I know this whole story about Sarah Palin and her 5th child is crazy but answer me this...

[LynneSin]

....how can not one person have seen she was pregnant including 49 other governors. I haven't even seen a single photo of her pregnant with this kid.

That just really bothers me, perhaps I'm crazy but it's the truth.

[The Blue Flower]

1. Story once removed but...

I met a woman at a party in Seattle last fall who said she'd work in Alaska's state govt. for 20 years. She saw the gov five weeks before the baby was born and swears the gov could not have been pregnant.

[monmouth]

25. What happened to the story that Trig was Tawd's by another woman?...n/t

[FourScore]

36. It's got no legs. Bristol, however, was "disappeared" with mono for 5 months. n/t

[cali]

2. answer me this: If she was going to fake a pregnancy why wouldn't

she fake looking pregnant? Oh, and I have seen a picture of her looking pregnant. not hard to find either.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/anchorage-tv-station-pali_b_123029.html

[JVS]

5. Parents of pregnant girls, especially negligent parents who live on the other side of the state,...

sometimes learn about the pregnancy fairly late and then have to put on a hastily developed show.

[blondeatlast]

3. Loathe to dthis, but the truth is, right up to delivery, few people knew I was

pregnant by looking at me. I gained the proper amount of weight since mine was a high risk pregnancy.

I'm very long waisted (VERY!) and so carry weight over a larger area than most women.

I'm not saying she wasn't preggers at all, I'm just saying it's possible that she was for the reason I offer, which is admittedly anecdotal.

[LynneSin]

7. I know others who have been in this position - not saying it isn't possible but....

She's not long waisted - she's short.

There have been photos from her other pregnancy and all of them she looked pregant. What's up with the 5th one.

Finally, not like she was hiding something embarassing. She's a married woman, nothing embarassing about being pregnant, why would she feel she had to hide it?

[blondeatlast]

14. After I replied, I googled some pics of her pregnant--you are correct;

there's no way she could have hidden it based on her previous pregnancies.

[pipi_k]

17. Same here...

I graduated High School three months before my son was born. Nobody knew a thing.

After graduation I went to a place for unwed pregnant teens. I actually had a couple of the girls accuse me of "faking" a pregnancy.

WTF....

I was a little bigger the second time around, and the third time around I was very small again.

So yep...it's absolutely possible for nobody else to suspect a thing.

[blondeatlast]

24. True, but I googled photos of her pregnant and she very clearly shows

in her previous ones.

I wasn't trying to hide mine, it just wasn't noticeable--but I'm fairly tall anyway. Ms. Palin is not.

[FourScore]

37. It has to do with body type. Here is a photo of SP pegnant with another child in last trimester

[shanti]

4. another thing

there are pictures of her when she really was pregnant, and she's not one to be able to physically hide it, apparently. what's in the dark, always comes to the light!

[SDuderstadt]

6. This kind of nonsense...

makes us look every bit as stupid as the "birther movement".

[LynneSin]

8. Difference is we have shown them the proof of Obama's birth

but no one can verify the woman was ever pregnant with her 5th child.

[SDuderstadt]

12. Oh, for christ's sakes...

please.

[RaleighNCDUer]

28. Hey, all it would take is ONE picture of a very public person,

to dispel the rumors.

It's not like it is some kind of official document accessible to a very few. If the baby was, indead, six weeks early, there should be plenty of photos when she was showing, big time. For a woman of her stature, between 6 and 7 1/2 months should be very obvious.

[SDuderstadt]

31. See post # 2 n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

43. That is very obvious.

I wonder how the flight attendants missed that.

[virgogal]

13. What difference does it make?

[Snoutport]

15. Really? Alaskans are still living with all her apointees..almost got miller as a senator

They have every right to try to show if Palin is lying. If she is dishonest it will end her influence on politics.

The pictures don't lie:
http://www.palinpeytonplace.com/ob-gyn-shocked.html

[SDuderstadt]

20. This is absolute...

bullshit and every bit as uninformed as the "birther" nonsense.

We are better than this.

[mrmpa]

42. it is absolute bullshit...but it's fun eom

[SDuderstadt]

44. I suspect many "birthers" have...

identical attitudes.

[Snoutport]

46. i just looked at the pictures, read the ob gyn and the airline's comments

with the birthers there is nothing. this at least has photos and public statements of people around her who said they didn't know she was 7 months pregnant. It just doesn't add up and the hospital doesn't even have the birth she claims had listed.

seems plenty to look into to me.

[SDuderstadt]

49. Well...

go ahead and embarrass us then.

[LanternWaste]

50. I imagine many people believe that disagreement correlates to embarrassment

I imagine many people believe that disagreement correlates to embarrassment.

[SDuderstadt]

52. This whole thing is...

profoundly embarrassing to progressivism.

It's every bit as embarrassing as "birthers" on its face and an enormous waste of time.

[LanternWaste]

57. Of course. It's something you disagree with...

Of course. It's something you disagree with, therefore it must be embarrassing.

[SDuderstadt]

59. I believe a lack of critical thinking skills is embarrassing...

don't you?

It's the same reason I think the "birthers" embarrass the RW.

[emilyg]

21. Yes it does.

[pipi_k]

9. Snopes always seems to be well received here, so...

here's a link to a piece on that whole thing:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bristolbaby.asp

So now I suppose that those who really want to believe that Bristol is the mother of Trig will screech about Snopes being a bunch of "liars". Or, misinformed, at best. Which would be ironic, really, seeing as places like this are always the paragons of Truth, Justice, and The American Way as long as they're exposing Republican mischief.

:eyes:


Frankly, I don't think it's anybody's damned business WHO Trig's "real" mother is.

I don't like Sarah Palin. I absolutely despise her voice. But wherever Trig came from, she is his Mom.

[LynneSin]

11. I don't think it was Bristol's kid

If it was anyone, it was the oldest child or Todd that knocked up someone.

[Snoutport]

19. bristol left wasilla high and transferred to anchorage high...but never attended

now the family says she had mono but...um...she was not in school and completely disappeared...except for the day she got in a car wreck in the parking lot in wasilla. This websiet has a bunch on it...

http://www.palinpeytonplace.com/ob-gyn-shocked.html

[Obamanaut]

30. What a welcome voice of reason. NT

[wickerwoman]

56. That link doesn't address the central issue at all.

It debunks a claim made by a random black kid of youtube that he was the father (which could be pretty easily debunked by anyone with eyes who can see that the kid isn't biracial.)

It doesn't say anything about Palin's ridiculous plane journey which is the crux of the argument and it's version of "debunking" the theory that Bristol is the mother is to say that Bristol claimed to be five months pregnant when Trig was five months old. That's not exactly iron-clad evidence to the contrary.

[ZombieHorde]

60. That Snopes article does not actually mention the OP's topic.

The article is about a guy named Kevin, who claimed to have had a baby with Bristol Palin.

[Snoutport]

10. link to ALL the pictures and an OB GYN's take on all the photos

http://www.palinpeytonplace.com/ob-gyn-shocked.html

[HughBeaumont]

18. Chances are, I don't think Sarah would be able to look less pregnant as the years go on . . .

2008 vs 1989.

[Bonobo]

61. Can doodee doodee duder respond to this? Or would it be too embarrassing to progressivism? LOL

What a doofus.

[jwirr]

16. In my youth it was a real problem when an unwed girl in your family

turned up pregnant. She was often hidden away while mother appeared pregnant. It was a common practice for grandma to claim the baby as her own.

So I often wonder what difference it makes if Sarah was trying to protect her daughter the old fashion way?

One other question: What are the ages of the two babies - mom's and daughter's? How far apart are they?

[JVS]

22. Palin ages

Sarah: born 1964
Track: 1989
Bristol: 1990
Willow: 1994
Piper: 2001
Trig: 2008
Trip: late-2008

[jwirr]

23. So if these two babies are brothers than Bristol would have had to have

two babies in one year. Not impossible but unlikely.

[shraby]

26. I had 2 in one year..11 months apart, as did my daughter-in-law.

[Cheap_Trick]

32. My sister was born 5/30/65 and I was born 5/26/66

[Urban Prairie]

27. Mercede Johnston: Myself and my new baby brother Triggybear : )

Uhhh...whut?

:crazy:

Trig would have no relation to Mercede, if he is/was in fact the child of Sarah and Todd Palin.

Not even by law...since Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston were engaged but didn't tie the knot

Slip of the tongue, perhaps?

:freak:

http://www.palindeception.com/subpages/subpage10.html

[SDuderstadt]

29. Jesus...

this just gets dumber and dumber.

[kittykitty]

54. I have the exact same screen-shot, but couldn't figure out

how to upload it. I was also puzzled about the "mommy-in-law" caption. And my "little brother Triggy-Bear". I didn't know who Mercedes is, and still can't figure the whole thing out. But I like your presentation and analysis.

[Angry Dragon]

33. When I run across something where the answers are hard

to come by I just blame it on aliens

[eShirl]

34. Suppose it turned out to be true - then what?

What difference could it possibly make?

[HughBeaumont]

35. Knowing UHmurica . ..

. . . she'd likely be more popular than she was in late 2008.

[Snoutport]

47. It means that instead of 10,000 attending her rallies it will be 1000

it means removing her from the national stage.

[Jello Biafra]

38. I will not be satisfied with any of these answers...

until I see a picture of Sarah, in the hospital, smiling with the new born. I haven't seen that picture, therefore, it was Bristol's.

Besides, she (Bristol) was doing xmeth and the child that was allegedly born had Downs Syndrome. But there were pictures of two babies that was Trig, weren't there.

Too many inconsistencies...

I'm rolling with...I betcha Todd was the dad.

[ecstatic]

40. I have a team of researchers in Wasilla right now... what they're finding

is very disturbing, to say the least.

[ecstatic]

39. 3 weeks ago, I thought Sarah probably gave birth to that baby... NOW,

I have some serious doubts.

I would like to have her show his birth certificate and, can I be honest with you? I hope she can because if she can't and if he wasn't born to Sarah, which is a real possibility, I am not saying it happened-- I am saying it is a real possibility--- much greater than I thought two or three weeks ago-- then she has pulled one of the greatest cons in the history of Politics ...

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[Jello Biafra]

41. Does that make you a Birther?

:headbang:

[vanbean]

45. How is that comb-over working out for you?

[Keith Bee]

48. If you know it's crazy.....

...why start (another) thread about it?

[cynatnite]

51. A lack of photographic evidence doesn't make it not true. n/t

[BobbyBoring]

53. Some strange things did happen

Or didn't. The story was her water broke when she was at an event in TX so she didn't do the event. Instead of having baby, which is what most women do, she flew to Alaska to have said baby. That's what really gets me. Here's more!


http://bankslate.blogspot.com/2009/09/sarah-palins-fake-pregnancy.html

edited to add link

[eowyn_of_rohan]

55. I think the kid is her grandson, We had a zillion threads on this back in '08

and then and now, there is too much evidence against her having been PG when she should have been, IMO

[laundry_queen]

58. My $0.02

It IS possible for someone on their 5th to look far less pregnant than with their previous. My smallest pregnancy was with my 4th - although I must state for the record that I was still obviously pregnant by the 7th month! lol. Another thing - down's syndrome babies are often smaller than normal as well, and it is very common for them to be born early. And with 2 of my pregnancies, it was the last month where I really got big. So it is possible, imo, that she was just smaller this time, and made a better effort at hiding it.

However...

The whole story about getting on a plane after her water broke....no one does that! And worse yet, someone who is a high risk pregnancy not only shouldn't be on a plane, but someone who KNOWS she is high risk, KNOWS the baby has Down's (which often brings problems at birth with heart defects, feeding problems, breathing problems), KNOWS she is early would generally WANT go to a hospital with a high level NICU. That she went all the way back to Alaska, to a small hospital to have this very high risk baby is pretty much unheard of. And that the doctor was okay with her having the baby there? And 'induced' her instead of instantly transferring her? Then that doctor should have his/her licence pulled. Either Sarah Palin is the dumbest mother on the planet, or she was completely unconcerned with the welfare of her baby, or the whole 'water breaking on a plane' story is bullshit or....she was never pregnant. I am not sure what I think - even if the water breaking stuff is crap, why would she not be in a larger hospital knowing the baby has down's? A relative of mine had a baby with Down's and even though the baby was born relatively healthy, she was in the NICU for quite some time. None of this makes sense.