If Palin's so proud of her pregnant daughter, why was she living with an aunt in Anchorage?

[Waiting For Everyman]

Did Palin herslef issue a statement that her daughter had mono for @5 months? Is that where locals got that impression, or did it originate through an informal gossip-chain? Started by Palin? Started by others? Was the mono story true, and maybe occured at the same time, while at this aunt's house? Or was the mono story a lie altogether? The impression I got from local sources, was that Palin's daughter wasn't transferred to another high school, but was "absent" from the same high school due to illness. That's what the locals all seemed to believe, but the story below tells something different. Or does it?

It's a matter of whether a deliberate cover-story was created. Another detail to settle, but I think it's relevant. All the sources I read seemed to know nothing about a transfer to this aunt's house - in spite of the fact that the story below says "widely reported". Not from what I saw, prior to Palin's announcement about it the other day.

And also, if Palin's daughter was "shipped off" to an aunt's house, I would understand that. But it doesn't say Palin's proud of her, and that everything about it's A-ok, to me. Why didn't she just release a statement before? Anyway, someone should ask before this story's considered "done".
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Republican family values: Episode 5,728
Why was Bristol Palin not living at home and instead attending high school 43 miles away in Anchorage, where she was living with her aunt?

The Washington Post reports today:

Bristol Palin attended high school in Wasilla, where her mother grew up. But it was widely reported by town residents that while the Palins continued to live on Lucille Lake in Wasilla, she had moved to the home of an aunt in Anchorage and was attending high school there.

And, later in the piece, there seems to be confirmation that the father, Levi, in question, is Levi Johnston of Wasilla:

In Wasilla, a young woman who answered the door at the home of Levi Johnston said, "Any comment will have to come from the campaign."

― Thomas Schaller

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room /
(search "Republican family values" if it doesn't come up)

WaPo reffed article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090100710_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008090101074&s_pos=

[file83]

1. Well, well, well, what do we have here?

Looks like all isn't well in Pleasantville, afterall.

Pregnant daughter being hidden away at Aunt's house? Or is it because the mother doesn't approve of daughter?

Oh, and where is the engagement ring on that 17 year-old's finger? When's the wedding?

[doublethink]

11. Could explain why the baby isn't listed as being born at the hospital ....

they say he was? No Trig Paxon Van Palin ... on the record. Maybe he was actually born at a hospital in ... Anchorage? :shrug:

on edit: just replace the last name of Palin with Johnston if anyone goes out into cyberspace on this mission. ;)

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

2. i want to know if she is so pro-life, why haven't i seen one

photo of a Palin addressing that Governors Conference in Texas when she was 8 months pregnant. You think it would be a pro-life baby making celebration, and photos should be all over the web.

Now, there may be photos, but I sure haven't seen one.

[Waiting For Everyman]

6. I agree with you...

You'd think there would be some pictures from the energy conference... especially if McCain was going to spotlight her later on. As Palin's baby announcement says (see post #3), evidently that was decided at the conference - no photo ops? Why not? If being pregnant is so great to these Repubs, why not? All the better, right?

[Waiting For Everyman]

3. Here's another anomaly - Palin said she was offered VP in April

baby announcement
http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=8194634
Welcome to Alaska, Trig Paxson Van Palin
by Lori Tipton, Friday, April 18, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska --

Gov. Sarah Palin gave birth to her fifth child at about 6:30 a.m. Friday morning...

Just yesterday, Palin was in Texas at a forum on energy with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and executives from four other states. Palin was asked at the forum whether or not she would accept an offer by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to share the national ticket as vice presidential nominee.

She said she would accept, according to reports from a Texas newspaper.

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So Palin was offered the VP nomination the day before she gave birth!!! 5 months ago! (Reporters, HELLO!)

Nowhere else has this April 17, 2008 VP job offer at the Republican Governors' Energy Conference in Dallas been reported. That was the day Palin went into labor and took that long flight back to Alaska. Maybe that's the real reason why she stayed there in Dallas as long as she did, though? And why she went there in the first place, at such a "fragile" time?

So it was the 4 "energy governors" who decided this?

Maybe this has some relevance to the vetting? I'd certainly think so. And which story is true, and which is a lie? One of them is. Either she was offered the job last week, or 5 months ago.

[global1]

9. So If There Was Talk Of Her Possibly Becoming McCain's Running Mate......

in April - how come the MSM was so taken by surprise of it all? During the run-up to McCain announcing his choice - Palin's name never came up until perhaps the last hour before it was confirmed by McCain's campaign staff and before the official announcement. Were we being conned by the MSM that they were taken by surprise - so they could say what a Maverick McCain is?

This just keeps getting murkier and murkier.

[JDPriestly]

10. So, she's the energy industry's pick. I guessed that. Odd that her

donations don't reflect the relationship. It may be that she has never run for an office important enough or of enough value to the energy priests to motivate them to give her a lot of money.

[robinlynne]

12. She dedicates her life to drilling in anwar, denying global warming, when she

isn't doing the christian fundy stuff. She brought a lawsuit against the federal gov't to de-protect the polar bear. She is all about oil.

[roguevalley]

4. I heard that Bristol has kicked up against her mom about what to do.

Go, Bristol. Your mom and dad let you down. Don't make them compound this into something worse for you, honey.

[bobbiwilson201]

7. Hypocrite? Palin Eloped / 8 Months Later Gave Birth to a Son

Did history repeat itself?

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

Family

Sarah Palin eloped with her high-school boyfriend, Todd Palin, on August 29, 1988, when she was 24 years old.<6> According to her mother, "It was a shock but she did it because she knew we couldn’t afford a big white wedding."<124> Their first son, Track, was born eight months after their wedding

[Tutonic]

5. The Enquirer will shine a big light on these cockroaches!

[Divernan]

8. Levi was home schooled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasilla_High_School

According to Wasilla High School Principal Dwight Probasco, Levi Johnston plays on the school's hockey team but does not attend the school. Johnston is home-schooled through the Mat-Su Correspondence Study School in Wasilla, Alaska.<9>

Palin's daughter, 17-year-old Bristol Palin, who became pregnant with boyfriend Levi Johnston's baby, attended Wasilla High during her junior year but transferred to West Anchorage High School during the middle of the school year for unknown reasons.<8>

www.frontiersman.com/articles/2007/05/25/news45.txt

(I/m having trouble getting the links to work - if you google Wikipedia for Wasilla High School, and general google "Mat-Su Correspondence School", you'll get to the info.