From the obvious political angle, I can't help but see this as a positive. Her oldest is serving in the armed forces. Her youngest has downs, and now she has a 17 year old going through a "crisis".
A whole LOT of people are going to relate to one aspect or another of her family life.
I agree.
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I think it's necessary for them (the family and the campaign) to report on it, to minimize the negative press (if any). Although, I don't think the Democrats will make themselves look good if they say anything negative toward the daughter or Governor Palin over this issue.
I agree but the reason they reported on it was the bogus claims of the leftist bloggers claiming that the youngest baby (Trig I think his name is) actually belonged to the daughter. Sick people that will go to any length to discredit her even photoshopping photos of her.
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We had this happen to a girl at our school last year. She was an incoming senior and she was up for valedictorian. The principal came to me to explain the situation because of the yearbook angle (it was my first year, I did not know the girl, and so we had to make decisions about featuring her... etc)
I told the principal, "If we all had to carry every one of our sins around on our bodies for 9 months, even after repenting, we may have a little more compassion for those who do"...
Not to mention the rest of our lives ... She needs prayer and a great big hug for not "taking care" of the "problem"... She is a brave young woman
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I think the wikipedia entry for Sarah Palin has been altered. I believe it said she married on August 29 and her first child was born the next April. I did not see that a few minutes ago when I looked. Sarah Palin's first child could have been a premature baby but I had wondered about this myself. I really can't see this or her daughter's pregnancy as a positive for her even if her daughter does not have an abortion.
I can't help but see this as a negative. Removing all partisanship, I would have to think that if Obama (or any other Democratic Presidential nominee) had a high school age daughter pop up pregnant, many conservatives would be all over it. There would probably be a few verses sprinkled in about ruling your house etc... No matter who the candidate is, this is a bad situation at a bad time.
Even Britney Spear's mother was hammered when her 17 year old daughter got pregnant.
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I think the wikipedia entry for Sarah Palin has been altered. I believe it said she married on August 29 and her first child was born the next April. I did not see that a few minutes ago when I looked. Sarah Palin's first child could have been a premature baby but I had wondered about this myself. I really can't see this or her daughter's pregnancy as a positive for her even if her daughter does not have an abortion. We forgive and go on.
I guess I could be mistaken, but.. I read she eloped, then had a baby 8 months later. Maybe I assumed too much. The article was pro-Palin. Either way.. McCain picked right!
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Unwed mothers are applauded, by the world, now-a-days.
Not really. For all it's liberal views, the media is conversely puritanical when it takes a notion.
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--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
I can't help but see this as a negative. Removing all partisanship, I would have to think that if Obama (or any other Democratic Presidential nominee) had a high school age daughter pop up pregnant, many conservatives would be all over it. There would probably be a few verses sprinkled in about ruling your house etc... No matter who the candidate is, this is a bad situation at a bad time.
Even Britney Spear's mother was hammered when her 17 year old daughter got pregnant.
I believe you're probably right, tshew.
There will be pro and con, but the bottom line, she is said to be a conservative, has family values, etc. Some people will try and squash that.
I hope the family can just overcome it and get on with the business at hand. I feel sorry for all of them.
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