Pregnant at 17

Elliot points out...

A 17-year-old being pregnant isn’t the best situation.

But, my mother had me when she was 17.

Barack Obama’s mother got pregnant with him when she was 17.

Obama has already said that he won’t use Palin’s daughter as a means of attacking the Republican ticket.  That was the correct and classy move.  Let’s hope his supporters show the same restraint. 

Of course, Rachel Lucas is more cynical (realistic?). 

And who can doubt that the announcement that 17-year-old Palin daughter Bristol is preggers will drive certain leftists completely off the deep end in an orgy of impotent joy that now they can drag a minor into the election combat zone? This is the best news they’ve heard in weeks so you can’t blame them for their ecstasy. The only thing that might make them happier is if she had an abortion.

Hope! Change!