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they've found a possible scandal. The idea being that Sarah Palin's youngest child,a four-month-old Down's Syndrome baby might actually be that of her underage daughter, and Sarah lied to pretend it was her own.

LOL!!

You're joking, right?

Maybe?

(joking that someone would try to rake that up to cause trouble for somebody, I mean)

Nope. Our mutual friend David E. blogged it way before me.

As a theory that would involve a near heroic string of lies (not a cover-up, but a first degree pre-emptive fabrication) and legal fraud (the birth certificate would need to be faked) I can't really see that helping a "reform" candidate for the second highest office in America. Defensible and sympathetic, sure; but a complete (and bizarre) betrayal of the public's trust. You don't lie about who your kids are.

That said, without hard evidence it should stay far far away from primetime. Let the national enquirer break this one too. If it's true it would involve such a high degree of duplicity that a minimum of hard, quiet investigating would inevitably show for sure one way or the other without weeks of easy, righteously indignant rebuffs that would go nowhere.

I have to admit the pictures are pretty convincing. But still... intrusive much? Ick.

The irrelevant minutiae gone into by the media over the election candidates is a sad measure of politics in the West (it happens here in the UK too, but not to this intensity)

the big issue of race is still allowed to fester with Limbaugh and others getting away with what would be prosecutable race hatred incitement over here, while the saner end are frightened to even mention the issue - as someone once wrote,
"Fat, thick, white, middle America voted for Bush, - twice *
- they will turn out for a blind white corpse over Obama, never mind if he had 6 Olympic gold medals, 2 Nobel prizes and a best selling jazz album."

(*and they based the first part of the statement on the statistics of how the various states, their average obesity trends, racial background and intelligence measure factors, stacked up in the last two elections...)

It's a trap!!

The funny thing is that up until now, this was a one front war. There was no effort made to defend McCain because he's indefensible. All efforts were concentrated on attacking Barack and Michelle Obama with whatever flimsy rumor or personal judgement imaginable. And any attempts to defend them from that got you labeled an "Obamabot" who loves their "Precious."

Now with a halfway respectable VP candidate, there's something to defend and all the tactics that were "legal" against the Obamas are off limits for Palin.

The only thing I'll say in Palin's defense is that damn near nobody knows what the VP does.

Peggy - presiding over the senate is the main duty...but I grant you, few of us know what the CURRENT VP does, because he covers it all up.

ReJeKt - "all the tactics that were "legal" against the Obamas are off limits for Palin."

In all fairness, the right never went after the Obama kids, that I saw. Going after her hubbie is certainly fair game, though. And another way McSame loses the bigot vote, since Mr. Palin is of mixed race.

Interestingly, Palin was once part of a group, the AIP, that favored Alaskan secession from the US. God damn America indeed!

I don't know what the VP does either, but if I was on someone's short list or a Govenor of a state, I'd find out pretty quickly. A little too outta touch for my taste. Not to mention that wants to teach American kids that other kids used to ride dinosaurs.

Why is this "news" being discussed?

I was just saying to this new idea that palin is above examination on a personal level stands in stark contrast to the rumors that have been pushed and "investigated" about Obama in order to prove he hates white people and America.

But when your party runs a ticket that seeks to dictate "family values" though legislation, it will come up. Pointing out the discrepancy between her daughter's pregnancy and her stance on abstinence only education is not an attack on her daughter; anymore than pointing out that the Republican platform wants to take away rights from Dick Cheney's daughter because she's gay.

The "switcharoo" rumor was swirling before she was picked and was so easily evidenced out of existence before it could fester that it could disappear just like that. Or it could, if we weren't ready for the onslaught of how "despicable" all liberals are for wanting to follow up on an easily resolvable accusation of a questionable series of events for a national candidate whose life almost no one knew about before last week.

THe thing is, though, she seems all kinda of crazy without getting into the personal microscope. Also, presumably people can argue against Creationism and abstinence-only education without saying 'hurr, hurr, but your daughter's pregnant! Pwnd!'

Well they can, but personal examples are useful for putting big, unwieldy national issues in perspective.

But yeah, you put a relative unknown on the national stage and there's going to be a rush from everyone, press and public to find out who they are and what they're about. Once the curiosity is over the issues come a little more to the forefront.

As far as issues, she's either a total lightweight or the McCain camp thinks she is. 'Commander of the Alaska National Guard' my ass.

David, I've seen your ass. Your ass has been in a swimming pool with me. And Sarah Palin, you're no David N. Scott's ass.