Reply #103: I try not to judge other people's parenting skills [View All]

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I'm not always successful in my efforts to avoid nosing into the privates lives of other moms and dads, but I try.

However, if I were a person advising the McSame/Palin campaign, I would have pushed for full disclosure, up front. I would have made Palin's daughter's pregnancy part of her story. I would have told them to be loud and proud instead of putting this poor young woman through some horrid tribulation of public confession and shame.

I don't know the decisions made in the Palin home when it came to the subject of Bristol's impending motherhood. Maybe she was fully on board. Maybe her opinion was never considered. Whatever decisions were made, the result is that America knows far more about one teenage girl's sex life than should be allowed. If they had been open in the beginning, people would have accepted it and moved on. Instead, the campaign treated it as something to hide until they were forced to tell the truth.