GOP convention opens amid talk of Palin's unmarried daughter being pregnant

Tuesday 02nd September, 04:09 AM JST

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lipscombe at 11:30 AM JST - 4th September

my buddy clinton? I'm not american, nossiree bob. what is wrong with my point anyway? pre marital sex is ok with christians now? yes or no? intelligent christain debate is a true oxymoron sir so there is little point.

liberals such as yourself are, typically, two-faced and hypocritical

no no no no, thats wrong too. who told you that?
JPYuki at 01:13 PM JST - 4th September

Pregnant single teenage daughter? If Gov. Palin, like Pres. Bush, starts promoting abstinence as an effective method to prevent pregnancy, AIDS, and other infections, I am going to puke my guts out! Preaching abstinence to these teenagers does not work! They will have sex and that's the truth. Teach them to use condoms and contraception instead!
Hoss1 at 06:07 PM JST - 4th September

So, if Palin gets elected, is she going to have McCain pardon all the 18/19-year-olds in American jails and prisons for having sex with their 16/17 year old girlfriends?
freakashow at 08:08 PM JST - 4th September

It is good to see Obama do the honorable and right thing by not focusing on Palin's unmarried daughter. Boo on the American media that always love to create something out of nothing. It is time media outlets in the U.S. get their acts together and show real news and not scandal after scandal after scandal (even though it is what the American public wants).
cleo at 02:06 AM JST - 5th September

imgold -

I'm not 'insisting' that this pregnancy is unwanted, I'm saying that all the factors point to it being unplanned. Big difference. (If it was planned and they intend to get married, why not do things in the conventional order, wedding first, baby later?) Personally I would have thought that the assumption that a couple of unmarried teenagers deliberately making a baby and the parents being fine and dandy with that would be much more damaging to the Palin family reputation.

And I'm sorry, but I don't see this 'anti-American angle' that's upsetting you so much. A couple of kids having an unplanned baby is a bad idea in any country.
imgold at 01:03 PM JST - 5th September

How many of you out there have children ? Well then I'm sure you've seen this scenerio before. You tell the youngster to stop banging on the table, and they respond with "I'm only doing this" and proceed to bang a little more. Welcome to the world of Cleo ! Where one side of the mouth says I ain't doing anything while the other side of the mouth continues.

"I'm not 'insisting' that this pregnancy is unwanted, I'm saying that all the factors point to it being unplanned."

And like I said before Cleo, you have never been anywhere near any of the parties involved. You don't know them personally and you certainly weren't in the same room when Bristol and Levi decided to get married. For all we know they decided to celebrate their proposal with a good old fashioned rollick in the hay. For you to continue to libel their good name under the protection of Japantoday is a bit risky. As I said before, the Palins are about to go after similar tabloids in the court system. I'm surprised Japantoday allows your remarks to remain. But then again, they've deleted better !
frontandcentre at 01:36 PM JST - 5th September

"Life Happens" - a nice phrase for Palin to remember when she gets sent back to Alaska after taking a beating in the election.

I know McCain is clutching at straws now, but really - what a desperate choice for a running mate. McCain keels over with a heart attack and you get this crazy woman in charge of the nuclear button? Nope, even Republicans aren't going to go for that.

McCain is plainly to old for this - his judgement's gone, and the world is laughing at the GOP now
zurcronium at 02:09 PM JST - 5th September

The fact is if Chelsea got preggers when bill was in the WH the redneck fox news would have gone nuts with how liberal democrats allow their kids to have sex, blah blah blah. Now that a creationist bible thumper palin allows her kids to have kids its gods will and we all should have to love each more. Can the repubs be anymore hypocritical? Being republican, a bush/palin born again loser type, is really a neurosis. All of them need to be in serious reality therapy.
frontandcentre at 09:19 PM JST - 5th September

mar4eO - hilarious to hear the deluded carping on about how great the leadership of their country's been over the past 8 years when everyone else can plainly see it has been a disaster. And wanting another 4 years of it under the past-it Mr McCain would truly be the equivalent of turkeys voting for Christmas
freakashow at 11:57 PM JST - 5th September

For all we know they decided to celebrate their proposal with a good old fashioned rollick in the hay.

Exactly. The American media outlets love to blow things out of proportion and make something out of nothing. Shame on CNN, Fox, The New York Times, The Washington Post, of course AP and other major U.S. news outlets for jumping on every single scandal to sell a newspaper. But hey, that's what they do to make a living; even if it calls for dragging people through the mud. God bless the First Amendment!
CavemanLawyer at 08:40 AM JST - 6th September

imgold,

And like I said before Cleo, you have never been anywhere near any of the parties involved. You don't know them personally and you certainly weren't in the same room when Bristol and Levi decided to get married.

You have not been near them either. Best you remember that. You were not in the same room they "decided" to get married, so don't be too sure about any of it, not even the plan to get married part. Like I told another, you don't even know the planned wedding date.

--Cirroc
imgold at 10:27 AM JST - 6th September

Cavemanlawyer, poor position mate, you would get run in any court of law this this flawed rebuttel:

"You have not been near them either. Best you remember that. You were not in the same room they "decided" to get married, so don't be too sure about any of it, not even the plan to get married part."

The Palins released a statement regarding the "plans to be married", its part of the public record. As for Cleo's claims that this pregnancy is "unwanted/unplanned" there is nothing to indicate either is true.

Aside from this, the typical negative spin by the Japantoday crowd, is the fact that Palin's polling numbers currently show her leading both McCain and Obama in terms of popularity. Could it be that Japantoday has once again chosen to back the wrong horse ? I'm gonna laugh my tail off if the Sarge's of this site turn out to be right and the Palin/McCain ticket wins in a landslide !
zurcronium at 10:25 PM JST - 6th September

wow, looks like mccain is just as incompetent as bush. maybe more as he is so old.

Staff at a California school were scratching their heads on Friday after their facility mysteriously appeared as a backdrop during John McCain's Republican Convention speech.

A giant image of Walter Reed Middle School in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood was one of several pictures projected onto a backdrop at the Republican Convention on Thursday as McCain addressed delegates.

However ABC and online reports have speculated McCain's campaign could have intended to show a picture of the prestigious Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. rather than a relatively obscure school in California.

A McCain campaign spokesman was not immediately available to comment on the reasons for the selection of the photo.

But Walter Reed Middle School's principal Donna Tobin said in a statement that use of the school's image had come as a surprise.

"It has been brought to the school's attention that a picture of the front of our school, Walter Reed Middle School, was used as a backdrop at the Republican National Convention," Tobin said.

"Permission to use the front of our school for the Republican National Convention was not given by our school nor is the use of our school's picture an endorsement of any political party or view."

Walter Reed hospital was at the center of a national scandal in 2007 after revelations of negligent patient care at the facility.
jwills79 at 03:03 PM JST - 7th September

Imgold,

It is a matter of fact the pregnancy was unplanned because the proof was on the Baby's daddy own myspace page. In addition, to admitting to being a redneck, he also said and I quote "I do not want any children". That is why it was pulled down shortly after the news got out.
CavemanLawyer at 03:18 PM JST - 8th September

imgold,

The Palins released a statement regarding the "plans to be married", its part of the public record. As for Cleo's claims that this pregnancy is "unwanted/unplanned" there is nothing to indicate either is true.

Is that all you got? A statement that is part of the public record? You really do not know a thing about politicians if that is good enough for you and/or you do not seem to understand that we are not talking about a legally binding public record, but just a statement released to the public.

As for the unplanned/unwanted thing, I have to question your understanding of the English language. There has beenplenty from the very beginning, to indicate that one or both are true.

And as jwills79 points out, now there is proof that it is true from the side of the as yet still unmarried teenage father.

And before the strawman army comes to attack, I don't have a problem with their situation. But plenty on the right should. It is their silence and voiced acceptance ie. hypocrisy that is sickening.

Cavemanlawyer, poor position mate, you would get run in any court of law this this flawed rebuttel:

The punchline should come at the end. Yes, coming from you, it was pretty funny! You have a gift for irony though you probably are not aware of it yourself!

--Cirroc