Is that really Sarah Palin’s baby?

[zeemike]

You be the judge
Is she really 7 months pregnant in this photo...or could it be her teen age daughters baby?
Photo at;
http://www.adn.com/photos/v-gallery/story/509850.html?/1521/gallery/509852-a509980-t3.html

The caption reads;
Governor Sarah Palin gives her husband Todd Palin, defending champ and four-time Tesoro Iron Dog winner, a hug at the start on Big Lake on Sunday, February 10, 2008. The snowmachine race covers 2,000 miles of Alaska wilderness, going to Nome, before finishing in Fairbanks.

[Fran Kubelik]

1. yes

stop

[Nine]

3. What makes you so certain? (nt)

[KittyWampus]

14. no woman w/high risk pregnancy that goes into 1st labor stages PREMATURELY gets on a 7 hour flight.

[VeraAgnes]

2. Palin had given birth to a Downs baby

which is frequently seen in births when the mom is over 40. Seen rarely with teenagers. So yea, stop it now.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Actually, you are completely wrong. With the advances in

genetic testing, most Down Syndrome babies are born to woman under the age of 30. The tests aren't offered to them as routine care.

[CoffeeCat]

4. The lead time for magazine publishing...

...can be 2-3 months, depending on the magazine.

This does vary, of course. Time and Newsweek have shorter lead times, because they're news magazines. They put
them together and publish quickly.

However, most of the glossy fashion magazines have longer lead times--at least 30 days and sometimes up to 3 months.

I used to work in PR, and if we wanted a story in a magazine in December, we had to start pitching that story
six months out--because some magazines were finished putting together the December issue in September or October.

That could be one explanation. That picture, most likely, was taken 2 months before the magazine was published.

[zeemike]

10. The race was on Feb 10th and the picture was taken then

So she should have been 6 or 7 months pregnant in that photo

[vi5]

5. Really, do we not have enough to go with already?

I mean there are no shortages of things we can attack her for and directions we can go in so that we can magnify and amplify just how bad a pick this is.

This is NOT the road we want to go down. And I'm an advocate for us allowing ourselves to get as down and dirty as republicans. But this is just not where we want to go.

[zeemike]

8. If Hillery had done the same would they have attacked?

A lie is a lie and the fact that it is about a helpless baby does not make it better.

[DemsUnited]

6. Let this rumor go...

I agree there's a lot of strange pieces to this story, but if there's any "there" there, the National Enquirer will dig it out.

But right now, all this rumor is doing is smearing a special needs baby, a teenage girl, and a mom of five.

[zeemike]

12. Do you know who owns the National Enquirer?

And the MSm won't touch it I am sure.

[Tansy_Gold]

17. NO ONE is smearing the baby OR the teen-aged daughter.

NO ONE.

So stop putting that out as a reason for us to "stop" investigating and questioning.

This is about the POSSIBILITY that the mother LIED.


IF the baby is the daughter's, do you think any of us here (with the exception of trolls) would criticize her? Would WE call her a tramp, a slut? Would WE kick her out of the house or ship her off to an unwed mothers' home, to have her baby in secret and give it up for adoption against her wishes? Would WE force her to get an abortion to avoid shaming us? Would WE force her to carry an unwanted baby to term?

I don't think there's been one ounce of speculation to HOW the daughter got pregnant, i.e. boyfriend, casual encounter, rape, date rape, whatever. (I take that back; there's been some suggestion that Bristol's father is the father of the baby, and I think THAT is over the top and totally without foundation at this point.) WE don't care that she got pregnant and we aren't criticizing her.

But if her mother DIDN'T cover up for the daughter, she engaged in some very, very, very risky behavior during a high-risk pregnancy, and that does not indicate a woman with a good sense of judgment.

IF Palin really was pregnant and went into labor and got on a commercial jet, she not only endangered her own life and that of the infant, but she put the other passengers and crew at risk, too. She admits she didn't inform them. She was risking that her labor would intensify, she'd be forced to deliver on the plane -- how well trained are flight attendants? What if there was no doctor on the flight? -- or force the plane to make an unscheduled stop, possibly disrupting the lives and schedules of the other passengers.

Three summers ago, when my daughter was 35 weeks pregnant, we found out that my husband had terminal cancer. Our daughter flew from New Jersey to Arizona, and she got written permission from her doctor to do so. There was no way she could have hidden her pregnancy, so that wasn't the point. But she, too, was concerned that if anything happened during the flight, it might affect the other passengers.

Sarah Palin didn't bother to consider anyone but herself. She touts her motherhood but foisted the baby off on daughter Bristol during the announcement. Daddy Todd didn't hold the baby; Bristol did. And it looked like she was pretty used to doing it.

Women who have babies and then let other people raise those children are NOT "mothers." Mothering is much more than gestation and delivery.

I don't think Sarah Palin understands that at all.


Tansy Gold

[highplainsdem]

9. I've done a lot of checking online and have found no evidence that suggestions the baby is really

her daughter's surfaced on the Net before the last couple of days.

I did find messages about her wearing baggy clothes and scarves for a while before the pregnancy was announced.

If a woman is in good shape physically, she often won't have much of a baby bump until quite late in the pregnancy.

[TheWebHead]

11. if there wasn't purging of files

off the alaska web site for the governor during the later months of her pregnancy then yeah, we probably should let it go, but many files were deleted in the past 24 hours indicating there is something to hide.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Every woman's body is different. I've known women who didn't look

pregnant even at 6-7 months. I started showing at 3-4 months with all of my pregnancies. You can't judge how far a pregnancy has advanced by looking at pictures.

[elocs]

15. OK, let's go for it. Don't think it's her baby? Then let then take the tests.

Then let the same be done for Obama and Biden. Doesn't sound so good anymore, does it? In America a mother's children are considered to be hers unless there is some legally compelling reason to prove otherwise. There are many legitimate reasons to question Palin's qualifications and lack of any real record without stooping to such Rovian levels.

[zeemike]

19. Well like the freeper say;

If you have nothing to hide there should be no problem giving evidence.
Oh wait that only applies to liberals.

[elocs]

21. Why would I want to be or act like freepers or to lower myself to their slime level? n/t

[zeemike]

22. Because you want to win?

When in a fight if they hit below the belt and you do not respond offensively in like manner they will win.

[elocs]

27. So the freepers are godlike and possess the one and only way to win?

I don't think so. I don't buy that premise.

[zeemike]

29. Not god like at all

But more the work of the devil.
And just look at the last 30 years...it seems to work for them.

[TheWebHead]

16. media take out picks it up...

fairly big gossip site...

http://www.mediatakeout.com/2008/26264-stunning_rumor_mccains_vp_choice_may_have_hid_daughters_pregnancy__claimed_the_baby_as_her_own_.html

[maseman]

20. She looks like gymnist Shawn Johnson

Obviously it isn't but they could be sisters.

The girl looks prego here but come on anything can be photoshopped this day in age.

Hey look...anything is possible. Get this. I married a women who grew up Mennonite. (No not Amish but pretty close.) Her grandmother got a visit two weeks ago from her illigitimate sister. That's right. Her mother had had a baby before she was married and this lady I guess somehow figured it out. Took 75 years to get it out. So it happened then and weird things like this happen now.

[chapel hill dem]

18. This campaign is starting to resemble a Maury Povich show. I have seen more birth certicates

on-line since January than I have since I first connected to Compuserve 20 years ago!

[WinkyDink]

23. And you care because...?

[zeemike]

25. Because it means she lied about sex to the American people

And made a big deal about it in her acceptances speech.
If she would not have mentioned it I would never ask the question.
Just like I could have cared less if Clinton got a blow job, or John Edwards having an affair.

[WinkyDink]

24. (Duplicate.)

[applegrove]

26. A rumour likely started in some GOP boileroom.

[greguganus]

28. Her and her husband should submit to DNA testing, but then again...

...if it's the daughter's baby and the dad is the father, won't the DNA be the same?

[zeemike]

30. I don't know that answer to that.

[Bucky]

31. Anyone buying into this rumor is an absolute bonehead. Plenty of women don't "show" until well along

I have a friend who, while being wheeled, into the maternity ward was being asked by the admissions clerk if she was really pregnant. She had to spend time convincing the attending doctor that she was really 9 months along--and even then he double checked with her ob-gyn.

[zeemike]

32. And how many of them have there water break in Texas

And fly to Alaska