Andrew Sullivan----Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Questions for the McCain-Palin campaign:

[DogPoundPup]

Where has Bristol Palin (far right, holding Trig, with a ring on her wedding finger) been for the past year? Has she been attending high school? Or was she absent because of infectious mononucleosis for between five and eight months, as is now being reported on the Internet?


Why would a 43 year old woman, on her fifth pregnancy, with a Down Syndrome child, after her amniotic fluid has started to leak, not go to the nearest hospital immediately, even if she was in Texas for a speech?

Why would she not only not go to the hospital in Texas, but take an eight-hour plane flight to Seattle and then Anchorage?

Why would she choose to deliver the baby not in the nearest major facility in Anchorage but at a much smaller hospital near her home-town?

Why did the flight attendants on the trip home say she bore no signs of being pregnant?

It strikes me as likely that there are reasonable answers to these questions - more reasonable than the only one given so far -

"You can't have a fish picker from Texas," said Todd -

and the rumors buzzing across the Internets and the press corps are unfounded and unseemly. There must be plenty of medical records and obstetricians and medical eye-witnesses prepared to testify to Sarah Palin's giving birth to Trig. There must be a record of Bristol's high school attendance for the past year. And surely, surely, the McCain camp did due diligence on this. But the noise around this story is now deafening, and the weirdness of the chronology sufficient to rise to the level of good faith questions. So please give us these answers - and provide medical records for Sarah Palin's pregnancy - and put this to rest.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/things-that-mak.html

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. hmm

someones been reading Kos!

[smoochpooch]

2. He's right

All this can very easily go away if they answer some questions, provide records, or even some photos of Palin and her daughter from the time of the pregnancy (of course they will need to be verified as to the date). Haven't McCain and Obama released their medical records? If so, I don't think it's too much to ask her to do the same.

I like that Andrew Sullivan is at least mentioning this. Even if it is totally bogus, there will be some people who still believe it's true.

[helderheid]

3. Hmmm!

[rainbow4321]

4. K&R!!!!

[helderheid]

5. expect him to say something on Bill Maher

[jazzjunkysue]

6. This is now on british news: their Times. So, maybe a week to go viral?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4647965.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164

[depakid]

8. Note how it leads into other less sensational but more substantive questions

about who this person is, what she's done and what she stands for.

[jazzjunkysue]

9. But we all know which story will get the attention...

[sadbear]

7. Wow! If Sullivan is already onto this

The MSM won't be far behind. And as we all know, it matters very little if it's true or not.