do not have the necessary means to take care of their child, which means you might be taking care of this child in the future. The only reason you might not, is because her mother is a governor and might be a VP oneday. If this was any other 17 year old, you would be taking care of her and the Hubbie for a little while. Raising a child is not inexpensive and when you are 17 & 18, without an education or work experience, you usually need a helping hand.

So, don’t try to look down on single moms on welfare or lower income women who give birth, because they don’t have PARENTS in HIGH PLACES.

Because if Bristol were any other pregnant 17 year old, she would be saying DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT. Of course, that’s not enough income to truly support a single person without children.

By KMA

September 2, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Kevin

No one on this blog is suggesting that Bristol abort her baby. Even if she wanted to, it would be way too late, anyway.

The only thing people are asking is for Wooten and all of his “sheeple” followers to GET REAL and acknowledge their hypocrisy.

If you’ve got one finger pointing at the “libs, you’ve got three pointing back at you. Opinions are like our posteriors, everybody has one and we all think everybody else’s smells like $@#(.

By mscutie78

September 2, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

Hello Dave - nutcase I am not - I am however a responsible voter and have to question whether someone who has 5 children is really ready to lead this country (in the event McCain dies) - and I don’t believe Palin is. She is not fulfilling her role as a parent and that is evident with her teenage daughter becoming pregnant. Now - yes teenagers will do what they want - but I strongly believe that if you have an open dialogue with your children and teach them the good, bad and ugly about sex - they will make the right decisions. Since no education other than to abstain from sex was taught her daughter made poor choices and now has to deal with the consequences of those decisions. It definitely calls into question the judgement of Palin - as a parent and as a leader.

By renewablenergy

September 2, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

i used to work with jamie lynn spear’s baby daddy daddy back in tennessee. brittany, jamie lynn, bristol. inquiring minds want to know. underwear is optional…….

By Malcolm

September 2, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

“By Jim Wooten September 2, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Get Real @ 9:49, You overlook the fact that the couple intends to marry before the child is born. The child will have a mother and father in the home.”

SO WHAT? You think it’s a grand idea for high school seniors to have babies now?! Gee. How quickly we change our spots. You are a hypocrite and the more you say about this, the deeper you dig that hole.

By CommunistAJC

September 2, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Algonquin J. Calhoun, How many times did your mom drop you on your head? My guess is not enough times. Go sell stupid somewhere else. Troglodyte.

By DA

September 2, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Like NONE of us have a relative this happened to or even ourselves?!?!? Rest assured she wasnt the first or the last. When raising a child you have about 10~12 years to instill YOUR values on that child… After that it becomes a matter of free will. If Obama gets elected & wants to bring back the chastity belt how many of you will shake your head in the affirmative??? get a grip!

By ckt

September 2, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

The story here is not a pregnant 17 year old, nor the pressure she probably is facing to become married at such a young age. The store here is that this is the direct result of a party who still professes that abstinence only education is the way to go. The story here is that this is what happens when you have a mother who has a stated belief that condoms and birth control should be illegal even for married couples. The story here is that this is what happens when you sacrifice science and education for mythological ignorance. The story here is that a 17 year old girl now faces the prospect of life with a child she should have been educated NOT to conceive. Sure, Obama came from an 18 year old mother, but how many millions of children live in and amongst poverty and sadness because there mothers are the same as Bristol Palin - uneducated to the facts of life.

By INDEPENDENT VOTER

September 2, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

What upset me today was watching the anchors interview Republicans on Palin’s daughter being pregnant. Why not interview Democrats and Independents as well. Republicans are going to say what they want people to hear, when I’m sure behind closed doors they’re p** at the decision to add Sarah Palin to the ticket. The only group that is happy with this news issue would be EVANGELICALS. Here’s the problem most Democrats and Independents have with Sarah Palin and her daughter. They don’t care that she is pregnant. Period. They care that her mother, Sarah Palin is running on a platform of family values; is against sex education and wants to teach creationism is schools, and that only when she was faced with speculation that her son Trig was that of Bristol, that she decided to come out with the truth. This seems like she threw her daughter to the wolves to save her own career. Most mothers would’ve probably passed on the VP slot to save their daughter the public scrutiny. That’s what is so distressing about the issue. Maybe if she’d fought for sex education her daughter may have learned how to prevent pregnancy. And if she can’t teach the family values to her own family that she totes around as morally superior, how can we as Americans expect her to maintain American’s values. Does she not believe in birth control? Another issue is that she is a mother of 5, with a teenage daughter who is about to have a baby in 4 months. It would seem that her family’s need would be more important than running for VP. So I can imagine how difficult it will be for Sarah Palin to run her family effectively while, trying to run the country domestically and internationally, plus helping her daughter raise a newborn. In my eyes, I see Sarah Palin’s decision to run as VP, as a selfish, repugnant and an ambitious decision based on her goals and aspirations only, without regard to her children. That’s the problem many Democrats and Independents have with the issue and many do despite what Republican’s say. It’s not Bristol, it’s Sarah Palin.

Lastly, if this were Obama or if Michelle Obama was running for President with young children or even a teen that was pregnant. Fox News would be running coverage on it all day long.

DO YOU REMEMBER MICHELLE ON FOX NEWS WITH THE HEADLINES “OBAMA’S BABY MAMA”?

The unfortunate aspect is that many POOR females account for the high rate of teen pregnancy. They are ridiculed and seen as irresponsible and uneducated by the CONSERVATIVES (WOOTEN, LIMBAUGH, HANNITY) But Bristol gets pregnant and it’s a glorious thing. Many teen moms don’t have a mother running for VP and on the front pages of newspapers; their mothers are too busy trying to raise their own children and/or supporting their soon -to- be grandchild or grandchild. And many don’t have the support that Bristol will have, they struggle with school, daycare, work, food, diapers and finances just to name a few, and many have mothers who were teen moms themselves.

So while, Evangelicans try to portray this is something that makes Sarah Palin seem like one of them. Why don’t you try helping a teen mom with no support or with support that still inadequate, try getting out there and making a difference with your pro-life stances. Tell those women how admirable they are. It’s no cake walk, and I am appalled that many try to make it out to be. Especially when I hear some say, see she’s facing many challenges that alot of women go through. NO SHE ISN’T! She lives in the state house, free of charge, she paid six figures to do her job, and is in no way struggling to help her child.

So get off your high horses and stop trying to have it both ways. McCain is a HYPOCRITE. He voted AGAINST teen pregnancy programs and funds to help pregnant teens. And Sarah Palin can’t even teach her own child abstinence but wants us to bet our children’s future on that same principle. I know what the real world is like and how it operates, and the real world NEEDS CONDOMS AND BIRTH CONTROL in it, even for teens.

By KMA

September 2, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Kevin

No one on this blog is suggesting that Bristol abort her baby. Even if she wanted to, it would be way too late, anyway.

The only thing people are asking is for Wooten and all of his “sheeple” followers to GET REAL and acknowledge their hypocrisy.

If you’ve got one finger pointing at the “libs, you’ve got three pointing back at you. Opinions are like our posteriors, everybody has one and we all think everybody else’s smells like $@#(.

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Hey Wooten was the young man wearing a flag pin when he got her pregnant the reason why it is not a BIG DEAL to you. You and other folks had no problem saying that Obama is responsible for Rev. Wright and anybody that said something that you didn’t like that he supposebly associated with. He had to REJECT/DENOUNCE those people. Will Palin have to REJECT/DENOUNCE her daughter. Will she have to leave her home to show that she is not connected to her daughter. Inquiring minds wanna know.

By mscutie78

September 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Hello Dave - nutcase I am not - I am however a responsible voter and have to question whether someone who has 5 children is really ready to lead this country (in the event McCain dies) - and I don’t believe Palin is. She is not fulfilling her role as a parent and that is evident with her teenage daughter becoming pregnant. Now - yes teenagers will do what they want - but I strongly believe that if you have an open dialogue with your children and teach them the good, bad and ugly about sex - they will make the right decisions. Since no education other than to abstain from sex was taught her daughter made poor choices and now has to deal with the consequences of those decisions. It definitely calls into question the judgement of Palin - as a parent and as a leader.

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Hey Wooten was the young man wearing a flag pin when he got her pregnant the reason why it is not a BIG DEAL to you. You and other folks had no problem saying that Obama is responsible for Rev. Wright and anybody that said something that you didn’t like that he supposebly associated with. He had to REJECT/DENOUNCE those people. Will Palin have to REJECT/DENOUNCE her daughter. Will she have to leave her home to show that she is not connected to her daughter. Inquiring minds wanna know.

By LVIS

September 2, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

Jim Wooten it is a big deal. Everyone knows the intensive media scrutiny political candidiates face whil seeking election and Mrs Palin knew they would eventually find out about her daughter.

Instead of passing on the nomination to tend to her newborn and support her daughter she decides to heck with it all Im running for VP. The big deal is speaks to is Ms. Palins priorities. Regardless of your occupation you ALWAYS PUT YOUR FAMILY FIRST. Now her daughter’s privacy has been violated on a national stage.

The opportunity to run for VP could possibly come around again and she could have used additional time to build a more substantial resume but the media pressure and exposure could be very damaging to her daughter and create a strain in their relationship. Bottom line under the circumstances this was not the right time for her to pursue this opportunity.

Your response also highlights the weak minded partisanship that has for too long been demonstrated by both political parties. If a politician is wrong on an issue or stand or action they take we should not try to spin it to make them look good. When Bill Clinton was caught in the Monica Lewinsky Scandal I as a democrat felt he deserved the harsh criticism and censure he received. He was flat out WRONG.

In 2000 as a democrat I would have voted for John McCain but it seems the underhanded tactice that Bush employed to beat him has corrupted him and the John McCain of 2000 would not even recognize the 2008 version . The Republican party has beaten the “maverick” into submission. Its a shame

By Jessica

September 2, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Someone mentioned Jon Voight telling it like it is. Well, he needs to sit his butt down because if a man’s daughter won’t have ANYTHING to do with him, then how can he tell anyone else something. John needs to reunite with his daughter, Angelina, meet his grandchildren and shut up! If your children don’t like you, then why should I listen to you.

By ozzfest

September 2, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

In Georgia, we call em “WHITE TRASH”. What is the Alaskan equivalent?

By Debora

September 2, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

INDEPENDENT VOTER — Does she not believe in birth control?

She does not. She wants birth control, including condoms, made illegal in our country.

By mscutie78

September 2, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Hello Dave - nutcase I am not - I am however a responsible voter and have to question whether someone who has 5 children is really ready to lead this country (in the event McCain dies) - and I don’t believe Palin is. She is not fulfilling her role as a parent and that is evident with her teenage daughter becoming pregnant. Now - yes teenagers will do what they want - but I strongly believe that if you have an open dialogue with your children and teach them the good, bad and ugly about sex - they will make the right decisions. Since no education other than to abstain from sex was taught her daughter made poor choices and now has to deal with the consequences of those decisions. It definitely calls into question the judgement of Palin - as a parent and as a leader.

By JD

September 2, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

To Disgusted @ 9:44 You obviously have a sick brain. Maybe your mother should have aborted you! You are not disgusted. You are disgusting. I’ve never seen a more hateful blog anywhere. I’ll say a prayer for you tonight, but it may be too late for you! I’ll say one for Algonquin too.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

At the request of two Democratic members of Congress under the Freedom of Information Act, the Secret Service has furnished detailed logs of Jeff Gannon’s access to the White House.

As reported in Raw Story, the records paint a startling picture of a man who visited the White House at least 200 times and attended 155 of 196 White House press briefings. (Read the Secret Service Documents.)

Gannon, whose real name is Jim Guckert, has worked as a male prostitute and advertised his own escort services over the internet. More than two dozen of his visits to the White House were made when there were no scheduled press conferences or briefings. And, even more noteworthy is that fact that on 14 separate occasions Secret Service records indicate no arrival or departure time.

It is considered highly unusual for individuals to be admitted to the White House and not checked out. The Secret Service could offer no explanation for this, but it is hard to imagine that Gannon could have left without having signed himself out unless someone in a position of authority at the White House left with Gannon and waived off having to sign him out.

One plausible possibility is that Gannon may have left in the company of a senior White House staff member or official, and did not want to be signed out at the same time as the individual he may have been accompanying. Given Gannon’s history as a male escort and prostitute, it hardly takes a leap of faith to suspect that he may have been turning tricks at the White House.

By Duchess

September 2, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

I don’t think we should necessarily judge her as being a ‘bad parent’. Her daughter just wanted to get her groove on like many other teenagers. As far as marrying the father…just another shotgun wedding…that’s CRAZY!! She’s 17, she doesn’t even know if he is the ONE. I say, have the baby and sit down. As far as being a ‘potential’ President of the US…NO WAY JOSE!!!! She’s not ready for that on any given day!!!

By Debora

September 2, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Does she not believe in birth control?

She does not. She wants all forms of birth control, including condoms, banned, Roe v Wade overturned, Lawrence and Garner v. Texas overturned and creationism taught in schools, evolution not taught in school and sex-ed not taught in schools.

So my family can be like her white-trash family? No thanks. My family and the children in it, will be educated and the women taught to respect thier bodies and that they own and control their bodies, not the government.

I wouldn’t allow her daughter to socialize with my nieces. Why would I want this trailer trash and vp?

By onefreeman

September 2, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

When John McCain drops Palin, the republicans are going to blame democrats…as if democrats are planning on voting for McCain/Palin.

republicans know they hate this pick.

By Churchill

September 2, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

Out of wedlock pregnancies - teenage or otherwise - is older than the hills.

However, the problem that I have with the response of the GOP and the conservatives is the hypocrisy that is now being shown. If this was Chelsea Clinton that had become pregnant during her father’s White House years or even now, she would be dragged through the mud as being promiscuous or worse.

Now you have the GOP and conservatives being so supportive of this poor misguided young woman who has made an error in judgment, but is setting an example of keeping the baby and marrying the father.

I feel for the girl. Being pregnant is hard enough. Being from a small town myself, I know how people can be. But she now has the added extra burden of the very public spot light and all of the nastiness that is being said on the internet.

And who put her there? Her mother. I say this shows a complete lack of judgment.

By Debora

September 2, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Does she not believe in birth control?

She does not. She wants all forms of birth control, including condoms, banned, Roe v Wade overturned, Lawrence and Garner v. Texas overturned and creationism taught in schools, evolution not taught in school and sex-ed not taught in schools.

So my family can be like her white-trash family? No thanks. My family and the children in it, will be educated and the women taught to respect thier bodies and that they own and control their bodies, not the government.

I wouldn’t allow her daughter to socialize with my nieces. Why would I want this trailer trash and vp?

By tcoach

September 2, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

NothingButHypocrites, you only need to post it one time. To respond though, in no way am I condoning the actions of Palin’s daughter, however she is planning to do the right thing. She is planning to have the baby. Second, she will not have the child until late december or early Jan. This means she will only have 1 semester of high school left. There are numerous on-line accredited high school degree programs that she will be able to take advantage of. Also the father should be able to attend class as scheduled. My point is that hopfully they are not giving up, they are going to strive for their dreams. They are possible to reach only they will not be easy. It does help that in her case she has a good support system to fall back on. People on this board are acting like life ends with the birth of a child. This is not a punishment, only a responsibility. Both of the parents in this case can even go onto college as long as they are willing to put in more hours than the next person. She made a bad choice and it is one she has to own herself. On the comment about wage. That is why it is called a Minimum Wage, because it is the minimum that business be able to pay for work. The reason for this is not for people to try to turn them into jobs that support them and their family. These are jobs that are meant for teens trying to devleope a work ethic. These jobs are also for those who are retired or are looking for a little extra spending money. The reason many of the people trying to turn burgers and fries into careers is because of the low qualification standards. They want no drug test, no skills, no hard labor, no professional dress, and no advanced degree or certificate. There are better paying jobs for those who want them the problem is most people do not want to work. So no burger flipping should not be ones plan to make it. They may have to flip burgers but they should also be doing something else to supplement the income. I do not think it is wise or healthy for a teen to get pregnant, however I have never and will never care if tehy choose to. I have no problem as long as they take care of it and do not expect me to take care of it. Other people have had teenage pregnancies and went on to do wonderful things. I have a problem with those who have the child and then think the government should help pay for it, because there ae not any easy good paying jobs available.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

Freeman is correct! Gov. Twinkie will not be on the Republinazi ticket come November.

By MR. SMITH

September 2, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

help this undecided voter understand something. If it is okay to applaud Bill and Hillary for their marriage of circumstance why is not okay to applaud Mrs. Palin for standing beside her daughter and soon to be grandchild.

By SaveOurRepublic

September 2, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Personal/family problems aside, the main concerns for Americans should be Palin’s policies. Although she seems solid on pro utilization of American oil sources (ANWR), 2nd Amendment & anti-infanicide, she’s probably (like “Jaun McAmnasty” an avowed Neocon (pro-“free” trade/NAFTA, open borders/NAU, amnesty, chickenhawk empire building, Big government growth/enpowerment).

We need a President who’ll return us to our Constitutional roots & heritage!

http://www.baldwin2008.com

By Rev. J. Greg Lawson

September 2, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

This story is not uncommon in typical America. However, the photos of this 17-year old with bottles of booze (which means underage drinking) and sex at such a young age will likely spell a tragic upbringing of the innocent child produced by children. How can the Rebulican religious “right?” find that Palin is living out family values? Her family is in need of much clearer values and she wants to move to Washington, D.C. and ingage in the second most busy job in the world where she will have precious little time with her family. Way off base here. I think the Republicans just through family values out the window and an innocent child under the bus. Shame, shame.

By Janice

September 2, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Not a McCain supporter, but I don’t think its a tragedy or horrible that a 17 year old young woman who is in a stable relationship is pregnant. She can raise her child well especially with the support of her family. If she did not have family support, were in poverty, did not have a quality “baby-father” who was willing to marry her and did not have the resources to obtain upward mobility - then it would be more of a problem. This situation highlights that families can come into being under many conditions but that we cannot oversimplify causes of social problems. A 17 year old having a child is not the cause of society’s problem but may simply complicate or amplify other problems. My guess, this girl will be ok and is in a better position to do very well in life than a straight A honor student from a non-politically connected family - she will do better than most nonadvantaged kids in the inner city who delay child bearing well into their 20s. If she were a poor girl though, all the problems that she faces as a young mother would be blamed on her.

By Howard

September 2, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

It may not be a “big deal” but her pregnant unmarried daughter ain’t no role model either, is she? And, the fact that Ms. Palin is “celebrating” being a soon to be grandmother is a strange message to be sending to other parents and their teenage daughers, too. Is she saying that we should be proud of her daughter’s premartial pregnancy? And, apparently her parenting skills in terms of influenciing her daughter’s behavior are somewhat lacking. And, as far as the Christian right folks go, this is gotta be a pretty big sin, right? Shouldn’t the daughter be asking for forgiveness or are ya’ll deciding this is a virgin birh…

By howar

September 2, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

So this is just a typical American family. All our daugherts just drop their panties, you think. You guys are willing to justify anything and lower the bar however necessary.

By MR. SMITH

September 2, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Deborah, Karma will bite you on the a*. You speak like you and your family are without flaw. I have 1 son and an unborn child on the way, and it is people of your ignorance that make me ashamed of being human. When you vote democrat, remember that the last democratic president cheated on his wife and lied to us all. And by the way I voted for Bill. Maybe you and your family can run for president, I am sure you and your family have no skeletons in the closet.

By MR. SMITH

September 2, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

help this undecided voter understand something. If it is okay to applaud Bill and Hillary for their marriage of circumstance why is not okay to applaud Mrs. Palin for standing beside her daughter and soon to be grandchild.

By SickOfIt

September 2, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

what a load of garbage most of this is. If Sarah Palin was Sam Palin, no one would be talking about how “he” should be home spending time with his new child and not running for office, or how “he” needs to be thinking of “his” daughter instead of running for VP. What a double standard!

Palin’s daughter has nothing to do with this, her baby has nothing to do with this. Vote or not vote for the man (McCain) and woman (Palin), not for their families! What her daughter does has nothing to do with her abilities to be a vice president, GEEZ!!!

As for their choice for her daughter to have that baby, it is THEIR choice, not ours! They aren’t doing it to prove they are better than us, they are doing it because it is what they believe in.

I am amazed at the lunacy of some of the thought processes I see above. But to put it all in one last statement, Sarah Palin’s daughter is irrelevant to the Presidential race, just as her husband’s DUI at age 22 is irrelevant.

By the way, I think someone who has actually governed for a couple of years, a woman in a land dominated by men, who had no political family to back her up, and did not come from a money family, yet still won and worked her way up, has better credentials than a man who did nothing in the state legislature for 4 years then as a Senator did nothing for a year before starting his run for President.

By Sick of morons

September 2, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

JD, you idiot, don’t go pointing fingers till you’ve walked in someone else’s shoes. I am a small woman, 5’2” & 105 lbs. I grew up with a Downs Syndrome brother a few years younger than myself & often had to watch him because my parents both had to work. Medical bills, ya know! By the time I was in high school, he outweighed me by about 80 lbs & guess who had to feed him, change his diapers, etc. It was a nightmare, he used to physically attack me (some days I was so badly injured I could not attend school) & all my parents had to say was “It’s your Christian duty & great practice for when we’re gone & he’ll be living with you”. Quite frankly, I was relieved when he got sick & died at age 22. He would not have been able to contribute to society anyway. I’d LOVE to see YOU saddled with a hulking, violent piece of flesh like that.

By rebecca

September 2, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Wooten - were are all your Kodus for the other unmarried mother’s out there - you know the ones you accuse of stealing your tax dollars.

By rebecca

September 2, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Wooten - were are all your Kodus for the other unmarried mothers out there - you know the ones you accuse of stealing your tax dollars.

By rebecca

September 2, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Wooten - where are all your Kodus for the other unmarried mothers out there - you know the ones you accuse of stealing your tax dollars.

By rebecca

September 2, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Wooten - where are all your Kodus for the other unmarried mothers out there - you know the ones you accuse of stealing your tax dollars?

By rebecca

September 2, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Wooten - where are all your Kodus for the other unmarried mothers out there - you know the ones you accuse of stealing your tax dollars?

By DJ

September 2, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Disappointing in both Wooten and McCain. I’m an independent voter who had been on the fence until yesterday, because I think either McCain or Obama are qualified to be president. The left’s constant haranging over McCain’s age and tenure in Washington or The right’s harping on experience (there is no class on how to be president I remind you) were always irrelevant to me. For me it was how each candidate would conduct themselves during the campaign and how they would address policies I cared about that mattered.

I take a lot of heat being a black independent who has voted both republican and democrat in the past by my democratic and republican friends. I’m often the odd man out (believe in national healthcare, strong defense, conservative family values,pro life, oppose gay marriage, a strong government supported education system, and strong gun control). However the revelation of Patin’s daughter has thrown me sqarely into the Obama camp and just concreted the fact that McCain isn’t the guy.

I was doubtful of his choice in the first place, concerned he only chose a woman since Obama didn’t. I was also concerned that someone with 5 kids, one with downs syndrome that is going to require great care and attention may be placed into making choices not necessarily in the nation’s best interest or maybe even her family’s.

The fact that her daughter was pregnant and it was seemingly timed to be revealed when the nation was focused on a national emergency just reeks of the same old republican spin machine that wants to do the bare minimum of being upfront with the american people and seems to have gotten out of control the last 4 years.

I applaud Palin for not demonfying her daughter and standing by her as every parent should because unfortunately there are a lot of parents that don’t these days. However, the apparent shift in moral sensibilities by the conservative and religious right that would have vilified any other candidate for this is amazing to me.

Even more amazing to me is the fact that there are some that says its not a concern of the electorate. Although this is a private matter to a degree, when you are talking about stepping into one of the two biggest roles in the world, it absolutely is the concern of the electorate. Not because she is pregnant but how Palin’s judgement process has occurred in terms of advising and mentoring those close to her, how she judges what is important and then the fact that she is obviously ok with the lack of forthcoming on this issue until someone outted her.

I also question McCain’s judgement here severely. Not because he took someone with a pregnant teen, but because he didn’t think it was important enough to talk about during his introduction of her to us. How awesome would it have been to be truly upfront about this, showing how she is standing by her child and relating to us how its this type of judgement that impressed him enough to put her on the ticket? Instead he looks like he is playing the same old politics he claims to be against.

Sorry Wotten, nice try at trying to make this sound all sweet and harmless, but rest assured that there are many of us that aren’t buying this in the least.

By Harold

September 2, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

To condone a 17 year old child having children is sending the absolutely wrong message. This young girl’s behaviour flys in the face of what the conservatives have been preaching. Abstinence..No sex till marriage… etc….This girl’s life is over; she will miss the best part of being young, in college and free. She will wake up one day and say, “What the h#@#ll was i thinking? I totally screwed up and missed the best years of my life. And I did it to make Mom look good and please her little voter friends. Boy was I stupid!” Shotgun weddings almost NEVER work out. She will be divorced with 5 years; the stats are on my side.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

Mr. Smith,

It’s not the child people have a problem with, but the hypocries of the republican party and Sarah Palin. No one is suggesting Bristol have an abortion or for Sarah to abandon her daughter.

We just don’t like hypocrites, plain and simple.

As for Bill and Hillary, I don’t agree with what he did or the fact that Hillary decided to stay with him. However, I do believe that it was Hillary’s CHOICE to do so. I would call Bill and Hillary hypocrites if they suggested that I divorce my husband (if he did the same thing Bill did).

These people teach abstinence for PEACE SAKE, but your 17 year old is 5 months and NOW about to get married. There is way too much influence in this world, to only teach abstinence.

If we don’t teach sex education and how to use condoms, we will end up with more Bristols. We do not need any more 17 year old parents (married or unmarried).

If you think the problem is solved by geting married at 17, then I want to sale you the planet MARS.

By RamblinLonghorn

September 2, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

I guess Abstinence-Only Education works, huh Mrs. Palin?

Let’s be honest here. Palin was chosen to shore up support from conservatives and maybe take a few disgruntled Clinton voters at the same time.

The conservatives probably won’t care, they were going to vote for McCain anyway or won’t vote at all. The Hilary voters are a red herring, and probably would have been an offset to the losses that will result from Bobb Barr running. The enthusiasm gap is still in full effect. In the end, I see McCain’s biggest problem is apathy, and stories about pregnant 17 year-olds won’t don’t anything to improve that situation.

By MR. SMITH

September 2, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

Why do democrats hate republicans? Why do republicans hate democrats? Why don’t we just go COMMUNIST and get this BS over with? It is just what both sides want. The Dems want the government to be responsible for everything. The Reps want the government to be run by corporations. Why can’t we just do this and stop all this bickering!!!!!!! WE CAN ALL HAVE A VOICE, JUST AS LONG AS WE DON’T USE IT!

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Mr. Smith,

It’s not the child people have a problem with, but the hypocries of the republican party and Sarah Palin. No one is suggesting Bristol have an abortion or for Sarah to abandon her daughter.

We just don’t like hypocrites, plain and simple.

As for Bill and Hillary, I don’t agree with what he did or the fact that Hillary decided to stay with him. However, I do believe that it was Hillary’s CHOICE to do so. I would call Bill and Hillary hypocrites if they suggested that I divorce my husband (if he did the same thing Bill did).

These people teach abstinence for PEACE SAKE, but your 17 year old is 5 months and NOW about to get married. There is way too much influence in this world, to only teach abstinence.

If we don’t teach sex education and how to use condoms, we will end up with more Bristols. We do not need any more 17 year old parents (married or unmarried).

If you think the problem is solved by geting married at 17, then I want to sale you the planet MARS.

By DJ

September 2, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Disappointing in both Wooten and McCain. I’m an independent voter who had been on the fence until yesterday, because I think either McCain or Obama are qualified to be president. The left’s constant haranging over McCain’s age and tenure in Washington or The right’s harping on experience (there is no class on how to be president I remind you) were always irrelevant to me. For me it was how each candidate would conduct themselves during the campaign and how they would address policies I cared about that mattered.

I take a lot of heat being a black independent who has voted both republican and democrat in the past by my democratic and republican friends. I’m often the odd man out (believe in national healthcare, strong defense, conservative family values,pro life, oppose gay marriage, a strong government supported education system, and strong gun control). However the revelation of Patin’s daughter has thrown me sqarely into the Obama camp and just concreted the fact that McCain isn’t the guy.

I was doubtful of his choice in the first place, concerned he only chose a woman since Obama didn’t. I was also concerned that someone with 5 kids, one with downs syndrome that is going to require great care and attention may be placed into making choices not necessarily in the nation’s best interest or maybe even her family’s.

The fact that her daughter was pregnant and it was seemingly timed to be revealed when the nation was focused on a national emergency just reeks of the same old republican spin machine that wants to do the bare minimum of being upfront with the american people and seems to have gotten out of control the last 4 years.

I applaud Palin for not demonfying her daughter and standing by her as every parent should because unfortunately there are a lot of parents that don’t these days. However, the apparent shift in moral sensibilities by the conservative and religious right that would have vilified any other candidate for this is amazing to me.

Even more amazing to me is the fact that there are some that says its not a concern of the electorate. Although this is a private matter to a degree, when you are talking about stepping into one of the two biggest roles in the world, it absolutely is the concern of the electorate. Not because she is pregnant but how Palin’s judgement process has occurred in terms of advising and mentoring those close to her, how she judges what is important and then the fact that she is obviously ok with the lack of forthcoming on this issue until someone outted her.

I also question McCain’s judgement here severely. Not because he took someone with a pregnant teen, but because he didn’t think it was important enough to talk about during his introduction of her to us. How awesome would it have been to be truly upfront about this, showing how she is standing by her child and relating to us how its this type of judgement that impressed him enough to put her on the ticket? Instead he looks like he is playing the same old politics he claims to be against.

Sorry Wotten, nice try at trying to make this sound all sweet and harmless, but rest assured that there are many of us that aren’t buying this in the least.

By DJ

September 2, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Disappointing in both Wooten and McCain. I’m an independent voter who had been on the fence until yesterday, because I think either McCain or Obama are qualified to be president. The left’s constant haranging over McCain’s age and tenure in Washington or The right’s harping on experience (there is no class on how to be president I remind you) were always irrelevant to me. For me it was how each candidate would conduct themselves during the campaign and how they would address policies I cared about that mattered.

I take a lot of heat being a black independent who has voted both republican and democrat in the past by my democratic and republican friends. I’m often the odd man out (believe in national healthcare, strong defense, conservative family values,pro life, oppose gay marriage, a strong government supported education system, and strong gun control). However the revelation of Patin’s daughter has thrown me sqarely into the Obama camp and just concreted the fact that McCain isn’t the guy.

I was doubtful of his choice in the first place, concerned he only chose a woman since Obama didn’t. I was also concerned that someone with 5 kids, one with downs syndrome that is going to require great care and attention may be placed into making choices not necessarily in the nation’s best interest or maybe even her family’s.

The fact that her daughter was pregnant and it was seemingly timed to be revealed when the nation was focused on a national emergency just reeks of the same old republican spin machine that wants to do the bare minimum of being upfront with the american people and seems to have gotten out of control the last 4 years.

I applaud Palin for not demonfying her daughter and standing by her as every parent should because unfortunately there are a lot of parents that don’t these days. However, the apparent shift in moral sensibilities by the conservative and religious right that would have vilified any other candidate for this is amazing to me.

Even more amazing to me is the fact that there are some that says its not a concern of the electorate. Although this is a private matter to a degree, when you are talking about stepping into one of the two biggest roles in the world, it absolutely is the concern of the electorate. Not because she is pregnant but how Palin’s judgement process has occurred in terms of advising and mentoring those close to her, how she judges what is important and then the fact that she is obviously ok with the lack of forthcoming on this issue until someone outted her.

I also question McCain’s judgement here severely. Not because he took someone with a pregnant teen, but because he didn’t think it was important enough to talk about during his introduction of her to us. How awesome would it have been to be truly upfront about this, showing how she is standing by her child and relating to us how its this type of judgement that impressed him enough to put her on the ticket? Instead he looks like he is playing the same old politics he claims to be against.

Sorry Wotten, nice try at trying to make this sound all sweet and harmless, but rest assured that there are many of us that aren’t buying this in the least.

By Bea

September 2, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Your comment is awaiting moderation. Funny how the evangelicals can be so forgiving when it’s one of their own! What a bunch of self righteous disingenuous fakes! These are the people that think the rest of the country has no morals! What a joke! It’s very simple either you’re for what is right or you’re not! You don’t get to pick and choose who you want to defend. Either they represent what they’ve been preaching or they don’t! Don’t try to sell me a Lemon and call it an orange! It is what it is and not at all what you self righteous fakes want it to be! If this were Obama or Biden families going through this I don’t think the evangelicals would be so forgiving!

Hypocrite: . A person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs. . A person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

! Sound familiar?

By mocamarc

September 2, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Rufus is a fool.

By SickOfIt

September 2, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

what a load of garbage most of this is. If Sarah Palin was Sam Palin, no one would be talking about how “he” should be home spending time with his new child and not running for office, or how “he” needs to be thinking of “his” daughter instead of running for VP. What a double standard!

Palin’s daughter has nothing to do with this, her baby has nothing to do with this. Vote or not vote for the man (McCain) and woman (Palin), not for their families! What her daughter does has nothing to do with her abilities to be a vice president, GEEZ!!!

As for their choice for her daughter to have that baby, it is THEIR choice, not ours! They aren’t doing it to prove they are better than us, they are doing it because it is what they believe in.

I am amazed at the lunacy of some of the thought processes I see above. But to put it all in one last statement, Sarah Palin’s daughter is irrelevant to the Presidential race, just as her husband’s DUI at age 22 is irrelevant.

By the way, I think someone who has actually governed for a couple of years, a woman in a land dominated by men, who had no political family to back her up, and did not come from a money family, yet still won and worked her way up, has better credentials than a man who did nothing in the state legislature for 4 years then as a Senator did nothing for a year before starting his run for President.

By Peter

September 2, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

So the girl is 5 months pregnant……… how many months has she been 17 ?

Hey Jim…….how many months has this girl been 17 ?

By Facing up to own mistakes

September 2, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

How can we elect someone who can not operate within the confines of the American Moral Beliefs and standards within her own family and state, less the international arena representing the USA! This would be a disaster for the USA if she and McCain is elected!

If she can not even hope to educate and control her kids, what makes people thing she is up to leading a nation?

By SickOfIt

September 2, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

DJ, what? You think Palin should have gotten on TV and done national ads saying “HEY! Everyone! My daughter had sex and got herself knocked up! Just thought you oughta know!!!”?

what a crock. Not forthcoming? How does this in anyway impugn her ability to be a VP? Get Real!

By Disgusted

September 2, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

Thank you for defending me, Sick of Morons (yes, so am I but I’m afraid we’ll always be surrounded by them). I’m so sorry about what you had to go through when you were younger & hope things have improved for you 100%

By ptrap

September 2, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

2 for 2? Please. No, its not a big deal. And you right wingers are able to say anyone who has something negative to say about this is so wrong for attacking a child! Look, the issue here is Palin’s abstinence-only preaching that obviously doesn’t work…it didn’t even work IN HER OWN FAMILY! Let’s keep kids ignorant and fearful and tell them only abstinence will save them instead of comprehensive sex ed! And what..should Palin be given a medal for having a baby with Downs? It happened, stuff happens. Should we elect McCain just because he was a POW? It happened, stuff happens. Don’t make snap judgements on someone’s “character” based on things that happened TO them…not of their own arranging.

And ALL of you pro-choice, right wingers (Mr. Wooten, et all)…don’t tell me what I can or can’t do with MY body. You want to raise the kid? I didn’t think so. You want to turn your attention to saving the born-into poverty children, or born-into abusive households children? No, I didn’t think so. Those issues aren’t as emotionally charged or get as much press.

By AJC is DOOMED

September 2, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Maybe that dirty old man, McCancerFace, was thinking with his little head, and not the big head when he picked Palin as his vp. Maybe he really wanted to do both mother and daughter on the great seal of the United States, in the Oval Office, you know, like Bill did that Monica s lu t.

By SickOfIt

September 2, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

DJ, what? You think Palin should have gotten on TV and done national ads saying “HEY! Everyone! My daughter had sex and got herself knocked up! Just thought you oughta know!!!”?

what a crock. Not forthcoming? How does this in anyway impugn her ability to be a VP? Get Real!

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

We all know if that was Obama’s daughter we would have gotten that 3:00am phone call. I wonder will FOX News have BABY MOMMA going across the screen election night since they did it for MARRIED Michelle Obama. I am on a rolllll today.

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

We all know if that was Obama’s daughter we would have gotten that 3:00am phone call. I wonder will FOX News have BABY MOMMA going across the screen election night since they did it for MARRIED Michelle Obama. I am on a rolllll today.

By MR. SMITH

September 2, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

NOTHING, Politics is hypocracy at its best. It is okay for a woman in the projects or in some trailor park to have as many kids as she wants and that is just fine. It is okay for you and I to give our hard earn dollars to them. That is what the democrats want. Keep the cycle of poverty going. Keep on taking my money. Forget that I worked hard and have children. Besides it is my fault, according to democrats, that those women don’t have. Then the republicans don’t want abortions to be legal. They want use the words Christian Values like it is some sacred life that we should all live. The republicans want us all to work hard to succeed yet make it impossible for those that are born into poverty to get out. WE ARE ALL PAWNS IN THIS BS. FIGHTING AND BICKERING LIKE WE ARE NEEDED FOR THIS COUNTRIES SURVIVAL.

By Chris

September 2, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

If she is not married, how is the babies daddy called her husband?

And just for general info, no one is ever proud of thier 17yr old daughter getting knocked up.

By KB

September 2, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

I really think Mr. McClain should been ashamed of his self by putting his running mate under this maddness. Mrs. Palin knew this about her daughter. Mrs. Palin is no different for many American parent sthese days in dealling with the unforseen challenges for her family. I sure she has advise her daughter about the issues of premarital sex. It was up to the child to make the decisions from there. Any any case, Mrs. Palin’s daughter doesn’t need to be put under the national spotlight even more. This is a child!!! Mr. McClain knew this and still choose to add her to his ticket. For that Mr. McClain show be spanked.

By SickOfIt

September 2, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Ok, now this is really getting dumb. Attacking Palin because allegedly if she can’t control her own kids she can’t run a country. i am a parent of two kids, and I well know that you can teach your children all you know, and raise them with all the best beliefs and morality, yet they will still make their own choices, some good and some bad. And when it comes to sex, even the best children will sometimes make the wrong choice. that has happened for thousands of years, it didn’t start with Bristol Palin!

Once again, if this is all anyone has to say bad about Sarah Palin, she must be a most excellent candidate indeed, since you can’t come up with anything worse about her!

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Twinkie’s daughter, Trick palin, is about to make her a grandmother, again!

By That's what I am talkin about

September 2, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Jim, I could respect your positions if you actually stood by them. Were this some inner-city kid who was in this mess, you’d be raising holy hell. At least stand by your convictions and state “your” truth when it happens in the other side of the coin. Each week you come on here and talk about teen pregancy and all of it’s social ills. If the Palins were doing right, why isn’t she ALREADY married, or better yet married BEFORE she gets knoked up?

Now I agree that this could have been a private matter, but being in the public eye means that it is not anymore. Step up and pay the price of fame!

Were it Obama’s daughter, the Jesus-loving world would be in a tizzy demanding her head. Life happens whether democrat or republican, and each deserves to be treated with respect regardless. However as it is not acceptable for politicians to flip-flop, your inconsistency is deplorable.

I usually enjoy disagreeing with you, howeveron your stance of pregancy outside of marriage, you and I see “eye to eye”. I do not enjoy you today at all.

By KB

September 2, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

I really think Mr. McClain should been ashamed of his self by putting his running mate under this maddness. Mrs. Palin knew this about her daughter. Mrs. Palin is no different for many American parent sthese days in dealling with the unforseen challenges for her family. I sure she has advise her daughter about the issues of premarital sex. It was up to the child to make the decisions from there. Any any case, Mrs. Palin’s daughter doesn’t need to be put under the national spotlight even more. This is a child!!! Mr. McClain knew this and still choose to add her to his ticket. For that Mr. McClain show be spanked.

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Gov. Twinkie was lackluster even as Mayor of Wasilla. She’s a no-talent with good t** and a pretty face. that’s what McPenis saw in her and that’s it!

By Chris, Atlanta, GA

September 2, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

I guess this is what happens when you believe in “Abstinence Only” programs. Especially telling when Sarah Palin gave birth to her first son 8 months after her own marriage.

That she still went ahead and accepted the VP nomination knowing the (unwanted) attention this would bring on her daughter says plenty about the “Family First” values these Right-Wingers preach.

Now I’m wondering when the other stuff about Sarah Palin being a member of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) is going to come out. McCain with his hypocritical slogan of “Country First” with a VP nominee who’s slogan may be “Alaska First”. A nice bundle of contradictions!!!

Let the fun begin!!!

By Peter

September 2, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

By Peter

September 2, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

So the girl is 5 months pregnant……… how many months has she been 17 ?

Hey Jim…….how many months has this girl been 17 ?

I guess you can’t answer the question……..maybe she got pregnant at 16…….

DID someone break the law ?

By CINDIE

September 2, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

oh, believe me, this isn’t bristols first game of hide the hockey stick. It’s cold in alaska and with no parents around, theres a lot a young woman can get into.

NRA Mom should of taught bristol to manually ejct the first round, and make sure the chambers empty before pointing that thing anywhere damage could be done!

too bad she couldn’t have been in the white house with clinton. heh heh heh

By deegee

September 2, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Regardless of how you feel about McCain, Palin or the Wootang Gang, this RNC convention has to be the biggest cluster you-know-what since the aftermath of Katrina. Do we really want this crowd running the country?

“ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republicans revamped their convention plans for a second day, dropping former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as keynote speaker Tuesday night while trying to determine President Bush’s role in the political pageantry celebrating John McCain’s candidacy for president.

In Giuliani’s speaking slot were former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, one of McCain’s rivals for the Republican nomination, and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now a McCain supporter. Republicans say the two will talk about McCain’s life and their friendship with him.

Whether Bush will address delegates via satellite Tuesday night had not been decided, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others had been expected to speak Monday night, but the McCain campaign and convention officials agreed to trim back the politics and focus instead on fundraising for victims of Hurricane Gustav.

Hamstrung by Gustav and distracted by the revelation that McCain running mate Sarah Palin’s unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, Republicans were trying to get back on track Tuesday.”

By Lemonade

September 2, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

I’ve worked to darn hard with my children and grandchildren on this issue and now it’s being glamorized as if it’s the most wonderful thing in the world. Apparently these are parent that have not done their job at parenting..

By My baby's Father

September 2, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Let me say that I have a 15 year old daughter going on 16, and I tell you what..I WISH SHE WOULD COME INTO MY HOUSE PREGNANT BEFORE SHE IS A RESPONSIBLE AND HOPEFULLY MARRIED ADULT!!

But you know what also?? I take every opportunity to “give her the game” in teaching her about relations between young people and how she should conduct herself. She well understands that we set way points in my house.. no phone calls until ‘X’ no, dates until ‘Y’, no boyfriend/girlfriend relationships until ‘Z’. And in the meantime I’m grooming her for it. I am brutally honest about sex, its implications, her responsibilities to her parents/herself/her future.

I well understand that she will “get busy” one day, but one thing I’m sure of… it will be on her terms when her mind and heart is right and she is mature enough to manage such interaction.

I am very much a Christian, but I’m also a realist.

Sarah, you could have done better.

By Robert

September 2, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

For a candidate who was chosen largely for her gender and her views on family values, it is perfectly legitimate to ask about how she puts her family values into practice herself. Sarah Palin knew her daughter’s pregnancy would be worldwide news if she ran for Veep. When McCain called, she could have said: “I just had a Down syndrome baby and have other family matters to deal with and my family comes first, so I cannot be your running mate.” That would have been be a real demonstration of family values. That’s not the choice she made and criticism of it is legitimate. Family values is not just about opposing abortion.

By Lauren

September 2, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST POLLS? In all the latest polls coming out today Obama has made significant gains and it two polls he has cracked 50%. In the closest recent poll he is up 6 and in the greatest margin poll he is up 9. NOW YOU REPUBLICANS TELL ME THAT THE PALIN PICK WAS A GOOD MOVE. As we speak the GOP has lawyers up in Alaska re-vetting her (as if they vetted her in the first place). There is more trouble to come and McCain will most likely have to dump her. HA! What does this choice say about McCain’s judgment and ability to lead? The President has to select members of his cabinet, you know. I think McCain has proven that he does not have the good judgment to do that.

By Lemonade

September 2, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

I’ve worked to darn hard with my children and grandchildren on this issue and now it’s being glamorized as if it’s the most wonderful thing in the world. Apparently these are parent that have not done their job at parenting..

By Lemonade

September 2, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

I’ve worked to darn hard with my children and grandchildren on this issue and now it’s being glamorized as if it’s the most wonderful thing in the world. Apparently these are parent that have not done their job at parenting..

By SickOfIt

September 2, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

By the way, Disgusted…I just saw your earlier post..

I have an 50 year old uncle with Down’s syndrome…he doesn’t wear diapers, has never sexually assaulted anyone, he takes care of himself, holds a job, we go out once a week, have fun watching movies and TV, he loves the Beatles, cracks some of the best jokes. I have more fun with him than many of the people I know without Downs.

I think you are a more useless waste of space than you apparently think he is. I can’t believe your ignorance. And, you have proven he is far more intelligent than you can ever hope to be. He actually thinks pretty highly of most people, even those who make fun of him. Me, I am not so forgiving.

Idiot.

By The Snark

September 2, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

I agree with the comments in your column, Jim.

Unfortunately, if this had been Sen. Obama’s daughter instead of Gov. Palin’s daughter, I know you would have written a completely different column. A column condemning “decadent liberal morals” and tut-tutting about the failure of Sen. and Mrs. Obama to instill the nation’s virtues in their children.

Wouldn’t you have?

By Manny

September 2, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

I’m simply amazed about the Sarah Palin pick. And the more I learn about her, the more I like her.

What I think is weird is how the Republican Party is introducing her. Let me show you:

First of all, they call her a “Maverick.” They said that it is because she took on “Big Oil.” What that entails is that she enacted sweeping legislation that taxed those big oil companies and passing those funds to the Alaskan citizens. They get it in a form of a check. Sounds great, right?

But I’ve heard that before. That is a portion of the Obama Energy Plan. And it’s the Obama plan that Sarah Palin is on record endorsing.

But what’s even weirder is that they are championing her because she took on the powers-that-be within the REPUBLICAN Party! What? They boast that she takes them on? LOL!

So I am beginning to really like her. I just think she’s going to the wrong convention.

By Lemonade

September 2, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

I’ve worked to darn hard with my children and grandchildren on this issue and now it’s being glamorized as if it’s the most wonderful thing in the world. Apparently these are parent that have not done their job at parenting..

By Lemonade

September 2, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

I’ve worked to darn hard with my children and grandchildren on this issue and now it’s being glamorized as if it’s the most wonderful thing in the world. Apparently these are parent that have not done their job at parenting..

By SaveOurRepublic

September 2, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

DJ, you’re far being alone (in your frusturation with the controlled “two sides of the same coin” DNC & GOP). I strongly urge you to support a 3rd party candidate and don’t buy into the “lesser or two evils” Neocon propaganda. While Bob Barr is good on defending the Bill of Rights, he has past Neocon leanings & I question his commitment on fighting the illegal invasion. For a true/real conservative (ie - paleoconservative…not phoney Neocons), the best choice (hands down) is Constitutional Party candidate Dr.Chuck Baldwin…

http://www.baldwin2008.com

By Lemonade

September 2, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

I’ve worked to darn hard with my children and grandchildren on this issue and now it’s being glamorized as if it’s the most wonderful thing in the world. Apparently these are parent that have not done their job at parenting..

By ls

September 2, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

having been a teenager myself some years ago, and having had teenagers, I know that no matter what you try to teach your kids, how much you preach about what’s right and wrong, how much you preach abstinence they are going to do what they want to. They do it more so because you are against it, and they do to spite you. Place the blame on the daughter and her boyfriend. They are the ones who had sex and got pregnant. Not Palin.

By Sunshine

September 2, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Have you ever noticed how the democrats tend to call people names, such as ‘AJC is DOOMED’ calling McCain, McCancerFace. I am sure people fighting cancer aren’t really thrilled with you talking like that. I would hope your parents aren’t thrilled either. Just another leftist not using common sense.

By KB

September 2, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Sorry for the email earlier with the typos. Everyone, let’s get one thing straight, this is not about the child and the reasons she made. This is about Mr. McClain and her mother Mrs. Palin. Both of them should have used better judgment in dealing with this situation. This chlid is know to be five months pregnant. If I was a parent, I would have declined the nomination for the sake of my child. The media is ruthless and with no morality anyway. I would not put my child under that crazyiness. Mrs. Palin and Mr. McClain knew this. It is a shame that such a intelligent young lady as Mrs. Palin is going to be remembered for a misjudgment that really should have not made a big deal instead for being a good Hillary clone for the Republician party…

By sharon

September 2, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Why call people trailer trash? Is the name calling necessary? We are adults aren’t we?

By atlpaddy

September 2, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Jim, does the term “Jumped the Shark” mean anything to you or John McCain? Woot, Woot!!

Oh, and Rufus, log out of the Stormfront website, turn off the computer and get out of your mother’s basement and go outside and play with the rest of the 11-year olds in the neighborhood.

By Wow

September 2, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

I feel for Bristol. Her name is being dragged through the mud all in the name of her moms political gain. I have no doubt that a women can be VP or President for that matter but to abandon your special needs child and your 17 year old that defnitly needed guidence and parenting shows that she needs to keep running Alaska and concentrate on her FAMILY not the SPOTLIGHT.

By Wow

September 2, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

I feel for Bristol. Her name is being dragged through the mud all in the name of her moms political gain. I have no doubt that a women can be VP or President for that matter but to abandon your special needs child and your 17 year old that defnitly needed guidence and parenting shows that she needs to keep running Alaska and concentrate on her FAMILY not the SPOTLIGHT.

By Lauren

September 2, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

This is ugly, I agree. People are being very nasty and meanspirited and lots of Democrats are on this blog today using some very unsavory language when talking about fellow human beings. That being said we are, sadly, taking our que from Republicans. They spent 8 years making fun of Chelsea Clinton and calling her ugly and now they are begging us to be nicer to them they were to us. Ironic. I was on this blog the day it was announced that Ted Kennedy had brain cancer and many Republicans were laughing and rejoicing and wishing the worst for him. Now they are offended that some Dem has called McCain cancerface. I agree that what the Dems are doing today is meanspirited but I also think the Republicans have lost the right to complain and beg for decency and class since they have never shown any themselves.

By Emh

September 2, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Boy the democrat’s are hot for this one. I have never seen them so angry after McCain named Palin as his running mate. They attack her daughter. If it had been O’bama’s daaughter then it would have been ok. and expierence please she has more expierence than O’Bama. and he is running for president get over it and accept the fact that you will soon have a female Vice President.

By Get Real

September 2, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

**This is what Jim wrote on August 27, 2008:

“It’s true that unmarried women are drawn to the Democratic Party. For many, government is the supporting husband — if not directly, then in providing the back-up financial security that marriage once represented.”**

So does this hold true for Bristol Palin, being that she didn’t wait until marriage before getting pregnant, or is this just for women who are democrats Wooten? Well all know that them getting married has nothing to do with love, but only because she became pregnant. Your columns in the past have skewered young black and hispanic kids as being irresponsible for having kids BEFORE marriage. Now its no big deal? The hypocrisy of you and your party is astounding.

Again, as other posters have mentioned, had this been one of Obama’s daughters you would relate this as a direct reflection on his ability to lead this country. Please retire man, people don’t use your playbook any more.

By Jogger

September 2, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Seen on the Global magrag: Obama’s love child.

Have not heard anything about this yet.

At least her daughter is not having an abortion. That would look worse.

By Flava

September 2, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Emh, if you really believe that she has more experience than Obama then you are clearly a sheep who will believe whatever Fox News spits out. Also, if you think she will be the next VP then you need to update youself on the latest polls that came out today. McCain/Palin is toast!

By Ted

September 2, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

So, the mother was supposed to decline accepting the nomination because her daughter was pregnant? How do you think THAT would make the daughter feel? The daughter at age 17, being an Alaskan, is probably 10x more “mature” than most 17 year olds from the lower 48.

This just further illustrates that some Democrats are vile, vicious SOBs that will use any argument they can to try and demonize a women who calls in to question every liberal belief they have.

Keep going Sarah - you’ve got my vote.

By Disco Nap

September 2, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Jogger, if her daughter had an abortion do you really think the public would ever find out about it? Really? Duh!

By RJ

September 2, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

EMH I would love to have an intelligent woman be vice president. Instead we have the potential to have a woman that would rather run for VP than take care of her family. She has a 3 month old baby for goodness sakes! Wooten, for you to applaud their decision shows that how blind you are. This woman obviously needs to be at home with her children. Her daughter is much too young to have a baby and should be placing it up for adoption. It’s obvious grandma and grandpa will be too busy to help. This isn’t my American story. And if it’s most of Americas then it really is time for a CHANGE.

By redneckbluedog

September 2, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

tammy faye and jerry springer had a daughter…..and they named it sarah…

By Mark C

September 2, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

You wouldn’t be saying kudos if this was a democrat. You’d be crying about the death of “family values”. But since it’s one of your own, you’ll explain it away.

I suppose it doesn’t matter, since they have money, it’s not like mommy and daddy won’t step in and make sure that THIS teenage mom doesn’t have to live in the REAL world and face real problems that affect normal people who find themselves in these situations.

By Lauren

September 2, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Ted says that being from Alaska makes you more mature. What? That is the dumbest rationalization yet on this blog today. Ted, you sound desperate. Also, we are not vile and vicious. Sorry you don’t like the stuff coming out of your side’s campaign but we are allowed to comment on it. If this kind of stuff was coming out of the Obama camp do you think you could ignore it. If you say yes then you are lying to yourself and the rest of us. It is not unfair to point out that Sarah Palin is for abstinance-only sex education and that she against teaching the use of birth control to teens. Well, sorry, but it looks like her daughter did not heed her mother’s abstinence lessons and could have used some birth control education! And then some! If you don’t like it then toughsheeeit!

By RamblinLonghorn

September 2, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Obama has 2 children, neither of which was aborted? Is he 2-for-2 as well Wooten?

By Anthony

September 2, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

First off if this Obama’s or Biden teenage daughter. I wonder how Jim’s article would read today. I bet dollars to donuts not the same. Secondly this shows the real character of Sarah Palin. Realizing the Trig rumor was gathering momentum instead of coming out with medical records showing the kid was hers or having her doctor speak.She threw her own flash and blood to the wolves. Also what does this say about McCain’s judgment this week now they went to vet her. He hardly knows this woman and he is putting her one step away from the presidency. If John wanted a woman there are great women in the republican party Christine Todd Whitman, Elizabeth Dole. This was a last minute pander to evangelicals.

By Kellon

September 2, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

“And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.”

Many realize the attacks on Palin and her daughter’s situation are nothing more that political meat to counter any possible bounce this ticket might get from her selection. The sad part comes from the many right here on this forum who don’t even realize that Sen. Obama does not see this as an issue. Her ability to be run for the office of vice-president should not be measured against her credentials as a mother. Yet, for all the possible attacks that could be used against her selection, many Democrats are going right to the “politics of personal destruction.”

If the media and Democrats would move on and attack policy, not private matters, it would take the so called limelight off of her. To think that Gov. Palin should step away from serving this country shows the hypocrisy of many on this forum. Since they can’t attack policy, they find anything to hold on to which is sad.

By Single Mom

September 2, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten, you are a hypocrite!! In the past year you have written FOUR columns about the evils of single parenthood. Guess what? Palin’s child is pregnant and single!! Supposedly she is “planning to wed the baby’s father.” Why isn’t she married yet? She is 5 months pregnant, it is not like she has not had the opportunity yet.

Anyone want to take bets whether this kid will get married before the election? Perhaps. Perhaps not. And perhaps the marriage will last. And perhaps not.

Don’t be cheering Palin’s unwed pregnant daughter in one column after blasting so many single parents in your previous columns!!!

By Fo Real

September 2, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

Yeah Ted, her daugther is REAL mature.

That’s some mature ‘stuff’ right there!

She definitely knows what to do with that thang!!

By Anthony

September 2, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

First off if this Obama’s or Biden teenage daughter. I wonder how Jim’s article would read today. I bet dollars to donuts not the same. Secondly this shows the real character of Sarah Palin. Realizing the Trig rumor was gathering momentum instead of coming out with medical records showing the kid was hers or having her doctor speak.She threw her own flash and blood to the wolves. Also what does this say about McCain’s judgment this week now they went to vet her. He hardly knows this woman and he is putting her one step away from the presidency. If John wanted a woman there are great women in the republican party Christine Todd Whitman, Elizabeth Dole. This was a last minute pander to evangelicals.

By Debora

September 2, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

Maybe if Dad would get off his snowmobile and pay some attention to his daughter, this would not have happened. The childe AND SHE IS A CHILD, is seeking the attention of a man in her life, and at 17, the main man, should have been from her father.

Not soley Mom’s responsibilty.

By Ted

September 2, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Hey “Fo Real” - Obama’s “mama” was only 18 when she had him. Are you suggesting that maybe she should have aborted him?

You are a disgusting human being.

By AJC is DOOMED

September 2, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Woodenhead has never stood for anything, he is too stupid to understand the real issues….like all idiots, he just grabs ahold of the jingles and assumes they are indeed the true issues. Woodie is a mindless pawn, like so many of the neocon scum, repeating the mantra of his masters. He will tell you that godly Repukes reproduce only by asexual budding if Karl Rove says it first …none of this animal grunting like the dummycrats do. In the case of the woodies, he would be right…asexual budding is the only way those things could ever reproduce.

By Amy in the ATL

September 2, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

First of all, I feel sorry for Bristol for having all this played out on the national stage. I do happen to agree that this is PRIVATE issue, and really is something for the Palin family to deal with. Which, it appears, they are handling as well as can be expected.

That said, I have a nagging suspicion that the GOP is using this poor girl for political gain, since all the conservative pundits are making a huge deal about her keeping the baby and how this proves that the Palins are in the pro-life camp.

What if Miss Bristol Palin was a 17 year old African American girl who happened to get pregnant by her boyfriend and didn’t have a supportive and well-connected family? Then she would be considered just another future welfare mom to the same folks praising her right now.

And what if she were the daughter of John Kerry or Barack Obama or Joe Biden? Would the fact that she was keeping the baby override her “sin” to these same folks, if her parents were Democrats instead of Republicans? I have a feeling the answer would be no.

By pray4change

September 2, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Yes, kudos by all means to turning a blind eye to teenage sex! Birth control, who needs it. WE’RE REPUBLICANS. I’m an independent voter and a parent. Kids are already out of control enough this day and age. We don’t need a political party supporting such circumstances without a strong statement towards education, parental involvement, and above all, SELF CONTROL. Just shows how out of touch the Grand Old Party really is right now. And to think I considered supporting their candidates.

By Mark

September 2, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Who is runninf for office—Sarah Palin or her daughter? This is a family situation and does not belong out in the open.

By Dondee

September 2, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

As parents, we try to raise our children to follow the morals and examples we teach them. We can’t be with them 24/7, so at some point you have to let them go and make their own mistakes. Being pregnant at 17 is a huge mistake, but it is not the end of the world. To blame what happened on poor parenting skills is absurd. I guess most of us are poor parents, because I am sure that many kids do things we don’t approve of when we are not around.

This is a non issue as far as the election is concerned.

By edge770

September 2, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Being a frustrated libertarian, I like a lot of things about Palin.. In my view, the selection shows knowledge, grit and sure just about what most families go through, it’s not new and life goes on. When I look upon her experiences, I see Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt in there. Not the most experienced, not the most graceful, but determined to do right for America. I’m not a fan of the neo-cons, but consider the taxation socialist types on the other side. Palin is a breath of fresh air, and McDumdum did right by bringing her into the ring. Let’s “get it on”.. As for Wooten, the family is doing the right thing, and rather than becoming or being welfare brood-mares. The family is taking it inside and not asking for government subsistance, which appears to be fashionable for making uneducated and unsafe lifestyle choices.

By Dondee

September 2, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

As parents, we try to raise our children to follow the morals and examples we teach them. We can’t be with them 24/7, so at some point you have to let them go and make their own mistakes. Being pregnant at 17 is a huge mistake, but it is not the end of the world. To blame what happened on poor parenting skills is absurd. I guess most of us are poor parents, because I am sure that many kids do things we don’t approve of when we are not around.

This is a non issue as far as the election is concerned.

By vick

September 2, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Carville said it best:

I had terrific parents who did everything they could to raise me well but when I was young I did some of the stupidest things in spite of their best efforts. (paraphased)

By DebbieDoRight

September 2, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

OMG!! Of al the two-faced, about faced hypocritical bullcrap that Wooten the hack ever wrote this beats all!! Just a few months ago he was ranting and raving about Halle Berry a GROWN A$$ woman having a baby without first being married; and now he’s done an 180 since it’s some cute little repuglican white girl??!!!

WTF are you doing still writing a column you hack!!??!! Of all the bi-partisanship, two-faced….!! ARRRGGGHH

You and your ilk make me SICK TO MY STOMACH!! IF that was one of Obama’s daughters, you would’ve had a FIELD DAY and don’t deny it you repuglican thug!! Obama had enough CLASS to say “Hey, let’s lay off the families”; your hack a$$ couldn’t even lay off of Michelle Obama about her comments that you and people of your ilk DELIBERATELY took the wrong way and ran with it to the FAUX News websites!!

You, laughingly, say in today’s column, “It’s no big deal”… Of COURSE NOT! It’s no big deal in your itty bitty decrepit, Alzheimer’s mind because you keep FORGETTING what you’ve just said a couple of months ago!!! It was a big deal for Britney’ Spears’ sister, a BIGGER deal for Halle Berry; but with the election leaning towards the democrats this year, it’s suddenly NO BIG DEAL!!

HACK/LIAR/INSTIGATOR be thy name Wooten. You should change the name of the column to “Thinking with the Small Brain ‘cause the Big One has had dementia for the past two decades”.

By Joe Blow

September 2, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten has made a career of talking about teenage pregnacy. It was tolerated as long as the teeneagers were minorities. The bottom line is this is a teeneager being knock up. Sarah decision to continue her run as vice president is the most selfish act of all time. To expose her daughter and baby daddy(lol) to the media is like feeding them to the sharks. Remember Rev Wright was not running for president either, but that didn’t stop the media. This is the perfect strom for the democrats. Obama saying leave the kids out of it was a stroke of genius. It’s no way in hell these kids will be left out of it and he knows it. If racist, I mean republican would vote on the issues not with their hearts the world would be a better place. Hippocrites is what the republican party is, just think the V.P. daughter has a babby daddy.(lol) I can hear the NRA now loading up the shot gun for the upcoming wedding. Jim Wooten you are a racist hippocrite and rufus you are a dufus

By ronda

September 2, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

My only question is would the Republicans/religious right be so compassionate if this were to happen to Obama? I think not. So quick to judge but when its in their own backyard they want privacy.

By Fo Real

September 2, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Hey Ted

Do you have a brain in your skull??

Did you hear me say anything about this chick aborting the kid??

Did you not see the fun I was poking at your rather idiotic suggestion that for some reason being from Alaska make the chick more mature than any other teen in the lower 48???

Do you understand that “Obama’s mama” had a child at 18 44 years ago and was acually a legal adult at the time???

Yeah she’s “mature” alright, doin’ the nasty is a really mature activity. At least.. it’s supposed to be.

You just took a silly little statement and twisted it into an abortion argument, AAAND you tried to tie it to Obama.

Boy you are a sick dude and need to get a mind of your own.

By Davona

September 2, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

This is NOT something I personally have a problem with IN REGARDS to my vote for VP. Sarah still has it. I am PRO-LIFE!

By Ronda

September 2, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

My only question is would the Republicans/religious right be so compassionate if this were to happen to Obama? I think not. So quick to judge but when its in their own backyard they want privacy.

By Menelik

September 2, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Jim Wooten, You are a hypocrite. If it would have been one of Obama’s kids, you would be screaming personal responsibility.

Since it’s a conservative, wealthy, White woman, you have nothing but praise.

By Davona

September 2, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

This is NOT something I personally have a problem with IN REGARDS to my vote for VP. Sarah still has it. I am PRO-LIFE!

By annie

September 2, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

KB - she taught her children to abstain from sex - abstain meaning not having sex - so NO she did not teach her daughter about the issues regarding sex - she just told her not to do it! Yep - that works everytime - just like this time right? Get a clue!

By Say What!?!

September 2, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Dondee:

I have a 17 year old daughter at home too. I work a full time job and I also go to school part-time and believe me I know EXACTLY what she’s doing 24/7. How do I know? Because I don’t leave her home by herself!! When I’m at school at night, she’s with my mother and if you think I’m strict, you should see my mother!

I keep up with her cycles, and know to the MINUTE when it’s supposed to start. My ex-husband and I work together to make sure that our daughter is a young lady; and not a young wild thing running the streets without any parental control. If my daughter is not with me, her father, my mother, or at school; she helps my sister out at her business.

Our jobs as parents is to keep our children on the right path and it’s a job that I, my ex, and my family take very seriously.

By Lisa

September 2, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

HA; LOL! Yea ok Mr. Wooten; nice spin on that.

By Lauren

September 2, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

Check the polls people. McCain is plummeting and Obama is rising. This is why the GOP is truly angry. They made a poor choice for VP and they have to contend with the fact that the Dems had a great convention and they are having pretty much the worst one ever. I’ll tell you what, James Dobson prayed for rain last week for Obama’s speech and got Nada. I prayed for rain for the GOP convention and got a hurricane! Perhaps I should take over Dobson’s ministry.

By deegee

September 2, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

How does a 44 year-old Sarah Palin unexpectedly conceive, give birth in April to a preemie, go back to work within days, and then agree four months later to travel the country as a VP nominee? How likely is it for a middle aged couple to conceive unless they are screwing around like rabbits? There is something here that just doesn’t add up.

I would like to know what Cindy McCain thinks about the whole Palin idea. I can just imagine her pointing her finger in John’s face and saying something like,

“I’m walking around with my arm in a cast from months of shaking hands with a bunch of neanderthals and you go off and pick some hockey mom governor of Alaska to be your running mate! What do you think this is, The Brady Bunch? You better keep your hands and eyes off of her because after November 4th you are going to be spending a lot more time with me in Arizona than with her, you nincompoop.”

By Filster

September 2, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Teen preganancy vs. unsavory business associates. One seems to be more of a personal note while the other tends to be more public in nature. Fron all the attacks above, I guess one can see what matters most to those on the right and the left. As for me, a very wise man once said a long, long time ago “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Too bad I couldn’t have written first. Then again if I did, the column would be blank. Bottom line, a mistake was made which involves only the Palin family. Or, should we drag your husbands, wives, daughters, sons, cousins (and especially cousins here in da South) under the microscope….

By Time for the fair and menacing truth

September 2, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

seems like crackpipe debbieturd has been smoking some extra potent democrack this p.m.

By sarah

September 2, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

I’m amazed people are proud to call themselves PRO-LIFE - you are seriously content with the idea of someone telling you what to do with your body? You conservatives want to force people to keep children they do not want - but yet complain when single parents end up on welfare and state assistance. It’s a no win-win situation. Pro-Choice just makes so much more sense!

By atlnative

September 2, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

Mr Wooten and other conservatives - at this point you will never again be able to critize another teen pregancy without - your response to this pregnacy being thrown in your face. And for that I’m really happy. Thank you Palin’s! Almost happy enough to switch sides - Ahhh NOT.

By Gustav

September 2, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

Wouldn’t it have been better to abort Casey Anthony so that Caylee Anthony would still be with us? The state of Florida may still do that, but it’s too late.

By lucky conservative

September 2, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Wow, CHURCHILL,

Do you EAT with that mouth? you and some of your fellow libs have the blackest hearts I have ever witnessed. Your meanness oozes from your words. Yikes, I hope you don’t believe in God, cause if you do, hmmmm!

By Howard

September 2, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

If you meant strike two, you’re right

By Emily

September 2, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

The Palin scandals and problems are far from over. There is strong evidence that Trig is not her son but her grandson. She is under investigation for abuse of power. She has big problems with pork spending and asking for and getting lots of Fed money for her tiny hometown. She was once part of a party that wanted Alaska to leave the United States. She is a whacko with lots of problems and I guess the GOP had it’s head up it collective A$$ last week when they picked her. But I will make a prediction: They will have to drop her. McCain is now down almost 10 points in the polls whereas last week he was only down a point or two. This is a disaster folks and if you don’t want to admit it then you are showing what weak political minds you have.

By Relieved

September 2, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

I’m so-o-o-o-o thankful my teenage daughter is ugly!

By BS Aplenty

September 2, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

Jim, young Bristol Palin’s situation, while private in nature, will likely remain so ONLY if she and the father marry. Otherwise, she might just become another statistic.

The very grim consequences of most teenage & many single-parent families are vastly increased rates of economic poverty which brings the very private issue of motherhood squarely into the public policy arena. The Palin’s ARE doing the right thing, from a public policy perspective, by seeing that their daughter marries the child’s father.

Get married at the church or courthouse - but get married.

McCain/Palin ‘08 - The Right Kind of Change

By Dan

September 2, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

What is even scarier than this “parent” thinking that conceiving a child out of wedlock is just dandy is that she is a member of the AIP. What is the AIP? Alaska Independence Party — an organization whose direct mission is to cede Alsaka from the rest of the nation. She even produced a welcoming video taped message for their meeting in Alaska. Wow. And you people think Obama hates America? Please. This lady is nuts.

By Lauren

September 2, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Lucky Conservative- you are a typical Republican bully. You and your like spent 8 years making fun of Chelsea Clinton, a child at the time, calling her ugly and God knows what else. Yet when criticism is turned on you, you do the typical “you guys are so mean” whining. You can dish it out but you can’t take it. You get no pity from me. Whiny loser! Because your candidate is about to get his A$$ handed to him by the American people. Wake up!

By BusterCherry

September 2, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

Bristol? They named her Bristol? With a name like that it’s a miracle she was not swinging from a stripper pole by the 5th grade! So, yeah, knocked up at 17. That is actually success for a girl saddled with the name Bristol! Cheap hooker name if I ever heard one. Stupid righties!

By Rita

September 2, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

The bottom line is once again McCain & momma Palin has demonstrated poor judgement. If what they say is true that he and she discussed the daughter’s situation, then WHY, in GOD’s name would they put this girl through such ridicule and scrutiny of the media and the public eye? Did Ms. Palin want to advance in politics so badly that she accepted the nomination, dispite the loss of her daughter’s privacy. Did John McCain want to lure the Hillary voters so coyly, that he would do anything including sale Palin’s daughter to the media wolves? Yes, I agree that this could happen to anyone and I appreciate Bristol’s “Choice” to have her baby, but you know she probably was afraid to tell her parents. It’s obvious that she held this secret so long that the choice was made for her. McCain isn’t a Maverick, he’s a selfish moron.

By RiotGrill

September 2, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

Great!! Now we now what a true Republican fugly slut looks like. Not bad. I’ll take a piece. Where does the line start?

By Kishia

September 2, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Let me be clear, the issue of teen pregnancy, lack of abstinence, and unwed parents is a national issue that transcends party lines, political affiliation, or ethnicity. However, let me be equally clear that the GOP campaigns on family values & abstinence. So it is with great disdain & hypocrisy that they would not adhere to their own principals, values, & moral fibers yet condemn everyone else with stones for disageeeing. While I agree that her child’s decision, no matter how irresponsible, sinful, and immature is no reflection of Palin’s ability to lead our country- her lack of any federal experience is.

News flash Jim Wooten, the Democrats aren’t attacking with GOP with fictitious rumors or ill conceived notions- we’re attacking you all with ammunition you gave us.

So it stands to reason, shame on McCain & even more so on Sarah Palin, for choosing to disregard the privacy of her child, her grandchild’s father, & his family’s privacy by putting her on political ambitions above the call of paternal responsibilty. It’s a shame no every front.

By CC

September 2, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Hear hear Rita! It was McCain’s own people who “leaked” this story to the press. The only reason I can imagine is to play up pro-life positioning… but why do that on teh back of this child? Why throw her under the bus to get elected… this is pathetic.

By tcoach

September 2, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

This is an issue of Roe v. Wadeis all. Either you are glad the daughter is going to keep the child or you see her life ending. I want one person in favor of choice to answer this question honestly. A person goes to the pound they play with a puppy and find it to be a fun day. They go back a couple of times and the next thing they know before they can stop themselves they have paid the money to adopt a puppy. However after they realize the couple of days of fun has now turned into a responsibility they are scared. So since the puppy was hard and was messing up their social life and their furniture, they decide to have it sucked through a massive vacum and ripped apart into tiny pieces. Would you want this person prosecuted for cruelty to animals?

By liza

September 2, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

As a mother - I think that Gov. Palin’s family needs her in Alaska a lot more than the country needs her in Washington DC.

As an American - I wish that the Republicans stop making themselves a mockery in their inability to choose competent, conservative women (remember Harriett Meiers for Supreme Court?). This person is hardly ready for a national campaign much less a session with Putin.

By DebbieDoRight

September 2, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

BSAplenty: Get married at the church or courthouse - but get married. McCain/Palin ‘08 - The Right Kind of Change

When did this supposed talk of “marriage” ever come up? If they were going to get married, why didn’t they do it BEFORE this came out? Like when Bristol was just a few weeks pregnant? Why wait? Why now? When did the wedding invitations go out? What month are “they” planning to get married? Is there a shot gun involved?

Also When is McCain an instrument of CHANGE? Stole something from the Obama camapign huh?

By Kim

September 2, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Dufus & others: What if this were a 17 year old daughter of OBAMA??? Please, your heads would have EXPLODED with the joy of it all.

By KW

September 2, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

Look deep in you heart and ask yourself honestly. Is this women qualified to be president? Now don’t go any other direction but deep self reflection.

I know my answer, the women has a journalism degree? Council person and mayor of a town of 9,000 she ran for another state office and lost, got her name in the minds and eyes of voters than pounced on miserably flawed Governor and got herself elected. Now she may end up being a terrific governor but if this who McCain honestly saw as the most qaulified candidate heaven help us if somehow he does manage to get himself elected.

By Greg

September 2, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

This Rufus guy is a good example of why the Democrats are going to win this election by a large margin. People are tired of the kind of hate-filled name-calling that he and the rest of the FoxNews viewership have been spewing in the name of patriotism for so many years.

It give the rest of us Republicans a very bad name.

By Peter

September 2, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Hey Mark………..By Mark

September 2, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Who is runninf for office—Sarah Palin or her daughter? This is a family situation and does not belong out in the open.

You are a funny guy………. Sarah Palin, yes she will make a great VP……… you know, she has all the credentials for a Republican VP…….. “Family Values” and all.

By tcoach

September 2, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

Debbie, not to butt in, however it has been seen in photos and in second hand accounts that her daughter has been wearing an engagement ring for over a month now. Not picking a side just adding some information. Also I have known people who waited until after giving birth to get married so they were not big and pregnant at their wedding. In the cases I knew of the parties had agreed to get married ahead of time, they just changed teh date so the bride was not still pregnant. So we should all not be as fast to follow the rumor mill or our assumptions. It was only a few hours ago that people were swaring up and down that the father was 26.

By tcoach

September 2, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

Debbie, not to butt in, however it has been seen in photos and in second hand accounts that her daughter has been wearing an engagement ring for over a month now. Not picking a side just adding some information. Also I have known people who waited until after giving birth to get married so they were not big and pregnant at their wedding. In the cases I knew of the parties had agreed to get married ahead of time, they just changed teh date so the bride was not still pregnant. So we should all not be as fast to follow the rumor mill or our assumptions. It was only a few hours ago that people were swaring up and down that the father was 26.

By DT

September 2, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Obama 2008!!!

By tcoach

September 2, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Debbie, not to butt in, however it has been seen in photos and in second hand accounts that her daughter has been wearing an engagement ring for over a month now. Not picking a side just adding some information. Also I have known people who waited until after giving birth to get married so they were not big and pregnant at their wedding. In the cases I knew of the parties had agreed to get married ahead of time, they just changed teh date so the bride was not still pregnant. So we should all not be as fast to follow the rumor mill or our assumptions. It was only a few hours ago that people were swaring up and down that the father was 26.

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Is this a public school or private school pregnancy?

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Is this a public school or private school pregnancy?

By bubba

September 2, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

The sleazy bloggers and chain emails on both sides of the race are disgusting. I agree with both McCain and Obama that the children on candidates should be off limits.

The greater concern is how the entire process of selecting Palin reflects on McCain’s judgment. Apparently he gave up on picking a VP he really wanted, e.g., Lieberman or Ridge, and caved into the pressure to pick someone to molify the extreme right wing. Then, based on a 15 minute interview, decides to put Palin a heartbeat from the Presidency when he is a 72-year-old cancer survivor. He didn’t have staff check her out thoroughly, so we get this steady drumbeat of surprises in this “Northern Exposure” soap opera.

It turns out that she ran for mayor of her Alaskan village (with a city hall that looks like a bait shop) on an anti-abortion platform, as if that had anything to do with being mayor, and promptly moved to fire the police chief and librarian because they hadn’t supported her.

While McCain says he knew about the daughter’s pregnancy and didn’t care, what else could he say at this point? It is more plausible that he knew precious little about Palin and is learning a lot of this stuff along with the rest of us as the press uncovers it.

As for foreign policy background, they best they have come up with is that Alaska is close to Russia and she got her first passport last year.

Is this “America First,” bequeathing the fate of the nation to a former local news sportscaster with a BA from Northern Idaho State who, prior to a fluke election as Governor of a state with a population less than Cobb County, had been mayor of an Alaskan village the size of Austell or Cumming?

Can you imagine, if McCain succumbed to a renewed bout with cancer, a President Sarah Palin in a summit meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin?

By DebbieDoRight

September 2, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

If I were a Democrap (God forbid) I’d be more concerned with having a racist (20 year membership in Jeremiah Wright’s church) Presidential candidate

How can a man who has a white mother, white grandparents who raised him, a half-white sister, and white relatives be racist?

Are you saying that Obama hates his mother, his grandmother, et. all? Or are you too busy looking at Obama’s melanin to notice his mother’s/grandmother’s/grandfather’s lack of it?

God you people are dumb.

By L MITCHELL

September 2, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Record gas prices, foreclosures, unemployment, bankruptcies, etc. – so this is where 8 years of EXPERIENCED leadership has gotten us. OOOOOO-K.

By Dondee

September 2, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

As parents, we try to raise our children to follow the morals and examples we teach them. We can’t be with them 24/7, so at some point you have to let them go and make their own mistakes. Being pregnant at 17 is a huge mistake, but it is not the end of the world. To blame what happened on poor parenting skills is absurd. I guess most of us are poor parents, because I am sure that many kids do things we don’t approve of when we are not around.

This is a non issue as far as the election is concerned.

By Bea

September 2, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

You tell em’ Debbie Do Right! :) Hey AJC it’s time to put Wooten out to pasture!

By verge

September 2, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

wheww— The Right wing spin machine is in over-drive— imagine if you will that this was one of Obama’s daughters (if they were old enough)… bad, bad parents… irresponsible and on and on… Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds… and experience?— Who needs it (now)?…

By Michael

September 2, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Are these the family values we want in the White House? The last thing our country needs is a pregnant, licentious, unwed girl in the national spotlight. As a Christian, I am horrified that Mr. and Mrs. Palin would allow this to happen. I would expect the person vying for the second most powerful position in the world to be able to control her own daughter. I pray that Senator McCain will do the right thing and ask Mrs. Palin to withdraw from the Republican ticket. A morally bankrupt woman and “mother” such as Mrs. Palin can not sufficiently represent the United States on the world stage.

By Peter

September 2, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Well By Dan …………. You have probably told us all more today, than Jim Whooten can in a year………

“Alaska Independence Party — an organization whose direct mission is to cede Alaska from the rest of the nation. She even produced a welcoming video taped message for their meeting in Alaska.”

Now how come Jim never told us this insightful information……… he is probably clueless !

The Wrongs get to Vote for the Old Guy McLost, who has a history of Womanizing……..so he picked a Woman…….. Wow looks like he is ready to make some bigger decisions…….

Hey McLost how about dinner……… can you make that decision on what to eat ?

By DCDawg

September 2, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

It’s the Republicans’ hypocrisy that I find so offensive. Those of a certain age can remember Dan Quayle’s self-righteous attack in 1992 on Murphy Brown for being an unwed mother. And now Focus on the Family, Jim-Bob, and the Republicans are showcasing Sarah Palin and her daughter as paragons of family values. Why? For not having an abortion?

But what troubles me the most is that Sarah Palin utterly failed at the most important job she will ever have: being an attentive and involved mother with the capacity to instill in her daughter the abstinence only values she claims to possess. If she can’t raise a daughter who trusts her and adheres to her value system, then how can we trust Sarah Palin to serve a heartbeat away from the most important job in the world?

By T-Bone

September 2, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

It’s clear that McCain did very little vetting of this woman and shot from the hip, unlike Bristol’s boyfriend who shot from just south of there (sorry couldn’t resist). And we want someone of his temperment and judgment in the WH? Not me, not now, not ever.

By kj

September 2, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

Idiots. You’re all idiots. Just keep eating what the media keeps feeding you. When will America wake up and do their homework where politics are concerned? Everyone got so upset with Clinton they just had to rush right out and support idiot Bush, now everyone is so upset with Bush you rush right out and support a bigger idiot Obama. Would you stop supporting whomever the media leads you to and do your homework to look at the candidate and not the stupid party they represent. Palin was chosen. End of story. Now, start digging into each of the four people’s beliefs, voting records and experience to figure out which ones align with your own beliefs and views. I’ll bet you’ll be surprised. And don’t just base it on abortion, gay rights and Iraq. Look at what each of the candidates bring to the table and where they’ll lead our country. (If you can even figure it out - Obama can’t seem to stand firmly or declare his stance on anything) I swear people should have to attend classes to earn the right to vote. You should have to educate yourself on the choices before making one. This is important people - we’re stuck with the idiots for at least 4 YEARS! Do the research or your pocketbook and our great nation will pay the price for it.

By Churchill

September 2, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

So, this is a private family matter. Fine. But Republicans have conveniently developed amnesia. Eleven years ago, they seemed to think it was just fine to invade the privacy of the Clintons’ marriage and make their problems national and international news. And to politicize these personal issues by impeaching the President.

Give me a break.

By Michael

September 2, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Are these the family values we want in the White House? The last thing our country needs is a pregnant, licentious, unwed girl in the national spotlight. As a Christian, I am horrified that Mr. and Mrs. Palin would allow this to happen. I would expect the person vying for the second most powerful position in the world to be able to control her own daughter. I pray that Senator McCain will do the right thing and ask Mrs. Palin to withdraw from the Republican ticket. A morally bankrupt woman and “mother” such as Mrs. Palin can not sufficiently represent the United States on the world stage.

By Michael

September 2, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Are these the family values we want in the White House? The last thing our country needs is a pregnant, licentious, unwed girl in the national spotlight. As a Christian, I am horrified that Mr. and Mrs. Palin would allow this to happen. I would expect the person vying for the second most powerful position in the world to be able to control her own daughter. I pray that Senator McCain will do the right thing and ask Mrs. Palin to withdraw from the Republican ticket. A morally bankrupt woman and “mother” such as Mrs. Palin can not sufficiently represent the United States on the world stage.

By Churchill

September 2, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

My understanding is the Todd Palin works for BP and is also involved in commercial fishing. Who will be caring for their infant child with special needs and providing support for their pregnant teenaged daughter or their three other children while Gov. Palin is campaining and running the State of Alaska? I fail to see a family first mentality or strong family values. It is very hard to reconcile the demands of the Vice Presidency and demands of speacial needs infant and teenage pregancy at home.

By Kam

September 2, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

I believe that Sarah Palin discussed the ramifications with her family including her daughter before she agreed to run on the ticket with McCain. I believe that a 17 year is fully cabable of raising a child. The positive side is that she has the full support of her family behind her. I am sorry to say some kids don’t have that. Many of you reading this post have children or are close to someone that does. As parents, we do the best we can to raise our children to know right from wrong and with morals. At a certain point you have to trust them to make the right decisions. No one is perfect. Palin may not have as much experience as some of the other candidates but for the few short years she does have in politics she has made a big impact. And you don’t make that much of an impact and have five children without having a very supportive husband.

By Churchill

September 2, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

What this does say about Palin is that abstinence ONLY education does not work. Just ask her daughter she didn’t abstain.

I don’t care how the Republicans try to spin it because she’s marrying her boyfriend. She was not planning to marry him until they got pregnant.

Abstinence education ONLY DOES NOT WORK!!!

By DebbieDoRight

September 2, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

tcoach: O.k. maybe — but why wait? Let’s be honest, how many 17 year olds “planned” their weddings to coincide after they had the baby? What do you wanna bet that they’ll be married within the next 30 days now though? What’s the legal age of marriage in Alaska? 18? Perhaps they’re waiting for both of them to turn 18? AND IF she was wearing a ring who said it was an engagement ring? Her mother’s publicist?

By sissyuga

September 2, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

I will tell you what the crisis is. Its the fact that Sarah Palin has spent more time competing to win office than focusing more attention on her children. Young sexually active teens are active for a reason: they are tyring to make up for what they didn’t get. She is going backwards in the womens movement and that offends me as a woman. You can’t have it all at the same time. Is she really “focusing on the family?” As a voter, woman, and mother, I am a little taken back than she would attempt to put more on her already full plate.

By Churchill

September 2, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

It’s not a “scandal” or outright hypocritical, but Palin is against contraception and abortion. It just shows the world how ridiculous her position on this is. Yes, deny teenagers contraception education, deny women abortions, and you too can have a pregnant 17 year-old at home. This put her position on these matters in a good light.

By T-Bone

September 2, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

Vegas has odds on when she steps aside from the ticket. I’m betting before her speech tomorrow night. Who’ll be next, a trained seal? I can’t wait to see Wooten pushing the brilliant strategery of that pick. What a tool!

By Christopher Smith

September 2, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

You can bet it would be an issue if Barack Obama had a 17-year-old daughter to whom it had happened. It’s amazing how quickly conservatives cast off their vituperative, utopian self-righteousness and start reflecting on how complex and unpredictable life is etc. once circumstances turn on one of their own. I guess that’s compassionate conservatism for you—saving your compassion for someone who plays on your team.

By Snow White

September 2, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

Why am I not surprised at the McCain supporters responses? “no big deal!” I wonder if it would have been a bigger deal and if she would have been made a shameful public example if she were of another race? Makes you wonder? Yes, teenagers are getting pregnant all the time but what kind of example would the potential second family be setting for all teenagers? It’s okay to get pregnant as a teen as long as he marries you? Let’s be for real! What are the odds that this type of marriage will last? Pregnancy is not a reason to get married and marriage doesn’t make teenage sex and pregnancy okay!!! The real question is with all of her children, newborn baby and now an upcoming grandbaby will she be able to run our country? I think it’s bad timing for her and she needs to recognize it.

By John

September 2, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

This isn’t about some normal person who has a daughter that made a mistake. The media isn’t covering one of the people on the Jerry Springer show. Palin is running for one of the most important jobs there is…that job requires the highest level of integrity and leadership. She is held to a much higher standard if she wants to be vp and perhaps the president, so this does matter. She has way too much baggage to assume the position of vice president of the United States. McCain should cut his losses and nominate a new VP.

By Christopher Smith

September 2, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

You can bet it would be an issue if Barack Obama had a 17-year-old daughter to whom it had happened. It’s amazing how quickly conservatives cast off their vituperative, utopian self-righteousness and start reflecting on how complex and unpredictable life is etc. once circumstances turn on one of their own. I guess that’s compassionate conservatism for you—saving your compassion for someone who plays on your team.

By Eric

September 2, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

2 for 2? Are you kidding me? Sarah Palin preaches abstinence on the public stage, but her own daughter isn’t listening. If that were Obama’s daughter, we’d never hear the end of it, and you Republicans know it! McCain made his choice and he blew it. Wooten, Hannity, Limbaugh, and the rest of the “moral police” are unbelievable hypocrites!

By Truthifier

September 2, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

It is really remarkable how predictable Mr. Wooten is. Had this been a story about the child of a Democratic candidate, he would be exclaiming how they have failed their children and should, for the good of the nation of course, step aside and deal with their personal issues. Instead, we have Mr. Wooten once again offering up his lame party hack views.

By Christopher Smith

September 2, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

You can bet it would be an issue if Barack Obama had a 17-year-old daughter to whom it had happened. It’s amazing how quickly conservatives cast off their vituperative, utopian self-righteousness and start reflecting on how complex and unpredictable life is etc. once circumstances turn on one of their own. I guess that’s compassionate conservatism for you—saving your compassion for someone who plays on your team.

By Churchill

September 2, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Man, you have to be shameless to even turn around this pathetic piece of news into something glorifying. The logic, it seems, is someone from the gutter is needed to clean up the gutter. Whatever happened to leading by example ? Can we now say the Lewinsky scandal was Clinton’s way of associating with the commoners ? The Republicans should have precious little to complain about him otherwise.

By DebbieDoRight

September 2, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Why wasn’t her “supportive” husband supporting their teenaged daughter when she needed it? You can’t have it both ways — no matter what anyone says. You can’t have a “supportive family that supports your run for the white house” and a pregnant teenager at home. Her teenaged daughter is PREGNANT and needs her mother now more than ever. If not her mother than at least her FATHER. But if he has a high-profile job, and the mother has a high-profile job, who can the teenager turn to for counseling and help? Obviously not her parents - they’re too busy with their own lives.

By cws

September 2, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Here is the truth… If this were a democrat the republican machine would be all over this. There would be a media frenzy about any and everything, the fact remains that this is a personal (family matter) and does not merit discussion!!!!!!!

By realWoman

September 2, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

Boy let the hating commence….especially by vicious, jealous women. I thought the Christian religion was in small part to help one become better human beings, NOT for people who are already perfect. Sometimes ‘things’ happen to good people. Its because we’re imperfect I guess. If any of you railing against Palin were real Christians you would know that. Lets not forget about judge lest ye be judged. I am a woman, realize that life happens sometimes, and was impressed with Palin’s record. For those of you buying into mainstream press that her homelife is a wreck and she can’t possibly be VP, lets get OBAMA in there because its what you deserve.

By Barry

September 2, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

ANYONE THAT JOKES AND SHOWS OTHER THAN SUPPORT FOR THIS 17 YEAR OLD AND HER FAMILY HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST INDECENT HUMANS (IF YOU CAN CALL THEM HUMAN)LIVING IN AMERICA! TEEN PREGNANCIES HAPPEN!!!! I DON’T CARE HOW GOOD OF A PARENT YOU ARE AND WHAT UPBRINGING YOUR CHILD HAS, THERE’S ALWAYS A CHANCE OF THEM GETTING PREGNANT! iF YOU CLAIM OTHERWISE…YOU ARE A TOTAL IDIOT THAT NEEDS TO GO LIVE IN AFRICA WITH THE OSTRICHES! TO MAKE NEWS OF THIS AND CARRY ON ABOUT IT IN THE MEDIA IS TOTALLY RIDICULIOUS AND THE NEWS MEDIA THAT CARRIES A STORY LIKE THIS MAKES THEM JUST SCUM! THERE IS NO MORALITY IN THE NEWS ANYMORE AND THEY MAY AS WELL JOIN FORCES WITH THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER AND STAT MAGAZINES! I PRAY FOR THIS YOUNG 17 YEAR OLD THAT GOD GUIDES HER AND GIVES HER THE STRENGTH TO RAISE AND TAKE CARE OF THIS PRECIOUS CHILD! TO THOSE THAT CRITICISE AND MAKE FUN OF THIS SITUATION, I HOPE YOU DON’T FALL TOO FAR OFF YOUR SOAP BOX…YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT KARMA MAY BRING TO YOUR HOME!

By jw

September 2, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

The GOp evangelicals had better hide their tapes and brochures on premarital sex and unwed mothers because it is about to come back and bite them. Why is is that the Pallin family is brave and courageous while other in the same predicament are poor parents, wel fare queens, and liberals. An finally, how is it the fault of Democrats and liberals that this chick is pregnant?

By Smith

September 2, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

You can bet Republicans would have flayed this to death as an issue if Obama had a 17-year-old daughter to whom this had happened. I find it ironic and hypocritical (but not surprising) how quick conservatives are to cast off their vituperative, utopian self-righteousness and start talking about how complex and surprising life is etc. when one of their own gets blindsided. I guess that’s what compassionate conservatism is—showing compassion for those who play for your team.

By DSL

September 2, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

I would agree that it typically is a family affair except when it comes to the VP or President. Sarah Pallin’s teenage daughter’s pregnancy coupled with her recent birth of a child with Down’s Syndrome would be overwhelming for any set of parents, much less the VP of the United States. For some reason her husband does not strike me as the stay at home kind of guy. Let’s face it, the Pallin’s will be raising a sixth child. We also need to throw in the oldest son about to serve in Iraq. No additional stress there for a parent. Given her lack of any credible experience makes me really question John McCain’s sense of grasping the importance of the VP slot. This is not a question of morality, it is a question of reality or lack thereof.

By Smith

September 2, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

You can bet Republicans would have flayed this to death as an issue if Obama had a 17-year-old daughter to whom this had happened. I find it ironic and hypocritical (but not surprising) how quick conservatives are to cast off their vituperative, utopian self-righteousness and start talking about how complex and surprising life is etc. when one of their own gets blindsided. I guess that’s what compassionate conservatism is—showing compassion for those who play for your team.

By kj

September 2, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Dirk, No comment or are you just busy reading all about the slimeball Obama and his chicago cronies?

By Marco Polo

September 2, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Who cares about her stupid, trashy daughter… this is the real story:

During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%.

By Smith

September 2, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

You can bet Republicans would have flayed this to death as an issue if Obama had a 17-year-old daughter to whom this had happened. I find it ironic and hypocritical (but not surprising) how quick conservatives are to cast off their vituperative, utopian self-righteousness and start talking about how complex and surprising life is etc. when one of their own gets blindsided. I guess that’s what compassionate conservatism is—showing compassion for those who play for your team.

By mo

September 2, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

to Churchill and others who want to “cast a stone”. I love to read these blogs where others feel powerful or righteous or somehow ethically more sound than the next guy. Do you know the statistics of pregnancy in America where the mom is a stay at home mom and the daughter gets pregnant? Check the abortion rates in America and ask yourself how many of those are girls from homes where mom is not working? I think you’ll be surprised. Oh - let’s switch gears…what about the guys getting these girls pregnant Churchill - would you suggest that is because their moms aren’t home or perhaps their dads need to stay at home?

Here are our choices - a presidential candidate with tons of experience in lots of arenas - and a VP choice with little political experience but lots of life experiences. Or a presidential candidate with little political, executive, anything experience - other than he’s good at talking - and a VP choice with lots of political and executive experience.

I say both parties are about even right now - and if I’m going to choose - I’ll choose the party with the presidential candidate who has the most experience…and be glad the VP in that party is experienced in life!!!

By D'OH!

September 2, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

“realWoman” get over yourself. Have you been asleep for the past thousand years? Compassionate people understand the human element in this situation and do not judge. The problem with making Palin VP is that she’s not qualified to step in and lead the free world when McCrazy chokes on a McChickenbone or has a stroke! The problem the less “conservatives” have with this issue is that the “conservatives” would, have, and do, beat to DEATH (in the media now that stoning is outlawed) any non-“conservative” in this same situation. The empathy and compassion are selective, not universally applied. That you take it personally indicates that you aren’t looking at the big picture, but looking for a way to be outraged at Obama supporters who may or may not, themselves, be preggers.

By Danny

September 2, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

At least this baby will not be on the welfare roles. No matter how good of a parent you are, things happen. I am just thankful that this did not happen to a democratic, tree hugging, animal loving, baby killing moron like Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

By John j

September 2, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

The libs want to be inclusive until it suites their needs. The Dem’s court the black vote, and that’s fine, but don’t seem to be the least bit uncomfortable that 70% of black childern born today have no father in their life. Palins daughter made a mistake, at least she knows who the father is and has plans to be married. I’m sure I will get blasted for being racist, but facts are facts.

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

News/Republican reporting of Rev. Wright, 6 months. News/Republican reporting of Bristol pregnancy, 1 day. PRICELESS

By hotlanta

September 2, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

News/Republican reporting of Rev. Wright, 6 months. News/Republican reporting of Bristol pregnancy, 1 day. PRICELESS

By BARRY

September 2, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT SUPPORT ABORTION, I CHALLENGE YOU TO WATCH A REAL ABORTION TAKE PLACE! WHEN THEY PULL A SMALL FETUS THAT HAS HANDS, FEET, BODY AND HEAD AND THEY TAKE SCISSORS AND STICK THEM IN THE BASE OF THE LITTLE ONE’S SKULL TO SEVER THE SPINAL CORD AND END IT’S LIFE! WATCH THE LITTLE FEET AND HANDS FLENCH AND QUIVER AS LIFE GOES OUT OF A PRECIOUS CHILD’S LIFE THAT YOU HAVE JUST ENDED! IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY WATCH THAT AND SAY YOU SUPPORT ABORTION, GOD HELP YOUR SOUL! THE PROBLEM LIES WITH MOST PEOPLE NEVER SEEING WHAT TAKES PLACE IN A REAL ABORTION!!!!

By BARRY

September 2, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT SUPPORT ABORTION, I CHALLENGE YOU TO WATCH A REAL ABORTION TAKE PLACE! WHEN THEY PULL A SMALL FETUS THAT HAS HANDS, FEET, BODY AND HEAD AND THEY TAKE SCISSORS AND STICK THEM IN THE BASE OF THE LITTLE ONE’S SKULL TO SEVER THE SPINAL CORD AND END IT’S LIFE! WATCH THE LITTLE FEET AND HANDS FLINCH AND QUIVER AS LIFE GOES OUT OF A PRECIOUS CHILD’S LIFE THAT YOU HAVE JUST ENDED! IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY WATCH THAT AND SAY YOU SUPPORT ABORTION, GOD HELP YOUR SOUL! THE PROBLEM LIES WITH MOST PEOPLE NEVER SEEING WHAT TAKES PLACE IN A REAL ABORTION!!!!

By TW

September 2, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

BARRY - PLEASE BUY YOUR WEED FROM SOMEBODY ELSE!!!

By Martha

September 2, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Danny, “people” like you offer nothing to the debate… go back to watching Judge Judy and turn the computer off.

By beth

September 2, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

I am dumbfounded at the hypocracy. Family values include abortion but don’t extend to keeping it in your pants? There are some values for you! No big deal??? Life happens? To whom?? How hard is it to NOT get pregnant. It’s pretty simple to prevent people. I didn’t know one person who got pregnant in HS. It was something that happened to truly idiotic people with no brains or cares on how to prevent it. The fact that she is willing to take on a VP role with a special needs infant rubs me the wrong way. I’m a working mom, don’t get me wrong but that’s an extreme situation and I think it’s irresponsible of her. She’s got much bigger fish to fry than a Vice Presidency!!

By deegee

September 2, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

And what a wonderful teenage husband Levi will be. See below what he posted recently on his MySpace page. It’s really saying something that McCain thought so little of working class white voters that he thought this family would appeal to them.

” On his MySpace page, Johnston boasts, “I’m a f - - -in’ redneck” who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes.

“But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some s- - - and just f - - -in’ chillin’ I guess.”

“Ya f - - - with me I’ll kick [your] a*,” he added.

He also claims to be “in a relationship,” but states, “I don’t want kids.”

Campaign officials said McCain knew of the pregnancy when he picked Palin last week as his running mate. Sure…

By DebbieDoRight

September 2, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

BARRY STOP SHOUTING!!! And please, take your capslock off. thank you.

PS: I support abortions; and NO i don’t want to watch one happen. I also don’t want to watch someone give birth either. Nor take a crap, nor vomit, nor eat fried scorpions……the list is endless. Have you ever watched an abortion? Just asking.

By Peter

September 2, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Hey By realWoman …….what are you most impressed with about Sarah Pallin’s record?

Is it she kisses OIL Companies Butts ?

Is it she wants to take Polar Bears off the endangered list ?

Is it because she is all about killing endangered Wolves ?

Is it because she runs a state with one of the smallest population in the country ?

Is it her “Republican Family Values “, and the fact she is all about zero birth control, and against Sex education ?

By Randy

September 2, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Doing the right thing? My my, do you have the cart in front of the horse? should you correct yourself to say, doing the right thing AFTER doing the WRONG thing.

I’m a 63 year old anglo saxon male, self employed, one might assume that I’ve had all the advantages. Well, here’s the problem. I was born out of wedlock to a 17 year old in Gwinnett County near the end of World War II. I have struggled for my entire life with the fact the I was not a gift to a loving couple who wished to continue their lineage. I knew my whole life I was adopted. While others were so excited to draw family trees, I just wrote my name and drew a straight line. I came from nowhere with nowhere to go. Incident after incident in my childhood enforced the fact that I was “different.” John Bradshaw says that if a person MAKES a mistake, he will feel guilt and that it can be cured beginning with a sincere apology. If a person IS a mistake he will feel shame, a condition for which there is no cure.

Was I a child of rape? That would perhaps explain a life time of rage. Was I a child of adultry, that creates a few problems with images of “the loving Father.” Having struggled with these alternatives for about 50 years now, I am left with one alternative, I was a mistake, and there is no cure.

I AM NOT ALONE. With an illegitimate birth rate of nearly 50% in today’s society, the rage, the anger, the disconnect from conforming society will increase exponentially in the coming generation.

Perhaps I will be lucky not to live long enough to see this happen. Randy

By Patrick

September 2, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

You my friend are an Idiot! the Palins are 0 for 2. They have a 17 year old pregnant daughter and they are about to become in-laws. WOW! True indeed “life happens”, we are all human and should not pass judgement on anyone. But to make a serious situation seem routinely ideal only confuses me and the millions of teenage girls in America. An American family is not a family that promotes teenage pregnacy or marriage to save face. Thanks to people like her mom and Grandfather McCain this young lady never had a choice surrounding her pregnacy, they believe in telling all women what to do with their bodies. How American would it have been had this been a child of the Obama’s. The double standard views and hidden racism of the republican party needs to stop immediately. For it’s the reason why Palin is the trenches in the first place. White VP or Black President? America you make the choice, but just make sure it’s educated!

By mscutie78

September 2, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

CWS - of course this merits discussion. The issue at hand isn’t whether the daughter is pregnant or not - it has everything to do with Gov. Palin’s judgement and the platform that she preaches. If she cannot even keep her family unit in order - how in the world could she lead the US (should McCain die)??? So - this definitely merits discussion!

By mscutie78

September 2, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

I’m experienced in life - does that qualify me for the vice presidency???

By Peter

September 2, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

By Michael

September 2, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

Are these the family values we want in the White House?

Yes Michael……these ARE TRUE “REPUBLICAN FAMILY VALUES”…

Please we have seen this and worse from the Bush Administration……..

Heck they go to church on Sunday……… then allow the RAPING of the American Treasury on Monday.

There really are NO Morals when it comes to Republicans………Money is the God they all bow down too…….

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

September 2, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Dear Patrick @ 4:13, I assume you write that the Palin’s first error was their oldest son, who joined the military. Typical leftist perspective, thanks for sharing.

Do you blame Hillary for Bill’s misbehavior? Just asking.

By T-Bone

September 2, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Ok people it’s judgment not judgement. One e only. Now carry on with the ad hominem attacks.

By jay

September 2, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

I do not have a problem with the 17 year old being pregnant. My problem is with John Mccains judgement. I really do not feel that he probably looked into Palins background before putting her on the ticket. This should have come out weeks ago if the was truly considering her. For it to come out on the eve of the RNC, tells me that the Republicans really had no clue that this girl is pregnant. That goes to show you again and again……..John Mccain is clueless.

By TORPEDO

September 2, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

To: Churchill

Gov. Palin has a weak resume according to you, what do you have to say about Obama’s ?

By TORPEDO

September 2, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

To: Churchill

Gov. Palin has a weak resume according to you, what do you have to say about Obama’s ?

By jay

September 2, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

I do not have a problem with the 17 year old being pregnant. My problem is with John Mccains judgement. I really do not feel that he probably looked into Palins background before putting her on the ticket. This should have come out weeks ago if the was truly considering her. For it to come out on the eve of the RNC, tells me that the Republicans really had no clue that this girl is pregnant. That goes to show you again and again……..John Mccain is clueless.

By Linda

September 2, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Obama is undoubtedly right in not politicizing the pregnancy of Palin’s daughter. All of the conservative pundits are busily stating that this off limits status for candidate’s children is held by all.

But just close your eyes for a minute and imagine the 17 year old daughter of either democrat candidate terminating an unwanted pregnancy. Are you positive that the conservative base that supports Palin would take the high road?

By Oh Come On

September 2, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

The people of Alaska don’t seem to care that their governor has a 17 year old daughter that is pregnant. By a show of hands, how many parents know EXACTLY what their 17 year daughter is doing 24/7 365? It happens. So what. At least her daughter is not having an abortion and that she is taking responsibilty for her actions and she’s not just giving the baby away by means of adoption. Bravo to Mrs. Palin for standing up for her daughter.

We should care about the issues of national policy not the actions of HER DAUGHTER!

@ Patrick - are you bring race into this? I see no color, I see national policy. I will vote for whom I believe will do the best to represent America.

By Stephen

September 2, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

I’ve read most of the posts and the majority of them appear presumptuous and judgmental. Unless we are walking in their shoes at the moment the decision is made, who are we to judge? What is lacking here is mercy. You see mercy is holding back that which is rightly deserved. Who is to say what conversations were held within the family? Were any of you there? Sadly, even in the Christian realm mercy is lacking. It is only by the sovereignty of God that any of us are still alive…God puts up with all of our shortcomings, failures, and bad decisions without zapping us. Why not offer a little mercy and keep your mouth shut. I am sure that would bring a lot less attention to this segment of their lives…Oh but that would be too merciful and not satisfy the desire for juicy gossip.

By Oh Brother

September 2, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this

Well, Barry, with all of you touchy-feely types believing in rewarding bad behaviour, no wonder why we have so many illegitimate trash-brats on welfare sucking up our taxes. Stuff like that seems to be admired! NO teenage girl should be having a baby. Geez, what a lack of brains, morals & self-respect! I have NO respect for anyone who turns herself into cheap, common trash & I refuse to trreat someone like that as my equal because she ISN’T. .There is nothing wrong with having an abortion. Better that than an unwanted child being raised by irresponsible party-animal jerks. A fetus isn’t a person yet anyway. And with mental retardation already in the family, what if this baby comes out like that too? Oh, but ALL children are precious & God’s gift, blah blah blah, blughhhh! (That’s the sound of me throwing up, folks!)

By Common Sense

September 2, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Fellow Bloggers!

Relax in regards to the 17yr old girl. We all know that some teenagers are going to have sex all we can do is to educate them about everything.

I have a question do some of you support the purchase of buying any type of GUN?

I am trying to figure out if it takes a ak-47 assualt rifle to defend your home!

If so our society is in a serious decline when we are fighting over an amendment that states the right to bear arms!

But at what costs is the right to bear any tye of arms!

By annie

September 2, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

Stephen…of course were judgmental - we are deciding who will be representing our country next year!! Do we want to represent our country with a VP who preaches abstinence but cannot even get her own daughter to commit to her cause?? If her own family doesn’t support her values - how will the rest of America????

By ckslosangeles

September 2, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

I honestly can’t believe all the hateful prejudicial comments I’m seeing here toward the Palins. If Barack’s 17 year old had a child, how many people would say HE should quit the race to take care of his family? AND what could be more prejudicial than assuming that Palin’s daughter isn’t actually in love with this man and would marry him anyway? It’s not her fault IF she’s in the public eye. Just listen to Savior Barack: IT’S OURS.

Of course, hateful comments towards people with values, especially white Christians, is fashionable, pardonable, and, sadly, unsurprising.

By ckslosangeles

September 2, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

I honestly can’t believe all the hateful prejudicial comments I’m seeing here toward the Palins. If Barack’s 17 year old had a child, how many people would say HE should quit the race to take care of his family? AND what could be more prejudicial than assuming that Palin’s daughter isn’t actually in love with this man and would marry him anyway? It’s not her fault IF she’s in the public eye. Just listen to Savior Barack: IT’S OURS.

Of course, hateful comments towards people with values, especially white Christians, is fashionable, pardonable, and, sadly, unsurprising.

By Dis Mee

September 2, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

Excuse me, someone please help me ‘cause I’m a little confused. Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter, pregnant, unmarried daughter is a role model for having her baby. Aren’t the right wingers the same people who crucified 17 year old Jaime Lynne Spears just 6 months ago. At least Jaime Lynne has mega-dollars to support her child. Bristol must rely on her moose-hunting/gun-toting Mama and/or her drunk-driving convicted daddy.

By ckslosangeles

September 2, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

I honestly can’t believe all the hateful prejudicial comments I’m seeing here toward the Palins. If Barack’s 17 year old had a child, how many people would say HE should quit the race to take care of his family? AND what could be more prejudicial than assuming that Palin’s daughter isn’t actually in love with this man and would marry him anyway? It’s not her fault IF she’s in the public eye. Just listen to Savior Barack: IT’S OURS.

Of course, hateful comments towards people with values, especially white Christians, is fashionable, pardonable, and, sadly, unsurprising.

By ckslosangeles

September 2, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

I honestly can’t believe all the hateful prejudicial comments I’m seeing here toward the Palins. If Barack’s 17 year old had a child, how many people would say HE should quit the race to take care of his family? AND what could be more prejudicial than assuming that Palin’s daughter isn’t actually in love with this man and would marry him anyway? It’s not her fault IF she’s in the public eye. Just listen to Savior Barack: IT’S OURS.

Of course, hateful comments towards people with values, especially white Christians, is fashionable, pardonable, and, sadly, unsurprising.

By Dis Mee

September 2, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Excuse me, someone please help me ‘cause I’m a little confused. Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter, pregnant, unmarried daughter is a role model for having her baby. Aren’t the right wingers the same people who crucified 17 year old Jaime Lynne Spears just 6 months ago. At least Jaime Lynne has mega-dollars to support her child. Bristol must rely on her moose-hunting/gun-toting Mama and/or her drunk-driving convicted daddy.

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

John J,

What makes you think that Bristol knows who the baby daddy is suppose to be? Just because she said it’s LEVI, doesn’t make it so.

By the way JOHN J, she’s still just someones BABY MAMA and a pregnant teenage statistic. In about 3 to 5 years she will be a divorced statistic. Without the help of their parents, they could be on Welfare. If she wasn’t a minor and on her parents medical insurance, she would be in need of government medical assistance. Or face a huge medical bill and be unable to pay, without the help of her parents.

Without the help of her parents she would be an excellent candidate for WELFARE.

Nothing But Hypocrites

By NothingButHypocrites

September 2, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

John J,

What makes you think that Bristol knows who the baby daddy is suppose to be? Just because she said it’s LEVI, doesn’t make it so.

By the way JOHN J, she’s still just someones BABY MAMA and a pregnant teenage statistic. In about 3 to 5 years she will be a divorced statistic. Without the help of their parents, they could be on Welfare. If she wasn’t a minor and on her parents medical insurance, she would be in need of government medical assistance. Or face a huge medical bill and be unable to pay, without the help of her parents.

Without the help of her parents she would be an excellent candidate for WELFARE.

Nothing But Hypocrites

By Boots

September 2, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Stop it! Stop it! I’m getting so dizzy from the “spin” surrounding Sarah Palin that I can’t stand up.

Gawd, at the double standard afforded the religious right —- those who care so much for a fetus, but are quick to cut off funds to provide needed services for the child once it is born.

By annie

September 2, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

Stephen…of course we’re judgmental - we are deciding who will be representing our country next year!! Do we want to represent our country with a VP who preaches abstinence but cannot even get her own daughter to commit to her cause?? If her own family doesn’t support her values - how will the rest of America???? As an independent former Hillary supporter - I was leaning towards McCain for my vote - unfortunately he lost my vote when he brought Palin on board - so now I’m OBAMA all the way -at least if something were to happen to Obama (God forbid) at least I feel there would be a competent and experienced VP to assume the role of President.

By AJC is DOOMED

September 2, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this

The people who make RU-486 are paying for Jim’s fancy free dinner tonight….

By The Way

September 2, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Bristol Palin, being from alaska is pregnant with a snowflake baby.

McCain admitted he decided to pick a woman veep after a campaign staff worker wore a cross your heart bra. Just like what inspired Solzhenitsyn.

Rush Limbaugh was very funny today doing all his Down Syndrome impersonations and mocking, just like what he done to Michael J. Fox.

Conservatives Rule!

By Jake

September 2, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Immaculate conceptions happen, unwanted teenage pregnancies are the result of two improperly raised children making a very poor conscious decision. When your spouse had an affair and you asked what happened and s/he said “I don’t know it just happened’ was that okay with you? We are so PC and accepting that we have become amoral, clearly inappropriate behavior is now as American as apple pie!
Randy - Boo, hoo, hoo, I’m crying man.

By AJC is DOOMED

September 2, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Unwanted Presidents happen too, the entire Bush terms have been unwanted by most Americans, and McCancerFace is surely unwanted in the oval office by any half way smart person. The ajc is unwanted in most atlanta homes, it is worse than a comic book in its information content.

By Wes

September 2, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Yeah, it happens and it wouldn’t be a big deal if it was just a typical American family without a member trying to be the 2nd and possibly the most powerful person in this country. However, if this candidate can’t influence a person that she has lived and raised for 17 years not to have a baby before she’s prepared how much confidence can we have in sending her as VP to a foreign country to influence their leaders?

By Truthier than you

September 2, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

Ha! Check this out… pictures comparing Demi Moore at 7 months pregnant and a picture of Palin when she would have been 7 months pregnant with her fifth child… You tell me whose child that is!

http://spiegelman.tumblr.com/post/48095899/point-of-comparison

By ghostwriter

September 2, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

While everyone is focused on the Palin folly, please note that the GOP method of income redistribution continued as another bank failed (Integrity Bank of Alpharetta) last week. How it works that a bank or S & L hires a presidential relative (Neil Bush, Andy McCain) to a directors position. They make “loans” to “businessmen” who invest the money in ventures that don’t pan out. The “businessmen” declare bankruptcy and default on the “loan”. The lending institution depends on the taxpayers to bail them out and the presidential relative goes to work for the very same people they “loaned” the money to.

By Peter

September 2, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Thank you annie……… your points are well made…….

“at least if something were to happen to Obama (God forbid) at least I feel there would be a competent and experienced VP to assume the role of President.”

Is America ready for Sarah Palin to be PRESIDENT if McCain got ill, or something bad happens to him ?

Answer …….Definitely NOT !

By cws

September 2, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

I have watched the responses from a cross section of America and of this i am certain, the only way this country has a chance of surviving is if we load all the right wing ostriches’ on a slow boat and send them to a country where your head up your a* is required for citizenship

By brian

September 2, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

The American public will go for Palin because they are stupid. A beauty queen who can shoot a gun raising a knocked-up teen-age daughter is just who this country wants as a leader: someone as dumb as they are.

By brian

September 2, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

The American public will go for Palin because they are stupid. A beauty queen who can shoot a gun raising a knocked-up teen-age daughter is just who this country wants as a leader: someone as dumb as they are.

By brian

September 2, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

The American public will go for Palin because they are stupid. A beauty queen who can shoot a gun raising a knocked-up teen-age daughter is just who this country wants as a leader: someone as dumb as they are.

By sarah

September 2, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

interesting that she wants privacy for Bristol’s underage uterus, backs Bristol’s decision to keep the baby. But Sarah Palin would stop me, a 30-yr old woman, from seeking an abortion….my choice.

By FL DAWG

September 2, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Peter,

You are right…We as a country and our goverment are not ready for Palin to be President. Both might have to start being accountable. Congress might actually have to pass a budget that made sense.

FYI The United States would probably be better off with Palin as President instead of any of the three others.

Everyone is interested about foreign policy, we better start looking inside our own borders and start repairing infrastructure before this country becomes a pile of rubble. Bridges, roadways, levees, power plants and the list goes on need vast improvement.

As for Palin at least she turned down money that would have been spent on a wasted bridge.

On the issue of her daughter. The daughter and her boy friend made the decision to have sex and this resulted in a pregnancy. Why should their decision, affect the Gov. Palins? I also bet that Gov. Palin talked to her daughter and the boy friend first, before accepting the VP offer.

Long story short until Palin entered the race, It was a pretty lousy field to choose from. At least in my opinion neither Dems or Reps had produced a very good candidate. Not McCain, Obama or Beiden are for change. They are part of the monster. In fact they all helped build it. The monster also helped build them. Do really think any of them will bite the hand that fed them?

All the dems and reps that want change missed their opportunity in the primaries. Palin is our last hope for change. Several Dem Gov. and several Rep actually might have changed things some, but we didn’t choose them. Now we must hope for Palin to be that difference.

By me

September 2, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

Just goes to prove that just because you believe in and preach abstinence, it doesn’t keeps kids from having sex. THEY WILL HAVE SEX no matter what, so why not preach protection instead. Its not condoning sex, it is giving them an option. Now this poor girl HAS to have this baby and HAS to get married in order to save her families face. I bet mom wishes she would’ve stocked her up with condom instead.

By Hey Jim

September 2, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Hey Jim,

You still have some wool in your eyes! So why didn’t Sarah announce the coming of her soon-to-be grandchild? She was proud of it right! OOOOO…it’s a private matter!?!?….but why did she announce her newborn’s condition and her son’s deployment to Iraq? OOOOOO….she was just trying to get sympathy points! (unlike Beau Biden not making a big deal of his deployment) Guess she didn’t need the sympathy points that come with having a pregnant teen huh! OOOOO you don’t get points for that?

That’s the hyprocricy everyone’s speaking about. Get it right. No one is attacking the girl. Her mother and Mr. McCain (if he knew) made the decision to try and hide it. But why would you hide something that you were so proud of. Why not have the baby’s father attend the ceremony; he is apart of the family now.

Come on Jim…you’re insulting us.

By Peter

September 2, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

Why don’t you WRONGS look at this……….

Out of all the US states……… Alaska is so small in population that it ranks 48th in Population…….683,478….

Only North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming is smaller in population.

As of July 1, 2007, the estimated population of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the other insular areas of the United States was 305,986,357. Notably, the top nine states in population contain slightly more than half of the total population.

So you want to allow a person who has 2 years running a state with less than 700K population, take over a country with 300 Million folks if McLost bites the Big One !

Sure that makes total “Common Sense” !

Jim has lost ALL……. “COMMON SENSE”…….

Was that a White baby Jim……. sounds good !

By Bronco

September 2, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

ho hum

By Hey Jim

September 2, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

Hey Jim,

You still have some wool in your eyes! So why didn’t Sarah announce the coming of her soon-to-be grandchild? She was proud of it right! OOOOO…it’s a private matter!?!?….but why did she announce her newborn’s condition and her son’s deployment to Iraq? OOOOOO….she was just trying to get sympathy points! (unlike Beau Biden not making a big deal of his deployment) Guess she didn’t need the sympathy points that come with having a pregnant teen huh! OOOOO you don’t get points for that?

That’s the hyprocrisy everyone’s speaking about. Get it right. No one is attacking the girl. Her mother and Mr. McCain (if he knew) made the decision to try and hide it. But why would you hide something that you were so proud of. Why not have the baby’s father attend the ceremony; he is apart of the family now.

Come on Jim…you’re insulting us.

By Fix-It

September 2, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this

Peter, you are correct, common sense, what kind of idiot would vote for somebody with 143 days experience? If you are a taxpayer a vote for Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

By Citymom

September 2, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

How can she be a good mom and be a vice president at the same time? A VP is a 24 hr job. A mom is a 24 hr job. Do the math. If she wins she’ll have a 4 month old who won’t know her and a 17 yr old who didn’t have her mother at a time she really needed her.

By Jeff

September 2, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this

Why don’t we all just try to overlook all of the smut associated with the candidates and assess which team is most qualified to get this country back on track after what 80% of the country considers to be eight fairly miserable years of non-leadership and non-responsibility? The choice is clear if you want qualified change. Obama/Biden! If you want more of the same and the chance of having Ms. Palin as Commander-in-Chief during a major crisis, then vote McCain/Palin.

Jim—I don’t know what you and your friends in Minneapolis are smoking, but it sure must be good. While I admire supermoms (I have many friends who are), I fail to see how Ms. Palin could really be a mom totally focused on her children’s needs when she has a four-month with very special needs, a 17 year old with very special needs, and three more that are probably oblivious as to what is happening to their family while she is out campaigning to be VP of this land. I don’t believe she was thoroughly vetted, and thus, the “surprises” have just started. Get used to it and keep that supply line of good grass wide open. You’ll need it to keep you thinking “No big deal”.

By TimeForHeadsToRoll

September 2, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this

Churchill, get over yourself. My daughter also got pregnate at 17. Scared yes she was, married no she was not. Out of school no, not that either. Guess what? We all survived and I have a beautiful grandaughter because of it. Oh actually I have two now and another on the way. My daughter finished school and is married to the babies father. Not before the child was born I might add.

For all of you who think this is bad, I remember the words of Obama who boldly said and I quote “I would not want my daughter burdened with a child”. This man would rather take that child (a teen in love) and pull that child out of her like a cold blooded murder. Thats who you think is more capable of running this country. Give me a brake.

There is in no way shape or form the word burden when you are speaking of a child. What is wonderful is that we, myself, Palin and thousands upon thousands of parents around this country support our kids in their time of need and help them to be good parents. My daughter is wonderful and I would not give back my grandkids for any amount of money or time. I sincerely hope that this does not happen to you because I dont think you could handle the stress. I bet your child would be one that felt they had to run away from home and live on the streets.

A women in the whitehouse, yea its time. We are strong and we are determined to do whats right. We take nothing for granted and want whats best for all. Its in our nature. But dont cross us as we have much more strength then you can even consider of a man.

Now what does Palin have that Obama does not. Experience. While Palin has gone after and defeted corruption, stopped the earmark (Bridge to Know Where) and is Governer, she is also a community expert, a mother and a politician. What has Obama done. Oh yea, hes really good at reading from a script. Thats a reason to elect him President. Maybe, just maybe hes all talk and I think thats exactly what he is.

My vote is for a real person who will stand up and not be ASHAMED like Michelle Obama. Palin is proud and I am proud to give them my vote.

By Sparta_Bubba

September 2, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this

Close your eyes for a second and just imagine this and tell me Jim Wooten’s reaction. What if Al Gore’s teen aged daughter had become pregnant like Bristol Palin? Would Jim’s reaction be the same? What if Hillary Clinton had been a drug addict and convicted drug thief like Cindy McCain? Would Jim Wooten have ignored it? What if Bill Clinton had been a fornicator and adulterer like John McCain, would he have gone into apolexy over it? Wait he did almost have a stroke about ole Bill, so surely he will be railing again ole’ John’s pants escapades here soon? Guess I’d better not hold my breath?

By Sparta_Bubba

September 2, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this

Jeff,

I think you mean “give me a break” not “give me a brake.” Looks like your education at that Republican seggie academy is showing.

I’m sure you’re looking for a break and and not a brake, cause you all never stop.

By Sparta_Bubba

September 2, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this

Time For Heads To Roll,

I think you mean “give me a break” not “give me a brake.” Looks like your education at that Republican seggie academy is showing.

I’m sure you’re looking for a break and and not a brake, cause you all never stop.

By Sparta_Bubba

September 2, 2008 8:37 PM | Link to this

Time For Heads To Roll,

I think you mean “give me a break”not “give me a brake.” Looks like your education at that Republican seggie academy is showing.

I’m sure you’re looking for a break and and not a brake, cause you all never stop.

By AMY

September 2, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this

From an AP story: “Sherry Johnston said she was worried about her son dealing with all the attention. She said it was difficult enough for teenagers to deal with any pregnancy, having the entire nation watching made it worse.

“Levi Johnston, a high school hockey player for Wasilla High School, is not listed on the team roster for 2008-2009, and his mother wouldn’t say if he graduated. She said simply he’s no longer a student and any further information would have to come from him.”

And we already know that Bristol hasn’t been back to school in 8 months. Neither kid will graduate from high school. What kind of future will they have has dropouts?

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

September 2, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this

Headroller, congratulations on raising a sleazebag! We’re happy for you and your slutty progeny. Palin’s daughter, Trollop, has made her parents proud, just as your daughter caused you to stick out your pigeon chest and strut like the Banty rooster you resemble. What an inspiring story peabrain.

By stephen

September 2, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this

Jim, I thought you and your conservative buddies always told us liberalism causes teen agers to be promiscuous. Color me puzzled.