Children of politicians SHOULD be, if not sacrosanct, at least beyond criticism. They are for all politicians except Palin.
No, sir, children of politicans are not beyond criticism, and more than they are beyond being reported about at all. Even the young — although discretion is good and bad-mouthing bad — when we are subjected day-after-day of cute pictures of the Presidential Family that immodestly begs of itself a countervalence of a rebuking force. Personally I became sick of it when I myself was a kid during the Kennedy era. Sick of all the lavish fondling of the John-john and Caroline idols.
What politicians demand that the press withhold cute and endearing pictures and accounts of their children?
At least some of the criticism of Bristol Palin has merit! Why? No one should encourage “single motherhood”, which in law is known as “bastardy”. It is not enough, and dangerous to say “we (either the parents of the fans) love her anyway!”. “Loving anyway” breeds the offspring of loving anyway. We do not need more of that!