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The claim the Obama camp made with regards to the Palin controversy possibly working to McCain's favor reminds me of Hollywood agents, working from the assumption that "any news is good news", orchestrate breakups, hookups, and rehab stints for their celebrity clients that may be fading from public view.

You're sweet.

Dude, how many times do you have to be told that families are off limits? And why are you playing the gender card?

Video God's will on Earth is to build pipelines: Min 1:46 The Iraq War is a mission from God: Min 3:22 Can we afford another 4 years of this? Am I a sexist for asking this question?

It's Osama. Bush ordered the hit, it's the only thing that can save the Republicans.

Only if he knew, which he didn't. It's most likely that Sarah Palin wasn't even told until after McCain picked her. "Uh, Mom...I have something to tell you..." Brutal.

That 0.0% of the population actually uses.

People don't become mentally competent adults until at least age 25.

"Sexist!"

Compelling.

"This nonsense is over."

Yeah, this surprised me why they're doing it now all of a sudden rather than earlier. My guess is they wanted to view peoples' reactions before they decided what to do next. Now they think that giving Levi airtime will be good PR. But until they knew that, he was scum, as far as they were concerned. When we look back at the 2008 Campaign in a few years time, we will have invented a new term to describe what is happening: "media-baiting". The other part is exactly what you say, good PR. The McCain Camp trying to turn lemons into lemonade by making the Palins a poster family for anti-abortionists. This of course is politicizing a "private matter" on the part of the GOP but accusations of such can only be levied against liberals. Nifty trick.

I'll be interested to see how His Maverickness spins this.

Which is exactly why the GOP is flying Levi to the convention. Wait, huh?

How DARE You turn this into a political issue, you liberal blogger!

How about they knew and just didn't think it was a big deal, either? Duh. Mmmm, no.

If conservatives are going to applaud her decision then they should be applauding the fact that she has a choice. That's as far as that goes for me. This definitely counts as a story for me only in so far as it sheds light on McCain's decision making processes. Either cynical and Machiavellian or hot-headed and incompetent.

As far as Bristol Palin is concerned, yes let's move on. But I'm sorry, there are too many unanswered questions related to the McCain campaign to simply drop this story altogether. If we're to believe that McCain Campaign knew about the pregnancy and knew the story would eventually come out, then they must have hoped to use it for political advantage: Draw the Democrats into using messy smear tactics and wait for the backlash while hoping to inspire voters' sympathy for this "typical American family" while turning the Palins into a poster-family for pro-life values. Pretty big gamble, pretty messy, but not beyond a losing campaign going for broke. How else could you possibly explain their contention that they knew about the pregnancy? I don't think they knew. It's another example of an inept, shoot-from-the-hip, hotheaded decision gone bad. One of many we could expect from His Maverickness, if he were to be elected, with much graver consequences.

Forgive me if I'm dense, but isn't the idea that we're to applaud someone for deciding to have a baby predicated on them having a choice to do so? The very choice that anti-abortionists want to take away?

I haven't seen yellow like that since I changed my baby brother's diaper. Whaddya call that?