Look at who we spied standing in line shaking hands with John McCain as he stepped off his plane at the airport in Minneapolis a short time ago. It’s babydaddy of the hour, Levi Johnston!!!
Joined by Bristol Palin, his knocked up gal pal (or should we say fianceé, since parents say the two plan to wed), the 17-year-old boy appeared cheery and not remotely frightened as he chatted with the Republican presidential candidate.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her entire family met McCain upon his arrival at the airport.
That must have been a cozy little encounter to say the least….
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So basically John McCain supports childern out of wedlock and is okay that two high school students having kid! Yeah that sounds very republican to me. More like ridiculous!!! I am no longer for McCain he is not a republican to me!
Wow, what a way to tout Republican values. Two 17 year olds getting ready to have their first baby. That really sends a great message to America.
I’m with Dr. Laura on this one.
Palin believes that Evolution and Creationism should be taught
side-by-side in public schools. She said, “Teach both. You know,
don’t be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and
it’s so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.”
Yet she believes in “Abstinence Only” education and as Mayor she inquired about banning books at the local library! What happened to”don’t be afraid of information?”
I give it a year before he’s out cheating on her and we get to read all about it.
I wonder how much they’re paying him to marry Bristol? There’s a reaason he’s so smiley…
Not a big fan of McSame,
you all must just so perfect in your little own lives, to be so judgemental.
I sure hope nothing ever turns around and bites your ass.
Funny……how this is the only thing you all rag on.
Your life must honestly suck big time.
I guess with Democrats it is and always will be politics as usual. What happend to the new Democratic chant “Change we can believe in?” Looks to me by yesterday and today’s comments by Deomcrats on this story that they are having a hard time with the practice of new clean politics. Now, why don’t you prove to us here that you are all going to practice what your leader is preaching and leave Palin’s children out of it.
Amazing. If this was anyone elses kid the parents would be hung out to dry by the same folk defending the Palin’s. The double standard/hypocrosy is just phenominal. I wish the kids the best because Lord knows they’re going to need it trying to live up to the model the Conservative Christian Right has planned for them, and the gossip rags they’re certain to be weekly foder for.
I thought the campaign said he was 18.
He’s (again) too hot for her.
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I guess with Democrats it is and always will be politics as usual. What happend to the new Democratic chant “Change we can believe in?†Looks to me by yesterday and today’s comments by Deomcrats on this story that they are having a hard time with the practice of new clean politics. Now, why don’t you prove to us here that you are all going to practice what your leader is preaching and leave Palin’s children out of it.
-Ruby
My God, people, 17 year olds have been having children out of wed lock since the begining of time and you make it out like she is the only one, she is just a kid, who is taking responsiblity for her actions, I don’t believe in abortion, there are to many people out there who want kids and can’t have them to murder a baby, don’t tell me it is not murder, I am 9 weeks pregnant now and at 6 weeks there is a heart beat and arms and legs, I had an ultra sound done and you can see all of it, so don’t give me that crap in freedom of choice it is your choice to have sex or not, after that you live with whatever comes along and if you don’t want to rase a child put it up for adoption. She is taking on that resposiblity and she is also taking on all the shit that has been said about her, If I were her mom I would be ripping people a new one. Lets get back to the campain!
sunshine……………..don’t try it. Don’t try and deflect or accuse anyone else for what McCain did. He didn’t follow the rules, and his so called honor doesn’t exist anymore as far as I’m concerned. He didn’t follow the rules because he didn’t feel he had to and in my opinion, he’s allowed desperation to take over where his honor once was. The McCain I voted for in 2000 no longer exists.
and…….
It is not solely Dem’s calling foul so cease pointing the finger in their direction when there are Indies and even Republicans taking issue with the non-vetting, and this poor Palin bull sexism crap. I can’t believe you would be so blatantly dishonest as to even form your fingers to type accusations about “new clean politics” with the lying and hiding that’s been going on! You are a perfect example of how the so-called Right has done nothing but divide our nation, and pit people against one another. You’re a lier, they’re liers, and the boldness of saying what you do is straight from my God is scary.
Obama and Biden haven’t had to face what Palin has. 27 ethics charges against Biden during his career, but nothing mentioned when he was selected. His family problems are well documented and far worse than anything that’s come out about Palin’s family. Palin’s husband recieved a DUI 24 years ago? Well Obama has admitted using crack cocaine on several occassions in his past, why wasn’t that brought up during the Dem’s convention. You have been duped by the MSM and your obviously drinking the Obama Kool-aid. Wake up and admit that the attacks on Palin and McCain are far harsher than anything Obama and Biden have had to face, even though they have far more dubious past lives.
The Democrats forget that their beloved FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON committed ADULTRY while holding the most prestigious and honored job in the United States of America. Then when asked about it…. he lied on NATIONAL TV…ie: I NEVER HAD SEX WITH THAT WOMEN!
NEED I SAY MORE! Back off her family and leave her daughter alone. Her daughter made her own choice Sarah didn’t hold a gun to her head. What if it was Hillary’s daughter who was pregnant? Would they be treating her the same way? Oh I don’t think so! They would justifiy the whole thing and put the blame on some one else… which is so typical of the Democratic Party.
He’s got some nice cookies on him!
Me, maybe you didn’t hear, but not ALL sex is consensual.
It’s also amazing to me how Republicans can spread lies about Obama’s religion and depict him as Muslim, yet the Democrats can’t comment on something factual and openly admitted. Talk about double standards. Fear mongering by spreading pictures of Obama dressed in regional garb and playing into everyone’s fears of terrorism is clean politics? Spare me.
Me………….how do you know she’s taking responsibility for her actions?! When has she told you or the rest of the world anything? As far as we can tell the girl hasn’t had much choice or say at all! This is bull. If this were one of Obama’s daughters you’d be singing a dman different tune just like all those acting like Sarah Paline is the 2nd coming of Mary! I’m so stunned by the double standard but I shouldn’t be at all. This is a study in what some get to get away with in America and what others catch hell for even if it;s the same thing. Bristol Palin is just a good kid who made a mistake and is “taken responsibility for it” while on the other side of town, some other girl is getting judged, her mothers getting judged, they’re both getting knocked down by the same people raising up the Palins. Amazing, just damn amazing.
Anonymous………………..I’m not a Dem, and I no more forget that Clinton committed adultry than I forget that John McCain did too with the woman he’s married to now “even if you and the rest of those who love that no one seems to have a problem with it.”
Celine……….. Why should something be brought up “THAT ALREADY HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN A BOOK FOR ALL TO SEE IF THEY WANT?”
Damn, are you people for real? What more do you want? You’re reaching for something because you’ve got nothing else. Man, the guy has messed you up and you can’t stand it and I love it.
She & The Mirror, first off, if she wanted an abortion, she could get one, you don’t have to have parental consent, and she doesn’t have to tell us a damn thing, she isn’t running for office, it is none of our business! 2nd, just because your are raped, (which is the only time I think abortion is okay or if the mothers life is in danger) doesn’t mean you have to kill a baby! How can 2 wrongs make a right? Second I don’t put anyone down who is pregnant at a young age, it sucks I had my first baby at 20 and not that I didn’t or don’t want her but if I would have waited, my life would have been easier and I could have provided better for her the older I got. They have a long tuff road a head of them, but they have families who are going to help them and be supportive.,…..Again this the issues on the ballot, lets get back to the race! Read what Celine wrote, it is a double stander, check out foxnews.com!
all it shows is these fuc*ing politicians arent no better than any one else, especially those, my child is better than your people.
mc cain kool-aide drinker!
Ahem…getting back McCain/Palin, or McSame, as I mentioned before….can’t wait for the vice pres debates,
Biden is going to eat Palin for breakfast!
Mirror-
If you say that, then it must be true.
I will sit back and bask in the winning already thank you very much.
Honestly, they need to drop both parties, and unite like our founding fathers were .Our founding fathers understood what it meant to be oppressed. They understood it so well in fact that they wrote arms protection into the Bill of Rights so Americans could defend themselves against intrusive government. The right to keep and bear arms has nothing to do with chasing away common burglars. It has to do with chasing away legalized burglars in fancy hats. All governments strive for more power. It is the nature of government.
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“Kid, don’t worry. We’ve got it all planned out.”
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!!
Awww, Grandpappy McCain….ain’t that cute? Are they going to knit matching sweaters for entire ticket? To think that McCain and the girl’s mother are using this young couple as a pawn in the campaign makes me sick. How can you say you want it to be a private family matter yet voluntarily put the young lady and her fiance on stage like it’s a three ring circus?
when did obama convert to a racist marxist version of christianity and WHY?
wow, maybe this country isn’t ready for a woman!
dem voters passed up one of the most qualified women in history. TWICE.
Please, there is still suspicion that Bristol is not pregnant at all and that the whole thing is designed to “prove” that Trig was Sarah Pallin’s and not hers. I’ll believe any of this if/when she actually has a child.
Celine………..Yeah, it’s true not because I say it is but because it is, and as far as parties are concerned, if people would stop assuming that because someone isn’t obviously on the McCain/Palin bandwagon then they must be Liberal-Left leaning-Dem when the truth is I’m Independent and vote American. I vote for the issues and don’t get up in my face for discussing Bristol Palin when it’s her parent you need to jump on for deciding that this career move was what she choice to subject her kids to!. And don’t dare talk about the press giving up the grapes about something that damn sure would have come up soon enough once her baby bump couldn’t be hid any longer. Stop acting like this is the rest of the worlds fault that the girl is 17, pregnant and going to be in the public eye!
Its not her mothers nor her fathers fault that she is preggers.
She didnt say NO, did she? No “SHE” just did it.
The media and others are making this mole hill, into (or trying to) into a mountain.
I swear, how many times did my own (AND YOURS) parents tell me (AND YOU)crap, just to do the oppisite that they preached to me (YOU TO).
And there is a little saying:
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
And I sure see abunch of stone throwers in here.
Must be nice to be you all, and sleep well at night, like you all preach that you do.
Yawn, if this was one of Obama’s girls who got pregnant, the rightwing would have crucified her (as well as calling her a black whore). Harley would get on her high-horse (or motorcycle) and called the poor girl a slut and white trash just like Britney and her sister. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, all these hypocrites are just coming to her defense because it’s good for politics. So sad for Bristol, Levi and their unborn baby. Political pawns who will be thrown out once McCain and Palin lose in November.
I honestly cannot believe that in this day and age that any decent parent would suggest marriage to a 17 yr. old, with or without child. That’s just ridiculous.
What a total baffoon and idiot MaCain has become. He has let himself be castrated. Or actually he did it to himself. The man wanted Lieberman and was instead talked into making this huge assinine choice. No balls, no man. President Palin? No fucking thank you! And now look at him. This is practically a poster for teen sex - “I’m John McCain and I approve this fornication.” He’s such a joke now.
hotbitch i agree they are just rying to gert her married off so she wont look like flozzie for having sex unmarried,, and thats the worst thing you can do to a young couple is puch them into marriage.. be a single parent , while they were knocking black girls for doing it now its in their back yard! deal with it!
marline,
if obama wasn’t black, he wouldn’t be where he is. so—sorry about your formulations.
besides, if one of obama the marxist’s girls got pregnant, or as obama the chicago graft machine says, ‘punished with a baby,’ he’d likely give her a drug to open her cervix up and have the baby i mean cluster of cells HOPEFULLY fall out and die…if not, obama would have JILL STANEK rock the baby until it died in a chicago hospital storage room with the others that obama refused to protect with BIAPA, even though OBAMA the double talking liar, added the verbage he himself, the student of frank marshall davis, said was missing from the bill.
cynic,
are you equally as cynical about the validity of obama’s birth certificate that somehow showed up just as he returned from hawaii? are you just as cautious that the annenberg fact checker site, who is in bed with obama, is lying? do you wonder when obama stopped being a muslim and why? are you pretty concerned that obama is a ’stooge’ for a radical islamist marxist genocidal maniac in kenya, his cousin RAILA ODINGA? are you also cynical about the larry sinclair case? or should i say…noncase? meaning the guy who says he did drugs and oral sex with obama but had his case thrown out of court because JOE BIDEN’s son was the DA? are you pretty cynical that THATS the reason biden, the long time senator who ridiculed BHO, was named as veep? lastly, are you all worried that there’s been 3 (THREE) GAY men who have been murdered at obama’s church i mean ‘church that he once knew?’ and does it really irk you that REV wright announced donald young’s death before he was actually dead?
i’m not saying.
i’m just saying.
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH the desperate dems and media LOL.
i don’t care that the daughter is pregnant. it’s too bad there’s so much focus on this issue.
after seeing that post with bristol’s picture next to jamie lynn, i can’t help think how much palin looks like a better looking lynn spears.
I just hope they realize that Republicans just support the fetus, once a kid pops out they turn their backs on the actual person who is born.
This shows that sex education should be taught at schools. Kids are so immature, do they even know what a birth control is.
Funny how the media obsession with bush bashing has turned to Palin Family Bashing because they no she can help McCain WIN.
The Mirror: I think you meant to call me a “liar”, not a “lier”? I however am unsure what I lied about?
Fact: The Democratic chant is in fact “Change we can believe in”, and Obama has said directly that this campain will not follow the same “old politics” of mud slinging and underhanded blows (i.e., bringing up other’s family members).
Fact: Obama directly stated the other day in response to this story that Bristol and all other family members should be left out of this. So far no untruths.
My friend, you act like you know everything. You come off as if you know Bristol Palin personally and are so damn sure that she had no choice about keeping a baby and is forced to marry this guy. You don’t know a thing about them, you only think you do. You are taking your assumptions and stating them as truths. You also act like you know for a fact that this information was now just revealed to McCain and there was no vetting process. You are confused about what is fact and what you assume to be true. I think before you go telling people off on here you should KNOW something is true. By the way, don’t call me a liar because I am not the one spreading untruths here.
Let me rain on your parade sunshine:……………………………….
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Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
Some examples:
PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”
PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.”
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
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Associated Press Writer Jim Drinkard in Washington contributed to this report.
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