Comments on: Yee-Ha! Will Inauguration Feature a Shotgun Wedding?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I would not want to be Bristol. It's bad enough telling your holier-than-thou mom you're knocked up. This poor kid has to meet with the campaign machine to figure out how to cope with the press and decide what kind of spin they will put on this mess. It's Jamie Spears all over again.

Additionally, this girl is another example of how wrong it is for parents to assume THEIR kids won't make mistakes like having unsafe sex. Bristol has been dating this 26-year-old guy for three years. What did the Palin think her daughter and her LEGAL ADULT boyfriend were doing?

As for the marriage, I would have expected nothing but that. Again, they have been dating for three years. The girl is obviously more than ready to start playing house. Let's hope her boyfriend is as happy about the outcome as she must be.

By: Joachim Martillo

Joachim Martillo — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

NY Times op-ed columnist David Brooks has informed us about his opinion of Barack Obama's family. I am interested what he thinks about the Palin family.

By: Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

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I'm sorry I blasted Phil for his support of Obama. Now I myself am willing to cross my fingers and believe.

How does Phil know this is 'some guy she barely knows'.

By: Vikash

Vikash — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Aren't most marriages in the world like this? How long will the marriage last you ask? Probably 'til death separates one from the other.

This woman's values dictate that marriage is about shared sacrifice and about forging a lasting bond rather than about hedonism and personal benefits. I think most westerners could learn a thing or two from the 'brown' people of the world in this regard.

But go on and indulge in the "west knows best" way of thinking.This delusion may lead to prosperity and high levels of achievement, but it will also lead to the near extinction of your race.

By: Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

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Now I see Tracy said they've been together for three years. I think the parents were right to push her into marraige.

By: Ozzie Maland

Ozzie Maland — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

The issue of the Anchorage Daily News for 22 April 2008 has a story that just before Trig’s birth, Gov. Sarah Palin took a very long plane-and-car ride from Dallas, TX, to Wasilla, AK, after having told her OB/GYN that she was experiencing a different kind of labor contractions and that she was leaking amniotic fluid.

http://www.adn.com/front/story/382864.html

[quote from the article:]
…Early Thursday [April 17, 2008]-- she thinks it was around 4 a.m. Texas time -- she consulted with her doctor, family physician Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, who is based in the Valley and has delivered lots of babies, including Piper, Palin's 7-year-old. Palin said she felt fine but had leaked amniotic fluid and also felt some contractions that seemed different from the false labor she had been having for months. "I said I am going to stay for the day. I have a speech I was determined to give," Palin said. She gave the luncheon keynote address for the energy conference…. Palin did not ask for a medical OK to fly, the doctor said…. [end excerpt]

Gov. Palin didn’t tell the airline – owing to the leaking fluid, the airline would not have let her board the plane. Either the governor either then knew about the Downs’ Syndrome of Trig or she didn’t, but either way, her judgment in making that trip under the circumstances was poor. Trig was born on the 19th shortly after the end of a trip having these timelines:

Flight time from Dallas to Seattle: 4 hours
Wait time at Seattle: 1 hour
Flight time from Seattle to Anchorage: 4 hours
Drive time to Wasilla: 1 hour

A ten-hour trip after amniotic fluid starts leaking. Some judgment.
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Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"Now I see Tracy said they've been together for three years. I think the parents were right to push her into marraige.

Posted by: Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn | September 01, 2008 at 05:36 PM "

And let's do the math, people. Bristol is 17. The father of the child is 26.

By: Glenn Condell

Glenn Condell — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Bristol?

What's next... Scunthorpe? Bognor Regis? Slough?

Of course she had to get married; they can't have a veep with an unwed mother for a daughter. Especially if she'd been in an illegal relationship as a minor. Thank Christ for Palin she's not a Democrat!

America is pretty much unsatirisable. Truth is stranger than fiction.

By: Michael Blaine

Michael Blaine — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I am so tired of Republicans embarrassing our country.

What a joke that party is.

Please go somewhere far away and leave the rest of us alone!

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Let's all throw rocks at the 17 yo pregnant girl!

However, no such stoning for the venerated Mrs. Obama, or was she ever married to the 3rd world goat-herd, bigamist, dead-beat, lothario?

Stanley Ann Dunham was 17 or 18 when she was impregnated by an older Barak Sr. Barak Sr already had impregnated multiple women in Africa and bailed on them in the search for paler prey in the USA.

Where are Stanley Ann's marriage license and divorce papers? Could Saint Barak be a bastard?