Jamie Lynn Spears Reaches Out To Palin Family. Good Grief!!!
Sexy Times Can Make You Fat
I really, really, REALLY, wanted to avoid this topic. While it is just BEGGING to be picked apart for all of the inherent hypocrisies, (for example Gov. Palin is a staunch believer in teaching abstinence-only in schools – but apparently not at home) I did promise not to be a part of the finger-pointing brigade, but I can’t keep my concerns quiet.
Unless you’ve been hiding from endangered polar bears in an Alaskan cave, then you are certainly aware of the controversy surrounding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin who is now the GOP VP nominee. Palin announced earlier this week that her eldest daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and will keep her baby and wed the baby’s father, Levi Johnston. Ok, that’s reasonable. Unplanned babies happen to even the best (or in the case of the Spears) the worst of families. It really isn’t my place to judge their decision, although I do have some concerns about how her family dealt with the realities of conception BEFORE they were put in that position. Palin has stated that “Christian values” are at the core of her belief system, so it’s only fair to point out the obvious. Isn’t it a no-no to have sex before marriage? I am not judging, just asking.
So, if this difficult family matter wasn’t enough, we now have celebs adding their two cents into the matter.
Sadly, celebrities and politics intertwine more than they should, but when I heard that Jamie Lynn Spears and her mother Lynne Spears have reached out to the Palin family in their time of need, I thought, “Oh gee, just what the McCain/Palin campaign needs….the Spears factor.”
So why in heaven’s name do we need the train wreck of Jamie Lynn Spears, a Nickelodeon teen star whose popular show “Zoey 101″ geared towards tweens, throwing her clown nose into this ten-ring circus for? Here’s the scoop:
Teenage mom Jamie Lynn Spears has sent troubled Alaskan 17-year-old Bristol Palin a baby gift package following the scandal surrounding her pregnancy.
Spears, who revealed she was pregnant last Christmas — when she was just 16 — feels a kinship to Palin, the daughter of Republican Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, and decided to show her support by sending designer baby burpcloths.
The Palin family confirmed reports their eldest daughter Sarah was pregnant shortly after the Alaskan governor was picked as Senator John McCain’s running mate in the upcoming presidential election.
“Access Hollywood” has revealed Jamie Lynn’s mother Lynne Spears called Los Angeles baby boutique Petit Tresor on her daughter’s behalf to order a small gift.
A store insider explains Lynne and Jamie Lynn wanted to send a gift worth under $100 to Bristol, and chose a collection of Plain Mary white burp cloths with pink writing.
The note attached to the gift read, “Dear Bristol, Hang in there … xoxo, Jamie Lynn.”
First of all, if I were a famous person, I’d stop buying stuff from Petit Tresor. They are nosy busy-bodies who can’t keep their snooty-mouths shut. Secondly, can we as a country stop glamorizing this teen unwed mother crap? Please? I am begging you. As a mother of two small kids and two grown step-kids this is NOT the impression I want to send to my children. Parenting is a very difficult job regardless of income and status. Children require tons of time, effort and patience. They get sick, they need infinite love and guidance and most of all, they really need the maturity that comes with age and experience.
While I am not suggesting there aren’t many success stories of single, unwed mothers, or teen mothers who are forced to marry their baby-daddies due to political pressure, the odds are stacked against them.
Children who are in high school should be focusing on their education and their future, not raising unplanned babies. But of course, I believe in a little thing called teaching abstinence to teens, REINFORCING those values at home, and as a necessary back up, providing them hands-on sex-education that includes information about reliable contraception.
Heck they even had that stuff back in the stone age when I was a teen. Sheesh, who would have thought a social liberal would end up having more conservative values than Christian evangelicals?
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Kids, whaddaya gonna do…
Many Americans had the chance to meet Levi previous to his RNC cornonation through his MySpace page, that is before it was surgically scrubbed. The New York Post, was either lucky enough or smart enough to have preserved excerpts from Johnston’s MySpace page before it was removed from the internet:
“I’m a f – - -in’ redneck” who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes.
“But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some s- – - and just f – - -in’ chillin’ I guess.”
“Ya f – - – with me I’ll kick [your] ass,” he added.
He also claims to be “in a relationship,” but states, “I don’t want kids.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/levi-johnston-bristol-pal_n_1
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Kids, you can clean em up, dress em up and make them behave in public, but they are still just that.. kids.
And just when you think think it can’t possibly get anymore embarrassing for John McCain, it does.
MoveOn.org just broke what is probably the most defining story involving the biggest media gaffe in the entire presidential campaign. This incident happened right in the middle of the McCain’s campaign effort to paint the media as unfair and biased towards Palin.
“It’s funny what Republican pundits say when they think nobody’s watching. Today, John McCain’s former campaign chief Mike Murphy and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan were caught on tape after an NBC interview. They shared their real thoughts on McCain’s judgment in selecting Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.” [MoveOn.org]
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=24255&id=13697-5536685-pvU3vCx&t=3
Comment by MsSwin — September 4, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
Hypocrisy at it’s best; when a politician who supports abstinence-only education in schools (which has been proven, time and again, that it simply doesn’t work), reveals that her TEEN, UNWED daughter is pregnant.
Palin should have thought about that before she accepted the VP nomination. Now not only is she under intense scrutiny, but so is her daughter. Lots of moms, even in this day and age, will get flak over having careers while being mothers. What does it say when a mother who supports abstinence-only programs, who is a politician, has recently revealed to the world that her teen, unmarried daughter is pregnant? What kind of message does that send? Does she expect the American people to ignore the obvious contradiction in this situation? How can she expect to be taken seriously in this regard? Is she expecting her daughter to be an ‘exception to the rule’ that is a part of her world?
Do as I say, not as I do. That seems to be the only rule in effect here.
Comment by A Watcher — September 4, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
i don’t understand why this is hypocrisy…we are all individuals who make our own choices. you can preach all you want to your kids, but ultimately they will make their own decisions in life. that’s like saying palin didn’t do her job if her daughter was a democrat. let’s talk about palin and her decisions please, not her daughter’s.
Comment by t — September 4, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
Kids will make their own decisions, it’s true. But one has to wonder about a political candidate who supports abstinence-only education when their own teen becomes pregnant out of wedlock. It’s clear that Palin’s daughter received the abstinence-only education that she (Gov. Palin) so spearheads and she is in for a SERIOUS up-hill battle defending the programs effectiveness when it so clearly failed her own flesh and blood.
Comment by A Watcher — September 4, 2008 @ 11:58 pm