Palin’s Daughter Pregnant
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has announced that her 17-year-old daughter is five months pregnant. The announcement is “intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child,” says the Reuters news service, which carried the first report.
In a statement, the Palin family says that Bristol Palin is “about five months pregnant” and that she intends to marry the father. “We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us," the Palins said in the statement. "Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.”
The Palin family asked the media to “respect our daughter” and her privacy. According to the Reuters report, John McCain’s campaign was aware of the pregnancy when the Arizona senator selected Palin to be his running mate last week.
Update: The following is the full Palin statement as released by the McCain campaign:
"We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support."
"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. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."
Update: Asked about the revelation while campaigning in Michigan, Barack Obama said, "I think peoples families are off limits and people's children are especially off limits.” CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic has more.
(AP)
The Palin family asked the media to “respect our daughter” and her privacy. According to the Reuters report, John McCain’s campaign was aware of the pregnancy when the Arizona senator selected Palin to be his running mate last week.
Update: The following is the full Palin statement as released by the McCain campaign:
"We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support."
"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. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates."
Update: Asked about the revelation while campaigning in Michigan, Barack Obama said, "I think peoples families are off limits and people's children are especially off limits.” CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic has more.
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What other moral lessons have the yet to teach us?
Is there nothing else to do in Alaska?
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Wasn''t Gov. Spitzer of NY also an ethics reformer? At least HE had the guts to step aside. Will she do the same?
Ethics, like charity, begins at home.
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Here but for the grace of God Go You !
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Regarding Palin acting morally superior...not aware of that posturing by her.
Many people have personal and family "mistakes". How this equates to her ability to lead the country escapes me. She isn''t hiding this, unlike Edwards little "mistake". Besides, I didn''t think character was supposed to be a presidential issue.
Its going to be hard enough on them as it is.
We don''t need this to beat McCain and Palin. They''ve already given us everything we need.
Right-wingers hold everyone else to standards higher than they themselves could ever meet.
Posted by willia451 at 12:56 PM : Sep 01, 2008
I agree. It''s just kind of funny and ironic that once again, the party of phony super-hero sized family values shows it to be all too human.
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Posted by Policrypt at 12:48 PM : Sep 01, 2008
Nice Policrypt! Christian values also includes the act of forgiveness.
So what do you say when a non-Christian gets pregnant out of wedlock? Or how about a Jew or a Hindu or a Muslim? Hmmm?
A few highlights of McCain%u2019s voting record:
He voted against requiring health care plans to cover birth control (3/22/03).
He voted against comprehensive, medically accurate *** education (7/25/06).
He voted against international family planning funding (3/14/96).
He voted against funding to prevent teen and unintended pregnancies (3/17/05).
He voted against public education for emergency contraception (3/17/05).
And he voted against restoring Medicaid funding that could be used for family planning for low-income women (3/17/05).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-on-abortion-id-oppo_n_122924.html
PAPA DON''T PREACH.
The Humantist Manifesto=their bible
God=Al Gore
The Messiah=Barack Obama
This is a religion and this is as blatant a religion as Christian, Muslim, or Hindi.
Dems = hope and change - ha ha ha ha ha ha give me a break.
Posted by drinuk a
Nope, sorry, I am not paid to post here and if you don''t like the hypocrisy of your so called leaders, don''t shoot the messenger.
Posted by jedi080808 at 01:05 PM : Sep 01, 2008
Hey believe whatever you want to I guess. I suppose next you''ll tell us Gustav hitting the same week as the RNC is also a good thing...
My thoughts exactly
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Posted by joker1944 at 01:00 PM : Sep 01, 2008
All party affiliations aside...should we not try to reach the behaviors typically known as "family values"? What''s wrong with family values? We have all strived to achieve something difficult in our lives...stop smoking, stay sober, fight for your marriage, get good grades, be a good parent, etc. So if the rule of the day is to criticize those who try to hold up a standard; who try to live by that standard; then pity on those critics. What standard are they holding up? What "value" are they teaching?
This just proves to me McCain is, more of the same as the Dems painted him.
He just lost my vote. With or without her...she is NOT the problem. How a candidate runs his campaign is indicitive of how he governs. Bush ran a mean campaign...we got a mean administration. McCain is running an imcompetant campaign. Need I say more?
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