Palin's Fans Not Troubled by News of Daughter's Pregnancy

To show you how out of touch the media is, for a fact of growing up in a small town in North Dakota, the small towns always lean conservative, rarely liberal. Democrats usually are voted in for Congress and Senate on the Federal level, but that is for the pork and the long time that the 3 of them have been in office now. It has been the same 3 names for 15 to 20 years. They bring home the pork... ie- check out the federal money North Dakota gets for the roads and highways. Obama attracts the Red River crowd (ND/Minnesota border) where the urban population is, and where the both the major universities are, but west of there.. it is mostly die-hard conservatives. I live in Seattle now (surrounded by libs), but my folks and relatives still live in the dakotas. I travel to eastern Washington, in small towns there, it is the same thing- small town- church going conservatives. Do not always believe the media, for they are to scared to know the truth!!

Jamie of WA 10:37AM September 04, 2008

If one can't stick to the national issues with who can best represent our nation verses having to smear the candidates children...then that really shows how low that party can go, and how upset that Obama's supporters wouldn't select Hillary as his running mate. I did some research on my own also. Mr. Barach Hussein Obama is half Muslim and if just one Islamic assoc. that I located and pulled up all the names associated with it's members last names gave $182,000.00 towards Obama's election....What do you think the other 7,000,000 Muslims in the USA have given? He has already been tied to and associated with known terrorist affiliates plus others...not to mention his minister for the past 20 years. I'll vote any day for a veteran who knows about "giving to his country" and a woman who has the guts and qualities to be his VP and withstand the attacks from all the liberals..........Go Gov. Palin..

Shelley in Florida of FL 12:39PM September 03, 2008

I have not seen liberals attacking Bristol Palin: Sarah launched the issue and is using it to present herself as a defender of her daughter, attacked by phantom liberals. It is Sarah who makes the argument that her child is standing up to some kind of pressure to have an abortion. From whom?

This story does show why conservative women are afraid of abortion rights. Many are at last saying aloud, for the first time, that they have been in Bristol's predicament.

It isn't reactionary for a woman to feel her pregnancy is sacred. Women don't have the economic, personal, or spiritual power to declare sanctity or protection for ourselves when we are pregnant. We would rather lose the right to terminate a pregnancy than lose the right to carry a baby already in our womb. If we really had to chose, I'd have to say the right to bear children is more fundamental. Women who are in a position of economic and social independence may not understand how vulnerable others are.

Sarah Palin's game is something entirely different, though. Here is a link to the story of little Trig's birth, from KTUU, the same TV station where Sarah worked once as a sportscaster:

http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=8194634

What kind of ambition is that? She says she was at an oil conference in Texas (with Cheney's inner circle) and they offered her a chance at the vice presidency. She says her water broke, but she gave her speech anyway, and then flew all night, back to Alaska (8 hours) in premature labor with a Down syndrome baby, and then drove to a distant medical center (2 hours).

The baby was born at 6:30 AM. She claims her doctor approved the flight. People didn't believe her, and neither do I: no physician ever did any such thing, of course. So either she lied or she lied, and either way she looks nuts.

If she really delivered the baby, all she has to do is show people her hospital records and introduce them to the doctor. She doesn't have to hide behind her daughter.

Here’s a detailed description of her ambition from somebody who knows:

http://www.crosscut.com/politics-government/17341/

Mary Porter of MA 12:02AM September 03, 2008

Wow, lots of comments about Palin's supposed inexperience, but seriously, Obama? I thought he was interesting and not too bad at the beginning of the election, but the more I hear from him and about him, the more scared I become of him becoming President. I also find it difficult to support McCain, so without Palin it would have been a Mickey Mouse election for me. Now, I actually feel comfortable voting for McCain and much more optimistic about the future.

Sallie of TX 9:48PM September 02, 2008