Interesting DailyKos article about Palin

[J. J.]

This thread is still alive?

And I see that J.J. is trying to benefit from faux outrage.

What outrage?  My understanding is that Daily Kos pulled the story and banned the poster.  If that is correct, they did the right thing and was going to applaud them (for a change).

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

I'm not trying to argue to you that this girl was pregnant. I just don't understand how Sarah could have been based on all of the visual evidence. I've never seen a woman that far along without even a hint of showing.

dude, that's because Sarah Palin is a freak of nature.  

And there are EXTREMELY few woman who look as good as Palin before she even started having children.

And there are EXTREMELY few women who look as good as Palin after having one child.

And there are EXTREMELY few women who look as good as Palin after having two children.

And there are EXTREMELY few women who look as good as Palin after having three children.

And there are EXTREMELY few women who look as good as Palin after having four children.

And there are EXTREMELY few women who look as good as Palin after having five children.

And there are EXTREMELY few women who look as good as Palin at 44.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

I am sure the 16 year old Bristol is going to be overjoyed that a bunch of people on the web think she looks fat enough to be pregnant.

[HardRCafé]

I can't believe we're still seriously discussing this lame a conspiracy theory about somebody's kids.

[Sbane]

Let me just say that teenage moms don't have downie babies but women in their 40s certainly do. Especially if they have already had 4 kids like Sarah Palin. So I think this story is BS and hopefully the Obama camp doesn't go near it.

[J. J.]

The Democrats must scared to death to put out this crap.  

[Thomas Jackson]

[Tender Branson]

To me it looks like Palin's 16-year old daughter was too often at McDonald's but not pregnant ...

[Lunar]

Um, to me, if this rumor were true, it speaks better about Palin and her family values.  I would respect her more if this rumor were true, which I doubt it is.

I stopped reading at about the third page in this thread, but seriously, c'mon.  Palin's favorite food is moose stew, why not go for that instead of tabloid rumors?  It'd be a lot more hilarious and effective.

[politicaltipster]

I think this is smear. However, if we take her at her word, she put herself and her child at risk by taking an eleven hour flight after her waters had broken and contractions had started. This makes her a utter hypocrite on abortion.

Edwards deserved to be blasted for his adultery and Obama got off lightly vis as vis Wrightgate. However, you cannot suddenly do a 180-degree turn and claim that her private life is her business. FWIW, I still think that McCain is the better candidate but picking a supporter of Pat Buchanan, someone deeply inexperienced and someone who has integrity and honesty issues was utterly reckless.

[SPQR]

You people make me physically ill.

We'll have universal health care for you soon enough.

LOL

[minionofmidas]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223

The gist of it is that Palin's last pregnancy was really just a cover-up for her 16-year-old daughter's accidental pregnancy, and Trig Palin is her grandson, not her son. I know it's a DailyKos article, but it's (as far as I can see) pretty well researched and convincing.

Lol, I'm not going to believe that.

[minionofmidas]

Darn, that was before I checked the link.

Re Tender: While one pic is too little to go by, that definitely looks a lot more like "pregnant" than like "too many visits to McDonald's".

Meh. if true, while hilarious, and sort of telling about these people's exact values, it`s certainly not horrible. So Palin's a grandmom. Shrug.

[Justin]

Small problem guys. The girl in question could not have been pregnant during Palin's pregnancy. Why? The picture was taken in 2006.

http://www.adn.com/photos/v-gallery/story/509850.html?/1521/gallery/509852-a509987-t3.html

[Saxwsylvania]

OK, they say that Sarah Palin doesn't look pregnant.  But, if their whole timeline is correct, Bristol would be 7 months pregnant at the time of that picture, andshe doesn't look 7 months pregnant (honestly, shoe looks normal, just a little bit of a belly, like a LOT of teenage girls.

Neither of them looks pregnant to me.

Like I said, Bristol looks like a normal 16 year-old w/ a little baby fat.

lol

[muon2]

OK, they say that Sarah Palin doesn't look pregnant.  But, if their whole timeline is correct, Bristol would be 7 months pregnant at the time of that picture, andshe doesn't look 7 months pregnant (honestly, shoe looks normal, just a little bit of a belly, like a LOT of teenage girls.

Neither of them looks pregnant to me.

I'm old enough to have seen many pregnant young women in sweaters, and I have some years perspective on the HS crowd. However I now have a daughter in HS, and so I also have the current opportunity to see many of her friends. FWIW Bristol looks pretty normal there and not pregnant.

[Justin]

OK, they say that Sarah Palin doesn't look pregnant.  But, if their whole timeline is correct, Bristol would be 7 months pregnant at the time of that picture, andshe doesn't look 7 months pregnant (honestly, shoe looks normal, just a little bit of a belly, like a LOT of teenage girls.

Neither of them looks pregnant to me.

I'm old enough to have seen many pregnant young women in sweaters, and I have some years perspective on the HS crowd. However I now have a daughter in HS, and so I also have the current opportunity to see many of her friends. FWIW Bristol looks pretty normal there and not pregnant.

Dude, there should be no bother with the photo itself. It's from 2006.

[minionofmidas]

OK, they say that Sarah Palin doesn't look pregnant.  But, if their whole timeline is correct, Bristol would be 7 months pregnant at the time of that picture, andshe doesn't look 7 months pregnant (honestly, shoe looks normal, just a little bit of a belly, like a LOT of teenage girls.

Neither of them looks pregnant to me.

I'm old enough to have seen many pregnant young women in sweaters, and I have some years perspective on the HS crowd. However I now have a daughter in HS, and so I also have the current opportunity to see many of her friends. FWIW Bristol looks pretty normal there and not pregnant.

Dude, there should be no bother with the photo itself. It's from 2006.

Good.

I consider this one settled then.

(Btw: Justin? Wow. Blast from the past. Welcome back.)

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Darn, that was before I checked the link.

Re Tender: While one pic is too little to go by, that definitely looks a lot more like "pregnant" than like "too many visits to McDonald's".

Meh. if true, while hilarious, and sort of telling about these people's exact values, it`s certainly not horrible. So Palin's a grandmom. Shrug.

As I have already said.  Compared to another picture, her breasts aren't large enough for her to be pregnant.  We see no change in breast size, something that would've happened had Bristol have been pregnant.  We can't tell in Sarah, because we don't have any pictures that would reveal that.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

OK, they say that Sarah Palin doesn't look pregnant.  But, if their whole timeline is correct, Bristol would be 7 months pregnant at the time of that picture, andshe doesn't look 7 months pregnant (honestly, shoe looks normal, just a little bit of a belly, like a LOT of teenage girls.

Neither of them looks pregnant to me.

Like I said, Bristol looks like a normal 16 year-old w/ a little baby fat.

lol

That was not intended.

[Brittain33]

No outrage on screen 9 yet. Come on guys, step it up.

[agcatter]

According to reports, Palin has been breastfeeding and using her breast pump on the campaign bus.  I thought that would put an end to the conspiracy stuff.  However, my wife tells me that with the right medication, milk can be induced for breast feeding in women who have not had a baby.  Rather than just bottle feed her grandson, Palin has taken the step of taking medication to induce breast milk.  It is a step that helps make her story seem more convincing.

That Sarah Palin is really clever.

Also, isn't it a convenient coincidence that Palin just happened to NOT be in the Twin Towers on 9-11. 

Hmmm.

[DownWithTheLeft]

The funniest part is the pictures that supposedly show she is not pregnant.  They all have her wearing a winter jacket or something else that wouldn't show pregnancy

[NOVA Green]

As others have noted there really doesn't seem to be anything to substantiate this story except for a few photos and her daughter's illness which really doesn't tell us anything.

I think the more serious question that some might ask, is why Sarah chose to get on an 8+ hour airline ride instead of going to a hospital in Texas immediately considering the circumstances. I am glad that the pregnancy went well, but there were serious risks involved in making that decision that could have turned out quite badly.

I am assuming that this came up in the conversation with her doctor before she got on the plane, and that she made that decision based on good medical advice based on her individual circumstances...

[Bacon King]

I don't think this would have gotten through VP vetting.