High-school student Bristol Palin is pregnant. Why is that such a good thing?

Question

The republicans are spinning this to make Bristol the best thing that happen to teen pregnancy since the Virgin Mary.

What would happen if Barack Obama had a high-school aged daughter who happen to be pregnant?

Quite a different spin, I am sure.

Answer 1

It is a shame. They bring a baby before they have a family. It shows they don't have resposiblities to their actions. Bristol's mother,Palin, or fahter fishman, didn't educated their daughter of resposiblities.  

Answer 2

Yes it is incredibly hypocritical. The double standards of the repubs make me puke. What I'd like to know is, why hasn't the trailer trash "father" been charged with statutory rape instead of being lionized at the GOP convention?

Answer 3

I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT A 17 YEAR OLD IS PREGNANT, I GUESS MOM NEVER TALKS ABOUT s*x AND PREVENTION, THEY WANT TO MAKE YOU THINK IS A GOOD THING, FOR THEY DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO OFFER, THATS WHY ILL VOTE FOR BARACK, I GUESS THEY WANT TO SET FUTURE VALUES, HEY GET PREAGNANT AT 17 AND YOU WILL BE PRAISED, MY GOD, SHES A KID FOR GODSAKE.

Answer 4

No one is saying it's a good thing, they are just making the best of the situation.

If Barack Obama had a high school aged daughter who was pregnant, he would probably tell the world how he was glad she had a choice to keep her child, or not.

It can spin both ways.  

Answer 5

that depends on who you are

They have to come forward and present this child as a glorious gift from God. Because it would be too great a hypocrisy to shelter the child from the public and still support their programs of abstinence only s*x education.

Palin voted against condoms in the schools AND she voted against funding for special needs children That, Alanis, really IS irony.

The sad thing is that the Palin press release said that the baby was "Bristol's choice" Yet Palin and her party are dedicated to denying the right to chose to our daughters and sisters.  

We all know what would happen if the shoe were on the other foot. The Obama party has made it clear that it will not accept any attacks on the McCain/Palin families. McCain claimed early on that he was going to take the high road, but that promise never really materialized.

Answer 6

Uhhh, you need to chill on this or site sources instead of personal reaction and hyperbole. Old discussion. They have never spun it that way, they have said she made the right choice to keep her child and be responsible for her actions.

Barack was born of a teen mother.

You've not heard anyone rag on that.

Answer 7

She's out of high school genius. Is your question directed soley at kids because they are the only ones naive enough to buy what you are sellin?

Answer 8

Obama doesn't and Palin does. So what ?  That only connects to 50,000 parents who have teenage pregnant daughters.............or the usual teenager who doesn't "listen".......gee, does that sound familiar to, a few MILLION parents.  Nobodys doing any spin on this situation except you Obama supporters and the left wing media.  And isn't it funny how through ALL the condemnations and superior than thou dribble you peolpe express daily in YA, the Christian Coalition and numerous other CHRISTIAN denominations are now favoring support of McCain.  Funny how these "people" can forgive and gorget, but not the low life scumbags who infest YA.

Answer 9

We never said it was a GOOD THING.  We said she did the RIGHT thing.  It's never good when a teenager gets pregnant...but it happened and now they have to deal with it.  She's dealing with it the best way there is, having the baby and getting married.  

If Obama's daughter got pregnant he'd want her to have an abortion because he doesn't believe his daughters should be "punished" with a baby!  

Answer 10

It's NOT a good thing for her Mother to be running as the Republican VP nominee with her teenage daughter being pregnant, and I'd say the same if Biden or Obama had a pregnant teenage daughter too.  It shows her bad charachter at putting her political career/ambitions FIRST OVER her child - she should NOT be putting her daughter in this kind of a spotlight and forcing her to get married, like that makes it any better.  ANY mother, like myself, who TRULY cares about their daughter, would NOT put their child in that position.  If you're a mother, you would do ANYTHING for your child.  But looks like Sarah Palin is one of those mothers that puts her career OVER her children.  It would be different if she waited, but now's NOT the right time for her to be campaigning for VP of the US.

Yes, if it was Obama OR Biden's pregnant teenage daughter, they'd be getting bad press as well.  WORSE - AT LEAST Obama said to leave the families (and their kids) out of it.  He doesn't personally attack the other party, like Sarah Palin has done.  How dare she?  Meanwhile, Obama won't respond to her personal attacks.

Answer 11

The only spinning being done on something which is private and nobodys business is the LOONEY left

Why don't you mind your own business and let the kid get on with her life inprivate.

Answer 12

1) Levi Johnston gets to hump Bristol, at least once.

2) Instead of getting tossed in jail, he gets a free trip to Minnesota.

3) While there, he gets to be on TV.

4) Then he gets to pound Bud with the old white haired dude.

5) Then he gets to hump the old white haired dude's MILF wife Cindy, at least once.

Are you going to tell Levi Johnston that is not a good thing?

Answer 13

it's NOT a good thing.  but what's important is how a unwanted teen pregnancy is handled.

they aren't killing the baby to 'erase the mistake', the family is standing by her and her fiancee and none of them will be on the dole.

Answer 14

because since she already is pregnant the option is KILLING her baby.

Actually Aline - In BHO's OWN WORDs he'd want he to kill it so she "won't be PUNISHED" with a baby.  (adoption??  consequences for YOUR Actions?  no wait that sounds like - GASP - PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!! - nope kill the child

"what for"  - seriously?? who is forcing black women to KILL their children?  not white people.  In fact well over 90% of all murdered black as killed by other blacks.  The % of W-on-W is much smaller - iow whites are killed by blacks 4 times as often than vice versa.

Face the Truth to deal with it!

Answer 15

no one said it's a good thing... it's just a private thing...and something that happens to a large part of our population.... why does everyone act like it's the first teenage pregnancy they've ever seen? get over it, and pay more attention to the things that matter... not who hugged who, and who wore a *omg* orange suit... or even who made a mistake 20 years ago... geeze..  

Answer 16

Well, I hate to say it, but that is very true.  This would have a totally different take if the shoe was on the other foot.

Edit - I feel so sorry for both Bristol Palin and her boyfriend.  They are forcing those two into a marriage that I don't believe either of them want.  If he gets the chance to walk away from this marriage (not his child), you can guarentee he will not be doing the hokey pokey with another politicians daughter.  They are parading this boy around as if he is hubby of the year material, when any normal reaction from a mother or father would be "I'm gonna kill that SOB"!!  And people claim Obama/Biden supporters are on the kool-aid.

You guys kill me with the "it's a private matter BS".  If it was all that private Gov Palin should never have told the world, "Our 17 yr old, unmarried daughter is pregnant, and we are delighted that she is keeping it".  Not verbatum, but you get the general drift.  If she was the pitbull everyone makes her out to be, she would have told the press it was none of their mickey f****n business.  And left it at that.

Answer 17

Yes, her mother is proud of her so now republican girls will know there parents will be proud of them if they get pregnant in there teens. She is a role model & Sarah is a role model for having a baby after age 40.So they are good role models for republican family values.

Answer 18

Bristol Palin keeping the baby teaches the important conservative principle that you should "save yourself" for marriage...oh wait, I guess it doesn't, does it?

Answer 19

I certainly haven't heard anything saying or remotely implying that her unplanned pregnancy is a good thing. WTH do you get your information? Its not a good thing, its just a fact of life. No one is perfect, you probably had s*x at 17, most people do. Her pregnancy is just an illustration that her family isn't hiding anything or making excuses. Its just a fact, it certainly isn't going to ruin their family, or her life in the least. Just alters plans a bit.

I think you are forgetting that Obama's mother was 17 and unwed when she conceived him, hence his acceptance and silence on the subject.

Answer 20

It is a good thing to a family of tacky, classless hicks who caress a baby's head with spit on national tv. I guess if she got in the White House, they would have to make it look more like a trailer--so everyone could feel right at home.

LMAO@ td's!!!!! So nice they have internet access in trailer parks

Answer 21

Republicans aren't spinning anything.  Where are you hiding out at?  In a cave?  And why would you care?  

Answer 22

How can it be good for a child to have a baby? She will have no young adulthood. Life doesn't end when you have a baby but it sure does get harder in a lot of ways and especially if you are so young you miss out on your teen years.

Answer 23

Your IQ must me the square root of your ring size. No one thinks it is a "good thing". But it's also none of your GD business and that of the left wing liberal slime machine called, mistakenly, the "news media".

McCain/Palin '08

Answer 24

goes totally against what a true democrat believes in to bash at that.....besides look at 0bama, he actually compares what happens in this to when he plays "basketball"....I think being president is a tad bit more important than basketball...and seeing him bowl i bet he sucks at that too.

Answer 25

leave it be the american family is well represented by palins family and i say that as a hardcore democrat

Answer 26

Pretty brilliant politics, huh?  The gop is soaking up the votes with Bristol's pregnancy

Answer 27

No one has suggested its a good thing, but they're not throwing her under the bus either.  The Palin's are dealing with it the same way most sensible parents do.  Its irrelevant to the election.

The one sensible thing Obama has said is that its off-limits.   He knows all too well that he could be in a similar situation in a few years.  

Answer 28

palins' daughters boyfriends situation of a shootgun wedding is reason why males/male s*x is better. why ?

Is Governor palin's daughters boyfriend being forced into a shootgun wedding ?

i have heard some women say he can't just sleep with a woman and get off scott free.

is this why a lot of males are electing to have s*x freely with other guys. because they find same gender s*x easier to handle then having s*x with a woman ?

are there too many conseguences to dealing with a woman. as a woman i like to think i am great. but is reality different. are we driving men away ?

as a woman i am concerned. because i hear more and more males taking this position. they are consciously deciding to have s*x with males. despite not calling themselves homosexual.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_o...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep200...

politics is a great sport.

somebody tell nature to stop attacking us. so we can play politics.

does Governor palin's daughters boyfriend have a choice in the marrying a female he was just going through his hormonal stage of life with. is it fair that he should have a shootgun wedding because he is naturally horny at his age.

will men all across the country be forced or expected to marry a girl just because they had s*x.

this seems to be straight out of one of those oldies movies.

i feel like i am in a time machine looking backwards, not forward.

does this represent the disconnection bewteen older conservative people ands younger people ?

do teens really want to be forced into marriage for having natural sexual desires because it doesn't fit in with man-made beliefs that no ones lives up to anyway. not even in the 50's and 60's ?

Answer 29

It is not good is bad, what makes it even bad is being spoken as if is a good thing by the people who supposed not to be. At the end of the day I am responsible to my children. If they misbehave I have to accept, atleast when they are still teens. Secondly, we must emphasise that s*x before marraige is bad, is not a good thing is sin. Yes, it was wrong to depict it as if she is the one Sarah Palin who is pregnant. But again, according to the bible she is not supposed to be holding any office let alone a high office, where she and her family are supposed to be a role model of our children, instead we are clapping to the pregnancy as if is a good thing. Shame. May the Lord Jesus reveal Himself to us.

Answer 30

The Republicans are making Bristol seem like the Virgin Mary? Where are you getting that? I haven't heard a word of praise for her in regard to her pregnancy.

What does Obama have to do with the question. If he had a daughter who had gotten pregnant, I can't see that there would be a bit of difference, except that folks wouldn't be telling him that he could stop running for office and stay home and take care of his kids.

You are just dead wrong on both of your statements.  

Answer 31

I'm obviously not reading the same material as you are, I've not seen any Republicans tout Bristol's pregnancy as the best thing since the Virgin Mary.

If Barack Obama had a high-school pregnant daughter it wouldn't even be news, because he's already said that he would have the child aborted.  He doesn't want his daughters "punished" with a child.