Posted on 09/01/2008 4:25:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I just watched the most amazing bit of TV in decades - I cannot wait to see the YouTube version of it. Wolf Ditzer (aka Blitzer) was hosting Gloria Berger, Bill Bennet, Donna Brazille an John King (I believe) on The Situation Room and were discussing young Bristol Palin’s (Governor Palin’s oldest daughter) pregnancy and her plans to have the baby and marry the father. At the center of this discussion was Barack Obama’s call to keep the families (and these personal decisions) off limits. But what does CNN do? They air a woman reporter who ran to Alaska questioning the entire abstinence position of Governor Palin in light of her daughter’s pregnancy. It was pathetic.
Besides the Duh factor that abstinence works every time it is tried (pregnancies being proof of the opposite) Bill Bennet was rightfully outraged at CNN and Blitzer for bringing the Palin family’s personal issues into the debate like this. Bennett was hammering Blitzer who did not want to concede CNN crossed the line.
John King was looking just stunned and as if he was going to get sick. He wanted nothing to do with the muck raking by CNN.
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I suspect the reason is too disgustingly salacious to contemplate.
I totally agree with you. This is a private matter, and it should have been Bristol’s prerogative to treat it that way.
We’ve heard the Libs say that abortion is a “medical procedure” and that a person’s medical records are a “privacy matter”, but they have no problem publicizing this.
Hypocritical bastards!
Was waiting for someone to read and comment on his answer to my simple question of how it should have went down. I’m not really sure his inane suggestion would have resulted in a link he would accept today. He is either a troll masquerading or is sitting at his PC doing whatever in joyous glee at more pings today than hes had in his prior three years here combined.
Yes. Morality matters!
The problem is we’re not talking about Sarah’s morality, you dimwit!
Should we discuss their kids grades? In your world, no doubt a reflection on their education stances; or what about their kids habits...bites nails, wets bed, got drunk a few times in college? Have any of Palin's kids eve been sent to the Principal's office? Are they bullies (reflection no doubt on how she will deal w/Putin).
I feel vile just reading about this...ITS NONE OF MY DAMN BUSINESS OR YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What scandal? IT's not a Palin/McCain scandal. A girl and a guy committed a sin. Maybe they have confessed that sin before God, and maybe their priest, maybe they haven't.
I commit sin, as I presume you do -- and no person is without sin.
You accuse this 17-year-old of a scandal because she had sex. But Jesus admonished you -- If you even LOOK on a woman with lust in your heart, you have committed the same sin this girl and guy did.
If Palin had had an affair, I'd call for her to be dumped from the ticket. But it's no place for the mother to confess the sins of the daughter, unless that is what the daughter wants.
I did not have sex until I was married. I hope my son and daughter do likewise, but it is not within my power to force them. And if they sin and they have a child, I expect them to do the right thing -- but that does not include me announcing it to the world.
I'd really, really, really like to turn this on its head and turn the focus to those men and women who DO compound it with another, and live on "stolen" respectability in the sense that ending the pregnancy, in that it ends another life, is far worse than the act that conceived the child in the first place. Think of it in mathematical terms, with fornication having a negative ethical weighting of 5, and murder of 100. 105 > 5, thus the woman (and man) who abort carry a burden of conscience and live a lie. Every liberal woman you see can be suspected of having an abortion, which is far worse than what Bristol Palin is doing to rectify her mistake: marrying the man.
Charles, you and I have had our differences on some other threads...but your are spot on on this one. Cyber high five to you!
Well said!
everytime this issue comes up, people need to ask:
Wasn’t obama’s mother 17 years old and pregnant and unmarried with Obama?
AND had it not been ‘61 but rather ‘73, there may well BE no ObamaNation!
Everytime this subject comes up, on every level.
Hussein wants the families off limits because his wife compares so unfavorably with Palin’s family. The attitudes of Palin and of O’Bama toward abortion now stand out in glaring relief and Hussein’s side does not come off well, even with those moderately pro-”choice.”
Come to think of it, that is exactly what the Palin family is doing. I applaud them... and I will gladly vote for her.
Correct. And, this woman has them on the run given all they are throwing at the wall to see if it sticks.
Yes. A lot of families force the daughter to have an abortion so as not to “embarrass” the family. They can force the child because abortion is legal, and young scared pregnant girls are easily influenced by their authority figures.
And if she had an abortion, there would be no “story”, and nobody would be sniffing around to learn it.
I pray that I have taught my children better. I know good christian families who have had to deal with this issue.
I certainly don’t think this is a good situation, but it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. It seems a bit sexist to blame her for her daughter’s actions, in a way we’d never blame her father.
They are only “stupid” if they get pinned with it.
Reading is not one of your specialities, is it?
No where did I say this scandal is Bristol’s fault.
What I said was that for McCain and Palin not to have been honest and upfront about this was dishonest.
And they start thinking about their daughter, or neice, or grand daughter, or their friend's girl, who found themselves in the same situation Bristol is in...and how ugly a few people in their little circle were...but that these people on TV are trashing a young girl. I wouldn't want to be on the backside of that backlash...
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