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Oh, for fuck's sake.

To rebut rumors, Palin says daughter, 17, is pregnant.

This stupid bullshit makes my head hurt.

A few things:

a.) I don't believe the conspiracy theory that Governor Palin's youngest child is actually her grandchild. Granted, she seems to have been a really skinny seven-months-pregnant woman, and I know American politics is a really dumb soap-opera-in-progress, but STILL.

b.) Having said that, that means that Governor Palin got on a plane to fly back to Alaska from Texas while leaking amniotic fluid during the last stages of a very high-risk pregnancy. Her husband's excuse? "You can't have a fish picker in Texas." I hate that it's a personal situation that I'm pointing at here, and yet there is nothing about any of the decisions involved in that situation that is NOT profoundly moronic.

c.) Having said all of THAT, Bristol Palin being pregnant NOW does not actually do much to rebut rumors that she might have been pregnant THEN. Quite frankly, considering the pro-life movement usually has no problem implying that teen moms are sluts, you'd think they would realize that acknowledging she's pregnant now might make people suspect it actually lends credence to the theory. (Note: It doesn't.)

d.) "The despicable rumors that have been spread by liberal blogs, some even with Barack Obama's name in them, is a real anchor around the Democratic ticket, pulling them down in the mud in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their 'campaign of change,"' a senior aide said. Yes, because if the Daily Kos presents this theory, it obviously means that Obama's campaign has something to do with it. Say, when can we go after McCain's campaign for all of those blogs that imply that Obama is a secret explosive Muslim candy bar born in twenty-seven different countries?

e.) Why am I even talking about this poor kid? She's obviously been through enough crap. God, I'm starting to hate this election.

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Quite frankly, considering the pro-life movement usually has no problem implying that teen moms are sluts

Oh, the ones who get abortions are sluts. Bristol's keeping the baby and marrying the father, so it's all good.

The amazing thing about this is that, while it was just the liberal blogosphere attacking her daughter, I really did feel for Sarah Palin, having her kids thrust into the spotlight in such blatantly cruel ways.

Now I fucking hate everyone.

GREAT JOB, EVERYONE.

Is it November yet? I just want to fucking vote for Obama and then hide out until everyone stops sucking quite so much.

... My head hurts.

c) Only if you can't count. If she's due in Oct. and pregnancy is still 40 weeks, she got pregnant middle of January, so she couldn't have given birth in April. *g*

I can't stop laughing. This is the best election EVER.

(it's that sort of disturbed oh god I knew this was going to happen train wreck laugh.)

Abstinence-only sex-ed in action, too.

Wait, you're only starting to hate it now? I don't even live in your country and I hate this bullshit.

In other news, lol, that marriage will totally last the test of time, I'm sure. She's been through a lot of crap but from the sounds of it, she's got piles and piles more to go.

You're only starting to hate this election?

Oh. My. God.

This shit is messed up.

Ok, help a Politically ignorant Canuck here......what's the big deal?

Okay, so the idea is that if the daughter had a baby that was pre-screened to be afflicted with Down Syndrome, no father in sight and herself being sixteen years old, the Palins would much rather instigate a huge cover-up to pass the baby off as the grand-mother's?

What are the bloggers smoking? We all know that a good portion of pro-lifers, anti-gayers and general fuckwads only like to believe abortion is evil when other people are doing it. The daughter could not be her little brother's mother, not because of math and current state of her uterus, but because if she'd been pregnant then? That kid would so not have been born. I would bet my soul on it.

Bristol.

She called her daughter Bristol.

Okay. I just hope she never watches a Carry On film. Come to think of it, that's probably not too likely, so we're good.

Palin backed abstinence education
Posted: 02:00 PM ET

(CNN) – Sarah Palin, who announced on Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, indicated during her run for Alaska governor that she was a firm supporter of abstinence-only education in schools.

In a 2006 Eagle Forum questionnaire, Palin indicated that she supported funding abstinence-until-marriage education programs instead of teaching sex-education programs.

"Explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," Palin wrote in the conservative group’s questionnaire.

That's all I have to say.

I really wish that I could dismiss this as 'none of my business' because Bristol Palin's sex life, lack of, and/ or pregnancy shouldn't be my business. I'm not her parent, I'm not a resident of Alaska, and she's one of thousands of teenage unwed mothers.

However, considering Mrs. Palin seems to think my reproductive system is her business and the business of the state, I can't find it in me to feel bad for her when this hit so close to home.

Between the party, the media, and her mom's political position, I'm deeply concerned about what, if anything, Bristol Palin has gotten to make a free choice about.

One part of me feels dreadful for these kids- Bristol didn't ask for all of this, and to some extent, neither did her mother. Unexpected pregnancies are tough things to deal with, and I do respect her choice to keep the baby (jury's still out on the shotgun wedding), and I hope the choice was hers to make.

The other part of me is going, "Well, what did you expect?"

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