Sorry, but if you accept a position like she did, you subject your family to the public eye. This nothing more than a woman who wants it all, but forgets about her family.

I think every Mother, Lib or Rep will agree, a woman CAN have it ALL…just not all at the same time. Something has to give. The amount of time and energy the VP position will need is far more than anyone could imagine.
As for Bristol, her life is not ruined because she is having a baby young. She could still finish High School, go to College, have a career with the help of friends and family. But what I have seen time and time again is trying to “FIX” a problem with a marriage. I hope she stays ‘engaged’ for a very very long time…like until she’s at least 25!!!.
I wish this girl all the best.

I just found this article on the foxnews.com site. It is worded beautifully!

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September 2nd, 2008 3:21 PM Eastern
For Hockey Mom Palin, A Personal Foul
By Patricia Murphy
Founder/Editor, citizenjanepolitics.com

On Friday afternoon, Sarah Palin was the new face of new Republicanism. Hours after John McCain named her to be the first woman on a national Republican ticket, reaction to the mother-of-five’s new status was swift and glowing. She hunts! She fishes! She’ll rally the base! In her first speech in front of the national media, she declared herself a hockey mom, more surprised than anybody to find herself standing alongside John McCain, poised to make history.

By Monday morning, Palin and her husband, Todd, had issued a joint statement acknowledging, “Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned.” Welcome to the NHL, Gov. Palin.

Palin and her young family now sit perched in the unenviable position of being flawed in a political arena that demands perfection and a media environment that revels in failures. From a “Today” show segment on the rise in teenage pregnancy to coffee shop condemnations in Eagan, Minnesota (”Have you heard about Sarah Palin’s daughter? Who’s perfect now?”), her children have become fodder for discussion among people who have never met them and will never understand the pain they’re causing this family.

Does it really matter to the country what the Alaska governor’s children do in their own time? Are people so pristine in their own lives they can’t accept mistakes from others? Most crucially, will women who rallied to Hillary Clinton’s defense after she was called, “likeable enough” in a presidential debate sit by quietly when another woman is savaged for having a family that is complicated, imperfect and entirely human?

When Americans lament the same old politicians running for office, they should remember this moment, when a woman, a governor no less, peeked her head out of a shell of relative privacy, only to be devoured by headlines about her daughter’s “Baby Daddy” and intense judgment about her fitness, not as a vice president, but as a mother.

When women wonder aloud why just 16 percent of Congress is female, this day should serve as Exhibit A. To run for office as a mother is difficult. To run for office and be judged as a bad mother seems inhumane.

We ask too much of candidates when we demand a level of virtue higher than the one we meet ourselves, and worse, we leave our government to people who rely on lies, spin and cover-ups when we reject a moment of genuine honesty in all its thorny reality. We get the government we deserve, but after today, it’s hard to believe we deserve much better than the one we already have.

I don’t think any of this should be on the Extra site or ET, or Access Hollywood for that matter. Entertainment and politics have no business with one another. More people have probably seen the candidates on entertainment T.V. than on CNN. Even more people could probably tell you that they saw McCain or Obama on SNL than know
what either feels about health care or how to save Social Security. This is pretty scary.

This is just one more item that proves that the Palin family is very typical. Ms. Palin has a son being deployed to Iraq this month and a daughter that has an unplanned pregnency. She deals with the same things that the rest of us deal with. To me, that makes her even more qualified to serve as VP. And if you really start to compare who’s qualified to run this country, Ms. Palin is more qualified than the other three candidates, since she’s had to balance budgets, veto bills, etc. Have the other three done anything close to that? NNNNOOOO!!!!! She’s done a great job in Alaska, which is why McCain has asked her to be his running mate in the first place. I admire her very much and what to see her succeed no matter if it’s as VP of our great nation or if she continues on as governor of Alaska. Even if Ms. Palin was a stay-at-home mom, she couldn’t have prevented her daughter from becoming pregnant. Her daughter’s pregnancy is a non-issue for this campaign as far as I’m concerned.

And as you bring up Obama’s mom, well if you had looked into it his grandmother actually raised him, with help.

Lena, I know it happens, I don’t have my head in the sand, I was actually a 16 year old mom myself. I do not think that Palin should quit her job, however I think it is best for her in the long run, as well as the best for her children if she stayed Gov in Alaska, and be there for her family. That would be an honorable move in this case. Teen pregnancy is becoming an epidemic that Americans don’t seem to want to face until it hits they’re checkbook… I respect all that Mrs. Palin is going through right now, I feel strongly that she will let us down as a nation, or even worse her baby boy with downs syndrome… as only a mother can care for those intense needs that he requires, as well as the daughter. I can not imagine if I did not have my moms help when I was younger. Please think about this America, our very subtstain is at risk. Should you accept this as the norm, then you must accept the consequence’s of funding this problem. It is human nature to look at all angles of the lense to see clearer perspective on issues that will effect our nation as a whole.

What would any mother do when finding out their teenage daughter is pregnant? You can’t quit your job becaues of it, or would you? You use it as a teaching tool to teach others the very challenging consequences of teen pregnancy. Obama’s mother had him at the age of 18. That means she was pregnant at 17. Question again: If it happened to your child, what would you do???

Once she’s brought her children in as selling points, unfortunately the bad comes in with the good,” says Lisa Bloom, a Court TV anchor. “She’s integrating her mom quality as a key part of her résumé. We didn’t do that in the press; she did that.”

Lena, the damage is that other teen girls see this, and may think it is ok if I get pregnant, as it seems America is tolerant of it. It sends the wrong message. And public officals are held to a higher standard, as they should be, they are role models for all Americans. I don’t believe that Mrs. Palin will be able to successful handle, the exeptional needs of her baby that has downs syndrome, as well as her 17 years daughters needs with pregnancy, and not to mention the other children. In Alaska she was able to do so to some degree as she was right there in Alaska.

Amber, are you ready to support teen pregnancy with your tax dollars? Are you ready for your taxes to go up? If we ACCEPT this as the norm…. then we need as a nation to ACCEPT to pay more in taxes to give to programs to help this issue. I am all for it, this is not something that America should take lightly, regardless if it is the Spears family… or the Palin family.

So what damage did this do? Sarah Palin is still very capable of fulfilling the responsibilities as V.P. should they become elected. Obama did mention his mother has him at a young age also. I don’t see how this did damage to him in anyway also. This type of B.S. is nothing more than scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel political mud slinging.

Jeff - re: ‘now I’m just gonna wait and see what other bones come out of her closet’. I rest my case.

I really think that they did the right thing by bringing this out. But I think that this is 1 child that is 17 I hate to say this but she is 17 what about the dozen on girls a few months back who made a pack to get pregnant and didn’t care by who and most of them accoumplished what they went out for. Comparing her family to the “spears” is unfair. Also saying what will “other” contries think of ours IT HAPPENS everywhere. There is nothing a “good” parent can do to prevent this from happening. A child only does what they want to do no matter how many times you beg plea and complain they are there own. Lock them in a closet they will break the door down that’s how “we” are. Let this family and all deal with thier issues. Support the ones who need support. Don’t talk down on anyone it wasn’t to long ago this was all exepted.

That is the problem… you don’t see issue with teen pregnancy. America should not think this is normal, and accepted. This problem is going to get even further out of hand should we continue to have this OH WELL, it happens attitude. Get ready for your taxes to be increased to support this growing problem…. then you will say oh… we DO have an issue.

Why is this so shocking? This kind of thing has been happending in high schools for ever.It’s just been going public here and now..

Talk about comparing people to the Spears family!

America we losing the very thread that binds this country, the moral thread of our forefathers. This is why we look at our leaders of our country so closly.They are held to a higher standard,as they should be,they are not typical Americans,they are our leaders.Is this the message we want to send to the world? Yes, teen pregnancy happens but, it should not be accpepted as the norm… that it is tolerated, just accepted as (a sign of the times.)WE as Americans are becoming desensitized!

I understand that teen pregnancy is an issue for our country, but to have it on display at the White House? This is kind of like displaying the family’s “business” for all the world to see. I believe that the people placed in position at the white house represent our country and our beliefs. I think that Palin would make a wonderful candidate, but we should be cautious of whom we select because this is a direct reflection of how other countries view us… We already have enough enemies, we need to try to repair what little relations we have and then work on building new ones. If we elect the McCain party simply because of this bold statement, other countries will be doing exactly what we are doing now, the only difference is that it may have more negative and last reactions.

The reason people(and not just Liberals)aren’t heeding Obama to lay off is because they are not sheep. When people smell hypocrisy it get then just a wee bit annoyed.
Also, it was an open secret in Alaska, so there is no digging required.
This has nothing to do with Obama as I planned on voting for McCain…now I’m just gonna wait and see what other bones come out of her closet.