Sarah palin's daughter?

Question

why is the media making such a big deal about sarah palin's daughter being pregnant. Her daughter is getting married anyways and what does this situation have to do with politics. it just pisses me off that people [especially the stupid media] would make a big deal out of nothing.

what's your opinion about this?

Answer 1

because that is all the criticism they can find about palin. at least she got pregnant by a white guy (you all know what I am talkin about so dont play race equality bigotry)

Answer 2

It's obvious Palin 'screwed' McCain in more ways than one.

Answer 3

The media is in the back pocket of the dems and they will do and say anything to knock down a republican! Even going so low as to attack a daughter of a canidate!

Answer 4

Welcome to American politics!

Larry Sinclair and Obama's homosexuality is bound to become a bombshell because that's the way the liberals wanna play the game!

Answer 5

Same as Obama's:

"Let me be as clear as possible," Obama said. "I think people's families are off-limits, and 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 governor or her potential performance as a vice president."

CNN

Answer 6

Because the media loves sensationalism.

But they didn't investigate or break the story. Sarah and Todd Palin released the news of their own accord. They didn't have to do it in the frenzy of the RNC, they didn't have to do it at all right now. They had many other choices, and what they chose was to basically throw their daughter under the bus and announce it to the world.

The media reacted as expected.

Poor Bristol. Her parents could have made a choice much better for her interests.

I'm an Obama supporter but I wish her all the best of everything and am sorry she has such a coldly ambitious mother.

Answer 7

Because they have nothing else.

They know Mccain and palin are going to stomp obama so completely in november their grasping at straws for a story.

Answer 8

Because its the same biased media that pressured the DNC to run Hillary out................ Now they want to discredit Sarah Palin, to get there socialist Obama elected............. Yet they ignore the fact that Obama has had Homosexual relationships. One man has even made videos because he feared for his life apparently to or three g*y men that attended church with Obama were found murdered execution style shortly after Obama started his Presidential campaign.

Answer 9

Palin is anti aborton and birth control so this says alot

Answer 10

This happens to a lot of families. It would be a big deal if she had an abortion. It doesn't bother me that her daughter is pregnant.

Answer 11

It's just a lot of hypocritical bullshit. It's OK for their kids to s***w around as long as they don't get pregnant. It's back to the 50's all over again!

Answer 12

The daughter is not the issue. The hypocrisy isn't the issue. People are smart enough to make these inferences or not to.

Sadly, part of the political landscape involves digging into the past to make inferences about the candidates judgments. What you end up with are liberals WAY on the left going after this, and people WAY on the right defending it, and a lot of people in the middle who are trying to figure out what they think.

Obama took the high road, it would have been very easy not to denounce this given how "mainstream" right-wing talk show hosts have been feeding into sterotypes for 6 months.

What this will not do is take social issues off the table. What the right is trying to do is take all social issues off the table. The Obama campaign hasn't touched any social issue yet and the right is trying to infer that we can't have a debate about: abortion, abstinence, creationism, the role of religion in public policy. We can still have these debates without pointing at the women's daughter. How can the left help it if things in her personal life support the facts?

It's a wash on both sides. Some of these extreme leftist are going after everything, and extreme rightist are defending the actions hoping McCain really did vet her.

McCain's judgement is the issue. I feel very deeply for Palin's daughter, who given the political landscape of this country since the 1900's, and her mother's decision to thrust her in the spotlight and try and cover this up, is going to suffer a great deal.

Answer 13

It is a cheap shot. If that is all they can dig up, it is pretty sad.

Answer 14

They have to abandon all ethics due to their huge drop in the polls.

So how low due they go?   As low as the available information.

Sarah's 17 year old daughter now has to deal with hate from the left, which is very sad and pathetic.

Answer 15

It helps keep everyones mind off the questions nobody wants to ask or answer.

- federal budget

- federal government size

- federal government cost

- federal government power

- civil liberties

It is not much different from distractions regarding g**s, aids, shoes, hair, guns, music downloading, tax tweaks.... Just another non issue being used to waste valuable time, so one crook can get in office before the other, to expand the size and power and cost of government.

Answer 16

People are quick to judge. If they would look in the mirror first, they may not be so quick.

Answer 17

Ok---if attacking Sarah's daughter if fair game then that would of course mean it would be ok to turn our focus to Michele--the racist----Their children were raised in a racist America hating church----can we see child-abuse here? ----------fair is fair.

Answer 18

I asked the below question earlier today about YAers, but you are correct about the media making a lot out of a family's problem.

Can someone inform the trolls that all candidate's children are off limits?

Unless the kids are actively stumping for their parent.

I don't support Palin/McCain, but let's keep the rhetoric above the level of pond slime, OK?

Answer 19

Obama

-Racist (Wright's Church for 20 years)

-Chicago Thug (Rezko and dirty politics)

-Unpatriotic/ Un-American (Wright's church and Ayers)

-Pro-Choice "Pro-Abortion" (I don't want my daughters punished with a baby)

-Inexperienced to be President (Zero accomplishments)

-Connected to ACORN (Community organizer) -ACORN is linked to voter fraud

Palin

-Running for VP, not POTUS. (Has more experience in her short time than Obama)

-Pro-Life (Her daughter is pregnant and she is keeping the baby - what true values)

DO YOU REALIZE OBAMA WAS BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK TO A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL?

Do Not Vote for Obama for the sake of change and for a desire to vote a Democrat in office. Please vote smart and realize that a man who has served his country proudly as McCain is the best choice. Realize that a man who is 72 has only one reason to become President and that is to serve his country. Obama wants to "change" your America. He wants to be a historical figure. He wants to position himself for 2 terms. His motives are self-serving. Is that who you want for your President??/

Answer 20

Daughters learn their values from their mothers, s**t daughter = s**t Mom, and that's what we want for VP?

Answer 21

If you think the media is being harsh or ugly you have not read up and down the political questions and answers here much today.  There are liberal democrats here that are down right disgusting individuals who are ready to say anything to cause Palin and her family harm.  

Answer 22

Because the liberal scumbags exist within the media and they want their darling, Barack Hussein Obama to be the next president very badly.

Because Hussein is a hollow shell, they have to dig up anything to say, no matter how minor or irrelevant.

Answer 23

it's kinda like making a big deal about a president getting a bj in the oval office.

Answer 24

It's a family scandal when it involves someone seeking the second highest office in the land. If Sarah Palin told McSenile about the problem and he still wanted her on board, he's nuts. If she didn't tell hime about it, she'd lower than whale s*** for putting him in such a situation.

Answer 25

the news media has to write about something, but i am in

total agreement with you.