Not another teen pregnancy.

I guess it has been three days since John McCain announced that Sarah Palin is his running mate and all we know about her is that she has a seventeen year old daughter who is pregnant.

Okay. That’s nice and all, but what issues does she stand for? What was her voting record like while she served in the Alaska state legislature? How long has she been involved in politics? I don’t know because I haven’t found a media outlet reporting on it. No questions like that floating around, are there?

However, there have been questions about McCain’s vetting process. Are you fucking kidding me? Are these the hot-button issues? Are these the subjects that concern the majority of voting Americans? Do you know how many teenagers are pregnant in the United States right now? I don’t know the exact number, but I’m certain there are a lot of them. There are a lot of teenagers living in poverty that are pregnant in this country and you don’t hear a whole lot of reporting about that. In fact, I’m willing to bet that the authors of the stories reporting about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy know or are related to a pregnant teenager, or a teenager that recently gave birth. It’s a fact of life. In the medieval period in Europe, it was common for thirteen and fourteen year old kids to have children, even over the watchful eye of repressive catholic clergy.

To the press: get over it. She’s pregnant, now move on and start giving some pertinent information about candidates that I can use to make an intelligent voting decision. Thanks.