Bristol Palin is Pregnant, And It's None of our Business

Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant. This has, of course, led many already to begin to point to the hypocrisy of an abstinent only mother and the condition her daughter is in. Regardless of any perceived hypocrisy, my personal opinion is this: a seventeen year old girl is pregnant, and it's none of our fucking business. She is not running for office, and she is not our daughter.

I was thrilled to see Barak Obama respond quickly on this matter with a message I think all good minded people should heed:

(from the New York Times) Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, was asked at a brief press conference in Monroe, Mich., about the suggestion by some Republicans that Democrats — particularly liberal bloggers — were trying to advance rumors about the Palin family.

“Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be,” Mr. Obama snapped, his voice raised. “And if I ever thought there was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they’d be fired, O.K.?”

Mr. Obama said the pregnancy “has no relevance to Governor Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president.” He added that, “my mother had me when she was 18. How a family deals with issues and teen-age children — that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics.”

“So,” he added, “I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories.”


Enough said.