Obama's reaction to this is pretty fantastic:
Q: Governor Palin and her husband issued a statement today saying that their 17 year old daughter Bristol who is unmarried is 5 months pregnant. Do you have a comment?
A: I have heard some of the news on this and so let me be as clear as possible. I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics, it has no relevance to governor Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18. And how family deals with issues and teenage children that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that is off limits.
(also, how did it take me until just now that Barak Obama's initials are the same as the acronym for Body Oder? Eww.)
2 comments:
word, ma nizzo. word
you know, i was actually discussing this in a class recently, and someone said something very true and profound. he said "sure, we should factor in her daughter's pregnancy. but the fact that she got preggers is not important; that had little to do with Palin. what we -should- factor in is her reaction to the news and how her family deals with the issues."
i found that very insightful
that's a great point. i just maintain that what a kid does at 17 is not necessarily to do with the parents.
although it does seem like a bit of an argument for the "safe sex" talk =)
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