08.31.08
And one more thing
The problem is that the Repubs clearly didn’t look very closely at Palin before they chose her. As I alluded to in the previous entry, she has a big problem that’s going to be hard to deal with.
Remember, she unexpectedly announced she was 7 months pregnant. During the whole time she was apparently pregnant (which includes the time before she announced it), she was keeping up a full schedule, traveling, etc, and not “showing” at all. She even traveled to Dallas to make a speech. 
She gave that speech even though she had announced her fluid had started leaking several hours earlier. Then, instead of going to one of the rather well-equipped hospitals they have in Dallas, she took an 8 hour flight home to Alaska, stopping in Seattle. Once there, she traveled to an obscure small out-of-the-way hospital to give birth.
Three days later she was back to work with no restrictions.
Well, I’d say “Hmmm…”, but I’m not necessarily the person who the Repubs are concerned about. They did choose her in an effort to woo evangelicals, who might agree with her “pro-family” stance. But even these people are questioning how a person so committed to these ideals could do something so foolhardy as wait a day before seeking medical attention after going into labor and losing her water prematurely like that, a major complication. And since the baby has downs and is therefore special needs, who is taking care of the baby now, and who will be taking care of it if she moves to Washington and maybe even takes over some major responsibilies?
Well, then there is the other side, the people who say that she never was pregnant, and that it was her own daughter who bore the child. While the state website has repeatedly been scrubbed of all but a few selected family photos, there are still some interesting ones. Here’s a pic of Palin in Washington a week after announcing her pregnancy, which is 7 months + 1 week.
Now here’s a photo of what Palin looked like during a previous pregnancy.
It’s just so down-home traditional, so “50′s” for a family to send away a pregnant daughter, like Palin’s daughter Bristol who was pulled out of school for mononucleosis for a remarkable 5-8 months during the period of time in question. And then the mom raises the daughter as her own.
Except for the fact that forging a birth certificate is a crime. And if she really was traveling and delaying medical attention with her doctor’s blessing, the doctor should lose his or her license.
Here’s a pic of the daughter. Unlike another picture that was released in an effort to show that the girl just had a little plumpness in the midsection, in this pic it is clear that the bump on her belly is not babyfat.
I simply cannot imagine a way for her to weasel out of it. Either she did something irresponsible and unethical, or she did something irresponsible and unethical. Take your pick. And the McCain crowd checked her out and decided she was the best candidate to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
Umm… Either that or picked her face as a good-looking woman he would like to get a lot closer to.
Cindy should be worried about Gramps.
