Ms. Palin's Pro-contraception message: "Teenagers need to prevent pregnancy to begin with"

[kpete]

The statement from the governor's office also quotes Bristol Palin, saying the 18-year-old "obviously discourages" teen pregnancy.

Teenagers need to prevent pregnancy to begin with -- this isn't ideal. But I'm fortunate to have a supportive family which is dealing with this together. Tripp is so perfectly precious; we love him with all our hearts. I can't imagine life without him now.

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/639506.html

[fascisthunter]

1. the All-American Idiot

at least retards have a valid excuse for being slow, this moron is a real whack job.

[ogneopasno]

14. I object to your term "retard" and comparing people with, presumably, Down syndrome with

Palin.

[fascisthunter]

15. True... the use of the word is a bit insensitive

especially in regards to Palin the right wing nutcase. my apologies

[ogneopasno]

16. Thank you -- I accept your apology.

She's obnoxious enough without having to smear other people. A good 2009 to you!

[fascisthunter]

17. Same to You... I Tried Editing my Post but Time had already Elapsed

I should know better than that.

[ogneopasno]

18. It's ingrained in a lot of people's vocabulary...I just try to point it out when I see it.

:toast:

[Jamastiene]

2. That could be taken as pro abstinence as well.

It could be taken either way, actually.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Imagine if Palin' had a (D) behind her name...the rightwingnuttery would

be foaming and frothing at the mouth over her evil wicked ways.







Hypocrisy; it's the rightwing way of life.

[Vickers]

4. With a condom, maybe?

:shrug:

More effective than whatever YOU were using!

:rofl:

[MineralMan]

5. Perhaps Bristol should have named the boy

Ivan Ulysses David. Could call him IUD for short.

[man4allcats]

7. The "Ivan" part certainly works.

After all, she can see Russia from her mom's house.

[pipi_k]

6. I guess reality hasn't set in yet...

and won't, for quite some time.

I'm referring to her nauseating gushing about how the baby is "perfectly precious" blah, blah, blah.

Yeah...newborn babies are all "perfectly precious" when they're sleeping 20 hours a day.

Wait till he starts teething...crawling around and poking forks into electrical outlets...trying to flush whole rolls of TP down the toilet....screaming, crying, throwing full bowls of spaghetti across the room, and all the other stuff kids are likely to do.

Reality, baby...


They may be "working their butts off" now, but the REAL work involved in being a parent hasn't even started yet. It just seems to me that they're almost glorifying the whole thing...not the kind of thing people want to do when there are so many young women out there who think that having a baby (when they're just babies themselves) will make their lives complete.

[Ilsa]

13. Or wait until the medical bills and other

expenses start rolling in, like daycare since they are working and going to school. Or they find out (after they are married) that Levi makes $100 a year over the limit for their WIC program.

[Obamanaut]

20. Problem solved - sell another baby picture for $300,000 nt

[Ilsa]

22. Oops, I forgot about them pimping their baby like that. nt

[rainbow4321]

23. Nah, they won't need daycare

They can just get Grandma Sarah to tote the kid around at the state's expense, much like she does with her current brood.

And, BTW, if Levi really is in an apprenticeship program, did you all know that people in that program can apply for UNemployment?? They don't get paid for their "classtime" which can run from 20-some to 36 weeks. They get paid a percentage of a "jouneyman's fee" depending on how many years they have spent in the program. In his case, that would be about 3 months now. All together, they have to put in 8,000 HOURS and several YEARS of being an apprentice before they become an electrican.

Now...as someone who has a baby to support and supposedly engaged, ready to start a life with the mother of that baby, is that the wisest "job" to pick..one where you can make unemployment and go weeks on end with no check??
Read all the details about an electrician apprenticeship program, paying attention to the fine print where it says applicants have to already have their GED..NOT in the middle of getting it.

http://www.jobs.state.ak.us/apprentice/electrical-brochure.pdf

Does Palin wish to make another statement from her office..maybe downgrading Levi's job as a grunt and not an apprentice? or does she wish to say "yes, the GED requiremment was waived for Levi"?

[TahitiNut]

8. "Don't do it even though it's wonderful and I'm famous."

Don't they have enough money to BUY Bristol a clue?? :banghead:

[gratuitous]

9. Well, "just say no" seemed to have failed in this instance

And since Sarah Palin isn't a complete imbecile (I heard that on the teevee, so it must be true), she's clearly referring to other methods of preventing teenage pregnancy. Isn't she? I'm sure the stalwarts of the Fourth Estate will tirelessly ferret out the true meaning of Gov. Palin's words, since if she's advocating for something other than abstinence for teen-agers, that would be a significant break with the prevailing wisdom of the Republican party.

Anyone want to advise me whether or not I should hold my breath waiting for a reporter to ask the pertinent question?

[MineralMan]

10. Well, the deal is that saying "No, No, Don't Stop Now"

doesn't work all that well.

[man4allcats]

11. "Stop. Don't. Stop

Don't Stop. Don't Stop." Really! What moron ever actually believed abstinence could be effective? I'm 60, and I can still vividly remember being "that age." Better use birth control, kids, 'cause you're not gonna deny that rush.

[MineralMan]

19. Yah. I'm 63, and kids were doing it when I was a kid, too.

People like to think they weren't, but they're wrong. We may have been a skosh more careful, since contraception wasn't all that easy back then for teenies. Hell, it was illegal to sell condoms to anyone under the age of 21 in 1962-3. The pill was still a couple of years off.

Abstinence was not the most common method of contraception. Coitus interruptus was, along with non-coital fun and games. Back then, everyone was "going steady," and "going steady" for any period beyond 6 months was pretty much a guarantee that a couple was sexually active. It was almost impossible to resist.

[Lex]

12. People like Palin think if they click their heels together and wish very hard, then

teenagers won't have sex, instead of being realistic and providing information and also access to birth control for them.

It stems from a belief that religion can solve everything, imho.

[jazzjunkysue]

21. "Republicans need to prevent airheads to begin with."

But they don't.