Posted on 06/20/2011 6:26:17 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Bristol Palin, the single mom and reality TV star whose mother is toying with a run for the White House, will sign copies of her memoir at the Mall of America, officials from the Bloomington shopping center said Monday.
Palin, 20, will appear from 6 to 8 p.m. June 29 at the mall's rotunda, bringing her back to the Twin Cites, where her family burst onto the national scene when her mother, Sarah Palin, accepted the No. 2 spot on the Republican Party's presidential ticket during the 2008 national convention in St. Paul.
Bristol Palin's book, "Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far," co-written with Nancy French, is scheduled for publication by William Morrow this week.
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Why don’t I find your rejoinder funny?
Umm, because you're a psychopath who lives vicariously thru a family you've never met?
Post #60 - hilarious!
Any girl who doesn’t marry Ricky Hollywood gets a pass
Mine, too, with a few exceptions. Once in a while, you see a woman who does everything she can to make sure her child has a stable, good home with stable male influences, but not often enough.
To often, the same immaturity that got them pregnant makes them unable to be good mothers.
I understand that Bristol Palin can afford to pay nannies and such, but look at her child's life so far.
She moved her child away from his father (he doesn't seem to be much of a father, but she went out of the way to pick him). She moved him away from his aunts and uncles and his grandparents.
We can't say that the child won't miss his dad because he has his relatives. She took him thousands of miles away from those people, and now that her own mother has bought a house in the area, she's put her own house up for rent.
She'll either work, or be on a TV show, or whatever she'll do, but either way, her son isn't with family. No dad, no grandfather-as-dad. Soon she'll be moving in with two actors to make a reality series. Another move, another change. No stability. How sad is that?
He'll get to grow up with kids who know what his mother has written about his dad, too. The internet is forever. Think about being a teenager, being told by other kids about how your mom lost her virginity, and how your dad is trash, a "gnat".
Nowadays, most of these baby mamas and their children have very bad lives. And we subsidize it with welfare and other public assistance programs.
I feel so sorry for every child out there who are missing one parent and saddled with another who is selfish. Boys learn to be men when they have fathers. Girls learn about the kind of man they should pick.
We marginalize parenthood and especially fathers at our own risk.
And remember, this is supposed to be a good situation. She's supposed to be a spokesperson and is supposed to have handled things well.
Having the baby is half the job. Making sure the baby has a good, stable home life is the other half.
You don't think everyone here would support Chelsea Clinton if she wrote a book in which she detailed the losing her virginity in a tent, while underaged in high school, and so drunk on wine coolers that she blacked out and couldn't remember it?
Because that's what they're defending now.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/what-will-bristol-palins-memoir-reveal.html
I’m betting more on a book like post 54 describes.
Name calling is the best argument to use when you have no argument — who’s the psychopath, LOL?
And imagine what would be said about the Clintons as parents in that situation.
Glamorizing unwed parenthood, writing tell-all books with stories about getting drunk and sleeping with a man; calling your child's father names, and leaving your child for others to raise is not right, and it will never be right, no matter how many people make excuses for it.
I'm sort of surprised at the number of people who are trying to paint this as a good thing. This is not a good thing.
>>> I’m a Sarah Palin supporter, but I just gotta wonder why Bristol is writing a book.
Like the others my first reaction too was she was just cashing in. I had forgotten Levi has his own book coming out very soon. This book is more a preemptive strike. Depending on what is in Levi’s book it may be necessary. We’ll see.
It’s the new reality show that’s cashing in.
Probably because you have no sense of humor. Forgivable flaw, I guess.
i think the difference is that she’s earning her own way, unlike the majority of of single mothers who live off the government dole.
and its not really her fault the she famous for being famous- the media chose to force her in the spotlight, as long as she’s there, she might as well capitalise on it.
there’s alot about her personal choices i disagree with, but i won’t find fault in her capitalistic spirit and taking advantage of what’s been thrust on her.
Most single moms I know have been married before, have at least one job, can't afford plastic surgery and cosmetic dental work and don't have time to write a book.
She doesn't have the values I want my daughters to aspire to - she is the last young woman I'd point to as a role model.
JMHO
You said it very well. I think it sums it up when you said that the same immaturity which led to them getting pregnant also makes them unable to be good mothers.
Thanks for putting together the thoughts I was trying to express.
It is so difficult to make the points you make when the subject is transformed from ideas to personalities (the daughter of Gov. Palin in this case).
A most excellent and apt analysis, both in the general and the instant case.
Anyway who doesn’t agree with you on something you think is funny must be humorless — ah, I get it, now!
Do you folks argue about everything? Lighten up.
It is pretty insulting that a book we can assume was written for the conservative, pro-life, abstinence audience is being published, and you mock that audience as idiots.
You ignored my post to you and continue your school girl, nasty attacks on the young lady.
Petty grown women attacking the 20 year old girl that seems to be a pretty nice young lady.
Bristol Palin has a job, several of them, quite a few of them in fact.
After graduating high school, Bristol was taking business courses at the community college. Bristol is also a speaker for the “National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy” and is a “Teen Abstinence Ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation, a teen pregnancy prevention organization.
Bristol also owns and operates a political consulting services firm, her personal wealth is estimated at greater than a million dollars, and that estimate predates the book deal and her latest TV show deal.
Bristol seems to be doing very well, and living responsibly.
Her and her child’s 5 bedroom home that had sold for $330,000.00 in 2006 is paid off, and is mortgage free.
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