While Bristol Palin must take responsibility for her actions just as we all must, don’t get me wrong from my diary of yesterday, which some interpreted as a condemnation of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old pregnant, out-of-wedlock daughter.
The converse is true. I have utter contempt for her mother and her skewed family values that she wants to shove down our throats.
Sarah Palin is a militant right-to-lifer; her way is the only way.
Bristol has absolutely no choice about having a baby or marriage, for that matter.
This isn’t even a matter of a pregnant unwed young lady choosing to have her baby and having the full loving support of her family, which is a beautiful thing.
This is a case of you vill have that baby. Ach tung!
Since Sarah has said that the pregnant couple will wed, it’s probably also a case of you will marry!
What a lousy reason to get married. A 17-year-old is an emotional baby with zero maturity or worldly experience, let alone dating experience to choose a mate.
And being Catholic, technically it’s a pairing for life.
Parenthood is a lifetime commitment, but marriage? Not necessarily.
In the good ol’ days when life expectancy wasn’t as long as it is now and women couldn’t earn their own livings, it might have been a necessity to marry after getting pregnant.
Even 50 years ago, Bristol would only have had to be stuck in forced marriage for 20 or 30 years. Today, it could be for as long as 70 years.
Let’s face it, being shotgunned into a wedding where the couple could easily hate each other after a year, and have absolutely nothing in common within five years is no way to start off married life.
This is what Sarah wants for her daughter?
Barack Obama has gentlemanly and magnanimously said children are off limits during this campaign, as did the Kennedys and Clintons.
All three families had young children and that is a reasonable request.
But not in this case. Bristol is one year away from legally being an adult, and unfortunately for her she’s fair game just as the untamed Bush twins were and are, and the adult Reagan offspring were.
Sandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, 10-minute newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers in Burbank. She is currently a guest columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and contributor to ronkayela.com
(There's even a really cool image of Jesus riding on a brontosaurus at this OEN article)
You are absolutely right, Sandy, we need to separate what is about Sarah from what is only about Bristol, and leave Bristol out of it as much as possible. Sarah, however, has made that pretty hard to do.
And, I wonder why Bristol didn't get married the moment she must have found out she was pregnant, (apparently, like her mother did?) instead of waiting 5 months so far. Doesn't that seem very odd? Could it be that this 5 month pregnancy was actually conceived by Cheney over the LABOR (get it?) Day weekend as a coverup just to "prove" that Trig couldn't be Bristol's baby?
That could be why she didn't get married in May - which would have been the obvious step, and the smartest move as far as Sarah's career is concerned, if Bristol is really pregnant and was pregnant then. It doesn't appear that anyone is making any of these decisions based on what might be best for Bristol.
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Meryl Ann Butler (47 articles, 52 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 412 comments)
on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 2:01:24 PM
The pyramids were actually built by the ancient plant people from the planet Zzyzzxx, and they used the steps to shred giant heads of cabbages as sacrifices to the goddess Safflower Oyl.
Your scenario sounds like my cousin-in-law who told my cousin she was pregnant so he'd marry her, and voila...a month later she said she lost it.
The latest Sarah show of family values and trust horror story is that she didn't trust her children enough to tell them about her veepship and told them they were going on a trip to celebrate an anniversary.
The next her poor unsuspecting daughter knows is she's in the center of a scandal that's all her mom's fault. Why didn't she just leave the girl at home and tell a white lie, like she's got the flu.
Hey, maybe she was afraid to leave her home alone because she might get in a family way; now it seems she's in the family's way.
And they want to foist this numbnutz on us, who doesn't trust her kids with a secret; lies to them; lies to us; doesn't know what the veep does; is waiting for someone to tell her; thinks the founding fathers invented Alaska and wrote the Pledge of Allegiance; and so much more.
Next she'll tell us the Lousiana Purchase was gotten on sale at Neiman Marcus.
Grrrrrrrrrr!
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Sandy Sand (166 articles, 0 quicklinks, 220 diaries, 1490 comments)
on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 4:22:23 PM
I have tried to fix this several times, and even tho the link looks ok when i paste it, it reverts back to the home page when i post it, very weird, thanks for adding this and for posting the original info in the first place, it was hilarious.
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Meryl Ann Butler (47 articles, 52 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 412 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 2:32:50 AM
No it's both Mother and Daughter. the Mother unfortunately wasn't there when the Daughter really needed the birds and bees advice. Where was she? Probably at some Christian ladies circle telling everyone how good she and her family were, how abstemious, how pious, how righteous!
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Archie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1273 comments)
on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 9:51:26 PM
No nonsense, as is usually the case with Ms Sand's articles.
Of course, one feels sorry for Bristol, and for the baby with Down syndrome, who is not going to see his mother very much for the next 3 months at least.
lMs Palin is fully responsible for her daughter's pregnancy; if she'd allowed her to take sex ed classes, if she'd informed her on condoms, STDs, AIDS, none of this would have happened. Ms Palin failure to protect her daughter is the direct result of her Christian fundamentalist views on sexuality.
And for those who say private lives should remain private: when Sarah Palin campaigns to overturn Roe vs Wade and make abortion illegal, she is barging in my private life. When she campaigns against contraception, sex ed, gay marriage, or for abstinence until marriage, she is barging in people's private lives. Why should her private life be protected whereas she is directly interfering with ours? Dems--including Obama-- are dead wrong to condone this Republican double standard.
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francine (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 362 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 4:24:49 AM
Everything Palin campaigns for directly affects our deepest most personal lives from our visits to the gyno to the pews in the churches to the indoctrination of kids in school in creationism.
If she can put it all out there, we can expose what it really means to us and push back.
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Sandy Sand (166 articles, 0 quicklinks, 220 diaries, 1490 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 6:26:57 AM
Of course, regardless what decisions Sarah Palin makes about her family, Alaska, or this country -- good or bad from anyone else's point of view -- there's never really any doubt about any of them from hers. Those decisions, of course, are God's will.
Her mayorship, her governorship, this possible Vice-Presidency are all part of God's plan.
This is a woman who has said that a multi-billion dollar natural gas pipeline through Alaska is God's Will. This is a woman who has said that the men and women sent to fight foreign wars, and the leaders who send them, are on a task from God.
Any decisions from her, and ANYTHING resulting from those decisions will be God's plan. Good results will be reason to praise God, and bad results will simply be a burden God has placed on us as part of some sort of indecipherable challenge and one must simply persevere and continue the Plan.
Sound familiar at all?
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Robert Knowles (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 59 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 8:53:50 AM
Another interesting detail in this Bristol Palin's saga; people in Alaska said that Bristol and Levi Johnston have been dating for more than a year and were going steady.
If you are in favor of sexual abstinence until marriage for teenagers, should you let your pretty, healthy 17 year old daughter spend lots of time alone with a good looking, healthy 18 year old boy, knowing there is mutual attraction between them? What do you think happens usually when this situation occurs? The resulting pregnancy is hardly surprising.
Teenagers are chockful of hormones and at the peak of their sexual urges but have not learned to control them yet; allowing your teenage daughter to go steady with handsome, horny young boys while expecting her to remain a virgin is tantamount to allowing an unattended 5 year old play with matchboxes in a haystack and hope everything will be allright.
Any human being with half a brain could figure that out, but apparently not Sarah Palin, who is however touted as being wise and clever enough to be our next Commander in chief.
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francine (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 362 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 11:54:25 AM
These idiots who are buying 'Palin is so smart" better wake up. She's so smart she's sure the founding fathers wrote the Pledge. She just as smart about a whole bunch of other stuff. Geesh!
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Sandy Sand (166 articles, 0 quicklinks, 220 diaries, 1490 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 2:35:30 PM
How do you know this is a shotgun wedding, or that Sarah is forcing Bristol to have the baby? Huh? Maybe Bristol is accepting responsibility for her actions and made these decisions herself. Ever consider that?
There are several stories out there of couples who marry young and yet work their way through their difficult start and then become successful.
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Scott (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 579 comments)
on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 8:27:34 PM
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