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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:08 PM May 2012

OMG, talk about the stupids - Bristol Palin's response to Obama's support for marriage equality

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/bristol-palin-gay-marriage-_n_1506286.html?ref=politics

Bristol writes in a Facebook post that fathers should shape their kids' views, not the other way around:

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

Bristol has a son with her ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston, but the two were never married and Bristol says that Levi is not part of the child's life.


Really?

How much time do you allow the father of your child, the father you did NOT marry, spend with your child.

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OMG, talk about the stupids - Bristol Palin's response to Obama's support for marriage equality (Original Post) LynneSin May 2012 OP
When I look at how Malia and Sasha turned out, and I look at how Bristol turned out, the better dad Happyhippychick May 2012 #1
well to be fair Obama's kids are 9 and 13 LynneSin May 2012 #2
I can imagine her in 1860, explaining why it would be wrong Nye Bevan May 2012 #3
I don't know why people listen to her mother? Rambis May 2012 #4
Teen pregnant girl who is not married to the father of her baby, giving advice on marriage. vaberella May 2012 #5
Parenting morals advice from Bristol Palin? Ruby the Liberal May 2012 #6
Ouch! It burns! Proud Liberal Dem May 2012 #7
Oh this is good Bristol... PearliePoo2 May 2012 #8
She wrote that - just how many other options did she have LynneSin May 2012 #14
How many options you ask? PearliePoo2 May 2012 #28
it would've been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha why bigotry is justified fishwax May 2012 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Drunken Irishman May 2012 #10
I've been on pins and needles wondering what Saphire May 2012 #11
How is this even newsworthy? lapislzi May 2012 #12
Now I can finally sleep knowing how Bristol Palin feels about marriage equality... cynatnite May 2012 #13
So Bristol thinks Obama should have sat Malia and Sasha down Arkana May 2012 #15
To quote hack comic Yakov Smirnoff: What a country! DefenseLawyer May 2012 #16
Nothing quite like getting advice from an unmarried teenage mother on good parenting. n/t Downtown Hound May 2012 #17
What parental advice did Bristol receive? What of it did she ignore or follow? Gold Metal Flake May 2012 #18
If kids are best off growing up with a mother and a father tabbycat31 May 2012 #19
"Thousands of years ago" ... Dad's sold their daughters into marriage with wealthy old men. JoePhilly May 2012 #20
Or sold them into slavery sarge43 May 2012 #32
I'm so tired of hearing PatSeg May 2012 #37
While I am rarely critical of single mothers nadinbrzezinski May 2012 #21
Can't wait until we all hear how she explains her unmarried motherhood to sinkingfeeling May 2012 #22
Well, she DID say "ideally." Bake May 2012 #23
Oh and about your Facebook entry you supposedly "wrote". PearliePoo2 May 2012 #24
I don't really have much to add laundry_queen May 2012 #25
This from the daughter of two morons WhoIsNumberNone May 2012 #26
WoW! I can't wait to hear her "thoughts" on quantum physics. WTF cares Bristol? Tarheel_Dem May 2012 #27
Reminds me of Jon Stewart's definition of cognitive dissonance sarge43 May 2012 #29
I see she inherited her mothers gift of language. nt Javaman May 2012 #30
love you. nt bubbalubagus May 2012 #33
You realize what the problem here is, don't you? hamsterjill May 2012 #31
Thousands of years of history, Bristol? Pathwalker May 2012 #34
Hypocritical much Ms. Palin? Liberalynn May 2012 #35
Typical Repig....... Swede Atlanta May 2012 #36

Happyhippychick

(8,379 posts)
1. When I look at how Malia and Sasha turned out, and I look at how Bristol turned out, the better dad
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:09 PM
May 2012

is pretty obvious.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
2. well to be fair Obama's kids are 9 and 13
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:11 PM
May 2012

I would think a better comparison is how Chelsea Clinton is today. But I suspect that Sasha and Malia will turn out pretty well adjusted.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
3. I can imagine her in 1860, explaining why it would be wrong
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:16 PM
May 2012

to change thousands of years thinking about slavery.

Rambis

(7,774 posts)
4. I don't know why people listen to her mother?
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:16 PM
May 2012

Why anyone would cover an opinion of a dysfunctional, pregnant X teen who has never been married stretches the limits of my brain.

vaberella

(24,634 posts)
5. Teen pregnant girl who is not married to the father of her baby, giving advice on marriage.
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:18 PM
May 2012

Hilarious.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,399 posts)
7. Ouch! It burns!
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:21 PM
May 2012

Talk about a lame response. I suppose that she thinks that children NEVER have anything valuable to teach their parents! Being a parent myself, my children have taught me more than a few things. Maybe she feels jealous because she wasn't able to teach her parents anything? I'm almost detecting a subtle note of homophobia in her remarks- trying to tell President Obama to "man up"?

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
8. Oh this is good Bristol...
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:21 PM
May 2012

...prior to your son Tripp being born, you wrote to Levi: "I pray you're NOT the father."

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
28. How many options you ask?
Thu May 10, 2012, 02:32 PM
May 2012

She doesn't remember.
Drinking wine coolers until you pass out in the tent and then realizing the next morning you had sex (while your camping buddies all listened) can cause memory lapses.

(I feel sorry for her son...having such a dysfunctional, fraudulent, messed up family)

Response to LynneSin (Original post)

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
12. How is this even newsworthy?
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:36 PM
May 2012

Do we care what this teenaged nitwit thinks about national affairs? She probably can't find Alaska on a map.

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
15. So Bristol thinks Obama should have sat Malia and Sasha down
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:42 PM
May 2012

and explained to them that gays are filthy subhuman animals who can't control their basest urges?

Bristol's going to be a bigger moron than her mother.

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
16. To quote hack comic Yakov Smirnoff: What a country!
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:44 PM
May 2012

Not only is everyone free to say pretty much whatever he or she wants, but if you are even the slightest quasi-celebrity, major news outlets will report your babbling to the world as "news". It's a beautiful thing.

Gold Metal Flake

(13,805 posts)
18. What parental advice did Bristol receive? What of it did she ignore or follow?
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:57 PM
May 2012

Is she speaking from experience or just theory?

tabbycat31

(6,336 posts)
19. If kids are best off growing up with a mother and a father
Thu May 10, 2012, 01:59 PM
May 2012

Than she should try and live that out herself and reconcile with the babydaddy.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
20. "Thousands of years ago" ... Dad's sold their daughters into marriage with wealthy old men.
Thu May 10, 2012, 02:01 PM
May 2012

You dope.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
32. Or sold them into slavery
Thu May 10, 2012, 02:37 PM
May 2012

Thousands of years ago, probably not much difference.

"You dope."

The Select Committee of Dopes will take exception. She couldn't pass the entrance exam.

PatSeg

(47,351 posts)
37. I'm so tired of hearing
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:21 PM
May 2012

about "traditional marriage" between one man and one woman. There is no such thing as traditional marriage. If these people would pick up a book now and then, they would know that throughout history, marriage has had many definitions. Even their bible (the ultimate authority on all things evidently) speaks of polygamy and does not condemn it.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
21. While I am rarely critical of single mothers
Thu May 10, 2012, 02:06 PM
May 2012

I will of THIS single mother... really? You mean an institution that you yourself did not partake off? Really Bristol? The same damn bible that you probably used for this thinking has very bad things to say about lose women Bristol.

Yes, I can quote chapter and verse by the way... it is in Leviticus, look it up.

sinkingfeeling

(51,444 posts)
22. Can't wait until we all hear how she explains her unmarried motherhood to
Thu May 10, 2012, 02:11 PM
May 2012

her son. She's lucky we all didn't keep thinking like they did thousands of years ago or she'd have been stoned.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
24. Oh and about your Facebook entry you supposedly "wrote".
Thu May 10, 2012, 02:20 PM
May 2012

Interesting, that when you are actually being interviewed live and people can watch and hear you speak...you can barely complete a sentence. (course, you couldn't complete high school either)

"Ummmm...ya know it's like....ummm...like you know...for sure...I mean like... yeah...like WHATEVER!"

There...fixed it for 'ya, dumb-ass.
fucking idiot.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
29. Reminds me of Jon Stewart's definition of cognitive dissonance
Thu May 10, 2012, 02:33 PM
May 2012

Two rats fighting in a sack. I think Bristol's rats have gone to the nuclear option.

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
31. You realize what the problem here is, don't you?
Thu May 10, 2012, 02:35 PM
May 2012

The problem is that someone actually reported on Bristol Palin's Facebook post.

The media needs to stop giving her a stage to spout her stupid opinions. I know...I know...it's just so HARD not to let her talk because the stupidity of her thoughts makes for good entertainment. Sounds kind of like what the media does for her mother, too, doesn't it????

 

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)
36. Typical Repig.......
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:12 PM
May 2012

She had her son out-of-wedlock and is raising him as a single mother....don't get me wrong I am fully supportive of her undertaking. We don't know how much Levi is involved in the child's life... But she was never married and is raising a child in a single parent home. So her whole argument about mother/father home ideal is kind of blown away. You should have kept your legs together until you were married.

Secondly, there is ZERO, NADA, NO evidence that a child does better in a home with a mother and a father. Stability, love and nurture are the keys to a child's well-being and happiness. This could be a single-parent home, a home with two mothers or two fathers or a commune of people.

She is a true piece of work, repukkke style.

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