When did I say that I agree with everything the politicians I support do or say? I'm merely pointing out that Obama doesn't think it's as much of an issue as you seem to. I don't think most people are complaining that it's a story. They're complaining that people are trying to make it an issue.
do you watch baseball? I do, all the time. Big, big Astros fan here. I see Bush sr. and Barbara there all the time. The George Washington/ guy from the Quaker oates box joke is still pretty funny. keep preachin patron saint of BBS. and just who am I pretending to be? I constantly bag on myself here and have mentioned my less than stellar intelligence many times.
so obama didn't disagree with what i wrote, thanks edit: i said it was a story, i didn't say anything about how it affected her governing ability or that it people shouldn't vote for her. people are in this thread saying it isn't a story, on face value that's silly.
C'mon, man....this is a total non-issue. Edit: I'll readily concede that its a story, sure. But it doesn't effect a thing for me and I can't see how it moves from "story" to "issue". I sure as hell hope this doesn't detract from the real issues. Its difficult enough digging through all the crap as it is. Anyway. Palin doesn't rule her children with an iron fist. Palin didn't get her daughter pregnant. The daughter made the decision to sleep with her boyfriend and got pregnant. The issue is pro-life and family values. The daughter is keeping the baby and marrying the father. Just because your kid gets knocked up doesn't make you a bad parent or mean you don't have family values. I'm still on the fence re: my vote. This figures into my decision exactly zero.
When you are a politician who supports abstinence only education in schools and your child becomes pregnant, you will receive criticism.
I have said before that this shouldn't be an issue. It should only be an issue if Palin is against sex-ed being taught in school because she believes that it should be handled in the home, along with the distribution of birth control. If that's the case than it's obvious that it failed in the home. Even still it's a very minor issue.
The problem here is that no one on either side claims their strategy is 100% successful - just that it's the better method. You could find plenty of people on the sex-ed side of the debate that have pregnant children also. I think people might make it into an issue, but I don't see why it actually is one.
Is she against sex ed? If so, then that's a fair point. I still say she can only exert so much influence over her kids. In the end, this is the daughter's issue to deal with and won't effect my vote. See above. Even if it did fail in the home, the daughter is 17. That's one year older than the age of consent in Alaska, and nearly an adult. Its not like she's a 12 year old or something.
The biggest issue for me regarding Palin is how does a mother with a new born have the time to devote to the job of VP? That and that she is one heart beat away, and has shown severly poor judgement during the last birth, IMHO. DD
If only the Democrats were as snappy as the Repubs with slick, irrelevant attack ads, that way both sides could be misleading Americans on a regular, tag-team basis.
I don't doubt that she is of legal age of consent. I never did. I don't think this whole thing should be much of an issue at all.
Would this be a problem if it was a man with a newborn? Of much bigger concern to me is that we know nothing of her views on the major issues of this election - the economy and foreign policy. We know nothing of her thoughts on tax policy, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, the war on terror, etc. I'd be more worried about that than the fact that she has a newborn.
That's fair. I betcha there are a lot of folks who would not view it the same because they want to give Palin the benefit of the doubt yet they would pounce on Obama if this story broke about one of his daughters. Right-wing radio people like Rush Windbag, Sean Hannity and their minions come to mind.
