Is picking on the Palin Family wrong?

Question

I say NO I am pi55ed that the dems let the whole swift boat thing happen. I am not crazy that all the McCain ads directly attack Obama and do not praise McCain (only 382 were not attacks out of 13,800+). If you are going to run your party on morals and family values then you have to lie in the hypocritical made you made.

Obama is doing the right thing by backing away and denouncing the issue, but do not think for a second that the liberals getting the rare chance to act like name calling republicans are going to die down because Obama does not officially support it.

Liberals are FREE thinkers after all.

Answer 1

It may be wrong, but it feels sooo right....ooops, I slipped otta character

Answer 2

Fine..Act like a doofus and pick on her family, no one cares.  You can even continue to do it when she is VP......

McPalin 08

Answer 3

Pick at your own risk.....Just remember, this isn´t Hillary and this isn´t the democratic primary!  This is a whole new ballgame,  this is the general election, and if you continue to pick on this women, SHE will win a lot sympathy.

Answer 4

it is

Answer 5

Obama said he was a uniter and then we find he goes to a racist church.  Yet,we're called racists if we don't support him.  I am sick of Obama and his supporters,

Answer 6

Its wrong, not enjoying it

but kinda fair.

They were doing it to Obama 5 days ago..

that doesnt make it right.

i thinks shes great and ppl should leave her alone.

but little chance of that happening

obama 2008

Answer 7

Not at all. Palin knew what she was getting into, and if she didn't think this was going to come up, she's incredibly naive. One of her platforms is promoting abstinence , so this is absolutely fair game!

Answer 8

I think picking on Palin will hurt Democrats and might have been a Republican strategic plan. Most people know things happen no matter how good of a job a parent does. No one likes to see families or kids attacked redgardless of if their in public office

Answer 9

Props to Obama for refusing to talk about it.  

Answer 10

I actually think the attack should be on McCain's lack of judgment, but I do agree with you that Dems need to get better at striking back.

Here's an interesting column listing what we should know about Palin:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smile...

Answer 11

No, McCain has more attack ads than I've seen for Obama's campaign, and you know the republicans would be all over it if something like this happened to a democrat. I mean, they still talk about Clinton's adultery, but it's not okay to talk about their VP candidate's poor parenting, when she claims to be conservative and have good values? Good values like what, letting your 16 year old get pregnant? But still, teaching safe s*x is so awful, well I'd rather have my daughter learn how to use a condom than learn how to breath and prepare for her own labor!

Answer 12

Of course it's wrong...what does their personal lives have to do with anything?

How would you like it if someone raked your family over the coals and said terrible things about you?

There is no place for personal attacks in politics. Stick to the issues. And do you really think the Dems are all innocent? They are usually the ones who start the name calling and personal attacks, but everyone seems to turn a blind eye to it.

Answer 13

It really isn't her family - it is her issues - her stances on being a moral outstanding Christian value family and then that family isn't quite to that standard - she has brought a lot of it on herself.

But the criticism there should be on her - not calling the daughter a s**t and such. She can't help what family she was born in to.

As far as it reflecting on McCain - it shows he does not research his decisions too thoroughly.

Answer 14

IMO, family life should be off limits.  There are plenty of other reasons not to vote for a Republican president in the year 2008.

Answer 15

I think unsupported slander is wrong.  But absent that, when issues that reflect on the Candidates qualifications also involve family, so be it.  In this case, BECAUSE Palin and Republicans are ABSTINENCE ONLY proponents, Palin's pregnant MINOR CHILD, still in her legal custody, care and control are unfortunately fair game.

Answer 16

I don't think it is picking on them to question the haphazard and irresponsible way they live their lives, if the mom is running for next in line to the presidency. It isn't just the teenager's pregnancy, although providing a sexually active daughter with birth control seems like the least they could have done. The extreme risks Sarah Palin took with her own fifth child (or was it Bristol's first?) "so as not to have him born outside of Alaska" make it seem like a moral equivalent of attempted abortion.. And that kind of expediency has no place on a national ticket. Then there's the nose-thumbing arrogance of inviting the teenage perp to the convention to meet McCain and flaunting him on TV. This reckless mom should go home and take care of her own large family problems before she tries to take on the larger problems of a nation.

Answer 17

It's politically incorrect.

But there's nothing wrong with it because that b----- Sarah Palin sells herself as a Bible beating values candidate but doesn't live by it. She is a hypocrite. She whines about liberals being immoral and "unholy", but she can't even teach her own daughter not to f--- around.

And if this happened to a Democrat politician, you wouldn't hear the end of it from the GOP.

Answer 18

Let's leave the kids out of it this time.

Answer 19

If I were Obama I would try to stear clear of the Family issue  Bacause I would want the media reminded of my views on pregnantcy'

Obama  "If my Daughter made a mistake, I would not want them to be punished with a baby"   How does he correct her mistake?  just google the name and quote. ( and see and hear him talk about protecting his daugher from her mistake)

Answer 20

The same people who are saying it's wrong to pick on for Sarah's daughter situation are the same who bashed Britney's sister to be pregnant at 16 years old. Those so-called conservatism, can run but hey can't hide. What goes around comes around...

Hypocrite republicans conservatisms who share moral values, Bristol drop it in your face!

Answer 21

It's wrong, it's lame, and it won't work.  It's something Republicans would do, and they'd probably do it better.

I don't care at all about Bristol Palin's "situation".  It's her business, not mine.  I only think any of this is an issue If Sarah Palin lied about the parentage of Trig, and there is no hard evidence of this at all.  Therefore, my advice on how to approach this going forward would be:  Don't.  Let it alone.  I'm sure plenty of reporters, credible and otherwise, are now working round-the-clock on the story.  If they find out that Bristol is Trig's mother, then everyone lied, and THAT would be the time to attack.  If they don't, then stick to what matters, which is that John McCain does not understand what America's best interests are, doesn't care about the working classes, and that Sarah Palin is grossly unqualified to be in the White House. And leave the pregnant girl alone.

Nuff said.

Answer 22

Morally, yes. But it is just too delicious to let go. It's a tongue in cheek issue when someone is supposed to have family values but their family has run amuck.

Answer 23

"All is fair in love and war," right?

I think attacking the Palin family is lame, yet sooo easy and therefore, anticipate the schizoid two-faced Dems will do just that.

Afterall, would these be the same "punish a girl with a baby" Democrats who brush adultery in the Oval Office under the rug (or smear it onto a blue dress) that would attempt to demonize a family -- one of thousands of families, BTW, many of whom are their loyal constituents -- supporting keeping a pregnancy out of wedlock? Hmmmm... Ironic hypocrisy, anyone?

Answer 24

Way I see it, Obama said "hey, dont go after the kids" to make themselves look like they were above mud throwing, and because well, goodness knows everyone else would do it for them (the dems that is)

Answer 25

I don't like picking on her family but she is fair game. She preaches abstinence and that's partly the reason for her daughter's situation. We all know teens will experiment whether we like it or not. She needed the right tools or pills to not have had a baby and that should be parental guidance.