Comments on: DK Diarist Points To More Signs That Sarah Palin Is Not Trig Palin’s Mother

By: Mark Adams

Mark Adams — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:42:55 +0000

The Daily Kos pulled the story and Kos himself says he doesn’t believe it. As for your comments about the article being well-sourced, that is not entirely true. Many statements aren’t sourced and some of the sources and dates are misleading.

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:30:49 +0000

Republican lies make republicans untrustworthy. I am about the same height and weight as Sarah Palin. When I was pregnant with my first child and was seven months pregnant, it showed. When I was pregnant with my second child, my muscles were weaker from having been pregnant before. At seven months, I showed even more. The Anchorage Daily News reported that people who worked with Palin were suprised when she claimed to be seven months pregnant, because Palin didn’t look pregnant. Supposedly, at the time, Palin was pregnant with her fifth kid. Every woman who has ever been pregnant knows Palin is lying. She would have to weigh over 200 pounds for her fifth pregnancy not to have shown. Republican lies make republicans untrustworthy.

By: Kendy

Kendy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:30:13 +0000

For the girl to have given birth to Trig AND be five months pregnant, she would have had to have gotten knocked up the day she popped out that baby. come on now, be realistic. Say that the rumors are untrue about her being Trig’s mom… or say that the Palins are lying about her being 5 months along… but let’s not be completely ridiculous.

By: Publius

Publius — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:47:34 +0000

Trig Palin was born on 4/18/08. That gives Bristol just enough time to be in her fifth month of a new pregnancy. Just because Bristol is pregnant now, doesn’t mean she wasn’t pregnant before.

By: ElizabethS

ElizabethS — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:42:43 +0000

Re: the question about having an amnio if you aren’t going to abort. I had a regular ultrasound, where the baby looked “fine’ but seemed to be about 3 weeks behind the gestational date we thought. When I was SIX MONTHS pregnant, another doctor looked at me and said he wanted to do another ultrasound…because I was so small. (This was not my first baby, either!) The ultrasound showed some complications and they HAD to do an amnio to find out what was going on, so we could see if the baby could be helped. She had Edwards Syndrome (kind of like Down’s, but more going on), and couldn’t be helped in utero…..and the amnio was a blessing to us, so we could take the rest of the pregnancy to prepare ourselves for having a handicapped child. We went all the way to my due date and got to the hospital. She, like Trig, was a very small baby….but, unlike Trig, she died at birth.

Please, everyone…..Dem, Indep, Repub, whatever…… No more judgements on how she handled her pregnancy. It is challenging to be pregnant with a handicapped child. I don’t blame her for “hiding” her pregnancy for so long. You who are women who have been pregnant know how many questions general members of the public ask when they see you are pregnant, even up to strangers who touch your belly, etc! It is MUCH WORSE when you are carrying a handicapped child. The questions can be beyond the pale, and a pregnant woman owes it to her baby and herself to be as stress free as possible.

Had I not walked down a similar road myself, I might not care so much about this…..but I felt I had to write.

By: HeatherRainbow

HeatherRainbow — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:05:58 +0000

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080901/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_daughter

I’d also like to point out, that since Palin stated her daughter is 5 months pregnant (now), that she doesn’t look five months pregnant, Now. (See pictures, esp AP photo)

By: elee

elee — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:19:21 +0000

the republican party did not attack chelsea, mccain told a very unfortunate joke, apologized to the clintons, and no one ever made such disgutsing attacks on a candidates child such as being made at bristol, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves, “the compassionate party” my ass

By: elee

elee — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:16:54 +0000

a lot of people, including myself (4 kids) elected for privacy reasons (getting phone calls soliciting baby stuff and junk mail) to NOT PUBLICIZE THE BIRTH IN THE LOCAL PAPER, this doesn’t mean squat

By: elle

elle — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:13:03 +0000

have any of you dopes that believe this trash looked at a picture of nicole kidman?
right before she gave birth you could hardly tell she was pregnant

then look at pics of her 2 weeks after the birth, thin as a rail

to attack a teenage girl with this unsubstantiated trash is disgusting

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:01:07 +0000

Kathy, there is a news article from April that supports Palin’s version. Her obstetrician says she was consulted regarding flying back after Palin’s water had broken, and she assented. I would call this direct confirmation that Palin is Trig’s mother. Doctors, like anyone else, can lie, but there are professional consequences.

To repeat myself on a point that people like William Wallace need to hear: no one should be surprised or pretend to be shocked that people are discussing the matter. Palin is interviewing for a very senior position and her veracity is a legitimate issue.

One might add that the Republicans didn’t shrink from attacking Chelsea Clinton when she was 12 years old. This doesn’t stop them from being total hypocrites how, when it suits their political purposes.

By: mweholt

mweholt — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:49:58 +0000

What are your qualifications for rendering a legal opinion on the law of libel?

Look, it’s becoming more and more obvious that the McCain campaign did little if any vetting of their nominee. We are hiring a Vice President. We have a right to know who this person is. If the McCain campaign couldn’t be bothered to ask Palin about, and look into, whatever deepest darkest secrets she might have, then the American people will have to do it themselves. Sadly, we aren’t as skilled as your run-of-the-mill sleazy, hard-nosed, steely-eyed campaign lawyers. We will just have to stumble around doing the best we can until we can get some idea of who this person is. It is the office of the Vice President, after all, she’s applying for.

If they didn’t want people looking around in every direction for clues about who this person is, they should’ve nominated a known and thoroughly vetted political figure. This is the price that has to be paid for McCain’s impulsiveness. Sorry about that, but don’t blame us. Blame him.

By: WilliamWallace

WilliamWallace — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:17:07 +0000

The idiot at Kos couldn’t even get the date correct on the picture they posted. The picture that is supposed to show Bristol as being pregnant was taken in 2006. That would make for the longest Pregnancy in history!

In fact, numerous items in the diary are dead wrong. INCLUDING conveniently leaving out some photos of Gov. Palin which clearly show her as being pregnant. (Some of these have surfaced on blogs pointing out the idiocy of the Kos diary.)

BTW: Bristol Palin is not a public figure. Thus, the standard legal rules for libel apply. The idiots that posted the original diary just opened themselves up for legal action. Individuals who repost the libel could be as well. Spreading defamatory comments and then attempting to cover yourself by attributing the original comments to someone else doesn’t cut it.

By: tas

tas — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:27:05 +0000

Craig, I won’t say that this story didn’t sound interesting, mostly because the details of it are so odd. I still wonder why anyone would have to fly from Texas to Alaska to give birth to a child. So I won’t say that doesn’t sound fishy… But there’s also nothing conclusive here, and there’s evidence that she was pregnant. I thought that needed to be presented.

By: yarrrr

yarrrr — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:11:30 +0000

A few day’s before she gave birth…

http://www.polartrec.com/node/3944

By: MAK

MAK — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:24:08 +0000

Susan, had an amnio done when I was pregnant at 44. The reason I did this is so that I would be prepared if I had a special needs child. A child with DS can have other health related problems, including those of the heart. If necessary, I wanted my baby to have the proper health care the minute he was born. Plus, I wanted my family and I to be prepared for the sake of the baby.