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ORIGINAL: corysub

The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and peoples lives consist of demeaning comments on the parents of two teenagers who either did not practice safe sex, or didn't know how to use a condom.  We are talking about
young people still a few years away from the maturity (hopefully) of adulthood.

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I don't recall the "funny" banter on Colbert or the other comic about John Edwards, a "full grown" male, lawyer,
and presidential candidate who cheated in Beverly Hills while his wife was enduring the pangs of cancer.  What
a man!  Where was Colbert, Stewart, Matthew, Ubarman on this story?  It had to be broken by a tabloid, but
they are all over a seventeen year old kid...Coonan O'brian also tried last night and the"joke" fell flat.  Children
should be out of bounds for both parties, for adult discussions.

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Clinton was getting BJ's in the Oval Office and we were told to "hush"...it was a private matter!  Trent Lott said
a nice thing about an old man at a birthday party who was no more KKK than the Senior Senator from Virginia.
Yet..Lott war beaten up in the lib media and on the Hill and was made to resign his position.  People are tired of
this "double liberal standard"... It gives republicans hope that this November could really be historic as the Republican Party comes back like Phoenix from the ashes...

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ORIGINAL: happypervert

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ORIGINAL: Thadius

As far as I can reason it, the Palin daughter is not being presented as a role model, or used to sell product to the tween female demographic...  So there is a huge difference.

LOL! This is some of the most twisted reasoning I've seen -- it's like anyone would consider the Spears family as suitable role models, while the presidential or VP families are not looked up to as role models. It's ridiculous.

Ok, so maybe Spears markets crappy music to young girls, but I'd imagine that's about it now because I can't see any merchandiser wanting to pay money associate their products with them. But don't kid yourself that Palin won't market herself as a candidate by trotting out her adorable family at every opportunity, and I'd say marketing a candidate goes well beyond the teeny bopper demographic.

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

First, if Britney and her sis have been promoted as any kind of role model, your grievance should lie with the Disney corporation, who I think, employed them and used their image to sell their products; secondly, Palin's daugher is being used to sell a political message and to buy off an election, so you should take your grievance with the executive branch of the GOP.

Which one's worse? They're both pretty gross, but I reckon the second case is by far the stinkiest.

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Here's the really twisted bit: Palin and her daughter may have been fodder to rumour mongering, but the Republican spin machine quickly turned it into a 'poor normal family facing difficulties, look at how wonderful they are' spin. EVERYTHING is game, for the whores of PR, and Palin knew was fully aware of that when she accepted this job.

This PR spin trying to make Palin and her family martyrs to any kind of cause whilst portraying the media and 'the left' as evil, wicked slanderers, is opportunistic, cynical, and calculating. It just pisses Republicans off that people aren't falling for it  .

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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

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First, if Britney and her sis have been promoted as any kind of role model, your grievance should lie with the Disney corporation, who I think, employed them and used their image to sell their products; secondly, Palin's daugher is being used to sell a political message and to buy off an election, so you should take your grievance with the executive branch of the GOP.

Which one's worse? They're both pretty gross, but I reckon the second case is by far the stinkiest.

Exactly!

AND, if an adult is going to run for political office in this country........unless they are idiots and have been hanging about in the wilderness with their head up a bear's ass.........they have to know that EVERYthing and EVERYone in their lives will be publicly scrutinized, made fun of, critisized, etc.. If they don't get that, they are too effing stupid to be in public office. Especially as a VP of this country.

I am sorry, but Sarah Palin and her family will get everything you can imagine thrown at them and they had better shut up, smile, and take it. If they can't take it, then they need to crawl their asses back to Alaska.

I would expect nothing different where I to run.

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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

I shall get out the water pistols. You wear that thin white t-shirt. It will be a grand hunting party.

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ORIGINAL: housesub4you

Well one big difference is;  1 is the child of the GOP VP pick who is 17 and with child, and the other is the child of bad parents who are not involved in thier childs life, because she is 17 and with child.

So the difference's are very clear. 

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

In other words, Spears mother set her up for failure, while Palin's mother did her best to prevent the failure.

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premartial sex

Hm.  That's given me an idea...

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1. The Palin daughter's pregnancy and the Spears pregnancies are two different issues, in two different environments, and I find the differences in comments and reactions valid.

You are joking, right?
The only difference is one family is in entertainment, the other in politics, that's a small difference, those two fields are closely related, especially for the next 2 months.

As far as I can reason it, the Palin daughter is not being presented as a role model, or used to sell product to the tween female demographic...  So there is a huge difference.