McCain Camp: Stop Intruding on Bristol Palin's Private Life

Today there was a report that 42% of the $200 or less contributions for Obama is now under suspicion and an investigation is being done.
Hope the judge and court will determine PDQ that Obama's place of birth was Kenya. He is so anti-American in traditional values, he should not be running. The weak minded lemmings are following this socialist candidate.

To those of you who only criticize, let me ask, how many of you actually think you have a handle on your 16, 17, or 18 year olds! You may THINK you control them, but ultimately, they make their own decisions! You may have given them the foundation to what is right/wrong, but you don't control their every move! At that age, they make their own choices! Accept them right or wrong and learn from them.

I'm sure we all know of someone who's made a choice we don't agree with. Do you smather it all over the papers? NO! Leave the kids to their private lives!

1) It just galls me that the very people who help single moms, and their children, pregnant teens are the very community organizers - volunteers, professionals, churches etc., are the people Palin denigrates! Get some sense!!
2) I cannot imagine how much pressure the daughter and boyfriend are under to begin with and now being thrust into the spotlight by the campaign.....argh, I absolutely feel for those two young people. It is shameful what the adults have done.

NOTE TO MCCAIN: THEN STOP PARADING THESE POOR KIDS AROUND LIKE CAMPAIGN PROPS!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh! My sides hurt!

Jonah, I find it incredibly sad, frankly, that you conservatives are so concerned about the millions of babies aborted each year but wouldn't lift a finger to help - or have your government help - the many teenagers (and up) who give birth to babies out of wedlock every year. It just seems to me that the beginning of life is so important to you folks but everything that comes after is not your business.

Jonah,
I could care less about Sarah Palin's family. That is Sarah Palin's concern not mine. What I find amusing is conservatives acceptance of the whole situation and then when it is pointed out that it seems hypcocritical blame the media and call the accusers the hypocrites.

McCain's team will continue to attack the media for probing Palin's experience and past. Palin has chosen to put her family on display by choosing to be on the ticket. You can blame the media all you want but it was McCain's choice of Palin and Palin's acceptance that put them in spotlight. Honestly, is McCain and Palin that naive. I don't think so....they are using the same old right-wing tactic of attacking the messenger instead of taking responsibility.

I think it is really kind of comical about all you liberals are SOO incredibly concerned about the newborn son of Sarah Palin but you are not the least bit concerned about the millions of babies aborted each year... To talk about Sarah Palin's lack of experience and to ignore Barack Obama's is truly funny. The only thing Barack Obama has planned is a campaign...he has spent all of his senate term on his presidential campaign, did virtually nothing in Illinois as a state senator..Barack Obama is a power hungry liberal who will bring shame and destruction to this nation...At least Sarah Palin and John McCain have been SERVING the people the represent rather than serving themselves...

I was wondering how the heck anyone knew whether or not Bristol Palin use contraception. Everyone seems to imply that Sarah Palin was an irrresponsible parent to teach ABSTINENCE-the healthiest choice to her daughter and that she was withholding valuable information about safe sex. Condoms do not protect 100% from pregnancy so how on earth do you know whether or not she had "safe sex" which really is NO SEX! I am so sick of the media making such an issue about this. It is Sarah Palin's right as a parent to teach her kids whatever values she wants...that is what makes it America, get a clue. Don't site up here and tell me that teenagers don't know how to get info on safe sex. Turn on the TV for crying out loud and see all the bull crap teens are being told as if condoms protect from everything....The only reason Sarah brought it up about her daughter is because the ridiculous liberal media was accusing her of faking a pregnancy with her son Trig that was really her daughters child...that is almost hilarious, like she is going to get a hospital to lie about who gave birth...u people are stupid.

MayBee,

No one did any digging to uncover this story.

It was Sarah Palin who brought this story to the nation's attention.

Please don't expect me to be naive enough to believe that Palin thought this would not be a major media story.

And simply by exposing her daughter, she made it part of the political story.

She is a staunch family values, pro life abstinence only Governor and mother, and the pregnancy of her unwed teenage daughter is not supposed to be an issue?

They are using her daughters pregnancy as part of their politics and they turn and blame the press for exploiting the girl.

This is part of their political game..

And please point out where I am wrong on the facts.

Lou- you can make any points about Sarah Palin's record you want without bringing her daughter into it. You don't have your facts about Palin right, but that's beside the point.

We don't want to start digging around to see if any pro-choice candidate's daughters or wives have had abortions, do we? We don't want teenagers of politicians to have to stay home on the couch to keep the press from using them against their parents.

Remember, the Obama girls will be teenagers in the WH if Obama wins.

MayBee,

This is not about Bristol Palin.

It is about a 17 year old pregnant, unmarried teen whose mother is anti abortion, anti sex education, and believes in abstinence only, who denied funding for sex education and slashed funding for a program for unwed pregnant teens and tempory shelter for underage, unwed mothers.

Now she marches her own 17 year old pregnant unwed daughter into the Republican National Convention and into the national spotlight and uses her to underscore parts of her VP acceptance speech and no one is supposed to notice?

Don't be fooled.

Bristol Palin is being marketed by the RNC for political purposes.

I'm sorry .... exactly why is it bad for John McCain to shake the young man's hand??

Apples and Oranges Jake!

McCain shaking the kid's hand is not an invitation for the media to relentlessly attack the young girl!!

McCain exploits Bristol Palin for his own political gain and now we're supposed to believe he is so deeply concerned about her privacy?

The Republican party last night used Bristol Palin and her boyfriend as political props and Bristol Palin's mother allowed that to happen.

The children of all of the candidates have been on stage with them and present at various campaign events.
That has never been an invitation to pry into their private lives.
Every journalist knows there's a traditional line of respect for the kids. Bringing the kids out in public hasn't, in the past, been enough to make the journalists cross that line.

from Roger Simon at Politico:

On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?

Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.

It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn’t be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols.

John McCain's protest would be more credible if his campaign did not flt in the boyfriend and use the couple as a props. The whole Palin family scene with her newborn baby being passed around risking her son's safety when he goes to Iraq by showing his face on global TC was just plain sordid. John McCain NEVER does that with his son. I agree, we should hear less about this family especially the wildly ambitious and reckless mother.

That kid looked scared out of his mind and who would blame him.

His fiancee's mother has shown a ruthless unflinching ability to abuse the power of her office.

I've not heard anyone apart from the McCain-Palin campaign mention Bristol Palin recently. I think they are the ones who need to keep her out of the media spotlight.