Do you honestly think if Obama or Biden had a pregnant teenager daughter the media would ignore the story?

Question

I think the pundants on the Right are crying unfair way too loudly. There is a story here worth looking into. Not because Palin has a pregnant daughter, but rather her claimed belief system contradicts with her actual family life. Palin doesn't believe in s*x ed taught in schools, Palin only believes in teaching abstinence, and now her daughter is having a child out of wedlock??!!

Answer 1

Yes, they continue to ignore Tony Rezko, Trinity United, and William Ayers.

Edit: So if Ayers and Rezko are old news and widely reported, please explain Obama's connection and what he did to correct them?  Because so far all I hear from the press is disclaimers.......

Answer 2

Oh I agree- if this was Obama's daughter- they would have practically hung her with a verbal assault.

Palin's daughter being pregnant isn't the issue- it is the fact that Palin only supports abstinence- no birth control, no s*x education, she has cut funding for teen mom's, etc...and her own daughter ended up pregnant.

Clearly, abstinence isn't the only answer.  

Answer 3

You've hit the nail on the head. She's saying 'life happens' but had failed to provide her family with adequate resources for successfully dealing with this life.

And she's attempted to make the explicit point of telling political action groups that she will work to ensure that other people's kids are simmilarly uneducated and naive about their sexuality. Failing to keep her own kids virginal, she wants to attempt to tell other people's children how to be 'moral'.

Basically, she's worked for this policy outcome--so they should have to fess up and conceede that it's the logical end conclusion of what they were advocating. Abstinence education does not work and the Palins will look like laughing stocks if they continue to push this issue.

It's already hypocritical for her to talk about 'life' when having cut services for other teens who do yes, become pregnant before marriage. She is after all supposed to be a champion of human life!

Until now it's been luck that a politician's daughter had not become a teenage pregnancy (maybe) but we have to conceede they are just as capable of sleeping around.

Answer 4

They would champion her as being courageous. If you really do not think the Media is on Obamas side. Then you you don't pay any attention.

Answer 5

i wouldnt say it would be ignored, but it wouldnt be causing a liberal media frenzy and Us Weekly would not be printing a Babies, Lies and Scandals cover story like they did on Palin.

Answer 6

good question...

but disagree.

Answer 7

The media would spin a good story for Obama/Biden. That is the reason main stream media has such low viewership

Answer 8

I think both the right and left are crying foul (including Obama) . . . against the media, not each other . . so far.

And I don't think if Obama's pet cat had kittens that the media would miss it, if it got more people to watch tv.

Answer 9

well lets see Al gore Jr was arrested for leaving a campaign event driving drunk.....no news

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/wor...

Bidens son is involved in an investigation of corruption for lobbying over 3 million dollars of ear marks pushed by Obama.... no news

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

Palins daughters boyfriend fishes illegally.   front page.

thanks meg for the link.  Its so unreported I couldnt find the story

I see you state it was reported.  Your right it was BY BLOGS AND ON THINGS LIKE THIS SITE.

however you cant find any news anchor or story that said things like

on August 30, "Good Morning America" weekend co-host Bill Weir challenged a McCain spokesman: "Adding to the brutality of a national campaign, the Palin family also has an infant with special needs. What leads you, the Senator, and the Governor to believe that one won't affect the other in the next couple of months?" On August 29, CNN "Newsroom" anchor John Roberts sniffed, "The role of Vice President, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child."

Also on August 29, the Washington Post's Sally Quinn whined in a column, "Is she prepared for the all-consuming nature of the job?...Her first priority has to be her children. When the phone rings at three in the morning and one of her children is really sick what choice will she make?"

With regards to any of the events you talk about.  atleast be honest with yourself it doesnt fool thinking people

Answer 10

Yes, if "The One" told them to.

They would have had an abortion and the media would have "respected her privacy" being that they were more in agreement with that choice.

Answer 11

No way.  That's big news especially when mom is an abstinence only proponent.

Answer 12

Obama and Biden  would have made certain that the baby was aborted.

The story would be reported in the back pages, unlike Sarah Palin's daughter, the story would not be front page news.

Answer 13

No. That answers your question.

As to the other, you can only raise a child and keep her under your parental wing so far. She's not really an issue, but apparently she's far easier to address than global politics, the economy, etc.

Answer 14

Apparently, they don't remember the Clinton years--in fact, the Republicans thought it was OK to spend 60 million dollars of the taxpayers money to investigate Clinton's hummer

Answer 15

DUH!  We all know about it so obviously it's not being ignored.  How does her belief system contracdict?  She tried teaching her daugher abstinence but her daughter made the choice not to practice it, not Palin.  Palin didn't tell her daughter to go get in the bed and make a baby.  We all make our OWN decisions.  No one else in the world can be held accountable for the decisions we make.  You can only be responsible for your own actions and clearly these were not Palin's actions, they were her daughter's.

Answer 16

Yes. After all, how often has this been reported on CNN?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

Answer 17

They are now Obama's oldest daughter is pregnant and he is named as the father, according to the Huffington post michele was holding his Bag for him while he injected his daughter with his daddy juice, next comment about pregnant daughters should be met with the same type of answer.

Answer 18

Yeah McCain is not known for being a nice guy...he once made fun of a 16 year old Chelsey Clinton.  I mean really in general society when a teenage girl gets pregnant and drops out of highschool and she belongs to a preaching mother who goes around talking about her dovout Christian ways the reaction from the public would be the same...it doesn't matter if it's Palin's daughter or Keesha from around the block...the scruitiny is similar.  However I can bet you that if it was Palin's son who had gotten a girl pregnant no one would be talking about it as much as they are now.  Sexist society.  

Answer 19

In a related matter, the same people who jumped on this story- not about the candidate, but her daughter- sat on the john Edwards story for over a year. When there were second hand rumors about McCain having an affair, they had that on the front page as soon as it surfaced. It was false, but who cares about the facts when a Republican/ conservatives' reputation or family is at stake?

Answer 20

They would be harder on them,especially Obama.Republicans would say every nasty thing they could think of.They would pry until they new where the conception took place and they know it.

Answer 21

Rezko, Wright, Cocaine use, Ayers.  All threats to national security.  If any one of us said what Wright has said and Obama sat through, our portraits would be on the secret service office wall.  The Obama's made their family portrait as part of the campaign and the wife was on the stump making speeches but Obama said, 'you'd better be careful about criticizing my wife'....or what, Barrack?  How about I accuse you of child abuse or her?  What are you going to do about it?  One dirty look and I would rip off his head and spit in his neck but, the mighty courageous press is scared to death of him, gave him a pass and complied with his order.  When he says family is off the table, how come they don't comply with that order?