Originally Posted By: Bastard

Just think what would have happened had Obama picked John Edwards to be on the ticket before the whole affair/possible baby daddy scandal had come out. You so-called conservatives/moderates/independants/psuedo-neocons would be shatting all over yourselves in your zeal to eviscerate Obama for his poor choice.


There's a big difference between:
  • (a)picking a running mate who's cheating on his dying spouse with an ex-employee and covering it up;
    (b) picking a running mate who's open about the fact her daughter is expecting a baby (while above the age of consent)* and going to marry the father


In case, the "poor judgement" is committed by the VP candidate. In the other it is committed by their teenaged child.

But if you're going to talk "hyprocrisy," perhaps you could explain why the mainstream press thinks Chelsea Clinton, Hillary's thirty-year-old daughter, was "off limits" to criticism for things that happened while she worked on the campaign, while Palin's teenaged daughter is fair game for something that happened in her personal life?

*The age of consent in Alaska is sixteen.