Chris Kelly at the Huffington Post posted a pretty snarky bit about Palin today that I wouldn't necessarily dignify if not for one very good point he makes at the end of the piece. Check out the pictures of Bristol Palin near the end of the piece, all taken at last Friday's VP announcement (the one above is representative). I understand why Sarah Palin took the trouble of dragging most of her family to Dayton for the VP announcement; after all, a good portion of her appeal as a VP is her family (or so the McCain camp hopes). But including Bristol in that mix (especially as the fact of her pregnancy had not yet been officially announced) seems, in retrospect, excessively callous. So, how did the Palin family hide Bristol's obvious pregnancy bulge? By having her use her 4-month-old baby brother with Downs Syndrome as cover. Icky.
The MSM was up in arms when a very adult Chelsea Clinton campaigned for her mother during the primaries, with one memorable pundit accusing Clinton of "pimping out" her daughter before being forced by the campaign to apologize for the comment. Chelsea Clinton was a woman capable of making her own decisions in how much (or how little) to assist her mother's campaign. Bristol Palin is a child about to have a baby; if anyone deserves to be protected from this type of naked political mythmaking, it's her. Too bad neither her mother nor her father seem so inclined to shelter her. Instead, it was her baby brother doing the sheltering.
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