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kpete

(71,964 posts)
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:07 PM May 2012

Unwed teen mom Bristol Palin lectures President Obama about, like, marriage and stuff

Bristol Palin is not satisfied with President Obama's explanation of how he evolved to support gay marriage--by talking with his family and friends.

"You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples," Obama said in the ABC interview in which he made his announcement. "There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently."


Bristol writes in a Facebook post that fathers should shape their kids' views, not the other way around:

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.


Bristol has a son with her ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston, but the two were never married and Bristol says that Levi is not part of the child's life.

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/bristol-palin-gay-marriage-_n_1506286.html
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Unwed teen mom Bristol Palin lectures President Obama about, like, marriage and stuff (Original Post) kpete May 2012 OP
Wow, you're an expert on marriage, Bristol? WI_DEM May 2012 #1
Bristol Palin is a bigot, a right wing hypocrite, just like her mommy. Dawson Leery May 2012 #2
Republican Values at there best SoutherDem May 2012 #3
In addition, kskiska May 2012 #4
I call it shacking up. I though that Bristol moved to Arizona though? I guess her oceanfront estate Erose999 May 2012 #16
Last I read was she put the Arizona house up for rent kskiska May 2012 #21
Obama goes... And I go... longship May 2012 #5
Who asked her? Blue_Tires May 2012 #6
The lapdog media can't get enough of this infection on the American mind. freshwest May 2012 #22
Bristol Palin is giving advice on child rearing to Barack Obama? CTyankee May 2012 #7
Who gives a fuck what she says? catbyte May 2012 #8
The hypocritical nut doesn't fall far hifiguy May 2012 #9
"I'm qualified to define marriage because I was engaged once" LadyHawkAZ May 2012 #10
She probably saw a marriage license from her front porch. Arkansas Granny May 2012 #15
shuddap Bristol Whisp May 2012 #11
He shouldn't listen to his own daughters.. girl gone mad May 2012 #12
Somehow I don't think Bristol wrote that. I don't think she's that articulate cali May 2012 #13
Do people like Bristol Palin not realize how stupid she comes off? mojitojoe May 2012 #14
Hypocrisy is hereditary in that family, I see Canuckistanian May 2012 #17
Bristol should take a long hard Smilo May 2012 #18
hold on... progressoid May 2012 #19
she's been on DWTS, therefore, she must be right! pepperbear May 2012 #20
Like I said on another post, I bet that blog is written entirely by ghostwriter Nancy French, tanyev May 2012 #23
Here's a link......... Darth_Kitten May 2012 #24
And she slammed 'Glee,' too (what was she thinking, lol) pinboy3niner May 2012 #25

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
3. Republican Values at there best
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:10 PM
May 2012

Besides, how does Bristol get to talk about marriage. Maybe she is against marriage all together.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
4. In addition,
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:12 PM
May 2012

Bristol is about to do a reality show where she'll be living with her current boyfriend in her new house across the lake from her mother in Alaska. She's calling it a "trial marriage."

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
16. I call it shacking up. I though that Bristol moved to Arizona though? I guess her oceanfront estate
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:43 PM
May 2012

down there wasn't quite what she expected?

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
21. Last I read was she put the Arizona house up for rent
Thu May 10, 2012, 05:34 PM
May 2012

when she went to L.A. to film a reality show. The show never aired and she headed to Alaska and built the new house. Then she was offered a new reality show with the new boyfriend, a 20-year-old who works on the pipeline. As far as her assertion that kids should have a mom and a dad, according to Levi, Sarah and Bristol have prevented him from seeing his son, though he hasn't paid much in the way of child support, and has pretty much given up. Of course he and his new girlfriend are expecting a new baby.

CTyankee

(63,892 posts)
7. Bristol Palin is giving advice on child rearing to Barack Obama?
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:18 PM
May 2012

by her own definition, her child is doing worse by NOT growing up in a mother/father home.

Bristol, please. Just shut up.

catbyte

(34,341 posts)
8. Who gives a fuck what she says?
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:22 PM
May 2012

It's rich that some snotty, entitled teenager thinks that she has ANYTHING to say to the President about being a good parent. Pathetic need for the spotlight. Like mother, like daughter.

Just.Go.Away.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Sophie, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"We ride inside--HISS!”

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
11. shuddap Bristol
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:26 PM
May 2012

I don't really want to say anything bad about you because it couldn't have been easy having parents that are cretins, but keep it up little dumb sister and I will break my oath.

girl gone mad

(20,634 posts)
12. He shouldn't listen to his own daughters..
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:26 PM
May 2012

but he should take advice from Sarah Palin's daughter?

Brilliant logic.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
13. Somehow I don't think Bristol wrote that. I don't think she's that articulate
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:29 PM
May 2012

Someone is using her. I'm sure she's a willing dummy.

mojitojoe

(94 posts)
14. Do people like Bristol Palin not realize how stupid she comes off?
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:35 PM
May 2012

Saying things like "...in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview..." So where is her kid's 'mother/father home'? Is her kid's father shaping little Tripp or Truck or Turdblossom's (whatever the hell she named it) world?

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
17. Hypocrisy is hereditary in that family, I see
Thu May 10, 2012, 04:47 PM
May 2012

I worry about the kid, but not because it doesn't have a father.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
18. Bristol should take a long hard
Thu May 10, 2012, 05:09 PM
May 2012

look in the mirror and examine her life before condemning others.

tanyev

(42,522 posts)
23. Like I said on another post, I bet that blog is written entirely by ghostwriter Nancy French,
Thu May 10, 2012, 06:01 PM
May 2012

probably with quite a bit of direction from Sarah. I would be very surprised if Bristol even looked at any of the posts.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
25. And she slammed 'Glee,' too (what was she thinking, lol)
Thu May 10, 2012, 07:27 PM
May 2012

TRENDING: Bristol Palin: Too much 'Glee' in Obama decision (CNN)
...

"In this case, it would've been nice if the President would've been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee," Palin wrote, referencing the popular television show about high schoolers.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/10/bristol-palin-too-much-glee-in-obama-decision/



Now she's gone and done it; them's fightin' words!
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