Palin not on board Straight Talk Express

[kskiska]

McCain's VP pick blows credibility, missing prime teaching moment

ST. PAUL -- Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.
Those are the last words a 44-year-old woman with an infant wants to hear from a teenage daughter.

Not many of us can truly say we want to become a granny before we qualify for our AARP discount membership card.

But Palin, John McCain's surprise pick for VP, is a real trouper.

"Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news, that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents," Sarah and Todd Palin said in a statement released Monday.

Malarkey.

When an unmarried 17-year-old girl comes up pregnant on the South Side of Chicago, Republicans don't make it sound like a beautiful thing.

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[Enrique]

1. republicans are going to be mad at Mitchell

picking on Bristol and "playing the race card."

[crickets]

2. Great article.

Gently but firmly exposes the hypocrisy.

[ejpoeta]

3. here's what bothers me

according to a journalist that was on msnbc, the family of palin were told they were going to ohio for an anniversary or something. no one was told until they were in ohio. so bristol never even was told about this. the kids were never asked if they wanted to be put through this. and the 17 year old was never told what could happen. what kind of parent would not even tell her kids or say, hay, mom is going to be running for vice president. now she may be under a lot of scrutiny. and we may all get looked at closely, too. bristol... do you want to do this? and let the kids in on it. that says a lot to me about palin. and it isn't anything good.

[habitual]

4. if that story is true about her kids not knowing...

then --- what the hell is wrong with these people.

people wanting power will stop at nothing.

[hvn_nbr_2]

5. McCain hasn't been on the Straight Talk Express for about 8 years now.

He's now captain of the Forked Tongue Rocking Chair.

The Straight Talk Express is one of those ghost trains on late night zombie movies--no engineer, no conductor, no passengers, just an eerie whistle and a chug-chug in the night.