Near-total lack of class in discussion of Palin daughter’s pregnancy
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by on 29-11-1999
These little moments where people in politics actually do the classy thing are like little bites of ice cream to me. You know those little Dove miniature thingies, with the dark chocolate? Goddamn, those are good. And I’ve actually been pretty good about keeping myself down to two per day…hang on, I’m going to go get a little Dove minature thingy.
*Gets, eats little Dove miniature thingy*
That was great. Anyway. It turns out that suspiciously young Republican veep nominee Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant. The instant I found this out, I rolled my eyes and braced for the wave of gotchas and recrimination. I could already hear it in my mind’s ear from both the Left — “Huh, Republicans and their family values!” — and the Right — “Thank god she didn’t have an abortion!”
There are little Dove bars of sanity, however. Sen. Obama personally told reporters that “people’s [...]
