Parents.
Our beautiful daughter, Bristol, came to us with news that, as parents, we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned.”
Gov. Sarah Palin Of Alaska, announcing with her husband, Todd, that their unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. (It also appears that there will be a shotgun wedding.)
How about Sarah Palin’s “Honey, try-and-keep-your-legs-crossed” or “just say no” birth control method; what naïveté! And strutting her pregnant 17-year-old daughter out for all the world to appreciate, thereby setting an example that it’s OK for average Americans to have kids while in their teens, too, before they have jobs or a complete education, and have no ability to support a family. Will any of the next generation have fathers that are married to their mothers (at least to start out with)? How do you spell Welfare Mother? ¿Sabes que “public assistance”? It seems that it’s OK to be ignorant about these things if you’re beautiful!
If enough Americans vote Republican, we will have the most beautiful woman standing next to a Chief Executive of a nation since Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. And with just as much substance.
This is a woman who has stated publicly that she would not let even her daughter get an abortion, even if she was raped or the victim of incest, refuses to permit the teaching of sex education in public schools, has a pregnant-out-of-wedlock 17-year old daughter, and believes in teaching abstinence as birth control.
She also got pregnant herself using the very same birth control method at the very risky age of 43 and now has borne a child with Down syndrome. A 20-year-old woman has a 1 in 1500 chance of having a child with Down syndrome whereas a 42-year-old woman has a 1 in 55 chance. (I guess that her husband wasn’t listening to her on abstinence, either.)
Sarah Palin is an admitted evangelical. Is she evangelizing for folks to keep their children in the dark about how babies are made? Does she even know?
