Answers that question....
"But what if it was your daughter that got pregnant?"
One thing I am pretty sure of is that the more penetrating personal questions Obama supporters ask about the Palin family's life choices, the more their side is going to look like the ones with a nose poking under the curtain of every bedroom. Right or wrong, that's how it will play in the vast middle of the country where people don't necessarily believe in banning abortion, but also feel great discomfort about its practice.
Alaska is an unusual place in many ways, and almost entirely blue-collar not just economically, but culturally. It's a place where life is big and hard and surrounded by incredible beauty as well as danger. It is not a place where life follows neat and orderly plans, so a 17-year-old daughter getting pregnant and married doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would raise that much of a fuss up there.
"But what if it was your daughter that got pregnant?"
One thing I am pretty sure of is that the more penetrating personal questions Obama supporters ask about the Palin family's life choices, the more their side is going to look like the ones with a nose poking under the curtain of every bedroom. Right or wrong, that's how it will play in the vast middle of the country where people don't necessarily believe in banning abortion, but also feel great discomfort about its practice.
Alaska is an unusual place in many ways, and almost entirely blue-collar not just economically, but culturally. It's a place where life is big and hard and surrounded by incredible beauty as well as danger. It is not a place where life follows neat and orderly plans, so a 17-year-old daughter getting pregnant and married doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would raise that much of a fuss up there.
posted by The Snob at
5:01 PM
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It's certainly knocked the wind out the media's coverage of the poor weather down south.
In other news, a dog chased a cat.
Her daughter will be 18 when the baby arrives...coincidentally, the same age as Obama's mother was when she had him.
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