The VP Candidates Family

Why not kill this rumor with Palin's medical records? A 43 year old woman's pregnancy with a Downs Syndrome child would have been intensely monitored, and the records must be a mile long. Just release them, ok? If necessary in a closed room for reporters, just as with McCain. And we can all breathe a sigh of relief and move on.

The undercurrent running behind this news story is not just the family values/morals issue...

It is because TRADITIONALLY (and the Republicans are the family values party) the woman is the primary caregiver of her children. If she has an underage daugher who is pregnant will this impede her ability to be Vice President? Especially when she has so many children underage at home, plus obviously issues with her teenager daughter.

This would not be as big a story if this was a male candidate with a pregnant teen at home.

But, since Republicans like to press "traditional roles", this is a legit question worthy of an answer by her.

To see the news sources spreading all sorts of info and probably some dis-info on Palin's daughter, pregnancy, unmarried status, etc., is the most vile thing I've ever seen what passes for reporting in this country do!

I was sick when I had to see and then read the 40 million dollar Star Report where in that perverted old reprobate, Ken Star, gave us the gory details of President Clinton's trysts with Monica Lewinski. That was shameful enough. But at least they were both adults!

To attack the VP Candidates' daughter who is apparently seventeen and perhaps pregnant is reprehensible! That girl is not running for office. Her mother is! It sickens me to think that even the press would jump on this bandwagon and so gleefully report it.

The sexual preferences, and activities of the candidates themselves should be off limits unless and until they cross into areas of illegality (ie: Minors, Prostitutes, Non-consensual sex, etc.) and the sexual lives and deeds of their minor children should NEVER be used as fodder for the selling of news papers or commercial time on the broadcast news. The fact that a president has a mistress (or a male lover for that matter) is NONE OF MY BUSINESS! I don't care and don't want to know! His wife and her attorney may be interested in those facts, but as a citizen, I am not!

I do want to know how he or she votes on critical issues, where they stand on the military industrial complex that's ruining this world, and what they intend to do about our dependence on oil, the crashing US economy, the illegal Federal reserve bank and it's actions, and a few million other things that are far far more interesting and important than who they or their children have been sleeping with or what they may have done in those various beds!

Whether Fox, or ABC, or CNN or NBC broke this story - I could care less - other than I'll know which of them to avoid in the future. I would like to get these young journalists and set them down and explain to them that while a public figure may forfeit his/her right to privacy, their minor children do not. Frankly, I would love to see the reporters and papers and media outlets who have deemed this "newsworthy" vs a private and potentially tragic mistake sent back to school and forced to take the ethics class that they so obviously flunked the first time around. Or do they still teach ethics in schools of Journalism today?

This is VILE and it sickens me. I'm a 5th Generation Card Carrying Kennedy-esque DEMOCRAT and Proud of it. But this time, the news media and their band of jackals have attacked a child - a child who's in a very difficult position, and made her a laughing stock and held her up for public humiliation for nothing more than selling their sleazy rags or newscasts. This should not even be visited upon a Republican.

If the media had any decency left, they would en masse start printing full page apologies to the candidate and her family! But I doubt they would even understand the word "decency" as I've used it herein. And they're probably too cheap to print and pay for a full page apology, too!

The once proud Forth Estate has now shat upon the entire nation! They are beneath our collective contempt for this!

The undercurrent running behind this news story is not just the family values/morals issue...

It is because TRADITIONALLY (and the Republicans are the family values party) the woman is the primary caregiver of her children. If she has an underage daugher who is pregnant will this impede her ability to be Vice President? Especially when she has so many children underage at home, plus obviously issues with her teenager daughter.

This would not be as big a story if this was a male candidate with a pregnant teen at home.

But, since Republicans like to press "traditional roles", this is a legit question worthy of an answer by her.

Medical records are confidential. Even a candidate's.
But hey, offer yours up to the local newspaper, if you like.

The undercurrent running behind this news story is not just the family values/morals issue...

It is because TRADITIONALLY (and the Republicans are the family values party) the woman is the primary caregiver of her children. If she has an underage daugher who is pregnant will this impede her ability to be Vice President? Especially when she has so many children underage at home, plus obviously issues with her teenager daughter.

This would not be as big a story if this was a male candidate with a pregnant teen at home.

But, since Republicans like to press "traditional roles", this is a legit question worthy of an answer by her.


No.

The pitbulls of the Dems won't let this one go. Payback for the Larry Sinclair debacle is the only thing I can rationally come up with.

You're not going to vote republican, or sway any that will, by a story like this. Like I said in another post - who is the Christian Right going to vote for then? Obama? Laugh.

I'm staying home that day in November because I realize what a sham it is. "A giant douche and a shit sandwich - who do you like best?" as South Park put it.

Don't go after the kid, go after the candidate.
She's a candidate for a party that appeals to christians, in fact she's a christian. Why can't it be a part of campaign? They preach abstinence and no sex before marriage. How can she tell a country to don't have sex if she can't even raise her daughter to her standards? The poor sexual education in the us has lead to record stds and pregnancies among youth, also self-image among youth is very disturbing. By denying their sexuality, we are creating more and more psychopaths if we go along this way. Sex-ed according to christians, and her (

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), is a nono. Why can't you tell a rival candidate it's a bit ironic in a discussion on the subject? Or is sex-ed due to the pregnancy of her daughter a nogo for candidates? How manipulated we are :-|
BTW Off-topic: Pro-life...Pro-death-penalty??? How can you support both views? She does and a lot of others, a bit hypocrytical. And i don't think god would like it too...Thou shalt not kill, I think a commandment goes before a human law (eye for an eye) don't you think?

The undercurrent running behind this news story is not just the family values/morals issue...

It is because TRADITIONALLY (and the Republicans are the family values party) the woman is the primary caregiver of her children. If she has an underage daugher who is pregnant will this impede her ability to be Vice President? Especially when she has so many children underage at home, plus obviously issues with her teenager daughter.

This would not be as big a story if this was a male candidate with a pregnant teen at home.

But, since Republicans like to press "traditional roles", this is a legit question worthy of an answer by her.

BTW Off-topic: Pro-life...Pro-death-penalty??? How can you support both views? She does and a lot of others, a bit hypocrytical. And i don't think god would like it too...Thou shalt not kill, I think a commandment goes before a human law (eye for an eye) don't you think?

Friday, April 18th, at 6:30 am. Trig Paxson Van Palin weighed in at 6 lbs, 2 oz when he was born at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center

Note the April calendar for the 18th, the supposed day Trig Palin was born at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center. His name does not appear.



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This is an issue, period. OP, say hello to the fairy dragons and marshmellow elves in the dream world you live in. Once you are running for VP (with a good change of becoming President), it's ON. Decision making, judgment, and yes, family, all get scrutinized. This goes for everyone, not just Sarah Palin.

Grow up.

"To any critics who say a woman can't think and work and carry a baby at the same time, I'd just like to escort that Neanderthal back to the cave," Palin said.

Lotus

Anyway, Ethics are a big part of the American opionion. Im surprised they allowed her to still be the tenative VP. Shes a ditz.

The sexual preferences, and activities of the candidates themselves should be off limits unless and until they cross into areas of illegality (ie: Minors, Prostitutes, Non-consensual sex, etc.) and the sexual lives and deeds of their minor children should NEVER be used as fodder for the selling of news papers or commercial time on the broadcast news. The fact that a president has a mistress (or a male lover for that matter) is NONE OF MY BUSINESS! I don't care and don't want to know! His wife and her attorney may be interested in those facts, but as a citizen, I am not!

This is an issue, period. OP, say hello to the fairy dragons and marshmellow elves in the dream world you live in. Once you are running for VP (with a good change of becoming President), it's ON. Decision making, judgment, and yes, family, all get scrutinized. This goes for everyone, not just Sarah Palin.

Grow up.

Guess who lives down the road on Gum Drop Lane? Evil Twin and PACNWGUY.

BTW Off-topic: Pro-life...Pro-death-penalty??? How can you support both views? She does and a lot of others, a bit hypocrytical. And i don't think god would like it too...Thou shalt not kill, I think a commandment goes before a human law (eye for an eye) don't you think?


Forget the daughter and the DUI husband. Just sounds like a typical American Christian family.

There's other things that bother me about her as you stated above, pro-life...pro-death penalty. And it sounds like she abused her powers going after the brother-in-law.

And how can you be so pro-life and not care about the wolves? She only cares about the animals that she can hunt and kill.

I'm Republican and was already having hard time justifying voting for McCain and now for sure won't. She doesn't have the experience and coupled with her lying will kill the deal for me.

Some thing's not right with her and in all actuality she has a good chance of becoming president due to McCain's age.