Well, it certainly didn't take long for the liberal media to go digging around for dirt on the latest Republican Vice Presidential candidate. Of course the dirt they found was that fact 17 year-old Bristol Palin is pregnant. Bristol is the daughter of Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate. The McCain campaign is reporting that Bristol is planning to keep the baby and marry it's father.
You can expect the media to continually throw this back in the face of Republican voters. This issue matters not one bit though in the grand scheme of things and has no bearing whatever on Sarah Palin's ability to perform her duties as Vice President. Even the best of parents can have some thing like this happen. You can teach your kids right and wrong as well as anyone, but that doesn't guarantee the child won't make a bad decision somewhere along the way. And, especially in this case, the child in question is old enough to take responsibility for her own bad decisions, and apparently she has.
If her parents can be faulted at all it may be that they were too busy with their careers and political aspirations to be as attentive to their kids as they should have been. I don't know this for sure in the case of the Palins, but I do know that is the case in far too many families this day and age. Still, it's not a political issue, rather a family one.
I will say one thing to Barack Obama's credit. He has stated emphatically that this issue is off limits in the campaign. He has said you don't go after candidate's families, especially their children. Finally something I agree with Obama on. The girl made a mistake and her family is dealing with it. Leave it alone. End of story.
Jim Chitty
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