Sarah, Todd Palin Release Statement on Daughter Bristol’s Pregnancy
Sarah and Todd Palin issued the following statement regarding today’s Reuters story:
“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.”
Comments sure to follow
by Mondoreb
images: Heidi from Pittsburgh for DBKP
So a shotgun wedding? Yeah, that has a great chance of long term success. If you’re against abortion, then give the baby up for adoption so at least it will have a decent chance.
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Seems like most Democrats are so scared of Palin, they’ll invent any scandal they can think of just to smear her.
Not really here baby? Well, she flew when she was pregnant, and that’s hypocritical, right?
No wait, her daughter is pregnant, and that’s hypocritical, right?
Remember when Chelsea Clinton lost her virginity?
Of course you don’t, because everyone in the media gave her the privacy that the intimate details of minors deserve.
Personally I think all these attacks on Palin are only going to double the amount of money Republicans have in their warchest by the time the election rolls around.
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Barack Obama’s mother was younger than Bristol Palin when she conceived Obama.
Oh wait, it wasn’t hypocritical because Obama’s mama was unmarrried when she became pregant and her babydaddy was a muslim.
All true, but you don’t hear the DailyKos talking about that much these days.
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The DNC is terrified that Palin is going to run away with this election..
They built their campaign and ran their convention based entirely on a
McCain is old and feeble platform, but now
even Obama looks like an old man standing next to Palin.
Palin’s tough, she’s no bs, and she’s smart.
Palin’s not a Hillary substitute- she’s the new improved Hillary without the baggage.
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Shelly, it’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read your post, it would have splattered over my laptop.
Even before this, I thought Palin was a lousy pick. Today, even Eagleton looked like a better choice (remember him)?
She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it (and kept the money) and it’s also been revealed that she ws for Sen. Ten Stevens before she was against him.
In her daughter’s case, she was adamant in faith based birth control, but now on the heels of her kid’s pregnancy (which Palin knew about for months) she’s now for premarital sex and shotgun weddings.
Talk about a trifecta!
If Palin was so goddamn proud of her daughter’s pregnancy, why didn’t she speak about that last week, when she was so busy touting her son’s upcoming in service in Iraq (which, according to local Alaska blogs, only came about because he couldn’t keep up a 2.0 GPA at the Univ. of Alaska while on a hockey scholarship).
However, amazingly, we do agree on a few things: McCain is old and the Republican platform is feeble, and Palin is no Hillary substitute.
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I don’t know, why doesn’t Barack Obama talk about his mom getting pregnant with him when she was 17?
These days a 25 year old Barack Obama, Sr. sleeping with a 17 year old would be stauattory rape?
Was Barack Obama, Sr. really still married to Kezia Obama of Bracknell England when he impreganated the 17 year old Ann Dunham?
That means Barack Obama’s mom was a 17 year old unwed mother with a deadbeat dad.
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Michael, while your spelling is atrocious (Statuatory and impregated, for instance) your facts are indisputable.
And while I’m sure Ann Dunham didn’t approve of her son Barack using crack cocaine as he wrote in about in his book, Sarah Palin probably didn’t want her 18 year old daughter having a baby either.
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Thanks Schoolmom.
I love how Democrazies like PJ make their case.
Hillary Clinton = Whitewater
Joe Biden = Plagiarizer, BUT
Sarah Palin = Parent of an underage mother.
Yeah, I know which one I’ll vote for.
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There are many other reasons why people are not going to fall for this pandering and vote for McPain. Being the parent of an teenager mother is the least of them.
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So what are they PJ?
Name five good reasons fore me not to vote for Palin specifically as the VP candidate?
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1. She’s from Alaska and there ain’t nothin’ but white peoples up there.
2. She’s got a kid who’s having the premarital sex.
3. She’s been doin’ some flying while pregnant and we all know that’s the biggest hypocrites of all.
4. She said she smoked some pot and if you want to be president, you better say you didn’t inhale or right about smoking crack in your book.
5. She ain’t no muslim. We’re electing a muslim this year!
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She opposes abortion even in the cases of rape or incest.
She doesn’t believe in birth control. The only form of birth control she approves of is abstinence.
She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it (and kept the federal money to boot).
She was also for Sen. Ted Stevens (now under indictment) before she was against him.
She was the mayor of a small town (9000 residents), raised their sales tax, and when she left office, the
town was saddled with debt. She’s been Gov for barely two years. So much for her executive exp.
Her views on foreign policy are unknown. I don’t think that Alaska being close to Russia counts for foreign policy exp. However, we do know that earlier in the spring, during an interview, she said she didn’t know what a VP did.
She’s under an ethics investigation for abuse of power. She and her hubby put pressure to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from his job, andthen fired the guy who refused to fire the BIL. At first she denied that she or any of her aides had applied pressure, but when a tape recording came out that showed her close aide did, she had to backtrack. Now today it was just revealed that she’s lawyered up in the matter.
She’s for ANWR.
She’s for creationism.
Plus, from what I’ve been reading at several Alaska blogs, even many Repubs in her home state don’t think she’s qualified. And they know her better than I do.
Well, I guess that’s more than five.
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Ok, PJ, I’ll pick one of your assertions at random,
“Her views on foreign policy are unknown. I don’t think that Alaska being close to Russia counts for foreign policy exp. However, we do know that earlier in the spring, during an interview, she said she didn’t know what a VP did. “.
For your credibility, please provide a link to this interview from a legitimate source (not your website).
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Also, please provide a link for your assertion that Mayor Palin’s town debt was higher when she left office than when she entered the office of mayor.
“She was the mayor of a small town (9000 residents), raised their sales tax, and when she left office, the
town was saddled with debt. She’s been Gov for barely two years. So much for her executive exp.”
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You’re wasting your time.
PJ is not dealing with the world of factual information.
PJ has a blog where she pretends she has known about Sarah Palin since prior to Friday.
Google archives show that’s not true.
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So PJ, what do you have to say about Barack Obama’s mother being an unmarried 17 year old when he was conceived?
Do you deny this?
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12969.html
“Count Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as one of the most surprised that she was chosen as the running mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
In an interview just a month ago, she dissed the job, saying it didn’t seem “productive.â€
In fact, she said she didn’t know what the vice president does.”
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Schoolmarm, why should I deny that Obama’s mother was an unwed mother when she had him? It’s the truth.
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Schoolmarm, I don’t have to pretend anything. I wouldn’t have been able to pick Sarah Palin out of police lineup before Friday. I stared hitting the Alaska blogs on Friday.
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Well PJ, you have not supplied the actual quote, merely a comment on the quote from Politico blogger Mike Allen, who wasn’t even present at the interview.
Readers of the full quote immediately understand that Palin was making a point that she did not want to be a symbolic figurehead.
“Palin replied: “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.â€
It makes me feel pretty secure about Sarah Palin as a pick when this is the best the DNC’s finest like PJ can come up with.
PJ has been pwned.
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What the heck is pwned???
Look, I gave you the link, the video has been all over the tube…hey, don’t even link me to the DNC. I have nothing to do with them.
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Here’s five good reasons not to vote for Barack Obama.
(1) He has never run a company, city, or state, unlike Palin, who has run both a city and a state.
(2) His second in command has trouble telling the truth, is a known plagiarizer and draft dodger who faked asthma to avoid the service, unlike Palin, who tells the public the whole truth when asked about it and has a son in the service.
(3) He has more muslim siblings than any candidate in the history of any American office, from dogcatcher to president.
Palin has no muslim siblings.
(4) He has admitted to using crack cocaine.
(5) His spiritual advisor, pastor Jeremia Wright, is a bigot if not an outright racist, homophobe, and holocaust denier.
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http://www.adn.com/matsu/story/474934.html
http://dwb.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/9055227p-8971221c.html
Apparently this was a very complex land deal that went South, some people have called it a boondoogle, it involved eminent domain and has been dragging through the courts for a number of years. .
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From: http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate
Submitted by Michael Wrightson on Sept 1, 2008
A note to all by Anne Kilkenny
Dear friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the
last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in
common: their gender and their good looks.
You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts
with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on
any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . . (PJ: I have deleted her e-mail addy; I found this
on a website tonight).
[ This was already posted on Washington Independent comments area,
with a controllable hotmail account, and was obviously meant by the
author to be read. ]
Thanks,
Anne
ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.
She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular
girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won’t vote for her can’t quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a “babe”.
It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.
She is “pro-life”. She recently gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby.
There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.
She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.
She is savvy. She doesn’t take positions; she just “puts things out
there” and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.
Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his
work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans.
Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.
She’s smart.
Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.
During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservativeâ€. During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.
The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later–to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the
community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it
would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that
could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.
While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
redecorated more than once.
These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.
As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.
In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today’s
surplus, borrow for needs.
She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by
her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the
basis of who proposed them.
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club†when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of “old boys”. Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal–loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).
As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidatedâ€
her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska’s top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure
and she had every legal right to fire him, but it’s pretty clear that
an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn’t
fire her sister’s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation
for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she
later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.
She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.
Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
publicly about her.
When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club†when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).
As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to
nowhere†after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.
As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects–which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance–but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as “anti-porkâ€.
She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.
Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her “Sarah Barracuda†because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah’s
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as “AGIA†that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.
Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to
global warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen†against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s
lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar
bears as threatened species.
McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a
heartbeat away from being President.
There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
knowledgeable and experienced than she.
However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
regretting it.
CLAIM VS FACT
•“Hockey momâ€: true for a few years
•“PTA momâ€: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
•“NRA supporterâ€: absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
promote it.
•“Pro-lifeâ€: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
•“Experiencedâ€: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•â€a Greenieâ€: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on
residents
•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
government in Wasilla’s history.
•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union
doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
that she is pro-labor/pro-union.
WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.
Secondly, I’ve always operated in the belief that “Bad things happen
when good people stay silent”. Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.
Third, I am just a housewife. I don’t have a job she can bump me out
of. I don’t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.
Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100
or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah’s
attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to
say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.
CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)
from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of
Wasilla, and I can’t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust
for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible
for a private person to get any info out of City Hall–they are
swamped. So I can’t verify my numbers.
You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the
population of Wasilla, ranging from my “about 5,000″, up to 9,000. The
day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the
current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was
5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.
Anne Kilkenny
August 31, 2008
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I’m disappointed in you PJ.
Surely you can build your blog on something other than smearing the underage child of a presidential candidate.
Its not classy and quite frankly, its beneath you.
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Just thought I’d check a few facts before I read PJ’s whole diatribe and the accuracy failed immediately.
Wasilla had 9,780 residents according to the 2007 US Census Bureau and the state of Alaska has three quarters of a million people.
Alaska is the largest state in the union, with Texas 2nd and California 3rd.
Alaska is also more populous than Vermont, former home of Governor Howard Dean, current DNC chairman, though most Democrats at the time though that was plenty of experience to be president, let alone vp.
http://www.infoplease.com/toptens/largeststates.html
Cypress Bay High School in Florida is the largest high school, with roughly half that many students.according to the National
Center for Education Statistics.
No need to read the rest, all the other statistics failed the independent research test just as miserably.
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I find something very curious about the “prepared statement” issued by the Palins. When considering this statement. bear in mind the Palins are no longer local yokels who haphazardly speak extemporaneously. Words are carefully chosen and calculated. Accordingly, the statement reads in pertinent part, “We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents.” Now does this mean the Palins support their daughter’s “choice” in her pregnancy but the rest of the women in this country should be denied the “choice” which Sarah Palin concedes was made by her daughter? This should make the daughter’s pregnancy an issue for any pro-life advocate and should make hard right conservatives very nervous.
Add the above “choice” statement to Sarah Palins own pregnancy, and one can easily conclude she isn’t truely pro-life but is so for political expediency. In her own pregnancy, she must have agreed to an invasive procedure (amniocentecis – sp?) for genetic testing of the fetus for a determination of Downs Syndrome to be made. Now if “choice was never an option. why undergo the test, obtain the results and then claim she “chose” to have the child anyway? Doesn’t all this mean that she too prepared for. evaluated and exercised her “choice” in continuing that pregnancy?
Does anyone else see the inconsistencies and contradictions inherent in the Palin statement, factual scenario of Sarah’s tests and choice, and her absolutist pro-life proclamations? Talk among yourselves. Peace, Out.
Lance Free
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Dina V,
The letter I posed was WIDELY DISSEMINIATED on the web yesterday. If it turns out that this lady is full of horseshit, I’ll be the first to say she was. I may be a libera, but I don’t have my head so far up my ass that I can’t retract or apologizae for anything I’ve posted. However I will say this: I did a cursory Google search on this lady, and she appears to be a legit community activist. She’s testified before various Alaska commissions. She lives in Sarah’s hometown. If AK is some kind of fruitcake with a computer (and having given out her e-mail addy to boot) I suppose we’ll find out sooner than later.
On the subject of Sarah-Bristol Palin, honestly, I don’t see how I smeared BP. I would say the opposite, that it is her own mother who has smeared her by dragging the poor girl into the national spotlight. Being a pregnant teen is hard enough without the glare of the media on you. Indeed, it’s already being reported that the only reason the Palins issued their statement yesterday was due to the National Enquirer sending a pack of reporters to Alaska over the weekend. By all accounts, Sarah Palin is a very ambitious woman; again, I think her ambition exceeds her common sense.
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PJ, I respect a lot of what you’ve written, but for you to say:
“her own mother who has smeared her by dragging the poor girl into the national spotlight” not only disingenuous, but damaging to your credibility.
Palin didn’t light this fire, she put it out.
Barack Obama said:
“…people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_on_Palin.html?showall
Lee Stranahan said:
“Its the wackiest rumor about Sarah Palin or any other politician so far this election. It’s making it’s way all through the internet. And of course it came from DailyKos. ”
ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/why-dailykos-embraced-the_b_122790.html
And the London Times said:
“Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was last night facing a dirty tricks campaign suggesting she was really the grandmother of her youngest son.
Internet sites were buzzing with unproven claims that Mrs Palin’s 17-year-old daughter Bristol is the real mother of four-month-old Trig, who has Down’s syndrome.
Without offering a shred of real evidence, political bloggers pointed to the 44-year-old Alaska governor’s slimline figure in photographs taken when she was seven months pregnant and the fact that she returned to work just three days after giving birth. ”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23547969-details/Critics+claim+McCain's+running+mate+is+really+the+grandmother+of+her+youngest+son+in+new+dirty+tricks+campaign/article.do
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Dossier, I’m sorry you feel that way, I respect it, but that’s how I really feel. Did she even ask her daughter for her opinion before accepting this? Apparrently not, as I read that she had the family come to Ohio, on the pretext of celebrating Sarah and Todd’s wedding anniversary, and then informed them.
I never bought into those krazy consipracy theories, so don’t lump me in with that crowd.
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