Comments on: GASP! Bristol Palin IS Pregnant! The Palins Are Human!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:37:43 +0000

[Wendy is an RN and labor doula]

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:02:59 +0000

Hey, I don’t think the flying thing was so weird. She wasn’t in active labor, and she called her doctor who seemed to have no objection–so I don’t think one can fault her judgment. If she flew against medical advice, that would be different.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:00:07 +0000

Wanda — I believe it, but I still think the whole flying-8-hours-after-water-breaks thing strange and/or poor judgment.

Tigereye and Jackie — excellent points.

And to everyone, thank you for your comments.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:02:35 +0000

As a former teen mom (who is a total bitch about teen mom judgers), what I find interesting is that in Palin’s case, right-wing pundits are calling it a “private family matter” and the Palins are being made out to be brave martyrs suffering a bashing at the hands of the liberals. In fact, those same right-wing pundits were only a few months ago trashing another soon-to-be teenage mother: Jamie Lynn Spears. Then it wasn’t a “private family matter;” it was one of their examples of twisted family values, and Juno and Jamie Lynn were “glorifying” teen pregnancy and “making teen pregnancy seem cool,” much to conservative’s disgust.

But with Palin, it’s all about privacy, bravery, support, and a family’s love.

Don’t make me vomit, please.

By: tigereye

tigereye — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:39:32 +0000

It bothers me that McCain wants this girl’s privacy protected — as he should — when he was the one to make ugly jokes about Chelsea Clinton when she was 13. I’m not suggesting he should have been Bill Clinton’s BFF, but I think he could share this newly found compassion across party lines by not mocking any child.

By: Pandemonic

Pandemonic — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:02:37 +0000

Since I am a mother of a teenager not much older than Bristol, I’m keeping my mouth shut. The same situation could easily happen to me.

By: Corina

Corina — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:56:28 +0000

I agree that it isn’t hypocritical and should not be an issue. However, it makes me wonder what kind of a mother would put herself under the type of scrutiny that would shed this negative light on her 17 year old daughter. If I were Sarah Palin, I would have anticipated that this would come out and I would not want to put my daughter in the public light as she has done.

I actually liked her. No, she would not make me vote for McCain but I liked her energy and charisma and her freshness. Now it is all forgotten.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:49:33 +0000

This is a plus. As Mark Steyn points out in his recent best seller, America Alone, if our western civilization is demographically to survive in the increasingly “hostile to the west” islamic world — and not end up like the sinking European populations — these are the precise people (the Bristol Palins’) we should thank for increasing their progeny.

By: Wanda Rizzuto

Wanda Rizzuto — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:30:14 +0000

I don’t believe it. It comes just a little too close to the ugly rumors from the last couple of days. Doesn’t it seem just a little too convenient?

By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:07:00 +0000

Nice, McCain. What kind of soldier uses a pregnant 17-year-old girl as a political shield? You knew what this was going to do, how it would divert attention away from your policies. You are throwing her under the bus.