Sorry, Sarah Palin. You're no longer the most famous member of your own family.
That honor now falls to Bristol Palin.
It was revealed this morning that Bristol is the Jamie Lynn Spears of the political world, a pregnant 17-year old set to marry her Casey Aldridge-like boyfriend.
With that in mind, here's a photo montage of young Bristol Palin, often pictured alongside her famous mother. Click on each photo for a larger image...
We're not casting judgment on Sarah Palin as a mother, nor on Bristol Palin as an individual. Everyone makes mistakes. But we do have one pressing question:
Can you imagine the reaction from conservatives if Barack Obama had a pregnant teenage daughter?
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September 1st, 2008 2:41 PM
Forget that the pregnancy happened.
How could John McCain and Sara Palin, both of whom claim to have known all about it, chosen to put this kid into the media spotlight while she goes through this?
Sarah Palin didn't need to run for VP right now while her daughter is still unmarried and pregnant. John McCain could have picked anothe VP candidate. Either could have saved this kid from what she's about to go through.
Instead, to further their ambitions, they threw this kid under the paparazzi bus. Nice.
September 1st, 2008 3:45 PM
ha!ha!ha!mrs palin watch your daughter!
September 1st, 2008 4:52 PM
She's just a teenage girl who made a mistake! Sarah Palin is just a normal person who's daughter made a mistake (well she made a bit of a mistake too! lol). I don't see what the huge deal is? It's not like she is now rubbish at her job because her daughter is pregnant!! Let it go!
September 1st, 2008 6:03 PM
It's not the child healthy labido that astounds me nor that she even became pregnant ... but it's the fact that she is the daughter of a bible thumping mother who spews the very values she can not even instill in her home and who, while preaching abstaining overloked explaining the minor details of birth control. This is beyond idiocy.
September 1st, 2008 7:25 PM
Geez...My mother was not responsible for my birth control - I was, so was it my mother's fault when I screwed up and got pregnant and she was a Catholic & I knew about protection? No, it was my fault. I was too stupid to use protection. Another thing all you judgers, In Alaska you need only be 16 to get an abortion without your parents permission. This tells me that Bristol, made a mistake, took responsibility for it, went to her parents and they are all doing their best. Everyone knows that a mother has very lttle control over a 17 year old at that point...and what about you fathers...it always seems to be the mother's fault, but really where are you fathers. Most of those out there whose child was in this same predicament would be really in a pickle because half of the moms of unwed mothers are/were unwed mothers who do not have the support of the father. So let's be honest & real. And to those of you who think the McCain campaign did this you should know that this came because of a report on OBama's web site saying that Trig (Sarah's youngest) was really Bristol's. Someone else put her in the spotlight and we know who it is..no fair playing with the candidates children...especially when someone on that campaign had a father who didn't marry his mother, left a wife to be with her, abandoned the child & mother & then married someone else. Glass houses shouldn't have so many rocks in the driveway.
September 1st, 2008 7:54 PM
TO: P'OED
I went to the website of obama, In fact i went to a bunch not run by his campain and only say a mention to this story on one. Not a site his campain handles but one of a supporter. How can you blame this on Obama he has been running a fairly clean game unlike the others up untill now. Frankly this has nothing to do with Obama. Its about a mother not handling her children and possible lying to the rest of the world to avoid scandel (at the time.) Yes it was your mothers fault for not being a parent or helping you understand your options when it came to sex. Parents need to parent, and alot more children would come out better for it. Its not her fault you screwed up its her fault you didnt know better.
September 1st, 2008 8:49 PM
Oh come now ... The republicans will turn this entire situation into the ‘innocent angel' against the ‘wicked Democrats and Liberals' in no time. They have a little over eight weeks to succeed into duping America. Lord knows Bush got eight years. Their clock began ticking today with this stunning breaking news!
September 1st, 2008 9:30 PM
"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child…” Yes, and Grandma and Johnny Boy McCain are about to realize very quickly that they shouldn’t quit their day jobs. I am completely and totally over this… it is all I can do to keep my lunch down – a problem I’ve been having since this old fool introduced this middle-aged fool to the country. What has happened to the Republican Party?? This senile old man is not fit to be president of the Alaskan PTA let alone PRESIDENT! If this is truly about voting for the most qualified, the best prepared to lead candidate then Obama and the dems have my vote! I did not vote for McCain in the primary because I feel very uncomfortable with his stability. I can’t in good conscience vote for him now. He is waaayyyy off base, he’s scary, very scary and I think his selection of this Palin person is completely irresponsible. (Who is advising him? Where were there when this happened? Watching CNN??) No way, No how, no McCain. Sorry…
September 1st, 2008 10:32 PM
So Bristol is a little rebel who got pregnant - that doesn't mean her mother wouldn't be a great VP. Politics and family life are two very different things.
September 1st, 2008 10:37 PM
i am so overwhelmed by this whole thing. I can't believe that McCain knew about this. where is his head? Does this say something about the first families of our country? Where are the role models? What is the message? Do I now tell my teenage daughters and my teenage church sisters that teenage pregnancy and sex is ok, and by the way, you can tell me if you get pregnant, I'll take care of it???? Wheres the issue of abstinence? Wheres the beauty of growing up and enjoying your teenage years without the burden of relationship, sex, birthcontrol, abortion or no abortion? Can we still raise our children to be children and enjoy themselves as children.
No, my head is not in a cloud, and I know teenagers are having sex, but that does not make it right and I refuse to drop by head or raise my hands and say OH WELL!!! I will raise my daughter and teach her that abstinence is right and GODLY. I will tell them the beauty of waiting .
I think Mrs. Palin should step back, since she loves her daughter so much, its time to help her deal with the big issue she will be facing in 4 months, that is, MOthErHOOD! I don't think my "love" for America could ever be more that my love for my own child. Mrs. Palin, your daughter needs you now, more than ever, things are happening to her body, shes got an awesome resonsibility ahead, she needs her mommy more than America needs you as a vice presidential candidate. the fact that you would chose to run at such a time as this - knowing what your daughter is about to go through, that you would make her a public example is terrible. Despite how much Mr. Obama says keep the kids out of it, you know its hard to do. We as parents are always judged by what our kids do. Someone is always pointing the finger.
Mrs. Palin, since you love your daughter so much, be there for her. Do you really understand the resonsibility you are undertaking, or is it more important to you than your daughter's physical and MENTAL health.