[muawiyah]

For a certain (exceedingly large) crowd within the framework of Protestantism the godfather/godmother sort of thing is simply not kosher ~ an offer to be such a thing can cause those folks to recoil in horror.

Cindy probably knew that.

[oblomov]

OK, your answer is helpful.

It simply wasn’t done within my family, for the reason you cite. “Recoil in horror” might be a bit strong. “Recoil in bewilderment” might be more like it.

I think that Bristol Palin’s “tell-all” book is unnecessarily trashy, regardless of the oafishly parvenu behavior of the McCains.