I'm not going to take side's here cuss even i don't know who i will be voting for yet but to answer the question about palins daughter:
it has everything to do with "the republican party" and there whole family values spiel. having a 17 yo pregnant unmarried daughter in her house makes her look bad due to her stances and the things she has said in the past about this very issue. it basically tells me that her stance on abstinence only education for kids doesn't work if she cant even convince her own daughter that it's the right way.
personally i also don't see it as a big deal but you gotta think that this is just one of the things she stands for that she cant enforce, family values is another big one for me. going back to work after 3 or 4 days after your premature, down syndrome child is born is not family values, in fact it's down right disgraceful. being a stay at home dad i can tell you how hard it is to take care of a normal child as most here can attest to but a child with downs is in a whole nother league. we have a few children who have this in our extended family and their parents can tell you horror story after horror story of the difficulties bringing up these children, yes there is mostly joy involved when having any child and for the most part all of these kids are awesome to be around now that there a little older but it took a lot of work to get them where they are at.
if the situation were turned around and it was one of the Dem's who had this situation i would feel the same exact way, but as it stand their biggest problems seem to be a lack of experience and lots of talk of change with little explanation of what they mean by it.
does anyone else get creeped out when McCain gives his weird smile? or is it just me
