Fundy Christian's Teenage Daughter Knocked Up

This is more fuel for my conspiracy theory fire, posted here.

Bristol Palin is Pregnant

“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced moments ago that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and is planning to keep the baby and marry the father … According to Reuters, McCain campaign officials knew about Bristol's pregnancy during the vetting process … “

Um, from the school of “What the Hell was McCain Thinking?”

Being a good liberal/libertarian and Democrat, I normally could care less about a knocked up teenager’s affect on the political process. But this is the daughter of the VP nominee of a party that thinks abstinence-only sex education is the way and the cure and the light of teenage pregnancy. And spends lots and lots of money on it. And this same VP nominee is personally a proponent of that policy and a fundamentalist Christian to boot. So what happened? And why on earth, since McCain did know about it, would he pick Palin as his nominee knowing that this would come out and be a news item no matter what. Why would a campaign do that?

Unless they were throwing the election? Unless they wanted the focus to be less on her qualifications and more on her qualities as a mother, a “bad” one by all the beliefs she herself holds?

This just gets weirder and weirder.

Late-Term Abortion Cures What Ails You!

Plucked from the Slog, originally ABC news:

"Speaking to reporters on his campaign plane, Obama said mental health exceptions—which are a real battleground issue in the abortion debate—can be “rigorously” limited to only those women with “serious clinical mental health diseases.” He said mental health exceptions are not intended permit abortions when a woman simply “doesn’t feel good.”

“It is not just a matter of feeling blue,” Obama said."

Whoa. A woman who's feeling blue will just decided to terminate her 6+ month pregnancy? I find that horribly insulting. This is the type of latent sexism that still permeates this country. A woman's moody, and might do something she'll later regret, so we have to pass a law against it.

Abortion is an absolute deal breaker for me and language like this seriously starts pissing me off.

Current Obama stance: Will be holding my nose to vote for him. McCain is far worse and I'm well aware of that, but I won't be sending money as of right now.

This was supposed to be our (Dems) fun campaign. Thanks a lot BO.