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mamagotcha) wrote2008-09-01 10:39 am
mamagotcha) wrote2008-09-01 10:39 am
Dishin' the dirt
So... for some purely schadenfreudistic dirt, check out this accusation (thanks, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gramina):
That baby isn't her's, but her teenage daughter's.
Pretty steamy stuff... but also pretty damning if true.
The biggest hole in her story for me: that her water broke and she had contractions for her fifth baby, over a month preterm, and did NOT see a doctor but instead boarded a plane for the 11-hour trip home. The coincidental removal of her daughter from school for "mono" for six months also stretches belief.
My geneticist husband says the nondisjunction rate for females is greatest at both the onset and cessation of menses. That means you have more Down's babies both close to menarche and menopause.
What's YOUR gut-level sense of this?
ETA: Wow. The hurricane is making the RNC postpone their festivities. I guess McCain learned his lesson. And with this potentially damning accusation that really should have been sniffed out by the 5-month vetting process... I'm thinking that the RNC isn't all that heartbroken about having national attention turned elsewhere. Still... you'd think they'd have been a bit more specific in their prayers.
ETA again: Wow! Now the DAUGHTER'S pregnant? Riiiiight.... whatcha wanna bet that her "pregnancy" is gonna "miscarry" soon... and that her currently kind-of-showy belly is really a postpartum belly?
I guess this is a wonderful example of the tremendous success of abstention education!
Wow wow wow. Curiouser and curiouser!
gramina):That baby isn't her's, but her teenage daughter's.
Pretty steamy stuff... but also pretty damning if true.
The biggest hole in her story for me: that her water broke and she had contractions for her fifth baby, over a month preterm, and did NOT see a doctor but instead boarded a plane for the 11-hour trip home. The coincidental removal of her daughter from school for "mono" for six months also stretches belief.
My geneticist husband says the nondisjunction rate for females is greatest at both the onset and cessation of menses. That means you have more Down's babies both close to menarche and menopause.
What's YOUR gut-level sense of this?
ETA: Wow. The hurricane is making the RNC postpone their festivities. I guess McCain learned his lesson. And with this potentially damning accusation that really should have been sniffed out by the 5-month vetting process... I'm thinking that the RNC isn't all that heartbroken about having national attention turned elsewhere. Still... you'd think they'd have been a bit more specific in their prayers.
ETA again: Wow! Now the DAUGHTER'S pregnant? Riiiiight.... whatcha wanna bet that her "pregnancy" is gonna "miscarry" soon... and that her currently kind-of-showy belly is really a postpartum belly?
I guess this is a wonderful example of the tremendous success of abstention education!
Wow wow wow. Curiouser and curiouser!
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Its the kind of secret that i can't imagine escaping more notice between now and four months ago. It seems like if McCain had any wind of it he wouldn't risk the scandal. (I think if the baby were her daughter's, and she openly admitted that, she'd be in a lot better state right now. Actually, it would make people feel better about her being at work with a four month old, if it were her grandson. But with the lie, its hard for me to believe that this gets through vetting and decisions making...)
If it is true the appearance of some of the 'evidence' makes these people seem far stupide than they are by ther counts. If your daughter was pregnant, and you were hiding that fact, wouldn't you arrange your pictures so that she was the one standing behind her sisters, hiding her belly? The idea that they were release a picture showing that belly IF they were trying to hide it just seems... dumb.
I'd also like to note that when i was a full eight months pregnant people wouldn't necessarily have believed it. In some outfits i think it was obvious, but in some clothes (like my cmu sweatshirt) people just didn't know. I know that she and i are a lot different and at different places in our lives, but, i think its dangerous to assume something about someone just because they experience something different than what is 'normal', or what you did.
On the other hand, i know that people do this type of thing not as infrequently as we might imagine, and i can't say that i'm not secretly wishing for a scandal in that campaign...
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You give McCain a lot more credit than I do. :) He met her once before nominating her his running mate...
FWIW, I don't think Bristol is the mother of Trig. In fact, I have even darker thoughts on the subject. Thoughts like, "the only reason you get on an 11 hour flight after your water has broken prematurely with your fifth child is if you don't care what happens to that child."
She'd still be the patron saint/poster child of the pro-life crowd whether or not her baby with Down's Syndrome survived past birth.
I would not normally ascribe such malice to a person I barely knew, but I also wouldn't go back to work 3 days after my child's birth.
I'd also like to note that when i was a full eight months pregnant people wouldn't necessarily have believed it.
Yes. But to play the devil's advocate: with each subsequent pregnancy most women show earlier and more.
I'm totally in the schadenfreude camp on this one, whatever the reality. Dan and I are watching the RNC Convention on C-Span and waiting to see if they nominate someone other than Palin as VP. :)