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Palin Says No Truth to Teen Daughter Being Pregnant Out of Wedlock Last Year Because She's Pregnant and Unmarried This Year

The BuzzFlash Editor's Blog (also see update at bottom of blog)

September 1, 2008

Talk about skeletons in the Palin family closet!

They are just starting to tumble out.

When we last discussed the Palin pregnant teen daughter rumor, we said that we did not find any conclusive evidence that Sarah Palin was claiming her fifth child to be her own when it was actually her teen daughter's, who had been sort of missing from school for several months.  We said our primary concern was with the judgment of the Palins in leaving Texas after the forty year old and then some Sarah Palin knew her bag of water had broken.  Indeed, she went on to give a speech and then fly 8 hours home with her husband, an action -- at her age, while carrying a pre-diagnosed child with down's syndrome -- that was reckless and life endangering. (She even by-passed hospitals in Anchorage to drive to a clinic in her hometown to deliver shortly thereafter.  A high-risk decision.)

And we focused on the point that such dangerous decision-making was a bad sign for the person who would be the next in line to be president when the presidential candidate whom she is running with would be the oldest elected occupant of the Oval Office in history and has a history himself of recurring skin cancer.

The title of our alert the other day was, "Did Sarah Palin Endanger the Life of Her Fifth Child? Or is the Swirling Rumor True?" (It got 112 reader comments. You should read them.)

Okay, now it is fittingly Labor Day (if you catch the double entendre) and the McCain-Palin campaign released a doozy of a news release.  No, the rumors that Sarah Palin was pretending to cover up for her "no sex before marriage Christian fundamentalist" family credo by pretending to be the mother of her daughter's daughter weren't true, just scurrilous slanders on the family and daughter.

What is true is even more bizzarre.  The McCain-Palin campaign are expressing disdain at all this "slander," so they revealed the Christian truth: Sarah Palin Says That There is No Truth to Her Teen Daughter Being Pregnant Out of Wedlock Last Year Because the Daughter in Question is Pregnant and Unmarried This Year.

We thought that McCain appointed a vice presidential candidate to appeal to the religious right, but now we find that we've just entered into the middle of another hypocritical fundamentalist soap opera, only of the moose shooting family lifestyle kind. (McCain, according to CNN, knew of the unwed teen pregnancy in advance of his last-minute rushed choice of Palin.  But watch for this "emerging" story to take a few more twists before it's put to bed, so to speak.)

There's not a lot of outdoor or indoor movie theaters up there in Alaska, so it's probably not surprising that young people turn to sex, which they do everywhere anyway.

But when you got a fundamentalist hot mama preaching the gospel and abstinence -- and who seems to have had a shot gun wedding of her own -- you know why McCain might regard Palin as his spritual soulmate (besides the fact that he can't seem to stop nervously staring at her breasts -- just watch the You-Tube of his announcing her as VP candidate). 

It's because we are going to have four more years of stuff-it-down your throat moral hypocrisy if these two are elected, not to mention a president who is made for the 18th Century and a Vice President who is apparently a supporter of the Alaskan Seccessionist Party.  Not too mention that we will be saddled with the brainless Republican thinking that believes you shoot down rumors of your unwed teen daughter having been pregnant by revealing that she is pregnant now and still unwed.

Do you remember the song "Harper Valley PTA"?  Well that's who we've got running on the Republican ticket:

I want to tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widowed wife Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play She said, "Mom, I got a note here from the Harper Valley P.T.A."

The note said, "Mrs. Johnson, you're wearing your dresses way too high It's reported you've been drinking and a-runnin' 'round with men and going wild And we don't believe you ought to be bringing up your little girl this way" It was signed by the secretary, Harper Valley P.T.A.

Well, it happened that the P.T.A. was gonna meet that very afternoon They were sure surprised when Mrs. Johnson wore her mini-skirt into the room And as she walked up to the blackboard, I still recall the words she had to say She said, "I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley P.T.A."

Well, there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there and seven times he's asked me for a date Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he's away And Mr. Baker, can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town? And shouldn't widow Jones be told to keep her window shades all pulled completely down?

Well, Mr. Harper couldn't be here 'cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath, you'll find she's had a little nip of gin Then you have the nerve to tell me you think that as a mother I'm not fit Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites.

Okay, one thing that we can be sure of is that this seedy side story to the Palin announcement is far from over.  The McCain campaign appointed her in such a hurry, they hardly vetted anything beyond her photograph.

So as more spills out, when will America wake up and realize that we deserve good sound judgment and good policy decisions, not the Republican ticket version of the "Harper Valley PTA"?

The BuzzFlash Editor's Blog

BuzzFlash Update: Yes, the right wing is now telling us that this is a "private matter," but they didn't think that about Bill Clinton's blow job.  We are so sick of their "abstinence" hypocrisy and damnation for sex before marriage, but if you pass their "Christ" test all is forgiven.  They are like a Biblical "members only" club of dishonesty and arrogance.

The real miscarriage of justice and motherhood here is that, according to the McCain/Palin news release, Palin --obviously-- and McCain knew about this before Palin was announced as the GOP VP Candidate.  Now take a 17 year old adolesecent girl from a small town in Alaska who is pregnant out of wedlock and her mother throws her to the wolves by accepting the VP spot knowing that inevitably word of her pregnancy would leak out.  We suppose that makes Palin a noble mother in fundamentalist circles, but it is just cruel to Bristol who bears no shame other than that her mother chose her own ambition over the privacy of her daughter. 

Yes, people should be allowed their private lives, but Sarah Palin knew she was exposing her daughter to embarrasment and ridicule that she doesn't deserve when her mother sought and accepted the VP nomination. That is not a mother that I would like to have.  I would want want one who would protect me from such exposure, not seek it.  Unless Palin was planning on hiding Bristol for another four months, the secret was going to be known sooner or later.  And now a 17-year-old is at the center of a national story that we can be sure Bristol would rather have been confined to her frontier city in Alaska. 


In my opinion this is now

In my opinion this is now becoming more and more day by day and there is no fault of Baby. Therefore, baby has full rights to come in this world.

Palin Says No Truth to Teen Daughter Being Pregnant

Why comment further? During the fall of Rome, the leaders felt they could do no wrong, and dictate to their subjects what was just and pure. She is no different than those that have been in power in this country for many years now. Do as I say, not as I do. And to think I went in the military to fight against the Soviets. It was a wasted effort, as is the current enemy. At least we weren't being killed for thier pipe dream of world domination then. Now they send YOUR kids to die for thier next financial portfolio windfall. OILMEN in charge, as we fight a war for oil, fancy that.

More to come I'm sure

I read where the Enquirer is negotiating for some old photos of Palin. Haven't heard what kind of photos, but I think we can figure it out if the Enquirer is interested. This is going to be a hoot, one more great example of GOP hypocrisy.

Chinatown Redux?

Scenario to be considered....When her disappeared daughter's water breaks in Alaska, Mrs Palin announces in Texas that her own water had broken. She then takes an 8 hr flight where stewardesses report she doesnt look pregnant or uncomfortable. Then she takes a long drive past several major hospitals, to a remote medical centre where the delivering doctor was not affiliated, but was in fact a specialist in teenage pregnancies due to rape or abuse. Three days later Mrs Palin reappears at work, still no sign of preganancy. POTUS material? BushCo's follow-up act? Last days of the Roman empire?

Not buying it

Another piece to this.. Even a severe case of Mononucleosis wouldn't keep a child out of school for 5 months. It is usually over in two to four weeks. A really severe case, maybe a couple months, but not five months. Nobody is really talking about that. They are just accepting everything they are told without question. Why is that? Curious that her 5 months away corresponds with the mom being pregnant and giving birth. It's interesting this announcement came out today saying the daughter was 5 months pregnant. Too pregnant to be the mom (baby is 4 months - daughter is 5 months pregnant), it would explain her leftover baby weight beings they are out on the campaign trail and being photographed (if her daughter actually is the mom - am I the only person noticing that her daughter is the one always holding the baby?), and the daughter's due date wouldn't be until after the election if in fact she were really pregnant. It would stop investigating and questions in their tracks and take the spotlight away because it's a private family, matter and children in an election are off limits (something I normally, wholeheartedly agree with). Time will tell the story. The problem is already compounded with all the rest of the holes in this story, the discrepancies, and all the photos and quotes from people who were around the Governor before she gave birth that tell a very different story and raise logical questions. Those questions will need to be answered. Those questions should be easily answered. It is difficult to mess with birth certificates, medical records, hospital records, digital records like ultrasounds, etc.. This story should be easy enough to put to bed. It just doesn't feel right.

CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA!

The CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA, WolfE boy on Fox's sister station CNN, had Obama on saying that HIS CAMPAIN is not putting out the stories about POLIN, well the only connections that I have to OBAMA campain is One that I am a NEW DEMOCATIC person, I will vote for Obama. But that is my connection to Obama, for I am free to think for my self and get very tired of the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA CRYING all FAKE tears when the REPUBLICAN PARTY is caught with there pants down, this is a Rove(TURD BLOSSOM) trick, amd LIE-berman and friends trick, when caught cry FOWL and blame the DEMOCRATIC PARTY of playing dirty,and the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA will have the REPUBLICAN PARTYS BACK. Do not leave this story about Polin fade for it STINKS like one of those ALASKAN FISH CANNERYS.

Rumor is not new...

Actually that rumor was started in Alaska within weeks of her pregnancy announcement when people noticed that Bristol hadn't been seen for a couple of months and for a woman that was 7 months pregnant her figure was still extremely trim and continued immediately after Trig's birth one month later, a month pre-mature. Her water broke, according to her own account, in Texas, after which she gave her 30 minute speech, finished a half hour meet and greet, then flew, commercial air (as she had alread sold the governors jet in 2007) back to Anchorage to give birth. I did go to the Mat Su Regional Medical Center web site where according to Palins spokes person in an April 18, 2008 announcement to the Anchorage Times, that Trig was born. The hospital offers a whole birth roster of babies born there with pics, and family data. On April 18, two babies were born, a boy and a girl but there is no mention of this child being born to these parents. From the 15th to the 20th, no record of a Trig Paxson Van Palin being born to the Palins.

I'm just not buying it.

There are just far too many holes in this story. I am a mother of a Down Syndrome child. He was my third. My husband is a doctor. We are both stunned with this story. There are many pieces that obviously don't fit together or make any sense, but the part that does me in is this: she is a 44 year old woman who is pregnant with her 5th child (though not showing at all), who has already been identified as having Down Syndrome, she flies to Dallas to give a speech in Dallas but first her water starts to break and she starts having contractions (yet gives the speech anyways). She then boards a commercial airliner and flies across the country with one stop on her way to Alaska over an eight hour period (the airline stewardesses after being questioned said she was pleasant, seemed in no distress, and didn't appear pregnant at all), and then she drives for another hour to supposedly give birth a month before she was due (as in premature)at a medical center that now doesn't show a baby with that name being born, and the doctor who delivered (who just happened to be the medical director) is no long on staff. Then she shows up at work three days later. For starters, with each consecutive pregnancy, the likelihood is that the birth is much faster - especially after the water breaks. She had a high risk birth with the known Down Syndrome factor. As a mother of a special needs child, you would NEVER put your infant in that kind of risk by flying for 8 hours where there is no medical care available, and you put the entire list of passengers and crew at risk. You don't know what will happen during those eight hours. Why would you do that? Secondly, no doctor in their right mind who is practicing and has their license to consider (let alone their malpractice insurance to pay) would tell a 44 year old woman, pregnant with a Down Syndrome baby, who is having contractions and her water is breaking, and she is a month ahead of her due date.. No doctor that actually cares about their license would tell this mother it was okay to get on a flight for 8 hours. It just wouldn't happen. I'm not even touching the rest of the holes.. I'm just not buying this story. This woman is either out of her mind, lacks total judgment and is totally irresponsible, or is fabricating an enormous hoax to cover a private family matter. Not only that, but if it is a fabrication, she is using this infant to push her social agenda by saying that they decided to have this child because they don't believe in abortion under any circumstance. People are using this birth as a way to hold her up as brave, and strong. That makes the baby a political pawn. I could accept that this was an honorable loving act that they privately chose to do for their daughter (if that is the case) if she wasn't holding her daughter up to be humiliated in front of the entire country to further her own political career. She puts her children at risk and exposure. That is unacceptable and not worthy of someone possibly being in position to be president of the US. This is what matters here. Her judgment, her credibility, and her character. It is very tough and very time consuming being the parent of an infant with Down Syndrome. It is a huge commitment as a parent. She went back to work three days later.. I have to say this makes no sense.

A darker reason?

If Palin's story is not true, then it is a lie. But if it is true? Well, perhaps she really did not want to give birth to a viable Downs child.

Bible Birth Control

Abstinance for the win. Gotta love Rethuglican stupidity. Comic Book Guy says "Worst people ever".

Statutory rape charges?

Wouldn't the baby daddy be guilty of statutory rape since the girl is 17? Just sayin'.. This whole thing is sickening on so many levels. My brother said only yesterday that he and his friends were guffawing about how "hot" Sarah Palin in and how cool it would be to have her as president at some point. I don't agree at all. I think she looks like a holy roller and has the hypocritical and false "morals" of the fundamentalists. "Wholesome" on the outside, slutty on the inside. Barak Obama, stay cool and be yourself through this circus and you'll be President soon.

Obvious that Sarah Palin was thoroughly vetted by

JERRY SPRINGER!

You HAVE to be kidding me

So THIS is the best "dirt" that anyone can come up with on Palin? She has a daughter who screwed around and got pregnant? This is precisely the line of trivial thinking that has caused the Democratic party to lose seven of the last ten presidential elections. Policy for policy, there is no way that Obama can lose. Getting personal on these kinds of stupid "issues" is going to do nothing but ensure that McCain/Palin occupy the White House for the next four years. Don't start playing this game.

It's the Child Endangerment, Stupid

Uh, no. The "best dirt" as you call it is the fact that Sarah Palin publicly admits that she neglected the medical needs of a special-needs premature infant for over 10 hours. Her explanation? "You can't have a fishpicker from Texas."

She committed a crime, child endangerment, and she will be indicted for it sooner or later. You can't just decide not to get your children emergency medical care because it doesn't fit your political schedule.

http://startelegram.typepad.com/politex/2008/04/governors-water.html

Read it and weep. Your noise machine can't keep pace with our truth barrage, because the truth stays the same even when we're not talking about it. It never goes away and neither will this story.

McCain on FOX about Palin

It is remarkable that McCain purports to have 'watched' Sarah Palin "for many, many years" when she has only been active in anything larger than local politics since 2002. It is quite possible that he is merely delusional and confusing episodes of "Northern Exposure" with real life.

Have the Republicans finally made their Eagleton pick?

My gut instinct is telling me that the Republicans have finally done their version of the Eagleton pick.

Is Jeb Bush going to be this year's Sargent Shriver?

Did Sarah drink wine lately?

I wonder if anyone remembers Sarah drinking alcohol during her pregnancy? A glass or two of wine with dinner ...beer,,,

Sheesh, ...

...so after BUZZFLASH has rationalized its coverage of this stupid non-issue into the ground, what exactly will we progressives have gained for the long run?

Sheesh? Not even close.

What we progressives may gain from this is the absolute most beautiful example of Republican lying and hypocrisy we could ever hope for. These are people that want us to follow their rules on how to raise our families, but don't come close themselves. We can gain more from this if properly used than comparing healthcare, Iraq, etc. policies. This could give us their collapse. But we won't. People on the left would rather lose than get their hands dirty.

The Story on Palin's 5th Child

I am an Air Force vet and I am shocked as to the "story" of Sarah Palin and the story surrounding the birth of her 5th child. First, let me just say her daughter's situation is none of our business - leave the girl alone. But to the birth of Trig, that's a different subject because it involves some basic decision making. My wife and I were put on an emergency medevac flight from Japan to California when she was found to potentially have a high-risk situation for the premature birth of our child. Since it was discovered in the 3rd trimester, the flight was a bit risky in her condition ( 8 and a half months) - but it was the only way to get her to a facility with the technology needed at that time. During the flight, she was put in a litter and was kept lying down with IV's the entire way, nurses continously keeping track of her vitals. Fast-forward to the Palin story. Obviously there could be circumstances about the entire "story" that would explain everything if it were known. However, as it stands now - through the information I have read to date - I am a stunned. A woman, who professes to be a right to life politician, knowingly delays going to an emergency room after her water breaks while she knowingly is carrying a Down's Syndrome child and knows it will be many hours until she returns "home" to deliver her 5th child. It's that series of decision-making (about something that should be THE MOST important priority in her life - not a speech or any piece of local, state or national politics) that really makes me scratch my head and wonder about the entire scenario. So I'm wondering what was she thinking?

Somewhere a soap opera is

Somewhere a soap opera is missing it's script writer.

I can hear Europe laughing from here.

Up next....

she has had a miscarriage and the story is over.

"they hardly vetted anything beyond her photograph"

THIS photograph?
http://thebruceblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/sarah-palin-do-you-like-my-flag-bikini-the-perfect-huntin-attire/

Or maybe THIS one?
http://thebruceblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-catsuit/

ROTFLMAO. Yup. I predict another Harriet Miers scenario...

Why THIS announcement, why NOW??

This is a whole 'nother level of weird, and I don't buy it. My first thought about all of this was that I couldn't imagine a parent who, having responsibility for a tiny, 4 month old infant with Down Syndrome, would indulge their unwarranted ambition for a post she or he was clearly not qualified for. (I mean, it is not like Governor Palin has some great gift or ability or experience that is vital for the future of the country. Please, Governor, don't sacrifice your sweet child for us! It really isn't necessary!) Now, if this too-convenient teen pregnancy story is true, it compounds my concerns about Gov Palin. She has a teenaged, pregnant daughter, and she wants to thrust HER and this sad situation into the heat of a national campaign? Her instinct is to put her daughter out there (knowing, too, all the rumors that have been circulating in Alaska for MONTHS about her daughter and this baby) in the spotlight, as her condition, literally, grows? Again, I don't buy it. If, as CBS's coverage suggests, this new announcement was made to stop bloggers from speculating about this goofy pregnancy and Texas flight story, all the Palins had to do was show a birth certificate. It's a national political campaign, and candidates really do have to expect and cooperate with all manner of intrusive questions. It's just the way it is. What's the big deal about releasing a birth certificate, anyway? So instead of just showing a birth certificate, or explaining why there is nothing in the published record of the hospital about the birth of Baby Trig, they prefer to make a statement that their young, unmarried daughter is NOW pregnant! Does anyone else find this absolutely outrageous?? It's intrusive to be asked for a birth certificate, but not a problem to expose your daughter's private, sad situation in a public announcement? When there is an alternative? Mark my words--poor Bristol will be out of sight from now on, and about the time of the expected delivery we will hear that the baby was adopted, or lost, and everyone will forget the sordid little family drama we were witness to. I really don't buy it.

DKOS Diarist is a Thief and a Plagiarist

I'm sick and tired of DKOS Diarist NOT giving trackbacks to the people who really do the work! I'm not going to take it anymore and if you steal from me I'm going to call you on it! 21 hours after this was posted the DKOS Diarist posted our research of this subject! They even copy and pasted some people remarks then posted them as his own. Who's Your Momma? Did Sarah Palin have the Baby or, her 16 year old daughter? WHOA!!! Aug 29 2008, 05:56 PM Cover-up? Alaska Gov. Palin ® announced she was pregnant. Local rumors suggest she is covering up for her 16 y/o daughter. jibegod posted: Second post the first post was today 4 month after the thread started. On March 5th, 2008 Alaska's Republican Governor, Sarah Palin, announced to the media that she was 7 months pregnant with her 5th child. She is currently 44. The controversy arises from two sources: First, Palin does not appear pregnant in any recent photographs. The announcement came as quite a shock to people who had worked closely with her, and have been quoted as saying that she did not appear pregnant whatsoever during the prior 7 months. While this is debatable, you can judge for yourself here: http://gov.state.ak.us/photos.php The State of Alaska has REMOVED the photo! But I saw it and she had on tight pants with a very flat stomach. Second, Palin's daughter Bristol is 16 and attends an Anchorage high school. Students who have attended class with her report that she has been out of school for months, claiming a prolonged case of mono. Apparently, this rumor has made the rounds in the upper echelon of the Alaska legislature, and is a closely guarded secret. As far as I know, this rumor has not been discussed by any media outlets, in Alaska or otherwise. The points here are based mostly upon hearsay, and I'm not trying to destroy an innocent family. However, a Republican politician hiding a pregnant teenage daughter seems rather newsworthy. http://www.reddit.com/comments/6f3nq/cover...nounced_she_was AND then there is this: What woman who's had 4 kids has her water break in Texas gets on a plane that take hours to get to Alaska and then delivers. Sorry I've had 2 and the more ya have the faster they come into this world. The baby delivers one month early and she didn't KNOW she was in labor after 4 kids? HORSE PADDY'S! Governor cuts Texas trip short, gives birth ONE MONTH EARLY: Palin flew home to deliver 6-pound Trig. By KYLE HOPKINS khopkins@adn.com Published: April 19th, 2008 12:32 AM Last Modified: April 19th, 2008 02:39 AM Gov. Sarah Palin gave birth to her fifth child at 6:30 a.m. Friday, flying home from a conference in Texas to have the baby boy at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center. Meet Trig Paxson Van Palin. He's 6 pounds, 2 ounces, and about a month early. "It was quite a surprise," said Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow. Palin and her husband, Todd, had been in Texas since Tuesday for a Republican Governors Association convention, Leighow said. The Palin family issued a statement that read: "Trig is beautiful and already adored by us. We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow us unspeakable joy as he entered our lives." Asked what special challenges the family was referring to, Leighow said, "It's a family matter, and that information should come from the governor herself." Leighow said Palin and her son were healthy and resting comfortably Friday. The sequence of events surrounding the labor was unclear. An announcement from the state said that Palin's "labor began (Thursday) while she was in Texas at the governor's energy conference, where she gave the keynote luncheon address, but let up enough for her to travel on Alaska Airlines back to Alaska in time to deliver her second son." Leighow said she doesn't know when Palin's contractions began. "The governor would have never left Texas if she thought that it put her child at risk," she said. Palin's parents, Chuck and Sally Heath, declined to be interviewed. Like the rest of Alaskans, Leighow said, she learned the baby's name on Friday. http://www.adn.com/front/story/380560.html

Palin baby

Senator Obama said to stop with the baby slander...why are you doing this? Denver is in the Rocky Mountains

Who's Your Momma? Did Sarah Palin have the Baby or, her 16 year

http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?showtopic=7420

of the numerous curiosities,

of the numerous curiosities, some can be fairly easily investigated by reporters. One thing I'd go for first is why did the hospital not list Trig's birth on their website as they do all births?

No Trig baby picture, no doctor name listed either

I suppose Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson could have some arrangement to practice at the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, where she supposedly delivered Trig Palin, but she isn't listed as an affiliated physician there. She is a family physician who founded her own clinic. She specializes in working with teenagers who are pregnant or parenting, and who have been victims of sexual or physical abuse. In all of Alaska, I wonder if there are any doctors better suited to handle a premature delivery of a DS baby whose mother is 44 years old.

Sarah did help Dr. Cathy out over the years -- writing a letter of recommendation which helped Cathy be named physician of the year in 2002, and establishing the Alaska Health Care Strategies Planning Council in 2007 and appointing Cathy as a member.

There are probably reasonable excuses for why baby Trig does not appear on the birth announce pages, and why Baldwin-Johnson doesn't seem to have a relationship with the hospital baby Trig was born at. And maybe there's even a good reason why Sarah Palin opted for a family doctor instead of an OB-GYN or even a DS specialist. I just can't find the reasons yet.

Sarah and Bristol Palin and no baby at Mat-Su hospital

Mat-Su Medical Center has NO record of "Trig" in it's birth notices. Not in April, or May or anywhere. Here is it's list. http://www.matsuregional.com/nursery/nursery_name.php?start=60&step=30&count=503 Wouldn't anyone think a regional medical center would be so very proud that THEY delivered the governor's baby. I don't imagine anyone would be able to stop them from trumpeting the birth, and WHY would anyone wish to "bury" the occasion, if it did happen as the Governor has claimed. Think about it. Sarah Palin is lying.

Mat -Su Hospital

Pulled it's web site off line>.< Like most of the Alaska State pics were removed by late friday night.

there are days THAT THE JOKES JUST WRITE THEMSELVES

i was looking for something strange..... OFF THE WALL.... crazy... something FROM THE ONION... like.... McCain picks WET T-SHIRT competition for his MILF wife as the candidate for VEEP. but that seemed UNBELIEVABLE... so i added.... lets make her a GUN TOTING, MOOSE CHEWING, FUNDI MOTHER living in the ALASKAN OUTBACK. Maybe give her NO EXPERIENCE and a VIDEO asking "so what does the VEEP do for a living"... as she leaves her trailer. AHHH... STILL NOT ENOUGH.... let's have her husband work for THE OIL INDUSTRY... and toss in a PREGO DAUGHTER... and SOME POLITICAL SCANDAL about ABUSE OF POWER.... -------------------------sadly.... i am still awaiting word that her brother is a crack-whore and that through a tracing of her family tree she is indeed HER OWN GRANDMA !!!! AS A DEMOCRAT.... I FINALLY HAVE PROOF THAT THERE IS A GOD ..........AND THAT SHE IS IN HEAVEN LAUGHING HER ASS OFF ! ! !! ! !

Sarah and Bristol Palin

We have NO idea whether Sarah Palin is telling the truth about "Bristol being 5 months pregnant". Doesn't anyone else find it interesting that the statement makes the EXACT claim which would "prove" Bristol couldn't be Trig's mother BECAUSE she is 5 months pregnant now, but without addressing the actual claim that Bristol is Trig's mother? Actually, without ANY mention of Trig. If, and at this point I must think if, Bristol is pregnant again, I predict she isn't 5 months along yet, or that we will be told in October that poor Bristol "lost" the pregnancy. Thus "proof" will be all gone, and they - the anti-sex education, flat-earth fundamentalists - and McCain can get an October surprise sympathy vote. "Poor Bristol", used mercilessly by her fundamentalist, crazy mother for political gain. Reporters need to ask Sarah Palin about abstinence only and no sex education and just WHY she wants to make it public policy for ALL of us when it doesn't work for anyone, even her own family.

Or the third option

That the baby is much overdue when it arrives.

Or the fourth option. That Bristol is so upset by all the publicity that she goes off to an undisclosed secret location to give birth and stays out of sight for several months (long enough for it to be difficult to ascertain the true age of the baby.

That last one requires some complicity on the part of at least one doctor and the authorities issuing the birth certificate. But certainly feasible if Bristol goes off to a third-world country where corruption is endemic. Or stays in Alaska, for that matter.

But if Sarah did operate a cover-up, I can't fault her too badly for it. Back when I was a young kid a relative was in a similar position, that branch of the family was Catholic, so it was either public shame or a cover-up. What I can fault, however, is the idea that teaching sexual abstinence works. What I can also fault is the complete refusal to permit abortion in such a situation, not even allowing the kid to make up her own mind.

Don't Focus on Palin too Much

This all has to be framed as an example of McBane's poor judgment. How can he lead the United States of America if he rushes into poor judgments like this last one? She was barely vetted at all. I'm sure all they verified was that she is a staunch, pro-life Conservative who has never been raped by an ape. TS

Cognitive Dissonance

I'm curious how the fundies will spin this. Their cognitive dissonance knows no boundary whatsoever. Indeed... Bristol has no boundaries. 1. How old is the boy who got her pregnant. How old was Bristol when she first missed her period. I want to know if statutory rape is at issue here. I have no idea what state law says in AK about such things. Does anyone know? 2. What kind of message does this send to youth? I can answer that one at least partially. The message is that abstinence doesn't work and you WILL get pregnant when you fuck without contraception. Oh, I forgot. We're not supposed to tell our kids about sex. Sorry. I forgot. 3. What kind of message is this for AK voters? How about to fundie (McCain's base) voters? She HID this very important item from public view until it was forced out into the open. Okay, it's not like everyone goes around and says "Look, my 16 year old daughter is pregnant and not married! Yippee!" but won't fundies take this to task? Oh, I nearly forgot. My premise is cognitive dissonance. They will spin this positively no matter how it happened. 4. I realize this is reconcilable to fundies who supported that whacko polygamy colony in TX, but I've got news for them. This is not something we do everywhere. My God. The rest of the world must think we're the stupidest population of people on the planet.

Teenage Daughter

This is too much, they should give the Palin family their own reality show. Of course it would be too spicy for primetime television. Everyday something new jumps out of the box with these Republicans. I can not wait for the hypocritical spin on this one by Faux News.