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The Palin Family.

Barack Obama, God love him, argued yesterday that the families of the candidates are off-limits in politics. The truth of the matter — which I suspect he knows deep down — is that they are very much in play. If you trot out the kids to show what a loving, wonderful family person you are (and what politician doesn’t — me included) and then something happens, they get shoved into the spotlight. That’s just the way it is.

And I’m sorry that Bristol Palin is being forced into the spotlight. It has to be lousy to be a 17-year-old girl, a senior in high school, and pregnant. Multiply the factor of awfulness when your mom is the governor. Now take that number and cube it when your mom becomes the GOP nominee for Vice President. I personally, as a father, feel awful for Bristol Palin.

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