please explain: is this a private issue?
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| Tue, 09-02-2008 - 9:58pm |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_daughter
The Republicans ask that the issue of Palin's pregnant teen not be politicized and to let the family maintain their privacy. The Democratic candidate announced that family issues were not to be part of the campaign discussions. When bloggers who are not official spokespeople of the Obama campaign express opinions, the Republican's call it a "smear" and keep the issue in the official newsfeed.
So does bringing the boyfriend to the convention - thus keeping the family front-and-center - also constitute politicizing the issue? In other words, if we really don't want the "private life" of these teens to be headlines, shouldn't we just let them stay home and actually be private? Is it acceptable to make information public as long as the tone is supportive of the family's decision but not acceptable if it seems unsupportive?
And is it necessary to continue to bring up the existence of dissenting opinions - which are still free to be expressed by private citizens?
I'm truly confused.

Well see it works this way - if the 'liberals' say anything negative the comments get to be attributed to Obama - even if he has no knowledge of the comments or the blogger and the conservatives get to say the dems are politicizing the issue and dragging the poor kids into the national limelight. If the parents/politicians involved with the kids drag them into the limelight by inviting the boy to the convention where (gasp and shock) there just happen to be cameras and news people the republicans get to some how spin the media spotlight to be a 'family values' issue. So basically it just depends on whether the talking points get a positive spin - then it is good - or a negative spin - then it is bad democrats. Really it is just business as usual in the hypocritical conservative camp.
Ok let the slamming begin.
I'm not sure why a "private" issue gets announced at a political convention in the first place.
I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure