The bottom line is, if Chelsea Clinton had become pregnant while living in the White House and if we conservative Republicans (cause I r one) had criticized Chelsea for it, then we would have been wrong.

Couric's comments are downright funny.  I read them as her saying, "You know I can't help myself from personally attacking Republicans and their families.  Why didn't you stop McCain from picking Governor Palin so I wouldn't have to dig through her garbage trying to find hateful things to say about her and her family?  It's not fair how you Republicans make me do bad things."

What would have happened is that Chelsea would have quietly had an abortion and nobody would have ever been the wiser. Period. You only find out about unintended pregnancies when the woman involved chooses to have the child! This is all a trick question that, by its nature, can only apply to pro-life women.

This is the political version of "begging the question." Greenfield is assuming something that is not possible to know. "If Chelsea ever became pregnant" is in reality the same question as asking "if Chelsea has ever had an abortion." Unless she chooses to tell us, that's between her and her doctor (and God, of course, but who cares about that old fogey these days?).

The left wing media have universally condemned criticism of Michelle Obama's negative statements- made in public, by an adult who was speaking as a surrogate for her husband- but yet it is considered appropriate to exploit the pregnancy of a 17 year old young woman as a top rotation, primary news item because she is the daughter of a Vice Presidential candidate. 

If anyone could find a 17 year old virgin... THAT would be a new item.

This behavior is downright disgusting. The media should be ashamed, not this young woman. Anyone who would event attempt to use a situation like this for political gain should be universally condemned, regardless of political affiliation. 

I saw that interview and Nicole Wallace stood up well and made point after point with her answers even though the connection was bad, she purty much put "perky" in her place. I have abc on this morning and they are still hammering away on the Bristol Palin pregnancy story while at the same time giving o-Dumb-uh-uh kudos for "immediately" saying it should'nt be an issue. One note of concern, pehaps, is they mentioned that up untill 1996 the Palins were members of the Alaska Independant Party, which favored secession of Alaska from the U.S.A.?? Further evidence the msm is digging for dirt as hard as they can.

As other posters have mentioned above, we will never know if Chelsea was ever pregnant because odds are they would have killed the baby as soon as possible. Whith the contempt i have for the clintons, i might have wondered if slick was the father!! But as mentioned above we will never know and it is a dirty trick question that can't be answered. Abc is going to devote another segment to the teen pregnancy story this morn on gma, so you can bet which way it will be slanted and if you put your money on the dims side you could get rich. I despise the msm and would love to figure out a way to get a bunch of the talking heads fired and force the networks to change the way they cover the news.

kilrod

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

Since all people make mistakes people should be judged on how they handle their mistakes not the fact that they made one.  This is what I have always believed and said the same things about past presidents.

When President GHW Bush allowed congress to bully him into breaking his promise to the American public by raising taxes he should have been given the benefit of doubt.  When he did nothing to remedy the situation or stand up to Congress and the media following that event then his political courage was shown to be less than satisfactory.

When President Clinton got caught in an inappropriate relationship he should have been given the benefit of doubt.  When he continued the behavior and proceeded to lie about it then his character was shown to be lacking.

When Senator Kerry smeared is fellow troups he should have been given benefit of doubt as being young and naive.  When he rode his critism into a long career in the Senate, continued to insult the military and then tried to use his own military service as a platform for presidency he showed himself to be opportunistic and less than truthful.

The list could be unending but the truth is that everyone errors and how we learn and grow from those mistakes determines our character.  The media has nothing to do with determining character because they are just out for the sensationalism of the moment are rarely around for the aftermath where the effected people continue with their lives.  Perhaps this is why the media is so poor at reporting events because they never are around long enough to truly understand the cause and effects of events.

One thing these people are missing is the Bible has a remedy for this.  Paul said that if a couple of kids cant keep their hands off each other then they should get married.  So I am inferring from this passage that Paul said if the kids are determined to have sex and do and a baby results then they should get married.

All situations are in the book, you just have to look.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

If you're an ASS!

Great question jeffie boy.  No way to know the answer, but a great way to insinuate the answer would be as biggoted as a Liberal's response!

Take your Liberal bias and stuff it in that pie hole - JERK!

Even Obama, to his credit, says that a candidate's children are, and should be, off limits. The press and the liberal nutroots are perfecting their hypocrisy by fixating on the bad judgement of a 17 year-old girl. They are the self-proclaimed champions of relative morality and 'choice', yet they are always the first to point fingers and get ready to 'cast the first stone'.

The only outcry about Chelsea's hypothetical pregnancy when she was 17, would have been about the abortion she would have had that killed her child as punishment for her mistake.

Jeff Greenfield might have been a journalist had he actually paid attention in school, but we'll never know now because he has instead decided to be a liberal partisan pundit.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

The biggest "what if" in this Greenfield piece is: What if Jeff Greenfield could find a brain and save himself and CBS from drowning in moral equivalency?

I haven't even read the comments, so sorry if someone else said this...

But my very first thought was we have Balboa doing national commentary now.  Scary thought.  Don't get me wrong, we all love bal, but I don't think we could find anyone to come up with more shallow comments, without a shred of substance. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

I thought in the beginning when Senator John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate that she was an excellent pick. She echo’s the Senator’s values and positions regarding government, its size and responsibilities, and its mission when it comes to protecting the US. However, after reading the above posts I can see now that he must have picked the most perfect person in the world. Why else would the left be making so much noise? I mean, every liberal network and newspaper has brought out the big guns to take a shot at Ms Palin and her family. And the feminists groups are the loudest of all in their defense of Ms Palin (for you democrats and liberals this sentence is fictitious). Is this a great country or what?