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So let me get this straight.
Sep. 1st, 2008 02:18 pmApparently, rumors have been swirling over the past day or two that Sarah Palin's fifth child, born this spring, wasn't her child at all, but rather her 17-year-old daughter's child. Palin, the rumor went, adopted the child as her own because as a conservative evangelical Christian, pro-life, anti-birth-control, abstinence-education-only politician, having an unwed teenage daughter knocked up would maybe make her look a little bad, since everyone with half a brain is well aware that the main result of abstinence-only education is knocked-up unwed teenagers.
To "rebut" those rumors, Palin (and the McCain campaign) today made an announcement that the rumors cannot possibly be true. Why? Because Palin's 17-year-old daughter is *currently* 5 months pregnant. The timing just doesn;t work, y'see, and that makes it all better.
So okay, fine, that fifth child was Palin's, well and good. But do we now brush off the fact that her daughter really *is* pregnant at 17? It's swell that she plans to keep the child and marry the father (that should certainly work out well), and that Palin and the rest of her family fully support her in her premature adventure in parenthood. That's how it should be.
But what gets me most is that the McCain campaign is somehow trying to spin this into an anti-Obama thing. Quoth a senior aide in the McCain camp, "The despicable rumors that have been spread by liberal blogs, some even with Barack Obama's name in them, is a real anchor around the Democratic ticket, pulling them down in the mud in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their 'campaign of change.'" The Obama campaign, as far as I'm aware, didn't stir up the initial rumor, they didn't fan the flames it created, they didn't use or encourage it, and now that it's still more or less true, they aren't coming out shooting with it. Even though they probably should.
This is such an ugly election run-up, and it's sad that things like this are distracting so severely from the *real* issues at hand. To be honest, neither candidate is all I'd hope for, and I think it's going to be a closer race than it should be, given the borderline-absurd horror that has been the Bush administration. But even the hope of change is better than the 90% thumbs-up McCain has given to Bush over the past 8 years.
Nothing more to say. Time to go buy some wood!
To "rebut" those rumors, Palin (and the McCain campaign) today made an announcement that the rumors cannot possibly be true. Why? Because Palin's 17-year-old daughter is *currently* 5 months pregnant. The timing just doesn;t work, y'see, and that makes it all better.
So okay, fine, that fifth child was Palin's, well and good. But do we now brush off the fact that her daughter really *is* pregnant at 17? It's swell that she plans to keep the child and marry the father (that should certainly work out well), and that Palin and the rest of her family fully support her in her premature adventure in parenthood. That's how it should be.
But what gets me most is that the McCain campaign is somehow trying to spin this into an anti-Obama thing. Quoth a senior aide in the McCain camp, "The despicable rumors that have been spread by liberal blogs, some even with Barack Obama's name in them, is a real anchor around the Democratic ticket, pulling them down in the mud in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their 'campaign of change.'" The Obama campaign, as far as I'm aware, didn't stir up the initial rumor, they didn't fan the flames it created, they didn't use or encourage it, and now that it's still more or less true, they aren't coming out shooting with it. Even though they probably should.
This is such an ugly election run-up, and it's sad that things like this are distracting so severely from the *real* issues at hand. To be honest, neither candidate is all I'd hope for, and I think it's going to be a closer race than it should be, given the borderline-absurd horror that has been the Bush administration. But even the hope of change is better than the 90% thumbs-up McCain has given to Bush over the past 8 years.
Nothing more to say. Time to go buy some wood!
