"...some with Barack Obama's name in them"

Yeah, that's setting the bar really high.

It would also be helpful to the McCain campaign if they didn't have so many of the rumors turning into facts.

What scurrilous lies and innuendos based solely on someone mentioning Obama's name with Palin now HIS campaign and Obama, himself, are the perpetrators.

This is the Billary primaries all over again!! Billary blamed Obama for the racism charges, even though Obama never said one damn word!!

Corporate media conspiracy and white entitlement rears it's ugly head again!!

Palin is a fine right wing extremist who has little gravitas. This election is about McCain vs Obama. Any issues concerning her go to McCain's judgment. It appears he has lied about the vetting. He has picked a politician currently being investigated for abuse of power. However tactless, the pregnancy could have have real money thrown at the investigation (National Enquirer perhaps). McCain's interests in Palin are beyond her as a candidate (playing with his ring etc). None of these are good distractions for the McCain campaign. Beyond shoring up the evangelical base Palin is unlikely to be helpful. This is McCain's mistake and her benefit.

You'd think they would be concerned about McCain's not vetting Palin. But I knew it would all come back to being the Democrats fault.

It doesn't sound like they checked with the Obama camp. Sloppy, at best.

For a look at how the media deck is stacked in favor of McCain, check out MSNBC's video of the news that Bristol Palin is pregnant.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26496189/

If Obama or Biden had a teenager who was pregnant, it's hard to believe they would be as nice about it.

Republicans tying nasty internet rumors against their VP candidate to Obama should not be unexpected. It's certainly true that a number of Obama supporters have been speculating with vigor.

Are you suggesting that it is unusual for a campaign to be blamed for supporters' behavior? I have found this to be common.

Brilliant.

The holiday weekend blogfest forced McGrandpa to come out and defend his pick, confirm the juice, and now he can never get out of that crouch.

All dems need to is sadly "tsk tsk" and move on.

Utterly brilliant. The collpase of the convention meets the collapse of McPastit's first decision as veep.

What will the MSM do with this?

Hanna will be making landfall as a CAT 1 in Savanna, GA the night McWHAT?!? gives his speech. Savanna has not seen a storm in many a year, and her tall old trees will be swaying...

McCain's campaign will try valiantly, but even the moron class won't be distracted by this pathetic flailing.

What it is is an attempt to change the narrative again - turn it back on Obama.

That tells me they really are in full panic mode.

Get the shitcoats out - they will unleash the whole load right after the convention. It's all they have left.

She ran a 527 in support of ted stevens....
sounds like more of the same to me.

Pause a sec and imagine what it must be like for any of McCain's staff right now with Johnny and his notorious volcanic temper. Stand back...he's gonna blow!

A fair parsing of this carefully crafted statement finds no untruth.  My girlfriend Denise just joined a group on Obama's site and found this rumor being discussed.

Still, the connotations are clear, and, yes, you could argue that Reuters should have seen that and declined to print the spurious linkage to Obama.

BTW, Denise's reaction to the rumors is that Palin's personal life is nobody's business but hers and her family's.  She's a big Obama fan, but, in this case, she finds sympathy for Palin as a mother.

Shows how McLecher's pick of Sarah Palin has unleashed a storm of conundrums.

Had McCAin known Pailin's 17 year old daughter had been knocked up out of wedlock, he never would have picked Palin. So Aplin tried to conceal this, and McCain didn't vet her. She's a liar and he's a bozo.

I'll say this again.

I cannot believe what I'm seeing here.

This is about the most wack-ass presidential campaign I've seen since, umm, ever.

History will look back at the election of '08 and say 'What the fuck??'

Obama will need more than a 10 point lead on election day to fight this kind of garbage. What all this proves is that my 19 year old college daughter is qualified to run as Vice President in the Republican Party.

Director of Ted Stevens 527 - This one is the best yet. Something was fishy that her resume had a three year hole in it...

Makes you want to bang your head and beg for this to stop!

Perhaps they should instead report what names McCain had for Mrs Palin when he first heard the news.

So what's he going to do? If he comes back with Huckleberry the guy will look like an elder statesman compared to Palin.

Don't just bitch to the choir.

Contact Reuters here and let them know how you feel about them allowing themselves to be used to market smears and lies. Be polite about it. Suggest that they go back to the source and ask him to point them to the Obama-associated websites that said a single word about Palin, her daughter, or her son. And then report what you find. Otherwise, issue a retraction that these claims made by the McCain campaign that you repeated are unverified.

Reuters has headed down the AP road, I have thought that for the last year or so. They too show they have taken sides, in my opinion. I also noted that the AP has now sent out talking points to defend Fournier. How sad.

Hmmm guess anyone of us could call and say the McCain camp was doing this or that... except... oh yeah... we have integrity.

IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!

My daughter is fornicating in high-school and pregnant.

AND IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!

Can't I get some privacy as a victim in the midst of running for a heartbeat away from the POTUS?

AND IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!

Yeahhhhhh.............

Right.

The irony of course is that the supposedly "rumors" have legs.

AND IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!

These threads are smokin' today! Guess I will just leave my screaming infant in his crib so I don't miss out on any gossip.

At a brief press availability in Monroe, Mich., ABC News asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., if he had any response to Gov. Sarah Palin's statement that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant.

"Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits," Obama said, "and people's children are especially off limits.

"This shouldn't be part of our politics," he continued, "It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.

"And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories," he said. "You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and, you know, teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off limits."

Asked about the insinuation from the McCain campaign that the liberal bloggers trafficking in rumors about Palin write for websites that mention Obama, the senator said, "I'm offended by that."

The Democratic presidential nominee said, "There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us. I hope I am as clear as can be – so in case I’m not, let me repeat: We don't go after people's families, we don't get them involved in the politics. It's not appropriate and it's not relevant."

Concluded Obama before getting on his campaign bus headed to Milwaukee, Wisc., "Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be. And if I ever thought that it was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they'd be fired."

I love his response.

I'm not on his staff.

:)

I love his response.

I'm not on his staff.

:)

This is a good site, some of you are probably familiar, but thought I would link in any event.

http://mudflats.wordpress.com

Tena - I'm with you. I'm free to point out the hypocrisy of Palin's supposed "family values" and support for abstinence-only education. But I am glad Obama addressed this himself.

But I still wrote to Reuters and gave them what for.

For the record though, with Mr. Palin away working on the north slope, while Mrs. Palin commuted the 900 miles (yes, 900 - it's a big damn state) from Wasilla to Juneau, leaving the teenaged kids home alone....I don't understand how something like this could have happened....

Reuters should seriously detract from this sort of disingenious statement. Obama camp should push back HARD if anyone tries to pin them to that.

Dem (truthful!) Push Polling For Dummies:

If you heard that VP Nominee Sarah Palin's 17-year old daughter was having a baby out of wedlock, would that make you more or less inclined to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket in November?

This doesn't make any sense, how did McCain's campaign (allegedly) know that she was pregnant prior to the announcement? It'd be one thing if she was, say, 3 months pregnant, but 5 is pretty close to your second tri-mester and she should definitely be showing within weeks of the VP announcement/acceptance. I think all these lies are going to catch up with them fast...

speaking of the press, LOL:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/115013/6486/664/582087

Editor & Publisher

The Anchorage Daily News reported earlier today that rumors had abounded in the state for months that Bristol Palin was pregnant. This turned out to be true, but what it fostered was other rumors that she was the real mother of Sarah Palin's fifth child, who was delivered in April.

The Tribune Company's political blog, The Swamp, reports, "Mark Okeson, the assistant principal at Wasilla High School, said Sarah started her junior year there last fall, in the town where Sarah Palin grew up, but Bristol transferred to an Anchorage high school mid-year. 'I never heard the story why,' he said Monday.

That liberal blog is spreading rumors and it has Obama's name in it in many places!

I don't think Obama has to say a word.
The MSM will take care of this.
Maybe it will take till after Nov. 4th., but they will dig it out.
Look how long it took to get Bush/Cheney on WMD, and the invasion of Iraq.
So if the Republicans, can make it look like a witch hunt about Sarah Palin till after the election. Maybe they will just win.

Oh ya,
Don't forget to watch Carl Rove on FOX.
You won't want to miss the "fair and balanced" news on this station.

Obama categorically denied that his campaign had anything to do with the Bristol Palin story, affirmed that his campaign has a hands-off policy when it comes to candidates' families and vowed to fire any person within his campaign found to violate his policy. He chided reporters during an impromptu press conference for even asking the question.

Unless given compelling evidence that his camp had anything to do with the story, I think that puts this meme to rest.

On the story itself, I always find it interesting when the personal lives led by social conservatives tend to conflict with the family values they profess. It has no effect on me, since I'm don't subscribe to the fundamentalist wing of Protestant Christianity, but I come from a fundamentalist Bible Belt family. I don't imagine this, combined with campaigning with a special needs infant, sits especially well with the religious right. As one of my aunts told me earlier this afternoon, after hearing the report on CNN, "Maybe she should be paying more attention to her family than politics." Of course, Obama is right: this is not a campaign issue. But I can't help that this is not the type of thing which McCain was hoping for if he sought to energize the fundamentalist base on his behalf.