sarah-palin's mother-in-law considering voting for Barack Obama

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Kasz216 said:

It doesn't really have any impact on her career. Though it is worth a question in the debate on if she still thinks absitinence only birthcontrol is the only way to work.

It certaintly isn't anything that should be constantly harped on for political gain. I mean that's just ugly.

The last couple days were needlesly traumatizing for her daughter I imagine.

Really it's probably the worst political move i've seen since the "John McCain black baby" incidient.

Unless the "Secret Muslim" thing was actually some sort of political move started by someone.

Then it's a tossup... the Secret Muslim thing is worse on the face.... but at least it's attacking the man... and not someoens daughter.

I think the "secret Muslim" thing is quite a bit worse, because it is directed towards the candidate himself, and there's currently a much larger stigma in the U.S. of A. associated with Muslims right now than there is with teenage pregnancy. (Probably because the xenophobic population base has never met anyoen who is Muslim, but you can't get your mail without bumping into a preggo teenager.) It's also far more baseless than the bizarre circumstances surrounding the period during which someone was pregnant with that Palin kid. It may not be true, but the whole series of events definitely did raise a few eyebrows.

And I don't think anyone was really singling out the daughter in the whole scandal aspect. I think more people were concerned with the lengths that a staunch pro-life, anti-birth control politician may possibly go to to avoid losing face. If it were true, it wouldn't be the fact that the daughter was pregnant that would irk people, it would be the shady plotting and scheming that went into covering it up. I mean, if it had been true, could you possibly trust someone who had done such a thing with any kind of real authority?